10 Wrestling Careers That Were Revived by TNA

#6 Jerry Lynn

X Division pioneer

Jerry Lynn was one of the best pure wrestlers in ECW history, never relying on ECW's typical hardcore rules to thrill the live audience.

Jerry had two of the most memorable feuds in ECW history, first with Justin Credible shortly after his arrival in 1997 and then with Rob Van Dam, which ran on and off from 1999 until the company went out of business in 2001. He also had a short one month run as ECW World Champion in 2000.

Jerry was among the first few former ECW stars to sign with WWE in 2001 following the closure of ECW. His WWE debut sounded great on paper, he was to answer an open challenge from Crash Holly for the Light Heavyweight Championship at Backlash 2001 and defeat him. And while Jerry did defeat Crash for the title, their match was demoted to Sunday Night Heat before the pay-per-view, and of course, by this point, the Light Heavyweight Championship was pretty worthless.

Jerry was noticeably absent from the Alliance angle. Although he did suffer an injury in August 2001 that would keep him off WWE TV (for good), he was not a part of the former ECW stars joining up with the WCW stars to invade the WWE.

Jerry went on to have a successful run with TNA wrestling, which included being apart of the first ever TNA match, being a 2 time TNA X Division Champion, two-time NWA Tag Team Champion and had one of the best feuds in company history with AJ Styles in 2002. He continued to wrestle for TNA on and off until 2007, with some brief cameo returns in 2011 and 2013. He would also become the Ring of Honor World Champion in 2009, at the age of 41.

To date, he is one of very few wrestlers to have wrestled for WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, and ROH.