10 AEW Talents You Didn't Know Wrestled For WWE
10 Wrestlers for AEW you didn't know performed in WWE
2. The Blade
Though The Butcher and The Blade come across as a pair of grizzled veterans, it should be noted that the former (despite being in his mid-to-late 40s) is actually less than a decade into his sports entertainment journey.
Yet while he may be two years younger, The Blade is vastly more experienced – experience that includes several matches for WWE.
As Pepper Parks, The Blade worked for the Heartland Wrestling Association between 2000 and 2006, including during the time HWA was being used as a developmental territory for WWE, allowing him to rub shoulders with some of the prospects the company sent to Ohio for seasoning.
His only matches in a WWE ring, however, were a series of squash match losses beginning in August of 2007 when (using his real name of Jesse Guilmette) he met The Boogeyman on ECW.
Two years later, ECW job duty would come calling once more as he got steamrolled by Vladimir Kozlov in May of 2009 and then by Kozlov and Ezekiel Jackson in a tag match four months later (for which he was billed as ‘Jim Parks’).
His last WWE outing came in May of 2010, when he (as Jesse Guyver) was beaten by Shad Gaspard on SmackDown in what turned out to be Shad’s final televised WWE match.
