10 Wrestling Careers That Were Revived by TNA

#1 Raven

Destiny fulfilled

After a forgettable run in WWE in the early 90's as Johnny Polo, Scott Levy joined ECW in 1994 as Raven, a character to appeal to fans of grunge music and generation X. Raven had a fantastic gimmick, was a great wrestler and had some of the best matches and moments in ECW history.

Raven was a two-time ECW World Champion and four-time Tag Team Champion and was always presented as a top star. The character was damaged in WCW thanks to some colorless booking, but it was nothing that he couldn't recover from.

After a brief return to ECW in 1999, Raven returned to WWE in 2000. Many fans had hoped for a prominent run for him like he had in ECW, but Vince McMahon was not a fan of him and thus he would be forever stuck in the hardcore ranks, where he would become a 27 time WWE Hardcore Champion, according to WWE records, 39 by his count.

Raven was released by WWE in January 2003 and immediately joined TNA, just one week after his last televised appearance on WWE RAW. Raven debuted in a big angle with NWA Champion Jeff Jarrett and was treated like a megastar. He spent the next couple years, usually in big feuds and would eventually fulfill his, quote, 'destiny', as he became the NWA World Heavyweight Champion in 2005.

Raven lost the Championship 3 months later, and quietly went down the ranks in favor of new TNA hires from other company's such as Christian, Sting and Kurt Angle. Despite this, especially compared to his WWE run, Raven's career had been reborn and he spent a further 4 years with TNA, being a highly entertaining performer along the way.