10 Forgotten TNA Appearances By Ex-WWE Stars
4. Spike Dudley
As "Brother Runt" in Team 3D (linking up with "Brother Ray" and "Brother Devon" in TNA's reasonable repurposing of The Dudley Boyz) the artist formerly known as Spike Dudley had several short runs in a version of TNA that was still trying to find itself between 2004-2007. Although perhaps based on the company's bizarre and unique history that's not clear enough.
As some major Attitude Era names reached various expiration points in WWE, TNA found its way onto television. The spots weren't always favourable, but Impact's TV debut in 2004 played a part in allowing the company to move away from the weekly pay-per-view model that had never really worked anyway. In order to keep, nurture and improve upon things, the company needed a healthy mix fresh faces and established hands, but the scales tipped so far in one direction that "[Malapropism Name] Is In The Impact Zone" became a meme before social media existed to share them.
Runt fell somewhere in the middle, and it's the reason why his tenures aren't really remembered.
Lockdown and Victory Road 2006 saw him link up with his storyline siblings, and the company booked a natural big man/little man bout with homegrown star Abyss at Turning Point, Abyss and Raven at No Surrender and Abyss, Raven and Samoa Joe and Bound For Glory later that year. After one last tag effort with Ray and Devon in 2007, that was sadly that, with little to show for a series of matches that should have embedded him far deeper into company stories than they ever did.