10 TNA Impact Tag Team Wrestlers Who Struggled The Most After Splitting Up

The history of tag team wrestling in TNA aka Impact Wrestling featured many talented wrestlers trying to get on the same page. Most of the truly great teams like Beer Money, the Motor City Machine Guns and Team 3D featured both wrestlers benefiting from their run together. Some names were unable to succeed once their tag run ended.

A lot goes into a name succeeding after spending time in a tag team. TNA tried their best to make sure the names involved did well, but things didn’t always work that way. Quite a few wrestlers had difficult journeys after enduring a breakup. The following wrestlers had the toughest times trying to make it work in singles roles after leaving a tag team in TNA.

10 Chris Harris

TNA utilized America’s Most Wanted as the first great tag team to pair Chris Harris and James Storm together. Both wrestlers showed great promise, but they channeled that faster working together and becoming one of the promotion’s first successful homegrown acts.

However, Harris and Storm each expressed a desire to split up as Jeff Jarrett confirmed on his podcast. Storm ended up becoming a TNA World Champion, but Harris struggled on his own. A move to WWE saw Harris flopping badly as Braden Walker and never recovering.

9 Gunner

Another tag team partner of James Storm to struggle without him was Gunner. TNA placed them in a makeshift team for Storm to help Gunner get over with the fans to mixed results. Even with that, Gunner’s greatest TNA success came in this team.

The breakup of Storm turning heel was meant to elevate Gunner by trying to get revenge. TNA’s hope for Gunner becoming a main eventer never panned out since he didn’t connect with the audience. Gunner’s WWE run as Jaxson Ryker showed how flawed of a performer he was with the brutal results.

8 Homicide

LAX became the most over tag team and one of the most over acts in TNA during an important growing period. The trio of Konnan, Hernandez and Homicide received strong heel heat during their feuds with Team 3D, America’s Most Wanted, and Christopher Daniels & AJ Styles.

Konnan leaving was the first domino to fall, but the company eventually decided to split them up. Hernandez was a favorite of Dixie Carter and received multiple pushes afterwards. Homicide was the odd man out usually struggling to get time when not getting an X-Division push.

7 Bram

TNA believed in Bram to become a future player for them due to his look and background in WWE developmental. Bram’s most impactful TNA storyline came when joining the Death Council Crew faction with Eddie Kingston and James Storm.

The trend of Storm’s partners struggling without him continued for Bram. TNA had him on the roster for a few more months with little importance whatsoever. Kingston has since found success in AEW, while Bram is the odd man out in the forgotten NWA promotion.

6 Crazzy Steve

The Decay was an underrated trio when Abyss teamed with Crazzy Steve and Rosemary was their third. A memorable feud with the Broken Hardy family created some compelling television for TNA. Unfortunately, the trio didn’t have a long run together before going their separate ways.

Abyss spent the rest of his TNA career respected as a legend, and Rosemary remains a top Knockout. Crazzy Steve had the toughest task finding a new role during his time in and out of the company. Impact brought Crazzy Steve back to work with Rosemary again for the best role in his career.

5 Scott Steiner

The Main Event Mafia became the top act in TNA when the former main eventers of WWE and WCW united. Scott Steiner and Booker T were the official tag team of the group and even won the TNA Tag Team Championship together.

Booker leaving for a WWE return left Steiner high and dry trying to rebuild. Steiner had a tag run with Bully Ray in Immortal, but he was never used the same again. The end of his TNA run the Hulk Hogan era saw Steiner bashing the company for how it was being run with that regime.

4 Davey Richards

The American Wolves joining TNA came with a lot of fanfare and a big push when the company was trying to rebuild with young hungry talents. Davey Richards was considered the bigger name than Eddie Edwards since he was around in a relevant manner longer.

That made it more surprising that Edwards became the bigger star after Richards suffered an injury. TNA booked Davey to turn heel on Eddie when returning and they had a great feud. However, the follow up saw Richards having one foot in and out of wrestling. Edwards is still a fixture for Impact Wrestling, but Davey is mostly competing for MLW.

3 Jesse Godderz

The Bro Mans were a surprisingly successful tag team act when the two obnoxious heels of Robbie E and Jesse Godderz united. DJ Z joined them as a third act that usually managed or took part in the rare six-man tag feuds.

TNA splitting them up saw Godderz getting the bigger push and failing to move up the ladder. Godderz was valued by TNA for his great look and background in reality TV. Things just never panned out the same in the wrestling world as he’s still trying to put it together.

2 Elix Skipper

Triple X was an early TNA success for the trio of Elix Skipper, Christopher Daniels and Low Ki to become popular together. All three names could rotate into tag teams with the odd man out competing in the X-Division afterwards.

Daniels and Skipper became the more common team since Low Ki was viewed as unreliable at the time. The faction broke up for the first time after losing a “loser must disband” match vs America’s Most Wanted. Skipper had some solid X-Division matches, but he was never as important and would get released after a while.

1 Crimson

Matt Morgan and Crimson were placed together when TNA wanted both talents to look strong before their hopeful singles main event spots opened. Crimson had an undefeated streak going of winning all his singles matches and never getting pinned in tag team losses.

Fans started turning on both talents as faces before the breakup. Crimson’s undefeated streak didn’t even matter at that point since no one bought him as a credible threat. TNA quickly lost interest once ending the streak and stopped using him.