10 Wrestlers TNA/IMPACT Should've Pushed Harder

Losing the bleached spikes, a newly buzz cut Nigel McGuinness was reborn as Desmond Wolfe in 2009. The decision to move to TNA came after ROH's second longest reigning champion failed a WWE physical due to his multitude of alarming injuries.

TNA seemed fine with letting the pride of Staplehurst wrestle with a torn biceps, leading to a brutal feud with Kurt Angle. Debuting immediately as a snarling, lariat-loving menace, Desmond Wolfe crushed the Olympic hero several times in star-making fashion on TV. While he ultimately lost the feud, Wolfe still seemed like a credible character until the Hogan/Bischoff/Russo trinity of booking terror took over in 2010.

Despite being a technical marvel who'd already gotten over in the Impact Zone, Wolfe was fed to just about everyone he wrestled that year. Nonsensical, uninteresting feuds with the likes of Abyss further tainted the aura the Brit had built up in '09 as he started jobbing like it was going out of style.

Amazingly, even when Wolfe won a fan vote to challenge for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship ahead of stars like Kurt Angle, Sting and Jeff Hardy, the top brass refused to get the message. From top trump to chump in less than a year, Wolfe sadly succumbed to a litany of health issues and ultimately retired in 2011. The ROH great clearly could've been something special for TNA had he been treated well.

Instead, he was thrown to the wolves.