10 WWE Stars Who Managed To Shake Off The 'TNA Stink'

For many TNA mainstays who have made the jump to WWE, it has often been a case of being disappointingly used or barely used at all during their WWE stay. Case in point, poor Eric Young. In EY, there's someone who can do literally anything you could ask for - from serious, to comedic, to in-ring mastery, to brawling - yet Young's time with WWE ended with a prolonged spell of being a rarely-seen enhancement talent on Raw.

Thankfully for Samoa Joe, he has managed to avoid the same fate of so many other TNA alumni. While we can all argue that Joe could have maybe been given a run with one of WWE's top titles over the past few years, you can't look past the fact that the 'Samoan Submission Machine' has regularly been used at the top of the card during his WWE career, and that he even got a PPV singles match against Brock Lesnar.

To the credit of WWE, they have so often placed Samoa Joe in key spots across their programming, yet the sad reality is that Joe has had an unfortunate habit of picking up injuries at the worst possible times across these past few years.

There appears to still be plenty left in the tank for Samoa Joe, so maybe we'll get to see him with one of WWE's biggest prizes before all is said and done with the career of this former TNA mainstay.