TNA's 10 Worst WWE Castoffs

2. Ric Flair

ric flair tna If you are going to bring in Ric Flair, one of the (if not the) greatest wrestler of all time, you do not, under any circumstances have him job cleanly to Abyss on Impact without even a week of build up. This somehow happened. Flair has been booked poorly in every company he's been in basically since the early 90s. Hey, people may remember him fondly for his WWE run, but don't forget he was teaming up with Carlito and losing to The Great Khali not long before his famous WrestleMania retirement match. But his run in WWE was like the glory days compared to how TNA booked him. Case in point, Flair's first night in he was already overshadowed by Hulk Hogan. He didn't even make a grand entrance, he was just shown walking around outside, then later scouting A.J. Styles. That's the best they could come up with? TNA soon ruined the magic of his last WWE match to get him into the ring to lose to Hogan for the 9,000th time. He also lost to Mick Foley, to Sting and the earlier mentioned Abyss. By the end of Flair's run, he was reduced to grading mostly lousy talent on Gut Check along with Al Snow and Tazz. Even if TNA only paid him $1 for the entire run he was there, they overpaid him. That's not Flair's fault, but due to the way he was booked and presented, there's no way they made money off of him.
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