10 WWE Rejects Immediately Pushed By TNA Impact Wrestling
4. K-Kwik
The future R-Truth was an out-of-the-blue choice to be one of TNA's original pet projects, winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from inaugural TNA titleholder Ken Shamrock in 2002.
In defence of the company, his push came during the Wild West early days of the promotion, where they would attempt just about anything to get eyes and potentially buys on their untenable weekly pay-per-view show.
Having debuted with the company with the useless K-Kwik persona he'd failed hard with in WWE, he was quickly rebranded Ron 'The Truth' Killings after a series of impressively embittered promos suggesting that he'd been overlooked in the industry due to his race.
His title victory made history that still stands today, with Killings being recognised as the only African American in history to hold the once-prestigious NWA prize. His run with the gold would end where most interesting ideas in TNA always did - defeat to Jeff Jarrett.
Effectively turned babyface by virtue of his words carrying weight and his actions in the ring backing up his verbal fire, Killings was screwed by Vince Russo in defeat, but would be a heel again less than six months later as per the controversial writer's schizophrenic pen.