Surprise Rumble Participant?

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So it appears that the crack office staff at TNA Wrestling have let one of their top young stars slip through their fingers and allowed "Wildcat" Chris Harris to leave for the WWE, what I can only hope is effective immediately.

For those who don't know, Harris made up one half of America's Most Wanted, probably the best overall tag team to come down the line in the last 5 years. Multiple time tag team champions, effective as both a heel and a face, and initially it looked like splitting AMW up for solo runs would be a good thing. But constant lousy booking pretty much killed any momentum Harris had, and while his ex-partner James Storm had something of a comedy-angle (he's a drunk, you see) to fall back into, Harris was swept under the rug and given very little, if anything at all to do. To the point that he was somehow turned heel without anybody knowing this past December, and the couple of times he has appeared on television he was portrayed as a whining, sniveling heel by the announcers, which makes absolutely no sense to be out of the blue like that.

Now I know WWE likes to break their new talent down and rebuild them from the ground up for a few months before bringing them out on television, but aside from perhaps a new name I for one would be happy to see Harris introduced as a mystery entrant in the Royal Rumble in a couple of weeks. The Rumble is without a doubt my favorite PPV of the year, as it is for a lot of fans, but there's no denying that the last several years have somewhat lacked the intrigue by running the same tired "Babyface wins Rumble, Babyface wins championship at Wrestlemania" formula. Going backwards it has been Taker-Rey-Batista-He who shall not be named-Lesnar-HHH-Austin-Rock since 2000, and before that Vince McMahon himself was the last heel to win the Rumble (which ultimately ended up with Austin getting the title shot anyways). I'm certainly not proposing that Harris come in and win the Rumble, but adding some intrigue with some new fresh faces we've never seen before definitely couldn't hurt. At any rate, I'm going off on a tangent about the Rumble, and there's plenty of time for that later.

I'm just happy to see Harris move on to a company that might have better plans for him in their future (note the word might) and isn't been wasted. And hey, maybe Storm will get tired of playing second fiddle to Jackie Moore and we might one day see AMW tearing up the WWE's tag team division.