Kevin Steen: Watching TNA Has Made Me Physically Nauseous

Former Ring of Honor wrestler Kevin Steen spoke to Power Slam about his future without ROH, whether he's received any interest from WWE or TNA, his longtime feud with El Generico, TNA's television product, and more.

Regarding interest from the two major promotions, Steen says WWE has never shown any interest in his services while he heard that TNA might have been interested in using him a few years ago but was never contacted. He questions why WWE would be interested in him when he's the complete opposite of what they look for in a wrestler, noting that he doesn't look like the typical athlete.

The interviewer then says it's hard for him to imagine TNA doing much with Steen on the chance he was hired. He feels the former ROH star would likely be 'just another mid-card guy, lost in the weekly blur of multi-man segments and short matches.'

Steen responds, "This won't look good now that I'm a free agent and I'm looking to make a living off wrestling...

"I've watched episodes of TNA iMPACT! and TNA pay-per-views. This is not a knock on the wrestlers because the wrestlers are the only thing that make [TNA] watchable, guys like The Young Bucks and The [Motor City] Machine Guns and Samoa Joe and AJ Styles and others. But I would watch an episode, and I would have to pause it because my head was spinning and I felt a little nauseous just from seeing so many things happening, one after another. The matches have so little time, so they would have to do so much stuff in, like, three minutes.

"I've literally gotten physically nauseous from watching TNA."

well then...dont watch?

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Agree. However not going to knock him because I find myself confused as shit when watching impact.

He's definitely right about the wrestlers. If MCMg, Beer Money, Gen Me, AJ, and a few other weren't employed by TNA,; I probably wouldn't watch at all.

sadly it wont change now or anytime soon. so his best bet is to just not watch lol

when the ratings drop they'll get the message.

It's sad that they haven't already. The ratings are never super high; so why do they feel like they're achieving success? What a shame!

cause Spike TV hasnt canceled them yet...like they did Reaction.

i still think they had a hit with Reaction, though. better promos.

During reaction, I was too busy watching the NBA on TNT.

LMAO @ this: (I was looking for average ratings for Spike Tv shows, and I found this from last year)

"USA Network Take a Shot at Spike TV - Ratings Reactions
Posted by: Wrestling-Radio.com

- USA Network's VP of Program Research, Ted Linhart, tweeted: "Not much of a Monday Night "War". RAW trounced TNA by 275% w/ total viewers. Also Impact much lower than the test Monday ep in early Jan."

- SpikeTV are said to happy with the 1.0 rating as they held the 18-34 demo and saw no drop off to a Thursday rating."

SAD! lol

well good for them lol

Satisfied with mediocrity, how pathetic.

Bischoff and Hogan are undoubtedly sleeper agents for Vince, but to their credit, this is a quicker killing than WCW. Those guys really ARE the nWo lol

LOL ^

An injection of POISON! - Vince McMahon

^Damn right lmao, over the top acting and raspy-voice in effect.