10 Most Confusing WWE Castoffs That TNA Signed

3. Christy Hemme

Christy Hemme won the Diva Search contest in 2004, and was given a bit of a push shortly after. Her peak moment in the company was at Wrestlemania 21, where she was easily defeated by Trish Stratus. She was later sent to OVW to work on her in-ring work and was then released. Most WWE fans were fine with this decision. We all moved on with our lives.

TNA then decided to sign her. They also decided to put her in the ring, despite plenty of available evidence showing that was not a good idea. There were so many other women wrestlers available that could have been brought in who were more talented than her, and been a hell of a lot cheaper.

It was rumored at one point that Hemme was making $175,000 a year AFTER she retired from in-ring work, just to be an announcer and interviewer. If that’s true, she was earning much more than Awesome Kong, Gail Kim and every other great performer in the Knockouts division by a wide margin.

By the end of her run in the company, Hemme's most memorable match was wrestling Big Fat Oily Guy.

You can’t blame her for not being booked better, but you can blame the company for signing her, overpaying her, pushing her over more talented wrestlers and not having any idea on how to get her over.