TNA (Impact Wrestling today) helped launch a ton of future superstars like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. The company also helped relaunch the careers of many great veterans like Sting and Kurt Angle. Even though the company never became as big as some of its competitors, TNA etched out a legacy that many wrestlers and fans still respect to this day.
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Along with some of the most well-known superstars to ever set foot in the ring, TNA has also featured a ton of wrestlers who have come and gone. There are even some superstars that once competed at TNA that completely disappeared into oblivion. This list will examine 10 wrestlers who competed at TNA and fell off the scene entirely.
10 Eddie Villa
Eddie Villa competed in the very early days of TNA with his first match dating back to 2003 at TNA Xplosion. He also had a couple of matches on TNA Impact in 2004 but didn't do much to make a name for himself at the company.
He never wrestled at TNA again after 2004 and had his last major event at House of Bricks Pro Wrestling in 2018.
9 Mikey Batts
Mikey Batts is a name some TNA wrestling fans may remember from back in 2004. Batts was not able to make a huge impact at the company but did job for a ton of future superstars, especially in the tag team division.
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He last wrestled for the company in September 2005 when he and Jarelle Clark were defeated by Monty Brown in a Two on One Handicap Match. After his time at TNA, he competed at the WWE Developmental Company, OVW. He even jobbed on an episode of Velocity for Gregory Helms in 2006 but hasn't competed in wrestling since 2014.
8 Chris Vaughn
Chris Vaughn competed in the TNA X Division way back In 2003. His first matches with the company date back to 2002. Vaughn did have a couple of memorable matches at TNA including a good one against Kid Cash but never competed at Impact after 2004.
He wrestled his last match at Southern All-Star Wrestling in Tennessee before falling off the wrestling scene in 2008.
7 Andy Douglas
Andy Douglas wrestled most of his TNA career as one-half of The Naturals (with Chase Stevens). The two became NWA World Tag Team Champions on three different occasions and competed at TNA from 2003 to 2007.
Despite his successes in the ring, Douglas fell out of the wrestling scene after he left TNA and hasn't competed in an official match since 2016.
6 Matt Bentley/Michael Shane
Matt Bentley began wrestling for TNA in 2003. He competed for the X Division Title multiple times in his career and also became TNA X Division Champion twice, in a strange circumstance, where he was paired with Frankie Kazarian as champion.
He left Impact in 2013 after he competed at One Night Only: X-Travaganza 2013. By 2015, Matt Bentley had disappeared from the wrestling scene entirely.
5 Trinity
Trinity was one of the first women to ever compete in TNA wrestling in 2003. Her first run with the company ended in 2005. She returned to TNA at One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown 2013 but hasn't wrestled at Impact Wrestling since.
She spent some time at OVW and even wrestled at a few ECW/WWE house shows. Trinity hasn't been in the wrestling scene since her loss to ODB at Knockouts Knockdown in 2013.
4 Sonny Siaki
Sonny Siaki started his wrestling career at WCW. He wrestled on the very first episode of TNA where he, Jimmy Yang, and Jorge Estrada defeated AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, and Lo-Ki in a six-man tag match. He continued to compete at the company in the 2000s and was even TNA X Division Champion in 2002.
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He stopped wrestling at TNA in 2005 and after a short stint with WWE developmental, he left the scene entirely after he retired from wrestling in 2009.
3 Jorge Estrada
Jorge Estrada is a forgotten wrestler from the late days of the original ECW. Estrada wrestled at TNA from 2002 to 2003 where he was unable to make a huge impact as a superstar.
He did compete in some high-stakes matches including an NWA World Tag Team Title match. Estrada disappeared from the wrestling scene in 2003.
2 Buck Quartermain
If fans don't remember Buck Quartermain, it's probably because he never won a single match on an episode of TNA Impact. He wrestled mostly as a jobber competing against stars like AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Team 3D.
Buck ended his time with Impact in 2006 and continued to wrestle all over the world until 2018. His match at TBPW Super Smash Brawl was the last time he ever competed professionally as a wrestler.
1 El Fuego
El Fuego is a Uruguayan wrestler who once competed at TNA in the early 2000s. In his first match, Eric Young and Sanjay Dutt defeated him and Jerrell Clark. In 2004, Fuego had his last match at the company when the New York Connection (Glenn Gilbertti and Johnny Swinger) defeated him and Scott Papper.
Although he did job a match in the WWE back in 1995, he struggled to make an impact as a wrestler in the United States and completely fell off the scene in 2005.
