12 Wrestlers With Terrible Backstories

1. Suicide

Suicide is from a video game.

I feel like I could just stop there and go do something else with my day, but maybe I should elaborate a little further. Just for fun!

One thing TNA has always struggled with is merchandising. I mean, even ECW had multiple video games on the Playstation and Nintendo 64, but TNA never landed one, until Impact! was released in 2008. It seemed they rushed that thing out the door, as they didn’t have normal wrestling game staples like cage matches, and the roster was pretty small with only 25 wrestlers to choose from. BUT you could play as Suicide. So it had that going for it.

Wait. Who was Suicide at that point? Well, like Arya Stark, he was no one, as Midway (the video game developer) made the dude up and put him in the game. Now that would have been fine had that been the end of it, but to promote Impact! Suicide came to life and showed up on the television show Impact.

Whenever this happened, Mike Tenay freaked out as if it was the greatest thing he’d ever seen in his life instead of stating the obvious: “How the f**k is this possible?”.

A bunch of people ended up playing Suicide, until it was revealed that it was TJ Perkins, who took credit for the role. This made absolutely no sense, since he wasn’t in the company when the character was created. Well, it still makes more sense than somebody jumping out of a Playstation 3 and travelling to Orlando to fight people on a weekly basis. But just barely.