There is some controversy disputing recent news – at least some of it.
On Thursday, BQ took to his Negative BQ podcast on YouTube to exclusively share some news and insight on the recent firings of both Gail Kim and Ariel Schnerer – BQ has a high level, credible source within TNA.
After BQ broke this news and Bodyslam covered it, Gail Kim reached out to BQ directly to dispute the report – or part of it, at least.
This is the news that BQ broke on Thursday regarding the situation:
-Gail and Ariel did not like each other and continued backstage turmoil led both executives to give TNA President Carlos Silva an ultimatum – that he had to pick a side.
–Instead of picking a side, Silva fired them both.
-As far as the Knockouts division, the upper management does have continued plans for them going forward and has included them heavily in creative plans – that will not change – both inside the company and NXT integration.
Gail Kim is disputing the part where an ultimatum was issued by her to TNA President Carlos Silva – nothing about the news of the current state of the Knockouts division or the contentious relationship with Ariel.
”Gail reached out to me and said that it was not true, that she does not give her bosses ultimatums – that’s now how she operates.”
“I made sure she knew when I reported information to the fans I have no Ill intent.
She did NOT refute that there were issues between her and Ariel, I believe that to still be true.”“When I asked my source if I could put this information out there, I was told that I could because it was common knowledge within the company that the two did not like each other, there was tension between the two of them.”
“When I went back to my TNA source, he said to go ahead and put Gail’s side out there. I have not received any pushback from Ariel’s side saying that he went to management asking Carlos to pick a side.”“Gail reached out to me and was very professional and said that it’s her reputation and it’s very important how she’s perceived and she wanted to let me know that.”
Gail had no further comment regarding anything else.
Prior to that, BQ also broke the news (with Bodyslam coverage) that Gail and current TNA President Carlos Silva had a different vision for how they saw things, and that the two also butted heads – this was not disputed either.
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