So there was a time if you were watching Total Non-Stop Action or TNA where you would just expect a familiar WW face to turn up. They got obsessed to this for a little while. I do understand why. If you are trying to entice a wrestling fan base, you check out your brand new product where you go get somebody that's got a recognisable face. These days, however, we can look back at some of these individuals though and go, wait, me, they were in TNA,

because honestly, they were only there for a fleeting minute. But I think that makes it totally fun.

Hello, my name is Simon Miller. And yeah, here's a bunch of forgettable people from WWE that went

and had a picnic in TNA. Number 10, Cody Rhodes. Now the significance of Cody Rhodes leaving

the WWE in 2016 and going on an independent run can never be overstated, because we can look back now 10 years removed and go, well, that guy went and changed the industry. You can pretend that he didn't, but you're lying, my friends. You need to accept it. I can tell you firsthand with all the work he did for WCPW and Define, which was just off the chart, but given that Cody Rhodes is going here, there and everywhere, eventually he did go to TNA. Now, listen, I have a vague memory of this, and I also kind of remember Cody coming out and saying, listen, I only did it because they were another place to work. I never wanted to have a full-time contract there. And it's true. Really, when you look back now, he barely did it. It's probably why nobody ever mentions this when they do get into Cody Rhodes' legacy, even though him and Brandy Rhodes were in T&A for a time with, and I'll make sure I get this right, Bernard the Business Bear. If you remember that, you know what, you remember that, we probably should just move on. Cody really was only there for a cup of coffee, though, when he got written off TV, courtesy of Bobby Lashley. Even though Brandy Rhodes hung around for a little while, she kind of managed Moose. Once again, if I wrote that on a trivia quiz, I don't think you'd get the answer. Now Rhodes actually did return for a little while to do a mini feud with Moose, mostly because he was annoyed that he was like hanging around with Brandy. But if you were actually trying to sit down and write everything he did to in this short period, you would probably not be able to come up with a lot of it because it was kind of just there and really worked cold he was doing elsewhere. That was way better. Number nine, Lex Lugar. Now even though Lex Lugar has been inducted into the WW Hall of Fame these days, He was for Sar and Grata in that company for years, because who was the secret surprise that turned up on the first ever WCW Nitro? It was Lex Luger, who was meant to be under contract to the WWF. It turned out his dealer's laps. Nobody in World Wrestling Federation noticed, so Lex was like, well, that's fine. I'll go here instead. And when Vince McMahon found about this, he basically exploded. He also made it clear after WCW been bought by WWE that Lex Luger would never be welcome back. So, of course, when Lex heard about TNA and they invited him to come, Luger was like, all right, that sounds great, I really would like to wrestle. I mean, kind of. I'm not 100% sure. So he did turn up. It'd be horrible, but he did not look ass.

Now, once again, this'm not 100% sure. So he did turn up. It'd be horrible,

but he did not look ass. Now, once again, this goes back to the intro because Jeff Jarrett, who was bringing in the talent, wanted to kind of get that WCW feel. And Lex Luger had been a former WCW champion, but it never really felt like Lex Lugar wanted to be in TNA. He just didn't want to leave the resting business behind, and of course he wanted a paycheck. I think that everybody behind the scenes was aware of this as well, because when you do count up the amount of matches Lex had in TNA, I give you a couple of seconds to guess, did you say four, do you say seven? Well, you'd be completely wrong, because it was one. That was in November 2003 when Lex Luga did team with Jeff Jack to take on on the very interesting team of Sting and AJ Stiles. And what is the deal with this entrance robe? It kind of feels like they found it in a parking lot. Now, it was actually built as Lex Lugar's last match, but I'm 99% sure TNA only did that to try and get a buy rate out of this. And listen, he did continue to wrestle until 2006. But if you are a Lex Luger fan, you probably already know, but if you'd never stumbled across this, I'd leave it that way. The Lex Luga memories are better elsewhere. Number eight, Vader. Now, even I got confused about this one, because obviously I started checking out TNA quite early on because I was intrigued, and I don't remember Vader working there. Now, I want to make it clear that there was a stage when the Master Dom was the absolute man

in pro wrestling. And if you have never seen his work in Japan or his work in WCW, make sure you change that today, you will be terrified. And you'd be like, does it not understand that wrestling is meant to be a work? Because he would just brutalize people. But yes, on February 26, 2003, when Dustin Rhodes and Vince Russo were feuding of all people,

somebody called up Vader and said, would you like to come in for a tag team match? And he said yes. Now, he was teaming up with the former Goldust to take on the Harris brothers. And then that was it? We never saw him again. And nobody can understand why, unless you had the patience of a saint, because who came back 12 years after this, you guessed it, it was the masked man. This was so funny as well, because it was Bram doing an open challenge saying anybody from TNA's past, I'll take you on right now. And quite kidding, Vader took that literally, because he was like, well, I was here over 10 years ago, I will fight you right now. The match, of course, ended in a DQ, even though Vader was 60 years old when Bram hit him with an object. I think it was a crowbar. And this was absolutely ridiculous. Again, it was TNA just pulling at straws. Doesn't take away from Vader's legendary status. This is a Lex Luger situation. You do not need to add this to your timeline. Number seven, Damien Sandow. Now, what's not as Damien Sandow? Of course, he got released from the WWE in 2016 when he did join TNA as Aaron Rex. Now, first, it felt like he was going to be pushed as a top guy because he entered a tournament to become a grand champion. And even though the rules of this tournament was absolutely ridiculous, anybody in TNA that was considered a top player went in this thing, as did Mr Rex.

The fact that he actually won this and beat Eli Drake and Eddie Edwards along the way felt like a good idea, even if soon after this he lost the title to Moose.

That's okay.

Nobody expected him to be a forever champion.

But given what he had done in WWE and the potentially quite clearly had, him being at the top of total non-stop action, that felt like a pretty good idea. The issue, though, is that soon after this, he totally vanished from television, and when he came back, he was basically pretending to be Liberace, like he had a big old role, but he was being all over the top. Now, he was team with Rockstar Spud, and that guy knows more about wrestling in anybody. And I actually think this idea could have gotten over with time, but I think the problem a lot of fans had with it was, Aaron Rex had come out and said, man, I'm not going to do that gimmicky stuff anymore, talking about what he had done with Miz Dow and the Miz, and then here he was doing it again, so I don't really think we understood

what direction he wanted to head. I just think it was a little bit misguided because he only had two more matches in TNA before he vanished again, and when you do have all these disappearing acts, well, quite sadly, fans will start to check out. I don't want to take anything away from Damien Sandow, though, because if you do go back to his intellectual saver of the masses gimmick, all what he did with the Miz that culminated at that Under the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, that is some damn good pro wrestling stuff. It just kind of feels like whether it was WW or TNA, nobody ever actually capitalized on it properly. Number six, Randy Savage. Now, of course, we all know that the macho man Randy Savage Savage, is one of the most iconic wresters of all time, and somebody that after they left, the WWF was never invited back. Now, listen, there's a bunch of scandalous rumors out there, but we do not know nothing. And no matter what went down, we deserved at least one more match post-W closing of the matcher Man in the WWE, and we'd never flipping got it.

If we did leave WCW, of course, he would appear in Spider-Man and release a rap album. But four years later, some from TNA did call him up, and Randy said yes. And this was a Victory Road 2004, and the matcher man had a very different look, as you can see here. He was wearing a trench coat. And then 48 hours later, we got the news that Savage had decided to quit.

That's right. He was done. This really did tie into all the rumors at the time that the matcher man was not a big fan of Hulk Hogan. Because when he did arrive in the building that day and he saw the Hulksder standing there, he was like, I am not putting myself through this again, so he said goodbye instantly.

It's only fair to tell you that people at TNA also said the matchaman had some ridiculous

demands that nobody would have been able to meet. And it would mean that he would only

have one match in TNA, teaming with AJ Stiles and Jeff Hardy to take on Kevin Nash, Scott

Hall, Jeff Jack. Randy didn't even appear at the start of match, instead walked out halfway through, which was pretty damn confusing because the commentators acted like they had no idea. But he is the guy to receive a hot tag when he punched Jeff Jarrett in the face and he got the one, two, three. So even if we do take Hulk Cogan out of this, it does kind of feel like he wasn't really on the same page as anybody

else. Let me just say it for the third time. The matrimand, Randy Savage, is a legend. So if you do get to this point of his career and you just want to hit skip, good idea. Number five, CM Punk. So if you want to say that CM Punk changed the game, I am not going to argue with you, because When he did sign with WWE in 2005, a bunch of independent wrestlers looked at themselves and said,

oh my gosh, punk made it. I am not going to argue with you because when he did sign with WWE in 2005, a bunch of

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