Wrestling Inc has a couple of pretty astounding stories from former TNA wrestlers which describe the company pulling both the ultimate LOLTNA and "turned a work into a shoot" moves.

Every year, give or take, Impact Wrestling has a match called "Feast or Fired" - the most recent edition of which happened on the episode that aired Tuesday, January 26. It's the old ____ on a pole gimmick, with multiple briefcases hung around the ring for which wrestlers fight to gain possession.

If it sounds like WWE's Money in the Bank ladder match, it kind of is. Most of the cases contain contracts for title shots at TNA's various championships, although not with the cash-in-any-time stipulation. The real difference is that one contains a pink slip, meaning the poor guy or gal who grabbed that attache is fired.

And that's where the stories from Lucha Underground's Chavo Guerrero and Shawn Daivari reveal how weird things can get with the Nashville-based promotion.

In Sean Ross Sapp's interview with Guerrero, he explained that the company tried to use the gimmick to actually cut him from their roster in 2013. The incident so infuriated him that, after having his lawyers explain to Dixie Carter and team that his real contract prohibited them from firing him like that, he left on his own:

...we did it [the Feast or Fired match], and after that match a production guy came up to me like 'are you leaving?' and I ask what he's talking about, so there's obviously some inside scoop there. I start thinking that this can't be right. I ask 'is that the way you guys are letting me go?' I was pissed. It was very underhanded and conniving, and unprofessional. One of the most unprofessional things I've had happen in the wrestling business. After that happened I talked to my lawyer and he looked over the contract, and he said they can't do that... We came to a mutual understanding to part ways, because out relationship is a little burned and won't be the same... It left a really bad taste in my mouth. You treat a talent like that? I came in from a wrestling family and from WWE, I was on the booking committee helping out and all these different things, and you're doing that? I didn't want to work for them after that anyway. I'd probably never want to work for a company like that ever again.

Daivari's tale is a little more involved, but no less head scratching. He told Sapp there was an angle set between he and Cody Deaner in 2009 where they would "tie" by coming down from the pole with the same case at the same time, only to discover it was the "Fired" one and try to pawn it off on the other.

This was right when Impact was running a live broadcast to welcome Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan to the company, and the guys were informed that as part of the planned angle, Bischoff would reveal on the air which wrestler he was shoot firing. Like Chavo, Daivari decided a company that would do that wasn't one he wanted to work for, so he left. Amazingly, TNA also let Deaner go shortly thereafter.

Bischoff was going to legit decide who was going to stay on the show. I was so mad and frustrated that was a question, because I just signed a new contract with them. I was so f--king pissed. We just signed this contract after they were dragging their heels, so I was like 'f--k this, give me the briefcase, it's my last night, if you're not going to fire me, I quit. Give me the briefcase and let me get the f--k out. I don't want to wait for Bischoff, let's do it tonight.' Terry [Taylor] said he had to ask Dixie, so he went and told Dixie how pissed I was and she said 'fine, if he wants to go, let him go.' The worst part is I thought I was possibly saving Cody Deaner's job, but they ended up firing him anyway! It's pretty s--tty.

Check out Wrestling Inc's interviews with both men (Chavo here; Daivari here), as well as Sapp's excellent longform piece on WWE's infamous Muhammad Hassan character, for which the interview with Daivari was conducted, for more.

And don't turn a work into a shoot, brothers.