10 TNA Rejects Doing Pretty Well For Themselves Elsewhere

6. Jay Lethal

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Jay Lethal wasn't exactly rejected in TNA. The man was a six-time X-Division Champion after all, and also had a PPV match against Ric Flair. The issue was that TNA always seemed unwilling to trust Lethal with anything more than a passing skit, despite his obvious ability. In fact the feud with Flair represented a chance to get Lethal over as a major star in the company, yet they pulled out of that.

Lethal would go on to become a major star in Ring of Honor, going an astonishing 28 straight months as a champion in the company between 2014 and 2016. Letha defeated Tommaso Ciampa for the Television Championship in April 2014, and would hold that belt for 567 days before losing it to Roderick Strong in October 2015.

During that reign Lethal would also defeat Jay Briscoe for the ROH World Championship, a belt he would hold for an equally impressive 427 days before Adam Cole and Bullet Club got involved. Lethal may have been a six-time X-Division Champion, but his work since leaving TNA shows just how big a star he could have been for that company.

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