Ranking Every TNA Wrestler's Success In WWE

But for a brief time in 2011, when a newly heel R-Truth flirted with an assault on John Cena's WWE Championship, the former TNA star has largely struggled to reach the same heights he achieved in the Impact Zone.

In his former life, as Ron Killings, he twice wore the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, serving as one of the company's early headline names before the likes of Sting, Christian and Kurt Angle emerged to steal his thunder in 2006.

That said, you can't scoff at a whole decade of continuous employment with WWE, a company known for regularly shaving off large sections of its workforce in order to pinch pennies. The guy first returned to Monday Night Raw in 2008 - and he's still on the payroll today.

This speaks to R-Truth's enduring value as an entertainer. Whether he's bumming a cigarette off someone in the front-row or performing his (frankly grating) entrance rap, he's always been able to get a reaction from the audience.