10 WWE Stars Who FLOPPED In TNA

From Dustin Runnels' time as Black Reign to Rikishi's time working for Dixie Carter, these are 10 WWE Stars Who FLOPPED In TNA.

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[Dick_Valparaiso]

I'm just shocked that TNA didn't try to rebrand Test as "Quiz".

[TheThird]

It's such an inspiration that Dustin got through the Black Reign period to return as Goldust, clearly in great shape and motivated, with awesome in-ring performances and continued on through his post-WWE career in AEW to this day.

[nickonite]

Orlando Jordan's biggest claim to fame was when he was the final opponent of Ultimate Warrior.

[HMHill]

I refuse to believe Booker T flopped in TNA knowing "Black Snow" exists

[cobeanderson]

Booker T was actually decent in TNA. It wasn't like his WCW run & his first stint with WWE, but it wasn't bad

[mixey]

Booker was actually quite succesfull in TNA. I don't believe he flopped even though he wasn't as big as during his wwe days

[larontezmoore]

Booker did well in TNA in my opinion I mean he's one of the few on this list who actually could still wrestle. His success was just overshadowed by Angle, Styles and Sting.

[aprentissdaye]

That feeling when Orlando Jordan was like the rated R version of Velveteen Dream during his TNA run.

[TheMovieBuff]

Now there should be a "10 WWE Superstars Who Flourished in TNA" with people like Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Gail Kim, Team 3D (especially Bully Ray), etc.

[cheezeofages]

Test should have debuted in TNA with the tag "The Final Exam, Andrew Martin." and had a heel gym teacher gimmick where he would give others fitness advice and implications that he deals in "juice".

[nicksoapdish]

Adam I respectfully disagree with you about Booker T. While Booker T did say that it was more like a vacation, than a job I do personally believe he did do wonderful things as a part of TNA. I personally think X-Pac from January 2010 would have been a better fit.

[IncredibleFulk]

Honorable mention
Tyson Tomko. Though this was TNA’s fault.
He came back in as Christian’s problem solver, but he gain so much momentum to the point that he was the most over guy on the roster, more than both Angle and Christian.
So what does TNA do? Turn him heel and become Kurt Angle’s bodyguard. His momentum died over night and it killed his career. His last appearance I recall was Christian calling him a bitch in a promo.
Fitting.

[Rosario_Verano]

Don't you dare calling my boy Black Reign a flop!
Meow meow meow!

[grunge]

Every time I think of Black Reign, I think of the lads at OSW roasting him to shreds

[BlackMoore]

Through the last couple of years Trevor Murdoch's has had a solid run in the NWA, last year he held the NWA National Heavyweight Championship for 182 days.

[LionheartBS]

I had to listen to the self-introduction 3 times to make sure I’m not just too high.

[miroslavtomic]

Trevor Murdoch also previously appeared in TNA in 2002 as part of the tag team The Dupps, actually wrestling in a match at the very first TNA show.

[tmwfte]

You missed Murdoch's earlier run in TNA as a real stand-up kind of guy.

And I think every era of Dustin Runnels' career REIGNS! Even though he clearly was going through personal issues. I'm glad he could bounce back from his lows.

[SheriffOutlaw]

Ok this is mad weird looking back at this list to see Trevor Murdoch on it with him now being NWA World's Heavyweight Champion. Yep Impact Wrestling def screwed up not signing him

[andrewdijoseph]

Tna was so underrated between angle hardy abyss Jarrett Samoa joe styles Christian the dudleys rhino etc.. I swear when wwe went all pg 13 I started watching tna and I enjoyed it