10 Wrestlers TNA/IMPACT Should've Pushed Harder

Elijah Burke's run on WWE's unforgivably bland rehash of ECW was not exactly a firestarter. Between an interminable feud with CM Punk (something Punk himself has bashed in the years since) and a poorly handled ECW Originals vs. New Blood angle, he departed the promotion with a whimper rather than a bang.

Burke later found a new lease on wrestling in TNA, quickly gaining fan support as D'Angelo Dinero: a man who was both a preacher and a pimp or something. It was an odd, contradictory schtick but the Orlando crowd seemed to like it. Amazingly, the likes of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff initially seemed to enjoy it in 2010 as well. Dinero began receiving a slow burn push, flirting with the main event scene and even challenging for the top prize against AJ Styles.

When Immortal arrived and quickly proved TNA's ratings and credibility were 100% mortal later that year, Dinero was fed to the newly heel-turned Abyss in a dreadfully corny feud. Worse still, he was later made to look like a charity crook in a doomed heel turn that served more as character assassination than anything else.

The dishonest, swindler heel Dinero subsequently entered a dismal feud with two other unforgivably mismanaged commodities in TNA at the time: Samoa Joe and Kazuchika Okada. While the charismatic 'Pope' had shown some babyface flare and crowd interest, it was ultimately snuffed out by two too many bad booking decisions.