Why She Belongs: Still hot; now a much, much better wrestler.
Why Not: She isn't actually under WWE contract yet.

Gail Kim originally left the WWE for a pretty good reason. At the time, there's no personal offense meant, but she was a pretty bad wrestler. True, she was easy enough on the eyes, as long as she was standing still, but once it came time to lock up, things didn't go so well.

A funny thing happened during her tenure in TNA, though – she actually perceptibly improved as a performer. Working against opponents like Awesome Kong (who carried plenty of experience with her to TNA from her tenure in Japan's famous GAEA promotion) brought her up to another level in a hurry.

Between Kim, Kong, ODB, and others, some fans have been calling the Knockouts division the best part of TNA's show, and not just for the obvious reasons.

Now, there's a very good reason she isn't in Smackdown this year. She still isn't on board with the WWE. Officially, after leaving TNA a short while ago, Kim's now a free agent – she's denied rumors that she plans to retire from wrestling altogether, but where she'll be headed next remains an unanswered question.

The process of elimination tells us that there's not many other places she could go, though, so the odds aren't bad that we'll see her in next year's game.

Do you think talent, in the wake of the Gail Kim incident, will want to jump from TNA to WWE?

TNA has been accumulating enough money to keep their talent. As for Gail, she was in a position personally where she needed a lot of money fast. Gail is a great wrestler. In fact, she is one of the best female wrestlers I have ever seen. It was a big loss to TNA, but at the same time, Gail needed to do she had to do to accumulate money in a quick period of time. She did not want to leave. But I think she did it for the money.

TNA is not going to make that same mistake twice. We had to give Gail up due to personal issues in her life, but she did not want to quit TNA. Thats the important thing - she wanted to say. But she didn't have a choice.

The other wrestlers here, they're getting paid enough, they're happy and we're growing as a team. We have a tight locker room. That is very important. In WWE the locker room is not quite as companionable. In TNA, we all stick together and we all come together as a team. We want to make it work. Although we are the smaller company we have a lot more passion in that locker room than the other company does.

Since we've gotten a number of emails about this, yes, Gail Kim signed with World Wrestling Entertainment as we reported several months back.

While there were reports of TNA trying to sign Kim again making the rounds, TNA sources at the time claimed those weren't accurate and that she left the company on good terms. The word within TNA at the time was that it was understood Kim had left the company due to a financial situation and that she had the opportunity to make more money over a shorter time period within WWE.

Kim, who held the WWE Women's championship during her first run with the company, was backstage at this week's TV tapings.