13 Wrestlers Who Were Better In NJPW Than They Were In TNA

13. Doc Gallows

The Director of Chaos never seemed to click anywhere but NJPW.

His WWE time never got off the ground. Fake Kane was terrible. Festus may have weathered the tides, and his run with the Straight Edge Society was okay, but Gallows always felt expendable. Even after coming back to WWE as a hotly sought-after free agent, he and good-brother Karl got lost in the shuffle, failing to revitalize the tag team division as WWE instead gave all their attention to the Usos and The New Day.

Similarly, Doc couldn't feel like anything more than an extra when he was in TNA, just another face in the bloated Aces & Eights faction. Once he made the switch to NJPW, he and Machine Gun Karl Anderson helped bolster the ranks of the Bullet Club, making them a consistent threat to the IWGP heavyweight Tag Team titles. He would shine not only in the Bullet Club, but in a hotly competitive NJPW tag team scene, having great matches with TenCozy, Great Bash Heel, and even MeiYu Tag, winning the IWGP Heavyweight Tag belts three times.

He even accomplished one of the hardest things for any NJPW wrestlers to do and actually made World Tag League fun to watch.

His run in NJPW was so good that WWE opened up their checkbook just to lock him down again.