Tha Don leaving TNA

[The Great One]

Longtime TNA employee Don West has given notice that he's leaving the company, according to PWInsider.com.

West had been with the company since it was founded in 2002 and served as a lead announcer along with Mike Tenay until he was replaced by Taz. He has also been the head of TNA's merchandise department since 2009, a role West was so good at that TNA sources have said will be nearly impossible to find somebody to fill his shoes.

West, who first got national television exposure as the zany pitchman for the Shop At Home network, brought his unique brand of sales skills on the road with TNA, where he'd set up a merchandise table inside the ring and other unique offers.

 

[I-Hate-You]

sucks for them...a lot of people saying he was the reason they were able to move any of that merch at all.

Should have left him on the headsets. Motherfukk Tazz.

 

[The Great One]

sucks for them...a lot of people saying he was the reason they were able to move any of that merch at all.

Should have left him on the headsets. Motherfukk Tazz.

Taz has easily been the worst on tv announcer in the last 5 years but no one talks about it.

Best Battle royal of all time

 

[HomieSoprano]

GEM MINT TEN!!

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

brehs, i never understood why the TSC rode with this fakkit

Don West made TNA too cac-like back in the day with all his over the top yelling


JR mastered the art of yelling on the mic

 

[TrueEpic08]

brehs, i never understood why the TSC rode with this fakkit

Don West made TNA too cac-like back in the day with all his over the top yelling


JR mastered the art of yelling on the mic

C'mon...heel Don West was kind of funny.

Also, anybody remember Don West as Amazing Red's hypeman? It was kind of corny, but fun as well (probably one of the few gimmicks you'll ever really hear me say that about).

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Don West was fukking AWFUL as a commentator until he went ham 'n' heel. He really found his calling doing that and then they ripped him off the headset because Dixie creamed her panties over signing a WWE commentator, Taz (who has always sucked). Taz is worse than ever. He's Cole-levels of stupid.

 

[Da King]

Taz is the worst commentator of all time

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Sad thing is, TNA is taped. Cole is out there fukking up live but they could actually fix the stupid stuff Taz says.

 

[TrueEpic08]

Taz is the worst commentator of all time

Nah, TNA Taz is the borderline worst. Taz on SmackDown from 2002-2005 or so was the best color guy in wrestling. Seriously, go look at some of those matches and see what he adds to them.

As a matter of fact, look at those matches to see how bad Michael Cole has really gotten. He was actually good at one point. Now though?

 

[Mic-Nificent]

As bad as Taz is right now he's NOWHERE near as bad as Don West was before his "heel turn".

 

[krackdagawd]

Nah, TNA Taz is the borderline worst. Taz on SmackDown from 2002-2005 or so was the best color guy in wrestling. Seriously, go look at some of those matches and see what he adds to them.

As a matter of fact, look at those matches to see how bad Michael Cole has really gotten. He was actually good at one point. Now though?

Cole was in rare form when Eddie G won the title.

 

[Singh]

 

[R=G]

Heel Don had a good run...didn't really pay all too much attention to the other shyt beforehand. Taz is a utter fukk up on the chair too....

 

[DaylitoJames]

My favorite episode is still when Heel Don West in the middle of an Impact was like: "fukk this show, time for me to go to the bar!" and just got up and walked off and Mike Tenay was looking like