10 Wrestlers Who Came Crawling Back To WWE

10. The New Age Outlaws

As of this writing in early 2022, WWE has spent much of the prior two years doing away with around 150 contracts to make "budget cuts" arm-in-arm with record profits.

Talent impacted by this capitalist skullduggery need only look to the 80s, 90s and now should they want to vent their spleens on podcasts, Q&A evenings or - where they still even exist - low budget shoot interviews.

As that cottage industry boomed with the birth of tape trading and the internet at large in the mid-1990s, so did the prevalence of stories that had only been shared in the likes of the Wrestling Observer before then. The majority of famous names from wrestling had been either side of WWE and WCW's revolving doors by then, and those that wished to were able to share their tales of tumult with the tape rolling.

The New Age Outlaws did just that, sh*tting from every height onto Triple H specifically for how their relatively short but hugely profitable runs hit the skids. Those promos were popular enough that TNA made them Impact canon - Voodoo Kin Mafia existed to neg WWE and DX before remotely concentrating on getting their own house in order.

Time heals all wrestling wounds that aren't fatal - Road Dogg and Billy Gunn were both back in the fold (and wearing gold!) by 2014.