Max Caster has apologized for how his TNA Bound for Glory debut went, but Jonathan Coachman doesn’t think all of the blame should land on him. He argues TNA should have caught the line before it ever aired.
Speaking on The TwoCount with JDfromNY, Coachman looked back at Caster’s entrance rap, which referenced the deadly attack in Riyadh and led to TNA firing him after one appearance.
Both agreed Caster crossed a line and should have recognized the sensitivity, especially given TNA’s relationship with WWE and WWE’s business ties to Saudi Arabia. TNA’s management, they said, should have stepped in long before he walked through the curtain.
The Max Caster situation should have never happened. First of all, he got fired from TNA one appearance. I think they made the right decision, but it never should have gotten to that point anyway… Read the f***ing room. That’s not the right thing to say.
JDfromNY said TNA made the right call by letting him go, but argued the company should have known what Caster planned to say. He asked where the producer was and where TNA President Carlos Silva was, and said TNA is as much to blame as Caster because it didn’t do its due diligence.
Secondly, TNA should have known what he was going to go out there and say before he went out there and said it. Where’s the producer? Where’s Carlos Silva?… Max Caster is to blame, but TNA… is just as to blame as Max Caster because they didn’t do their due diligence.
Coachman agreed. Drawing on his years in WWE, he said material like this almost certainly would have been caught there, because anything going on a major show passes through multiple levels of approval.
10,000%. And this is what happens when you’re scrambling to produce a show that’s bigger… There’s got to be somebody below him.
Coachman also addressed Caster’s Instagram statement. He appreciated the apology to TNA and the people who gave him the opportunity, but he took issue with Caster saying he’d never apologize for trying to be entertaining. His message to Caster was that entertainers have to understand where entertaining ends and crossing the line begins.
Caster put out an apology this morning… But then he doubled down… ‘I just try to be entertaining, and for that I will never apologize.’ And I would tell Max… you’ve got to understand what’s entertaining and what crosses the line.”
“When I was in WWE, everything that went on the show… it got okayed by multiple people… And if you’re going to do a walking rap… that person would have been like, ‘Take that line out,’ and it never leaves this room. Everybody rehearses… That’s called performing.
The comments came a day after TNA publicly accepted responsibility, apologized to those affected, removed the segment from replays and confirmed Caster would no longer wrestle for the company.
