12 Wrestlers Who Did Their BEST Work In TNA & IMPACT
5. Bobby Lashley
Bobby Lashley and WWE should be a match made in heaven. Built like the proverbial Greek God, Lashley is a legitimate fighter with an untouchable look, carrying himself with a credibility that cannot be manufactured. Despite all of these positives, WWE just never seems to know how to book Lashley, largely because a performer of this calibre doesn’t really work as another cog in the wheel.
In TNA, Lashley was the wheel, the monolith that the cogs were trying to get closer to. His first run wasn’t much to write home about but all of those wrongs were corrected during his second, a four-year tenure that saw Lashley begin to realise all of that magnificent potential. It was this run that put him back on the pro wrestling map, reigniting his career and eventually bringing him back to WWE.
Lashley won the TNA/Impact World Heavyweight Championship on four occasions, beating some company icons in the process. He feuded with everyone who was anyone in the promotion, men like Kurt Angle, Bobby Roode, Drew Galloway and the rest. He was positioned as the ultimate athlete that he is, an unbeatable presence with legitimacy for days.
As Lashley contends with the sister and sham marriages that WWE writes for him, he can be forgiven for looking back at his TNA run with a tear in his eye.