10 AEW Talents You Didn't Know Wrestled For WWE
10 Wrestlers for AEW you didn't know performed in WWE
8. Powerhouse Hobbs
With his size, athleticism, look and general presence, Powerhouse Hobbs has all the ingredients to make it far in the professional wrestling business.
Given all those qualities, you would assume WWE would be interested in him at some point in the future. Well, now that he’s established himself as a star-in-the-making, anyway, because WWE passed on Hobbs after he had a tryout some years ago.
Hobbs had mainly wrestled for the California-based APW, the promotion that had trained him, when he bagged a three-day WWE tryout, which included a dark match, in October of 2016.
He put over Baron Corbin prior to a SmackDown taping, yet evidently didn’t do enough to impress WWE officials (even though he says he received good feedback from people afterwards).
Though he was brought in for extra work a handful of times after, no contract offer was forthcoming and so he moved on while trying to gain extra experience elsewhere.
It was only after AEW showed interest in him that WWE suddenly became interested, with Hobbs basically telling them just where they could take their offer.
