10 Superstars we never thought would work for WWE

#9 Eric Young

TNA's Daniel Bryan?

Wrestling on the independent scene as early as age 19, Eric Young was 24 years old when he debuted for TNA Wrestling in 2004 as a member of the faction Team Canada.

Young was a true soldier of TNA and quite literately worked his way up from the bottom. Eric went through more gimmicks than anyone in TNA, from an anti-American, to an overly paranoid person, to a superhero, leader of a multicultural faction, member on TNA's version of the NWO, a mentally challenged man obsessed with a blowup doll, a psychopath and eventually, a Daniel Bryan like character who went through it all to become the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Along with Abyss and James Storm, Eric became a flagship TNA performer. And being 36 years old at the time of his Impact departure and not having the usual look that WWE is into, it seemed highly unlikely that WWE would show any interest at all in hiring him.

If this had been a couple of years earlier, E.Y likely wouldn't have been hired based on those reasons either.

But with Triple H now having a big say in who gets hired and having a pretty different mind for the business than Vince McMahon, Eric was signed to a contract and has been leading the fiendish SAniTY faction ever since.