6 current WWE Superstars who failed their first WWE tryouts

#2 Dakota Kai failed her WWE tryout in 2014

EXCLUSIVE: #TeamKick's @DakotaKai_WWE is happy to be back home and performing in front of the #WWENXT Universe! pic.twitter.com/ZWDnDPSFTV

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) September 26, 2019

Dakota Kai was one of the purest faces on WWE NXT before her heel turn showed her villainous side. This change in Kai's character can be compared to that of Bayley. With her new persona, it seems like this WWE Superstar has a bright future ahead of her.

While all might be going in Kai’s favor today, she was turned down by the company during her first WWE tryout. Speaking to Wide World of Sports, Kai revealed that she had an unsuccessful tryout with WWE in 2014. Even though WWE management liked her, they didn’t have anything for her at the time:

“You can't fake passion for something like that, and when you have the passion, it isn't hard to pursue a goal like that. I did my try out for the WWE in 2014. I wasn't successful initially. They said, 'We don't don't have anything for you now, but keep doing what you're doing and stay in touch because we might have something for you in the future'. There was a window there for a time where it wasn't that I was unsuccessful and needed to stop, but I had been doing this for nine years, I [thought I] should probably venture into something else and take a little bit more of the focus off wrestling. But I never really stopped. I kept wrestling, which was a good thing. I'm lucky I didn't stop.”

... I’m not the imposter here. #IYKYK pic.twitter.com/g3wmvs8zqY

— ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔢 𝔊𝔦𝔯𝔩 (@DakotaKai_WWE) November 2, 2020

Kai also spoke about the influence Triple H and his guidance has had on her. She is currently a frontrunner to become the next NXT Women’s Champion, and it will be interesting to see how the creative team handles her heel character in the coming years.