Rican
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Rican on Feb 22, 2019 8:08:28 GMT -5
I also think Alex Shelly should have gotten a shot. Any time I saw him in ROH or TNA I thought the guy being a massive star one day was a no brainer. It’s a shame.
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Ozymandius
Got fined anyway.
Possibly a Moose
James Franco is the white Donald Glover
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Post by Talent Name on Feb 22, 2019 8:21:00 GMT -5
Steve Corino. He had the worst luck ever. He was supposed to debut with a big push in wcw with Dusty and Jarrett but the company closed, then because he quit ecw, he thinks that Heyman sabotaged him into joining wwe. I’m also surprised they never even gave Homicide a look. that's a shame, Corino would have been hot stuff in late stage WCW. I'm surprised that Mike Elgin has never been given a look by WWE considering nearly every other ROH champion has had experiences with WWE. There are allegations against Elgin so that may have something to do with it |
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Post by mrtuesday on Feb 22, 2019 8:50:30 GMT -5
Lufisto. But it was during a time when WWE wasn't interested in signing a lot of actual women wrestlers. Johnny Ace signing models at the time.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 22, 2019 9:53:13 GMT -5
Lufisto. But it was during a time when WWE wasn't interested in signing a lot of actual women wrestlers. Johnny Ace signing models at the time. There's so many good-to-great wrestlers from that period of time that got overlooked because of that dumbass hiring policy. |
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 22, 2019 10:39:47 GMT -5
Icarus, Hallowicked and Frightmare must all have really good day jobs for WWE to never seem like a good prospect.
And for women, really no Daffney?
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dranny
Trap-Jaw
My Olympic Hero
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Post by dranny on Feb 22, 2019 11:26:11 GMT -5
Doug Williams. NXT UK trainer.
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Post by mrtuesday on Feb 22, 2019 12:08:13 GMT -5
Icarus, Hallowicked and Frightmare must all have really good day jobs for WWE to never seem like a good prospect. And for women, really no Daffney? Daffney was under contract when she was in OVW, wasn't she? |
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 22, 2019 12:58:05 GMT -5
Icarus, Hallowicked and Frightmare must all have really good day jobs for WWE to never seem like a good prospect. And for women, really no Daffney? I don't know about Icarus or Frightmare, but yeah, apparently Wicked basically does wrestling as a hobby, his shoot job is so good. |
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Feb 22, 2019 16:31:02 GMT -5
Icarus, Hallowicked and Frightmare must all have really good day jobs for WWE to never seem like a good prospect. Hallowicked's definitely good enough in the ring, and Frightmare probably is too. I'm less sure about Icarus. Mark Angelosetti is pretty fantastic; he's the one I wonder about most. I also feel like Oleg the Usurper has something. |
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Post by kingoftheindies on Feb 23, 2019 9:02:50 GMT -5
Steve Corino. He had the worst luck ever. He was supposed to debut with a big push in wcw with Dusty and Jarrett but the company closed, then because he quit ecw, he thinks that Heyman sabotaged him into joining wwe. I’m also surprised they never even gave Homicide a look. that's a shame, Corino would have been hot stuff in late stage WCW. I'm surprised that Mike Elgin has never been given a look by WWE considering nearly every other ROH champion has had experiences with WWE. Well right now Elgin is kind of getting blacklisted a lot of places cause of his role in a female wrestlet's sexual assault allegations against one of his students, but that not withstanding Elgin has kind of always been difficult for people to deal with |
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Post by corndog on Feb 23, 2019 11:43:37 GMT -5
I am going to say Dalton Castle. He has a ton of charisma, a solid wrestler, good mic work and he's actually a legit heavyweight unlike most indy wrestlers.
I don't watch the Kingdom that much, as initially Taven kind of bores me, but I missing out here? They seem to get a lot of love in this thread, although I do like Vinny Marseglia.
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Post by Balesirion on Feb 24, 2019 5:17:48 GMT -5
They did sign Matt Taven, he was in FCW for a very brief time in mid-2012.
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
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Post by chazraps on Feb 24, 2019 5:24:21 GMT -5
Also, add Willie Mack to the list. Willie Mack was also signed for a little less than that. Then got immediately cut for some reason. No joke, Willie Mack confirmed in an interview that the person who reached out and signed him meant to sign Apollo Crews and just contacted and signed the wrong guy. When they realized the mistake, they let him go and hired Crews immediately. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 5:29:01 GMT -5
Willie Mack was also signed for a little less than that. Then got immediately cut for some reason. No joke, Willie Mack confirmed in an interview that the person who reached out and signed him meant to sign Apollo Crews and just contacted and signed the wrong guy. When they realized the mistake, they let him go and hired Crews immediately. Didn't the same thing happen when they were trying to hired Zach Gowen? |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 24, 2019 5:36:07 GMT -5
No joke, Willie Mack confirmed in an interview that the person who reached out and signed him meant to sign Apollo Crews and just contacted and signed the wrong guy. When they realized the mistake, they let him go and hired Crews immediately. Didn't the same thing happen when they were trying to hired Zach Gowen? Yup. Laurinaitis was given Gowan's phone number, told he was a 19 year-old kid from Detroit, and ol' Mr. Excitement still managed to sign a near-40 year-old guy from Florida instead, who was let go when he showed up to TV and Vince and Prichard saw it wasn't Gowan. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 6:36:48 GMT -5
Joey Ryan seems like the exact type of guy who would have been signed in like 2009 before they started putting money into developmental, stripped of anything interesting about him, and then ultimately released within 2 years.
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Post by tankisfreemason on Feb 24, 2019 16:18:43 GMT -5
My first thought was Jay Lethal.
On a side note, makes me very happy that I can barely think of Indy guys that WWE haven’t looked at yet. I remember the dark ages where WWE wouldn’t even give a look at practically any Indy talents.
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wildojinx
Wade Wilson
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 3, 2019 15:37:09 GMT -5
Marshall, Ross, and Lacey Von Erich. You'd think that the Von Erich name would have them interested at least.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 3, 2019 16:17:09 GMT -5
Marshall, Ross, and Lacey Von Erich. You'd think that the Von Erich name would have them interested at least. Lacey was signed in 2007 and sent to FCW. She lasted less than half a year. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 3, 2019 17:54:35 GMT -5
How about Hardy associates, Christian York and Marty Garner? They signed York's tag partner from ECW and gave him a respectable push alongside Nitro and Melina, but York was left in Indy obscurity. Garner is best known for the infamous Triple H pedigree botch, and being one of the Dupps in ECW, the WWE had him do jobber work after so the botch couldn't have burned his bridge in the WWE entirely.
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