Top 10 current WWE Superstars and their story behind getting into pro-wrestling

#9 Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe was once a mortgage broker

Samoa Joe was a talented even as a child. He was part of a Polynesian Dance Troupe with whom he made his stage debut at just 5 years of age in the 1984 Summer Olympics before graduating onto Judo and American Football through high school and college.

From there he decided to start training as a professional wrestler – working as a mortgage broker on the side to make ends meet – and made his debut in 1999 just three months after starting on his training work.