10 "Add-On" Wrestling Signings That Became Major Players

7. Road Dogg

In late-1994, the writers in WWE decided they wanted to enhance Jeff Jarrett's country singer gimmick by giving him some backup. Brian James, who had worked on and off as an enhancement talent for years, was hastily repackaged as 'The Roadie' and became a ringside nuisance for ol' 'Double J'.

Despite coming from a well-respected wrestling family and working for close to a decade though, nobody could have imagined that he'd go on to become one of the premier stars of the Attitude era. As Road Dogg, he formed a killer tag team act with Billy Gunn and later joined D-Generation X. After that, he was a made man.

That success followed years of toil. The Roadie gimmick wasn't anything special, and his subsequent run as 'The Real Double J' was C-show fodder at best. Don't get us started on that feud with (big gulp) Rockabilly in 1997, either.

Dogg deserves a medal for surviving all that, and he's a major force as a producer behind the scenes in WWE today.