10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Jay White

10. Cricket, Tennis, Rugby League And More

Jay White grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, a pretty magnificent part of the world in which to do so. By White's own admission his childhood was spent in a nice area of the city (unlike Bad Luck Fale), and his upbringing ticked many of the boxes that an archetypical Kiwi childhood would tick. It didn't quite include overachieving in team sports and inevitably making it to the final four of most cricket World Cups but it wasn't far off.

It could have been the latter, as White played plenty of cricket in his younger years, along with rugby league and tennis. While New Zealand hasn't really produced any tennis players of note (sorry, Chris Lewis), the small nation has well and truly excelled in the other two sports, producing some of history's great cricket and rugby players.

Like many other similarly-sized countries, this leads to most children playing the sports at a young age in the hope of becoming the next Benji Marshall or Kane Williamson. Jay White was no different, gaining enough of a physical discipline to stand him in good stead in his chosen profession. An athlete from a young age, White was eventually going to channel his physical gifts into an altogether more violent direction.