10 WWE Wrestlers Who Should NEVER Have Come Back
7. Mick Foley
It'd be easy to pick on one of Mick Foley's several WWE returns, if only because he always alluded to not wanting to be one of those multiple retirement guys until money and opportunities became too great to deny. But he's taken pelters for those before.
His TNA run though? Remarkably under-reported.
Perhaps this is the biggest indictment of it. To its fans, TNA was a viable alternative to WWE and a genuine North American number two. In the grand scheme of things, it was mostly just this on a more literal level, and stuck to the bottom of Vince McMahon's shoe. And just before it really hit the skids, Mick Foley was the World Champion.
Initially arriving as a babyface authority figure, Foley felt like one of the more egregious versions of the traditional TNA tactic of signing a former major star just to have them there. This remained inoffensive enough until he mixed in with everything, turned heel, worked main events for months and couldn't possibly live up to the amazing legacy he'd assembled years earlier.
He later wrote about his experiences in "Countdown To Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal", but - mirroring his in-ring career - it doesn't really hold up as well as his earlier work.