10 AEW Talents You Didn't Know Wrestled For WWE
10 Wrestlers for AEW you didn't know performed in WWE
4. Brian Cage
The ship may have sailed on Brian Cage potentially going to WWE, with The Swolverine signing a new, five-year deal with AEW in April of 2023.
By Cage’s own admission, he did at least consider the possibility of going to WWE, with he and his agent going back and forth between the two companies, before he committed to Tony Khan’s promotion.
Cage had been in the WWE system before, mind, long before he made his reputation on the indie circuit.
According to Cage, a friendship with Chris Kanyon led to him getting extra work, which resulted in him receiving a tryout match prior to the June 7, 2008, ECW television taping.
Tagging up with another hopeful against Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang, the match wasn’t exactly smooth sailing as Cage suffered a concussion while taking Yang’s top-rope cross body.
Despite that – and later interrupting John Laurinaitis backstage – Cage evidently did enough to impress officials and was offered a developmental contract.
He never made it out of FCW, however, and this dark match remains his one and only official WWE bout.
