-Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff appeared on The Bubba the Love Sponge Show last Friday for what seemed to be both a combination of a work and a shoot interview segment that included a shocking statement coming from Eric Bischoff about knocking Sting for missing the last set of television tapings.
For those not familiar with the situation Sting missed last month's Genesis pay-per-view and the following television tapings due to a family emergency, though the emergency still remains unclear. What is known however is that nobody is questioning its legitimacy as he has never had a reputation for coming up with excuses to miss dates.
Bischoff remarked that everyone in TNA has to be completely committed to the company or the company wont work, with Hogan adding he doesn't see how they can use anyone who is missing shows. Internally, it was noted as a message being sent to Sting, though those closest to Sting have commented that he wont even receive the said "message" as he doesn't follow anything related to wrestling except for the days he is actually on the job.
But the huge shocker cam when Bischoff said, "Sting's a great talent. Love him to death. My problem is now that we're trying to do this big picture. I understand how big picture it is for the wrestling business. Sting had life-and-death personal issues, but from a business side, it totally screws us up. If at any time that happens, I got a personal issue, now we have to switch gears on who we use, you can't build the world around them. Everybody has got to make a commitment. It's easy to say we want TNA to be No. 1, but if you're not willing to put TNA as a priority above almost every situation, then it's probably not going to work out."
