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Post by seductivemullet2 on Oct 19, 2018 8:47:17 GMT -5
Since there's a bunch of wrestlers in wwe that never wrestled the indys, was there anybody that surprised you that did?
Sheamus is one that comes to mind. I was really shocked that he wasnt just some guy they found working out at the gym.
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Post by Sting on Oct 19, 2018 10:12:25 GMT -5
That is surprising for me, never knew Sheamus wrestled in the indies.
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Oct 19, 2018 10:19:20 GMT -5
That is surprising for me, never knew Sheamus wrestled in the indies. Him, Barrett, and McIntyre were a faction in Irish Whip Wrestling |
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Post by punksnotdead on Oct 19, 2018 11:11:12 GMT -5
Not really anyone I can think of honestly. Fandango is a guy who I was surprised to see had been on the grind as long as he has been but it's not like I'm shocked he spent time working places before he got signed, especially during the era he was signed. EC3 is a very similar deal. Wrestling is different now in 2018, though. There aren't too many well kept Indie secrets anymore because we have access to so much wrestling. Most wrestlers work some form of the Indies unless it's a guy coming straight off an NFL or powerlifting career, or something similar. Even Shayna Baszler worked some high profile Indie names in the short period between her MMA and WWE transition. If you look at the guys who have really come in lately, it's all been legit Indie stars sans a Velveteen Dream, who was the Tough Enough super fan, ala Miz. But Cole, reDRagon, Aleister Black, War Machine, Ohno, Ciampa, Gargano, Roddy, Ricochet, and then we obviously have the main roster guys like Rollins, Ambrose, Owens, Zayn, Cesaro, AJ, Bryan, and Joe. They just signed Punishment, Mia Yim, Chelsea Green and Matt  ing Riddle. Everyone who follows Indie wrestling knows that group. This is coming off of them grabbing Deonna Purrazzo and Keith Lee, too. So it seems like most of the Indie talent coming into NXT is starting to be more on the obvious side. All of there other signings seem to be athletes from different sports with pretty much no experience at all. |
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Oct 19, 2018 11:51:45 GMT -5
Not really anyone I can think of honestly. Fandango is a guy who I was surprised to see had been on the grind as long as he has been but it's not like I'm shocked he spent time working places before he got signed, especially during the era he was signed. EC3 is a very similar deal. Wrestling is different now in 2018, though. There aren't too many well kept Indie secrets anymore because we have access to so much wrestling. Most wrestlers work some form of the Indies unless it's a guy coming straight off an NFL or powerlifting career, or something similar. Even Shayna Baszler worked some high profile Indie names in the short period between her MMA and WWE transition. If you look at the guys who have really come in lately, it's all been legit Indie stars sans a Velveteen Dream, who was the Tough Enough super fan, ala Miz. But Cole, reDRagon, Aleister Black, War Machine, Ohno, Ciampa, Gargano, Roddy, Ricochet, and then we obviously have the main roster guys like Rollins, Ambrose, Owens, Zayn, Cesaro, AJ, Bryan, and Joe. They just signed Punishment, Mia Yim, Chelsea Green and Matt ing Riddle. Everyone who follows Indie wrestling knows that group. This is coming off of them grabbing Deonna Purrazzo and Keith Lee, too. So it seems like most of the Indie talent coming into NXT is starting to be more on the obvious side. All of there other signings seem to be athletes from different sports with pretty much no experience at all. Velveteen was working indys before and during his time on Tough Enough. |
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Oct 19, 2018 12:02:48 GMT -5
Since there's a bunch of wrestlers in wwe that never wrestled the indys, was there anybody that surprised you that did? Sheamus is one that comes to mind. I was really shocked that he wasnt just some guy they found working out at the gym. It cant have been more than 18 months before Sheamus won the wwe title that he was here in my hometown and won the Celtic wrestling title in a sports hall with a capacity of maybe 150 people. |
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Post by punksnotdead on Oct 19, 2018 12:16:56 GMT -5
Not really anyone I can think of honestly. Fandango is a guy who I was surprised to see had been on the grind as long as he has been but it's not like I'm shocked he spent time working places before he got signed, especially during the era he was signed. EC3 is a very similar deal. Wrestling is different now in 2018, though. There aren't too many well kept Indie secrets anymore because we have access to so much wrestling. Most wrestlers work some form of the Indies unless it's a guy coming straight off an NFL or powerlifting career, or something similar. Even Shayna Baszler worked some high profile Indie names in the short period between her MMA and WWE transition. If you look at the guys who have really come in lately, it's all been legit Indie stars sans a Velveteen Dream, who was the Tough Enough super fan, ala Miz. But Cole, reDRagon, Aleister Black, War Machine, Ohno, Ciampa, Gargano, Roddy, Ricochet, and then we obviously have the main roster guys like Rollins, Ambrose, Owens, Zayn, Cesaro, AJ, Bryan, and Joe. They just signed Punishment, Mia Yim, Chelsea Green and Matt ing Riddle. Everyone who follows Indie wrestling knows that group. This is coming off of them grabbing Deonna Purrazzo and Keith Lee, too. So it seems like most of the Indie talent coming into NXT is starting to be more on the obvious side. All of there other signings seem to be athletes from different sports with pretty much no experience at all. Velveteen was working indys before and during his time on Tough Enough. If you want to call it that. He was working locally and then got a Tough Enough rub right after the competition was over with a couple of east coast shots. He hit the scene and was signed to WWE within a year, though. It's no different than Miz doing UPW. I don't really consider that working the Indies as much as I'd call that just getting trained and having some matches. I mean you're 100% right in that WWE wasn't the very first place he ever worked, but I wouldn't call him an Indie guy, either. I guess it's splitting hairs but I think of him as a WWE guy. |
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Oct 19, 2018 12:37:34 GMT -5
I remember for a few years, people saying Sheamus had signed with WWE when he hadn’t. He was one of the top guys on The Wrestling Channel in the U.K., because IWW was on there a lot.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Oct 19, 2018 13:15:11 GMT -5
None really. Most of the guys had to be seen or come from
Somewhere. Most guys now are all signed from there
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Post by k5 on Oct 19, 2018 13:39:43 GMT -5
this is the opposite scenario, but I was totally blown away by the reemergence of Quebecer Pierre/PCO. just an amazing story of a guy getting his best runs at middle age and I wouldn’t have believed it could’ve been.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Oct 19, 2018 13:43:00 GMT -5
Patrick Clark is NOT just some "Tough Enough" superfan who got lucky. My god.
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Post by Darkhawk on Oct 19, 2018 16:35:30 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero when he got released by WWE and wrestled in the indies for a while and then came back. He always seemed to wrestled in every major wrestling company, would be crazy if somehow he wrestled in TNA while he was released.
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Post by seductivemullet2 on Oct 19, 2018 18:28:30 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero when he got released by WWE and wrestled in the indies for a while and then came back. He always seemed to wrestled in every major wrestling company, would be crazy if somehow he wrestled in TNA while he was released. Didnt realize he was released at that time. He had that 3 way match with cm punk and mysterio |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 18:58:28 GMT -5
That is surprising for me, never knew Sheamus wrestled in the indies. If I'm not mistaken, he feuded with Vampiro during his indy days.
A young Sheamus appeared in Angel, Devil, Hero, a Vampiro documentary from 2008.
#vampiromark
xD
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Oct 19, 2018 21:29:41 GMT -5
That is surprising for me, never knew Sheamus wrestled in the indies. If I'm not mistaken, he feuded with Vampiro during his indy days.
A young Sheamus appeared in Angel, Devil, Hero, a Vampiro documentary from 2008.
#vampiromark
xD
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 21:37:55 GMT -5
If I'm not mistaken, he feuded with Vampiro during his indy days.
A young Sheamus appeared in Angel, Devil, Hero, a Vampiro documentary from 2008.
#vampiromark
xD
Yup, that's it!
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Oct 20, 2018 2:47:05 GMT -5
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Post by weaseltv on Oct 20, 2018 3:16:05 GMT -5
ok... so to really answer this question... you would have to find someone you didn't know previously was in the independent scene... otherwise it wouldn't really be a shock...
and well...
while searching for wrestlers that would shock me... I didn't find any yet per-se...
but I found something completely different that did shock me...
Eva Marie
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Ranked No. 50 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2016[100]
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Post by kingnothing ~ Hardwired... on Oct 20, 2018 4:38:22 GMT -5
Since there's a bunch of wrestlers in wwe that never wrestled the indys, was there anybody that surprised you that did? Sheamus is one that comes to mind. I was really shocked that he wasnt just some guy they found working out at the gym. It cant have been more than 18 months before Sheamus won the wwe title that he was here in my hometown and won the Celtic wrestling title in a sports hall with a capacity of maybe 150 people. I swear I saw a HHH ppv match where there was some outside brawling and a young Sheamus without the mustache was a security guard. Probably how he got his foot in the door while he was working the independents. Patrick Clark is NOT just some "Tough Enough" superfan who got lucky. My god. Definitely. He debuted in ‘14 in MCW. Won their tag belts with Lio Rush in ‘15 I believe. Maybe he didn’t spend a decade out there like others, and MCW is one of the better Indy promotions, but it’s not as if he spent 3 weeks there and got signed to NXT. |
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Oct 20, 2018 5:24:17 GMT -5
It cant have been more than 18 months before Sheamus won the wwe title that he was here in my hometown and won the Celtic wrestling title in a sports hall with a capacity of maybe 150 people. Patrick Clark is NOT just some "Tough Enough" superfan who got lucky. My god. Definitely. He debuted in ‘14 in MCW. Won their tag belts with Lio Rush in ‘15 I believe. Maybe he didn’t spend a decade out there like others, and MCW is one of the better Indy promotions, but it’s not as if he spent 3 weeks there and got signed to NXT. November 13th 2006 edition of RAW from Manchester, England when DX were banned from the arena so they brought tickets from Cryme Tyme (and HBK spoke “jive”, ugh) Sheamus and (I think) Wade Barrett were used as bodyguards when DX got to ringside and were confronted by Coach. |
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