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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think you) know him as Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}.
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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think you) know him as Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}.[[note]]Now you know him by his real name of Adam Copeland, since [[ScrewedByTheLawyers he lost the rights to the name Edge when he left WWE]][[/note]]
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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you know him as Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}.
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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you (think you) know him as Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}.
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* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
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* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign).reign... which means she was actually in the building for the FingerpokeOfDoom). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
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** Actually her very first appearance was in a pre-tape during ''Starrcade 93'' (where Ric is saying goodbye to the family as he's leaving for his match with Wrestling/BigVanVader) when she was all of 7 years old, the ''Nitro'' appearance mentioned above was the first time she appeared on camera live in the arena.
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** Actually her very [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrN-nz5C6nI first appearance appearance]] was in a pre-tape during ''Starrcade 93'' (where Ric is saying goodbye to the family as he's leaving for his match with Wrestling/BigVanVader) when she was all of 7 years old, the ''Nitro'' appearance mentioned above was the first time she appeared on camera live in the arena.
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** Actually her very first appearance was in a pre-tape during ''Starrcade 93'' (where Ric is saying goodbye to the family as he's leaving for his match with Wrestling/BigVanVader) when she was all of 7 years old, the ''Nitro'' appearance mentioned above was the first time she appeared on camera live in the arena.
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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you know him as Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
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** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you know him as Wrestling/{{Edge}}.Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}.
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* Before breaking out as one-third of Wrestling/TheShield, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose was an indie darling who wrestled under the name Jon Moxley. He made a few jobber appearances on WWE's C-show ''Velocity'' in 2006 using that ring name, including [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/67/f6/f367f6e6141ff2bf6176bc91374ee754.jpg one where his long hair is dyed hot pink]]. He had also played a druid for Wrestling/TheUndertaker one time.
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* Before breaking out as one-third of Wrestling/TheShield, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]] was an indie darling who wrestled under the name Jon Moxley. He made a few jobber appearances on WWE's C-show ''Velocity'' in 2006 using that ring name, including [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/67/f6/f367f6e6141ff2bf6176bc91374ee754.jpg one where his long hair is dyed hot pink]]. He had also played a druid for Wrestling/TheUndertaker one time.
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* 2004's $1,000,000 Wrestling/WWEToughEnough produced Mike "Wrestling/TheMiz" Mizanin, future Spirit Squad member Nick "Mitch" Mitchell, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Puder some guy who nearly injured Kurt Angle for real]] and got cut shortly after winning the competition. One of the eight finalists was a guy named Ryan Reeves, who did well, but was quickly forgotten as he drifted around in OVW and FCW after Tough Enough was done. Little more than five years later, he was back as a [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] Season 1 finalist named Skip Sheffield and joined Wrestling/TheNexus once the season was over. After an injury took him off TV, he dropped the cowboy gimmick and fake Texan accent and was repackaged as [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} the guy who wants people to feed him more.]]
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* 2004's $1,000,000 Wrestling/WWEToughEnough produced Mike "Wrestling/TheMiz" Mizanin, future Spirit Squad member Nick "Mitch" Mitchell, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Puder [[Wrestling/DanielPuder some guy guy]] who nearly injured Kurt Angle Wrestling/KurtAngle for real]] real and got cut shortly after winning the competition. One of the eight finalists was a guy named Ryan Reeves, who did well, but was quickly forgotten as he drifted around in OVW and FCW after Tough Enough was done. Little more than five years later, he was back as a [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] Season 1 finalist named Skip Sheffield and joined Wrestling/TheNexus once the season was over. After an injury took him off TV, he dropped the cowboy gimmick and fake Texan accent and was repackaged as [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} the guy who wants people to feed him more.]]
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* Wrestling/ZackRyder was in the audience at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X'' and was one of the kids [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] posed with after winning the Intercontinental Title. He also once jobbed to Wrestling/MattMorgan a few years before he made his proper debut.
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* Wrestling/ZackRyder [[Wrestling/MattCardona Zack Ryder]] was in the audience at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X'' and was one of the kids [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] posed with after winning the Intercontinental Title. He also once jobbed to Wrestling/MattMorgan a few years before he made his proper debut.
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* A young Wrestling/{{MJF}} can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wqqFXZxXY one of the episodes]] of ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'', in his cocky and arrogant self despite being ''five years old'' at the time. He also made brief appearances in {{Wrestling/WWE}}; the first one being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRNT5-1dZ0 his audition]] for Tough Enough 2015, and the second one as a security guard in NXT, who got pushed aside by the then NXT champion Samoa Joe. He even mocked that in a segment in {{Wrestling/AEW}}, pushing one of the security guards escorting him.
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* A young Wrestling/{{MJF}} can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wqqFXZxXY one of the episodes]] of ''The Rosie O'Donnell Creator/RosieODonnell Show'', in his cocky and arrogant self despite being ''five years old'' at the time. He also made brief appearances in {{Wrestling/WWE}}; the first one being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRNT5-1dZ0 his audition]] for ''[[Wrestling/WWEToughEnough Tough Enough 2015, Enough]] 2015'', and the second one as a security guard in NXT, who got pushed aside by the then NXT champion Samoa Joe. Wrestling/SamoaJoe. He even mocked that in a segment in {{Wrestling/AEW}}, Wrestling/{{A|llEliteWrestling}}EW, pushing one of the security guards escorting him.
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* A few guys that became stars in WWE made their first appearances on Wrestling/{{WCW}} syndicated shows:
** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you know him as Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
** Glenn Jacobs would go through several gimmicks, including a brief stint as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsFUIyeXnc Bruiser Mastino]], before finally finding one that stuck in Wrestling/{{Kane}}.
** WCW liked Wrestling/OwenHart so much they not only let him use his real name, but gave him a perfect 5-0 win/loss record while he was negotiating a contract. He eventually elected to go with the WWF, where he'd remain until his death in 1999. Pay your respects by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA2sQAnTleg watching]] him squash some random [[{{Jobber}} job guy]].
** WCW somehow saw no value in a guy named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoxLtgO8SU Damon Striker]]. You probably (think) you know him as Wrestling/{{Edge}}.
** Glenn Jacobs would go through several gimmicks, including a brief stint as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsFUIyeXnc Bruiser Mastino]], before finally finding one that stuck in Wrestling/{{Kane}}.
** WCW liked Wrestling/OwenHart so much they not only let him use his real name, but gave him a perfect 5-0 win/loss record while he was negotiating a contract. He eventually elected to go with the WWF, where he'd remain until his death in 1999. Pay your respects by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA2sQAnTleg watching]] him squash some random [[{{Jobber}} job guy]].
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* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company. Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
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* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company.company[[note]]He was driving it because he owned it, he let the WWF use it for free so long as he got to appear on camera at Wrestling/WrestleMania. He was hoping to get a job out of it (having just left the Wrestling/{{AWA}}, which at that point had nine toes in the grave) but ended up going to Wrestling/{{WCW}} to manage [[Wrestling/ScottHall The Diamond Studd]], [[Wrestling/KevinNash Vinnie Vegas]], and [[Wrestling/{{Raven}} Scotty Flamingo]] instead[[/note]]. Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
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** Around this same time [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon her brother]] had a couple of appearances as the outside referee during Wrestling/RoyalRumble and Wrestling/SurvivorSeries matches, though he was never named on camera.
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* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company. Wrestling/{{Edge}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
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* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company. Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
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* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
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* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge}} Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
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* Drew Gulak made infrequent appearances for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} in the mid-'00s before a semi notable appearance in 2008 for King Of Trios. But would not amount to much until returning for King of Trios 2014 with "The Gentlemen's Club", but still wouldn't regularly appear until 2015 and would join WWE a few years later.
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* Drew Gulak made infrequent appearances for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} in the mid-'00s before a semi notable appearance in 2008 for King Of Trios. But Trios, but would not amount to much until returning for King of Trios 2014 with "The Gentlemen's Club", but Club". He still wouldn't regularly appear until 2015 2015, and would join WWE a few years later.
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* Wrestling/{{Bayley}} was visible as a ringside audience (specifically during a [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] segment) during a 2004 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
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* Several luchadors appeared on WWF TV in 1997 as part of a cross promotion with Wrestling/{{AAA}}. One of whom which was Mascarita Sagrada, who later appeared as part of WWE's short lived midget wrestling division in 2005.
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* Several luchadors appeared on WWF TV in 1997 as part of a cross promotion with Wrestling/{{AAA}}. One of whom which was Wrestling/{{AAA}}, including Mascarita Sagrada, who later appeared as part of WWE's short lived short-lived midget wrestling division in 2005.
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* Before debuting his ForeignWrestlingHeel gimmick in 2003, French-Canadian wrestler Sylvan Grenier was supposedly a WWE referee tasked with mediating the rematch between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at that year's ''Wrestling/{{No Way Out|Wrestling}}'' (which, appropriately enough, was being held in Grenier's hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada). This is an unusual example in that Grenier was referred to by name by the commentary team, and his behavior in the course of the match was actually his StartOfDarkness and even carried over to ''[=WrestleMania=] XIX'' the following month!
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* Before debuting his ForeignWrestlingHeel gimmick in 2003, French-Canadian wrestler Sylvan Grenier was supposedly a WWE referee tasked with mediating the rematch between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at that year's ''Wrestling/{{No Way Out|Wrestling}}'' Out|WWE}}'' (which, appropriately enough, was being held in Grenier's hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada). This is an unusual example in that Grenier was referred to by name by the commentary team, and his behavior in the course of the match was actually his StartOfDarkness and even carried over to ''[=WrestleMania=] XIX'' the following month!
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* Wrestling/{{Bayley}} was visible as a ringside audience (specifically during a [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] segment) during a 2004 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
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* Wrestling/{{Bayley}} was visible as a ringside audience (specifically during a [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] segment) during a 2004 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
* A young Wrestling/{{MJF}} can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wqqFXZxXY one of the episodes]] of ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'', in his cocky and arrogant self despite being ''five years old'' at the time. He also made brief appearances in {{Wrestling/WWE}}; the first one being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRNT5-1dZ0 his audition]] for Tough Enough 2015, and the second one as a security guard in NXT, who got pushed aside by the then NXT champion Samoa Joe. He even mocked that in a segment in {{Wrestling/AEW}}, pushing one of the security guards escorting him.
* A young Wrestling/{{MJF}} can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wqqFXZxXY one of the episodes]] of ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'', in his cocky and arrogant self despite being ''five years old'' at the time. He also made brief appearances in {{Wrestling/WWE}}; the first one being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRNT5-1dZ0 his audition]] for Tough Enough 2015, and the second one as a security guard in NXT, who got pushed aside by the then NXT champion Samoa Joe. He even mocked that in a segment in {{Wrestling/AEW}}, pushing one of the security guards escorting him.
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* Wrestling/HiromitsuKanehara was in a blink and miss it role as a "young boy" for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, and even got to train with Wrestling/HiroyoshiTenzan and Osamu Nishimura, but he left for the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation and wouldn't be seen in New Japan again until UWF-i invaded during 1995.
* Chris Dolman accompanied Willem Ruska during his match against Wrestling/AntonioInoki in New Japan Pro Wrestling but when he became a pro wrestler he opted to go to the Universal Wrestling Federation, then become a shoot fighter/mixed martial artists before appearing for New Japan again in 1995 for a RINGS offer match where he lost to Wrestling/AkiraMaeda.
* Long before officially joining WWF as Mankind, Wrestling/MickFoley appeared in a few jobber matches as Jack Foley (his father's name) as WWF wouldn't let him use Cactus Jack.
** In one jobber appearance, Foley ''almost'' used his real name, being credited as "Nick Faley."
** Mick's first appearance on WWF TV was as a member of the audience watching the Wrestling/DonMuraco vs. Wrestling/JimmySnuka cage match from Madison Square Garden in 1983.
* Foley's fellow Dominic [=DeNucci=] protege Wrestling/ShaneDouglas also did jobs around the same time, using his real name, Troy Martin.
* Several luchadors appeared on WWF TV in 1997 as part of a cross promotion with Wrestling/{{AAA}}. One of whom which was Mascarita Sagrada, who later appeared as part of WWE's short lived midget wrestling division in 2005.
* Wrestling/CMPunk appears as one of the gangsters in Wrestling/JohnCena's entrance at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 22''. He would later go on to allude to that during a feud with Cena a few years later.
* Speaking of Cena, he made a brief appearance in 2000...in a ''Wrestling/{{WCW}}'' production. A blond-haired, 22-year-old Cena was one of several wrestlers working out in a gym scene in ''Film/ReadyToRumble''. Yes, ''that'' Creator/DavidArquette film WCW was promoting when they made him their World Champion.
* Caprice Coleman first showed up working against Wrestling/RingOfHonor in 2004, representing Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Wildside with [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and Rainman while Wrestling/MattSydal was representing IWA Mid-South (Wrestling/JimmyJacobs won for ROH). Matt Sydal and Delirious were somewhat regular to ROH at that point but Coleman would not get into a long term ROH deal for years.
* Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness's first appearance in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] was one off as part of a battle royal in 2004 on the 106th pay per view. The next year he would be defeated by Wrestling/SharkBoy on the ''Genesis'' pre show, still four years before he found a regular role as Desmond Wolfe.
* Before he got his "Irish" gimmick in 2006, Dave Finlay was the Divas' trainer and made occasional appearances at WWE events as a nameless official. Watch the part of the 2005 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' in which Wrestling/ShawnMichaels eliminates Wrestling/KurtAngle in less than a minute. Angle retaliates by [[DisproportionateRetribution reentering the ring, eliminating Michaels in turn, and then violently whaling on him]]. Several referees and other enforcer characters run out to subdue Angle, and one of them is Finlay. Of course back in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, he was always known as fighting-Irishman Fit Finlay and was given the backstage role when WCW was acquired by WWF/WWE.
* Wrestling/TommasoCiampa
** He first appeared at ''ROH Reclaims Boston'' in a multiman dark match going by "Thomas" in 2006 and wouldn't be seen again until five years later with a very different (if familiar) attitude (basically as a CaptainErsatz of Erik Stevens).
** Prior to his official WWE debut in 2016, he appeared eleven years earlier as Wrestling/MuhammadHassan's lawyer under his real name.
* In an interview with Wrestling/BethPhoenix for IGN, a few FCW divas can be seen wrestling in the background. One of them was Wrestling/AliciaFox.
* Both [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] and Wrestling/{{Lita}} were already established wrestlers but first appeared as Godfather's Hos in the WWF before actively wrestling for it.
* Scotty Too Hotty started in the WWF in 1991, though did not get used in any storylines until the late 90s.
* Both of the [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Boyz]] wrestled regularly on WWE TV during the 90s as short-haired teenage {{jobber}}s, most infamously during the one off "Jinx Brothers" match, before getting properly called up in 1999.
* Another high-school aged teen, Louis Mucciolo, did jobs for WWF in the late '80s under his more familiar ring name Louie Spicolli. He would make his formal main roster debut in the mid-'90s as Bodydonnas protege Rad Radford, a lower-carder with a "grunge rocker" gimmick.
* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon made her first appearance on WWF TV when she was only a child. She was one of the kids in the "Wrestling/RoddyPiper's Trick Or Treat" sketch on Saturday Night's Main Event in 1985. She also made appearances in the late 80s and early 90s modelling t-shirts and baseball caps in the [=WWF=] merchandise catalogues.
* Wrestling/TedDiBiase wrestled in the WWF for two years in the 1970's, before returning as "The Million Dollar Man".
** Some of his promos featured future stars as well. In one, he offered Linda [=McMahon=] $100 to get down on all fours and bark like a dog, then decided she didn't deserve the money.
** He also paid a teenager to kiss his foot after a match. That teenager grew up to become ECW and WWE star Wrestling/RobVanDam.
* Daichi Hashimoto's "debut" for Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 wasn't actually a wrestling match but a kickboxing exhibition in 2011 with Satoshi Kobayashi.
* Uhaa Nation's first run in Wrestling/DragonGate with the Blood Warriors PowerStable was CutShort due to an injury and is pretty much forgotten in comparison to his later roles in The Monster Express, Mad Blankey and one of the top attractions for DG USA.
* Wrestling/DamienSandow was a paper bag distributor for future tag partner Wrestling/CodyRhodes. Also the masked Easter Bunny in the APA's Barroom Brawl at the 2003 PPV ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}''. He also had a short run in the WWE tag team division as Idol Stevens.
* Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} wrestled a couple of matches on Heat against indie wrestler Starla Saxton in 1998. Two years later, Saxton would join the WWE roster officially as Wrestling/MollyHolly. She also wrestled Malia Hosaka in WCW as Starla Saxton, before joining the company as Miss Madness.
** Then known as Miss Texas in the USWA, Jackie herself appeared in one of the vignettes WWE aired back in late 1993 to promote Wrestling/JeffJarrett's debut.
* In 1985-86, a 25-year-old Wrestling/DeanMalenko worked for the WWF [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlyn2Iw7DJ8 as a referee]]. This was 15 years before he would officially debut as part of the Radicalz, possibly the longest time between cameo and appearance on this list. He also showed up in WCW before he officially debuted, as he and his brother Joe took part in the Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA tag team Tournament against Wrestling/RickySteamboat and Nikita Koloff at Clash of the Champions XIX in 1992.
* In a similar example to the Dean Malenko one above, Wrestling/TeddyLong was a referee for years in WWE before becoming a proper onscreen personality, going from manager to Smackdown General Manager. He did the same thing in WCW, starting off as a referee and then becoming a manager.
* Ares was in Wrestling/{{Chikara}}'s 2003 Tag World Grand Prix, had a match in 2005 against Quackenbush, and then wasn't seen again, going back to Europe until Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes made its presence known by basically beating down every Chikara wrestler they could find, excepting those who turned out to be members, as the {{brainwashed}} [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and willing servants Wrestling/SaraDelRey and Wrestling/DaizeeHaze. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Wrestling/UltraMantisBlack who admitted he didn't even know who Ares was.
* Wrestling/{{Melina}} Perez in her pre-MNM days made two appearances on Raw in late 2004, first in a lingerie strip tease segment and then a limbo segment, about four months before she properly debuted on television. She was also one of the few who didn't make the cut in season 3 of ''[[Wrestling/WWEToughEnough Tough Enough]]''.
* Hayato Fujita had a short run in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling during 2005 as a {{face}} and feuded with Los Salseros Japoneses for one night before being sent to Wrestling/{{Toryumon}} Mexico to gain experience. Fujita became better known as a HeroKiller who destroyed [[Wrestling/TakuyaSugi Yoshitsune]] and Wrestling/TheGreatSasuke, as well as an important member of Bad Boy.
* Yujiro Takahashi and Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito, the TagTeam better known as No Limit, defeated Genba Hirayanagi and Kotaro Suzuki of [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH NOAH]]'s DISOBEY stable in a dark match at ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor The Tokyo Summit''. Naito wouldn't become ''relevant'' to ROH until the second ''War Of The Worlds'' seven years later, while Takahashi would have to wait ''eight'' years at ''Honor Rising Japan" for a non dark match.
* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company. Wrestling/{{Edge}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
* Before debuting his ForeignWrestlingHeel gimmick in 2003, French-Canadian wrestler Sylvan Grenier was supposedly a WWE referee tasked with mediating the rematch between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at that year's ''Wrestling/{{No Way Out|Wrestling}}'' (which, appropriately enough, was being held in Grenier's hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada). This is an unusual example in that Grenier was referred to by name by the commentary team, and his behavior in the course of the match was actually his StartOfDarkness and even carried over to ''[=WrestleMania=] XIX'' the following month!
* Drew Gulak made infrequent appearances for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} in the mid-'00s before a semi notable appearance in 2008 for King Of Trios. But would not amount to much until returning for King of Trios 2014 with "The Gentlemen's Club", but still wouldn't regularly appear until 2015 and would join WWE a few years later.
* The druids who accompanied Wrestling/UltraMantisBlack for his match against Hallowicked at ''Through Savage Progress Cuts the Jungle Line'' later gained individual, and largely unrelated to Black identities as Obariyon and Kodama.
* Wrestling/CelticChampionshipWrestling:
** Wrestling/{{Kazza}} G first appeared as a backstage interviewer before getting integrated onto the roster.
** Ricky Combat can be glimpsed as a runner at several early shows, and features as a bodyguard in front of Lee Cahalane's office at one point.
** Bedlam Billy was first a commentator and then a ring announcer.
* In Wrestling/ProgressWrestling, a lot of ENDVR talent appear as company security on the chapter shows before having matches. Some examples are Ali Armstrong, Damon Moser and Shen Woo.
* Flex Rumblecrunch was first spotted at the December 2012 Chikara event ''Under The Hood'' accompanying The Devastation Corporation during their entrance, then leaving. He wouldn't be seen or heard from again until May 18th, 2013, during the Tag World Grand Prix, when he turned up and to attack The Colony with Max Smashmaster and Blaster [=McMassive=].
* Before being formally introduced as the Wrestling/WyattFamily's "black sheep," Wrestling/BraunStrowman was one of Wrestling/AdamRose's unnamed Rosebuds. Wrestling/BeckyLynch, Wrestling/{{Elias}}, and Simon Gotch were also Rosebuds.
* Wrestling/DLoBrown wrestled as jobber AC Conner, a slightly modified version of his real name, shortly before debuting as part of Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination.
* Before breaking out as one-third of Wrestling/TheShield, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose was an indie darling who wrestled under the name Jon Moxley. He made a few jobber appearances on WWE's C-show ''Velocity'' in 2006 using that ring name, including [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/67/f6/f367f6e6141ff2bf6176bc91374ee754.jpg one where his long hair is dyed hot pink]]. He had also played a druid for Wrestling/TheUndertaker one time.
* Wrestling/DaltonCastle made several one off appearances in the various "Wrestling Is" promotions related to Chikara before finding an extended role in Chikara itself as the ship captain Ashley Remington.
* 2004's $1,000,000 Wrestling/WWEToughEnough produced Mike "Wrestling/TheMiz" Mizanin, future Spirit Squad member Nick "Mitch" Mitchell, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Puder some guy who nearly injured Kurt Angle for real]] and got cut shortly after winning the competition. One of the eight finalists was a guy named Ryan Reeves, who did well, but was quickly forgotten as he drifted around in OVW and FCW after Tough Enough was done. Little more than five years later, he was back as a [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] Season 1 finalist named Skip Sheffield and joined Wrestling/TheNexus once the season was over. After an injury took him off TV, he dropped the cowboy gimmick and fake Texan accent and was repackaged as [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} the guy who wants people to feed him more.]]
* Wrestling/AngelinaLove was a TNA mainstay for most of the mid-2000s, but she had a couple appearances under her earlier gimmick Angel Williams in the early 2000s.
* Despite being the first eliminated from Tough Enough's fifth season in 2010, as well as the girl who said Wrestling/{{Melina}} vs Wrestling/AliciaFox was her favorite wrestling match of all time[[note]]which was part of the reason why she was eliminated in the first place[[/note]], Ariane Andrew was the only member of that season's class to make it to the main roster, debuting in 2012 as Funkadactyls member Wrestling/{{Cameron}}.
* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
* Wrestling/ZackRyder was in the audience at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X'' and was one of the kids [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] posed with after winning the Intercontinental Title. He also once jobbed to Wrestling/MattMorgan a few years before he made his proper debut.
* Rory Gulak first wrestled for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} at National Pro Wrestling Day '13, then did not show up again until the Johnny Kidd Invitational in 2017. More than that, he had been appearing as a fan at Wrestling/{{CZW}} events since he was a child, dressing as "Sick" Nick Mondo, which caused him to wrestle as "Rory Mondo" in CZW, hoping to emulate Mondo's career(apparently forgetting [[RooftopConfrontation how]] that [[CareerEndingInjury ended]]).
* Young Lion sent into exile, Wrestling/HiromuTakahashi, would make a brief return to New Japan during the 2016 ''Fantasticamania'', still using La Ola Amarilla Kamaitachi gimmick even though he lost his mask, defeating the man who unmasked him, Dragon Lee, for the Wrestling/{{CMLL}} World Lightweight Title belt. His official return to New Japan wouldn't be until next year, with his more familiar name, as "The Ticking Time Bomb" of Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon.
* The man who would become Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} wrestler Gran Akuma was in the audience for ''The Second Show'' on May 31, 2002, meaning his face appeared on camera ''three years'' before he lost his mask to Shane Storm at ''Running in the Red'' on November 13, 2005.
* Before Wrestling/JohnnyGargano made his official WWE debut in 2016, he first appeared as a {{Jobber}} nine years earlier billed as the champion of a [[FakeNationality Lichtenstein]].
* Wrestling/{{Bayley}} was visible as a ringside audience (specifically during a [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] segment) during a 2004 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
* Chris Dolman accompanied Willem Ruska during his match against Wrestling/AntonioInoki in New Japan Pro Wrestling but when he became a pro wrestler he opted to go to the Universal Wrestling Federation, then become a shoot fighter/mixed martial artists before appearing for New Japan again in 1995 for a RINGS offer match where he lost to Wrestling/AkiraMaeda.
* Long before officially joining WWF as Mankind, Wrestling/MickFoley appeared in a few jobber matches as Jack Foley (his father's name) as WWF wouldn't let him use Cactus Jack.
** In one jobber appearance, Foley ''almost'' used his real name, being credited as "Nick Faley."
** Mick's first appearance on WWF TV was as a member of the audience watching the Wrestling/DonMuraco vs. Wrestling/JimmySnuka cage match from Madison Square Garden in 1983.
* Foley's fellow Dominic [=DeNucci=] protege Wrestling/ShaneDouglas also did jobs around the same time, using his real name, Troy Martin.
* Several luchadors appeared on WWF TV in 1997 as part of a cross promotion with Wrestling/{{AAA}}. One of whom which was Mascarita Sagrada, who later appeared as part of WWE's short lived midget wrestling division in 2005.
* Wrestling/CMPunk appears as one of the gangsters in Wrestling/JohnCena's entrance at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 22''. He would later go on to allude to that during a feud with Cena a few years later.
* Speaking of Cena, he made a brief appearance in 2000...in a ''Wrestling/{{WCW}}'' production. A blond-haired, 22-year-old Cena was one of several wrestlers working out in a gym scene in ''Film/ReadyToRumble''. Yes, ''that'' Creator/DavidArquette film WCW was promoting when they made him their World Champion.
* Caprice Coleman first showed up working against Wrestling/RingOfHonor in 2004, representing Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Wildside with [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and Rainman while Wrestling/MattSydal was representing IWA Mid-South (Wrestling/JimmyJacobs won for ROH). Matt Sydal and Delirious were somewhat regular to ROH at that point but Coleman would not get into a long term ROH deal for years.
* Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness's first appearance in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] was one off as part of a battle royal in 2004 on the 106th pay per view. The next year he would be defeated by Wrestling/SharkBoy on the ''Genesis'' pre show, still four years before he found a regular role as Desmond Wolfe.
* Before he got his "Irish" gimmick in 2006, Dave Finlay was the Divas' trainer and made occasional appearances at WWE events as a nameless official. Watch the part of the 2005 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' in which Wrestling/ShawnMichaels eliminates Wrestling/KurtAngle in less than a minute. Angle retaliates by [[DisproportionateRetribution reentering the ring, eliminating Michaels in turn, and then violently whaling on him]]. Several referees and other enforcer characters run out to subdue Angle, and one of them is Finlay. Of course back in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, he was always known as fighting-Irishman Fit Finlay and was given the backstage role when WCW was acquired by WWF/WWE.
* Wrestling/TommasoCiampa
** He first appeared at ''ROH Reclaims Boston'' in a multiman dark match going by "Thomas" in 2006 and wouldn't be seen again until five years later with a very different (if familiar) attitude (basically as a CaptainErsatz of Erik Stevens).
** Prior to his official WWE debut in 2016, he appeared eleven years earlier as Wrestling/MuhammadHassan's lawyer under his real name.
* In an interview with Wrestling/BethPhoenix for IGN, a few FCW divas can be seen wrestling in the background. One of them was Wrestling/AliciaFox.
* Both [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] and Wrestling/{{Lita}} were already established wrestlers but first appeared as Godfather's Hos in the WWF before actively wrestling for it.
* Scotty Too Hotty started in the WWF in 1991, though did not get used in any storylines until the late 90s.
* Both of the [[Wrestling/MattHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Boyz]] wrestled regularly on WWE TV during the 90s as short-haired teenage {{jobber}}s, most infamously during the one off "Jinx Brothers" match, before getting properly called up in 1999.
* Another high-school aged teen, Louis Mucciolo, did jobs for WWF in the late '80s under his more familiar ring name Louie Spicolli. He would make his formal main roster debut in the mid-'90s as Bodydonnas protege Rad Radford, a lower-carder with a "grunge rocker" gimmick.
* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon made her first appearance on WWF TV when she was only a child. She was one of the kids in the "Wrestling/RoddyPiper's Trick Or Treat" sketch on Saturday Night's Main Event in 1985. She also made appearances in the late 80s and early 90s modelling t-shirts and baseball caps in the [=WWF=] merchandise catalogues.
* Wrestling/TedDiBiase wrestled in the WWF for two years in the 1970's, before returning as "The Million Dollar Man".
** Some of his promos featured future stars as well. In one, he offered Linda [=McMahon=] $100 to get down on all fours and bark like a dog, then decided she didn't deserve the money.
** He also paid a teenager to kiss his foot after a match. That teenager grew up to become ECW and WWE star Wrestling/RobVanDam.
* Daichi Hashimoto's "debut" for Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 wasn't actually a wrestling match but a kickboxing exhibition in 2011 with Satoshi Kobayashi.
* Uhaa Nation's first run in Wrestling/DragonGate with the Blood Warriors PowerStable was CutShort due to an injury and is pretty much forgotten in comparison to his later roles in The Monster Express, Mad Blankey and one of the top attractions for DG USA.
* Wrestling/DamienSandow was a paper bag distributor for future tag partner Wrestling/CodyRhodes. Also the masked Easter Bunny in the APA's Barroom Brawl at the 2003 PPV ''Wrestling/{{Vengeance}}''. He also had a short run in the WWE tag team division as Idol Stevens.
* Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} wrestled a couple of matches on Heat against indie wrestler Starla Saxton in 1998. Two years later, Saxton would join the WWE roster officially as Wrestling/MollyHolly. She also wrestled Malia Hosaka in WCW as Starla Saxton, before joining the company as Miss Madness.
** Then known as Miss Texas in the USWA, Jackie herself appeared in one of the vignettes WWE aired back in late 1993 to promote Wrestling/JeffJarrett's debut.
* In 1985-86, a 25-year-old Wrestling/DeanMalenko worked for the WWF [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlyn2Iw7DJ8 as a referee]]. This was 15 years before he would officially debut as part of the Radicalz, possibly the longest time between cameo and appearance on this list. He also showed up in WCW before he officially debuted, as he and his brother Joe took part in the Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA tag team Tournament against Wrestling/RickySteamboat and Nikita Koloff at Clash of the Champions XIX in 1992.
* In a similar example to the Dean Malenko one above, Wrestling/TeddyLong was a referee for years in WWE before becoming a proper onscreen personality, going from manager to Smackdown General Manager. He did the same thing in WCW, starting off as a referee and then becoming a manager.
* Ares was in Wrestling/{{Chikara}}'s 2003 Tag World Grand Prix, had a match in 2005 against Quackenbush, and then wasn't seen again, going back to Europe until Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes made its presence known by basically beating down every Chikara wrestler they could find, excepting those who turned out to be members, as the {{brainwashed}} [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] and willing servants Wrestling/SaraDelRey and Wrestling/DaizeeHaze. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Wrestling/UltraMantisBlack who admitted he didn't even know who Ares was.
* Wrestling/{{Melina}} Perez in her pre-MNM days made two appearances on Raw in late 2004, first in a lingerie strip tease segment and then a limbo segment, about four months before she properly debuted on television. She was also one of the few who didn't make the cut in season 3 of ''[[Wrestling/WWEToughEnough Tough Enough]]''.
* Hayato Fujita had a short run in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling during 2005 as a {{face}} and feuded with Los Salseros Japoneses for one night before being sent to Wrestling/{{Toryumon}} Mexico to gain experience. Fujita became better known as a HeroKiller who destroyed [[Wrestling/TakuyaSugi Yoshitsune]] and Wrestling/TheGreatSasuke, as well as an important member of Bad Boy.
* Yujiro Takahashi and Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito, the TagTeam better known as No Limit, defeated Genba Hirayanagi and Kotaro Suzuki of [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH NOAH]]'s DISOBEY stable in a dark match at ''Wrestling/RingOfHonor The Tokyo Summit''. Naito wouldn't become ''relevant'' to ROH until the second ''War Of The Worlds'' seven years later, while Takahashi would have to wait ''eight'' years at ''Honor Rising Japan" for a non dark match.
* Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzTKEKvoVY driving Rhythm and Blues' pink Cadillac at WrestleMania VI]] in 1990, 11 years before he signed with the company. Wrestling/{{Edge}} was also in attendance at the same event, which took place in his home town of Toronto.
* Before debuting his ForeignWrestlingHeel gimmick in 2003, French-Canadian wrestler Sylvan Grenier was supposedly a WWE referee tasked with mediating the rematch between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at that year's ''Wrestling/{{No Way Out|Wrestling}}'' (which, appropriately enough, was being held in Grenier's hometown of Montreal, Quebec, Canada). This is an unusual example in that Grenier was referred to by name by the commentary team, and his behavior in the course of the match was actually his StartOfDarkness and even carried over to ''[=WrestleMania=] XIX'' the following month!
* Drew Gulak made infrequent appearances for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} in the mid-'00s before a semi notable appearance in 2008 for King Of Trios. But would not amount to much until returning for King of Trios 2014 with "The Gentlemen's Club", but still wouldn't regularly appear until 2015 and would join WWE a few years later.
* The druids who accompanied Wrestling/UltraMantisBlack for his match against Hallowicked at ''Through Savage Progress Cuts the Jungle Line'' later gained individual, and largely unrelated to Black identities as Obariyon and Kodama.
* Wrestling/CelticChampionshipWrestling:
** Wrestling/{{Kazza}} G first appeared as a backstage interviewer before getting integrated onto the roster.
** Ricky Combat can be glimpsed as a runner at several early shows, and features as a bodyguard in front of Lee Cahalane's office at one point.
** Bedlam Billy was first a commentator and then a ring announcer.
* In Wrestling/ProgressWrestling, a lot of ENDVR talent appear as company security on the chapter shows before having matches. Some examples are Ali Armstrong, Damon Moser and Shen Woo.
* Flex Rumblecrunch was first spotted at the December 2012 Chikara event ''Under The Hood'' accompanying The Devastation Corporation during their entrance, then leaving. He wouldn't be seen or heard from again until May 18th, 2013, during the Tag World Grand Prix, when he turned up and to attack The Colony with Max Smashmaster and Blaster [=McMassive=].
* Before being formally introduced as the Wrestling/WyattFamily's "black sheep," Wrestling/BraunStrowman was one of Wrestling/AdamRose's unnamed Rosebuds. Wrestling/BeckyLynch, Wrestling/{{Elias}}, and Simon Gotch were also Rosebuds.
* Wrestling/DLoBrown wrestled as jobber AC Conner, a slightly modified version of his real name, shortly before debuting as part of Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination.
* Before breaking out as one-third of Wrestling/TheShield, Wrestling/DeanAmbrose was an indie darling who wrestled under the name Jon Moxley. He made a few jobber appearances on WWE's C-show ''Velocity'' in 2006 using that ring name, including [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/67/f6/f367f6e6141ff2bf6176bc91374ee754.jpg one where his long hair is dyed hot pink]]. He had also played a druid for Wrestling/TheUndertaker one time.
* Wrestling/DaltonCastle made several one off appearances in the various "Wrestling Is" promotions related to Chikara before finding an extended role in Chikara itself as the ship captain Ashley Remington.
* 2004's $1,000,000 Wrestling/WWEToughEnough produced Mike "Wrestling/TheMiz" Mizanin, future Spirit Squad member Nick "Mitch" Mitchell, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Puder some guy who nearly injured Kurt Angle for real]] and got cut shortly after winning the competition. One of the eight finalists was a guy named Ryan Reeves, who did well, but was quickly forgotten as he drifted around in OVW and FCW after Tough Enough was done. Little more than five years later, he was back as a [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]] Season 1 finalist named Skip Sheffield and joined Wrestling/TheNexus once the season was over. After an injury took him off TV, he dropped the cowboy gimmick and fake Texan accent and was repackaged as [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} the guy who wants people to feed him more.]]
* Wrestling/AngelinaLove was a TNA mainstay for most of the mid-2000s, but she had a couple appearances under her earlier gimmick Angel Williams in the early 2000s.
* Despite being the first eliminated from Tough Enough's fifth season in 2010, as well as the girl who said Wrestling/{{Melina}} vs Wrestling/AliciaFox was her favorite wrestling match of all time[[note]]which was part of the reason why she was eliminated in the first place[[/note]], Ariane Andrew was the only member of that season's class to make it to the main roster, debuting in 2012 as Funkadactyls member Wrestling/{{Cameron}}.
* Wrestling/CharlotteFlair made her first appearance in the wrestling world accompanying [[Wrestling/RicFlair her father]] in a 1999 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' (the same night where Wrestling/MickFoley won his very first WWE Title reign). She also made two one-off appearances on ''Wrestling/WWERaw''[[labelnote:Specifically]]In January 2006 as an audience member watching her father challenge Wrestling/{{Edge}} for the WWE Championship in a TLC match, then accompanying him along with the rest of their family in Ric's retirement ceremony the night after ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 24''[[/labelnote]] before officially joining WWE years later. While she was still wrestling in NXT, she made an appearance in Wrestling/TripleH’s ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XXX'' entrance alongside fellow developmental stars Wrestling/SashaBanks and Wrestling/AlexaBliss.
* Wrestling/ZackRyder was in the audience at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania X'' and was one of the kids [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] posed with after winning the Intercontinental Title. He also once jobbed to Wrestling/MattMorgan a few years before he made his proper debut.
* Rory Gulak first wrestled for Wrestling/{{Chikara}} at National Pro Wrestling Day '13, then did not show up again until the Johnny Kidd Invitational in 2017. More than that, he had been appearing as a fan at Wrestling/{{CZW}} events since he was a child, dressing as "Sick" Nick Mondo, which caused him to wrestle as "Rory Mondo" in CZW, hoping to emulate Mondo's career(apparently forgetting [[RooftopConfrontation how]] that [[CareerEndingInjury ended]]).
* Young Lion sent into exile, Wrestling/HiromuTakahashi, would make a brief return to New Japan during the 2016 ''Fantasticamania'', still using La Ola Amarilla Kamaitachi gimmick even though he lost his mask, defeating the man who unmasked him, Dragon Lee, for the Wrestling/{{CMLL}} World Lightweight Title belt. His official return to New Japan wouldn't be until next year, with his more familiar name, as "The Ticking Time Bomb" of Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon.
* The man who would become Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} wrestler Gran Akuma was in the audience for ''The Second Show'' on May 31, 2002, meaning his face appeared on camera ''three years'' before he lost his mask to Shane Storm at ''Running in the Red'' on November 13, 2005.
* Before Wrestling/JohnnyGargano made his official WWE debut in 2016, he first appeared as a {{Jobber}} nine years earlier billed as the champion of a [[FakeNationality Lichtenstein]].
* Wrestling/{{Bayley}} was visible as a ringside audience (specifically during a [[Wrestling/NickDinsmore Eugene]] segment) during a 2004 episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw''.
