Wow way to use wikipedia and act like you know about professional wrestling. The reason AJ didn't take the developmental deal was because he didn't want to relocate his wife. This is a real reason to call him a WWE reject. AJ has only went on to become the best wrestler in the history of TNA. He's a reject. Yeah that's why WWE has tried in the past to throw money his way to get him to jump ship and he never has and says he never will. Yeah he's a WWE reject alright. You are the perfect intelligence level for the WWE's product. Vince loves people like you. Please go ahead and watch all your DQ finishes for every main event of every raw and enjoy it. How about this week when we didn't even get a match between HBK and Jericho. That was great wrestling action. Much better than the incredible 20 minute match between Angle and AJ.
Now as far as being a place for WWE rejects. Yeah they have took in former wrestlers from WWE. So what? What do you think the WWE did back during their prime? They took in and stole tons of talent from ECW and WCW. Did that make the WWF a place for WCW and ECW rejects? That is dumb. How about when WCW brought in former WWF talent and ECW talent. Did that make them a place for rejects? No it didn't help them to be the biggest company in wrestling for some short time. The only reason they died out was because of poor management.
As far as the wrestlers you've mentioned among countless others that wrestled for other companies lets run down the line:
Kevin Nash - involved in a huge storyline and has done nothing but put over young talent, everything you could ask for in a guy his age
Matt Morgan - a guy that WWE never used correctly and has proven he has the talent and athleticism to at least be a quality player
Scott Steiner - not of much use but again has put over the young talent
Team 3D - Vince tried to resign them not too long ago and they decided to stay with TNA, since then they have held titles and put over the likes of the X-Division, Beer Money, and the British Invasion
Rhino - Vince also tried to resign him but he would not leave TNA, instead has stayed on, been a team player and has put over the young talent
Abdul Bashir - nothing more than a role player in the World Elite
Bobby Lashley - Vince would kill to have him back, especially with the exposure he will give TNA as a top MMA fighter if he makes it that far
Elijah Burke - It was dumb to let him go as he is going to be a star for years to come and was the best thing to come out of WWECW
Kurt Angle - the best wrestler in the business, Vince would take him back in a heartbeat
Mick Foley - again Vince would love to have him back, don't act like he wouldn't
Taz - huge upgrade on commentary and again Vince would definately take him back over his options on commentary
So there you have it. A list of former WWE talent on the TNA roster. Each of them play a role but in no way do they overpower the roster anymore. Look at the TNA champs. AJ Styles, Amazing Red, Eric Young, British Invasion. Now while Doug Williams isn't a TNA Original the rest of the roster sure as hell is. We are finally moving toward a TNA where the home grown talent are running the show and all you still here are the unintelligent ramblings of WWE fans who says TNA sucks and WWE rejects. It's funny in a way, sad in another.
Not really to discuss about if TNA sucks or not( it doesn't by the way even iff the Dq finish was ackward) but you need to get your facts straight, WWE did not stole talent from ECW or WCW, in the case of WCW it was the other way around and in the case of ECW, WWE help them a little, this helped ECW and also helped WWE to scout talent, not to steal it, and it was not until the dying times of WCW that some of their wrestlers decided to go to the ship that was not sinking.
Sorry but honestly, TNA would not be able to steal anyone from WWE from the monetary stand point and exposure stand point, and please don't bring Nigel McGuiness because the reason is on TNA and not WWE is already posted on the news section.
In the case of the rejects you mention well is not that WWE is desperate to take any of them right away.
In Kurt Angle's case the reason he is not being brought back is because as good as he is, his health is an issue, working the TNA schedule is way healthier for him, even people with special contracts like Michaels make more shows than him in a year. In my view I hope he stays in TNA for his own good, because I really don't thing iWWE will be good for him, the guy is a workoholic (which sometimes is not a great thing) and it won't be Vince pushing him but Kurt himself to be working as much as possible and in the end he might end up the way he was when he got out.
Now on LAshley, he is talented alright, but Vince won't kill for the guy, now if he gets better maybe they would like him back but at the time he was gone he was proven that his pushes came too fast every time, he was not in the leage of the Big show when he took the ECW title from him (because Big show was on his way out) and even worse when he faced John Cena, it is the first time that I have heard so may boos for each man, with Cena it was to be expected since he has way more haters back then but with Lashley not that much, his promos lacked of intensity and he sometimes seemed lost in the ring.
He is just seen as a great wrestler now (which he is still not) because of his MMA career in which he still needs to face a top credible opponent. It was wise for him not to face Emelianenko when he was offered to do so because Fedor would have made look bad because of his lack of experience. Besides, The exposure TNA will get is yet to be seen since is fighting for StrikeForce which is a very secondary MMA league, by no means the UFC.
With Rhyno, well, to get him was to pretty much get the last cchampion when ECW was coming back, only to get the title off him and push Van Dam to the moon, so true that on his last WWE days was nothing more than a jobber (waste of talent I might add) for upcoming stars like Batista (lasted less than 3 minutes on their last match).
With Team 3D, wel I have no real argue with this since probaly it would have help WWE tag division since it is still non-existant, even if you have 2 or 3 teams there is not much.
No argument with Foley and Taz, Probaly VInce would like to have them back because J.R: having to carry Tom Grishan and The King carrying Cole is not that good.
With Burke, well he was nothing spectacular and still he is not, not much of a lost there. Same with Bashir, not much of a loss there.
With Morgan, well it was better this way because he needed some season out of the WWE, where even when he was pushed something was missing with him, now he is reaching his potential.
With Steiner, nothing for him on WWE, he would be a glorified jobber there right now. Nash on the other hand could go back but after a few months it won't do WWE any good, his last feud with HHH was boring as Hell and is not a credible treath for a World title anymore, at least on the WWE.