20 Best TNA Wrestlers Ever

4. James Storm

Pushing James Storm as the biggest star in the company may have been TNA’s last real chance to become a competitor to WWE. No joke.

From 2002 until today (minus a brief stop in NXT), Storm was a member of the TNA roster, and one of their most entertaining members. He established himself as a great tag team wrestler in America’s Most Wanted and later with Beer Money. It was the dynamic between him and Bobby Roode that signaled that both men may have a lot of untapped potential as singles acts. In 2011, Storm was given that opportunity and he absolutely delivered.

For a time, The Cowboy was cutting the best babyface promos in the entire wrestling business. He also represented a southern wrestler who wasn’t treated like a fool as we’ve often seen in WWE. He appealed to a huge demographic that had been basically ignored for years. He was just a good ‘ol boy who liked to have a beer and kick some a**, it’s a gimmick that has got over for decades, and he was the newest incarnation of it.

For whatever reason, the company never went all in on him. And after a cool moment of him winning the Heavyweight Championship, he dropped it and never again came close to reaching that same peak.

James Storm has been a part of a ton of great matches and moments in TNA, and yet will still likely be remembered as one of their biggest “what if’s?”