10 Most Over-Pushed TNA Wrestlers Ever

7. Orlando Jordan

When Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan joined TNA, they wanted to bring some big stars to get a buzz going. That first night in, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Jeff Hardy and Ric Flair all appeared on the show...oh, and so did The Nasty Boys, Val Venis and Orlando Jordan.

Venis played strip poker with The Beautiful People, The Boys took a dump in Team 3D’s bag and beat them up and Jordan defeated Samoa Joe in his first match with the company. That’s right, Orlando Jordan beat Samoa Joe.

Years later, one can still not comprehend what TNA management was thinking when they booked a forgettable mid-card act in WWE, and put them over one of their biggest stars ever (they also did the same when Venis beat Christopher Daniels).

Jordan soon became an over-the-top, flamboyant act that was a personal favorite of Vince Russo’s. He was kind of like Goldust from the mid '90s, but less talented.

Eventually the company stuck him in a mid-card comedy act, but those first few months of him in TNA were brutal.