10 AEW Talents You Didn't Know Wrestled For WWE
10 Wrestlers for AEW you didn't know performed in WWE
All Elite Wrestling has been a godsend not just for fans desperately seeking an alternative, but for wrestlers looking to make a decent living in the industry.
Some of those currently signed to AEW know how hard it is to crack the WWE nut, with several having had matches there that, typically, led to nothing.
And while there are famous examples of AEW stars wrestling one-offs for WWE in the past – yes, we all know Matt Jackson was Chokeslammed through a table by Big Show – there are others plying their trade for Tony Khan’s promotion who wrestled for WWE that may have slipped under your radar.
These are 10 AEW Wrestlers You Didn’t Know Competed in WWE.
10. John Silver
John Silver signed with All Elite Wrestling in December of 2019, alongside tag team partner Alex Reynolds.
The Dark Order member has been a mainstay since and plays his part as a solid worker who wrestles primarily in tag and multi-man matches.
Just a few months before he became All Elite, however, Silver wrestled for WWE, teaming with Alex Keaton (AKA Alex Reynolds) to put over Heavy Machinery on the September 10, 2019, episode of SmackDown.
This was not the first time Silver had appeared on WWE TV, mind.
The first time he got called in for enhancement duty was back in 2012, where he was an early victim for Ryback during the former Skip Sheffield’s initial monster push.
Silver (as Rob Grymes) teamed with Dan Delaney to lose a quick handicap match to The Big Guy at that year’s No Way Out pay-per-view.
Evidently impressed with his ability to make a big, bald monster look good, WWE again chose Silver to get squashed by Lars Sullivan on an episode of NXT almost six years later.
