10 TNA Rejects Doing Pretty Well For Themselves Elsewhere

7. Luke Gallows

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When Gallows was released by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2010 there was an overriding feeling that he would go away, work hard on the independent scene and eventually return to the company further down the line. This would prove to be true, and it even came with an ill-fated TNA run in the middle of it!

Gallows arrived in TNA in 2012, after working with the company in India as Isaiah Cash. Gallows was bought into the company as a member of the Aces & Eights stable, christened 'D.O.C'. Or 'Director of Chaos'. Yeah. the Aces & Eights story wasn't great.

D.O.C would be a member of the on-screen TNA roster for approximately eight months, having no matches of note and generally looking like a fool. The problem with Aces & Eights was that, aside from invading heel stables being tired even by then, they spent most of their time losing matches and having to prop up Garrett Bischoff and Wes Brisco.

Gallows then headed to Japan, where he found immediate success alongside Karl Anderson as a tag team within the famed Bullet Club. The duo won multiple IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships in New Japan Pro Wrestling, although you could say that the division wasn't at its strongest. Still, you can only beat what is in front of you after all.

Gallows returned to WWE earlier this year and has been doing just fine since.

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