10 Indie Wrestling Easter Eggs That Played Out In WWE
3. Seth Rollins Pays Homage To Alex Shelley
Between having "Talent on Loan From God" and being one-half of the Motor City Machine Guns tag team with Chris Sabin (and now a "Time Splitters" tag team partner of New Japan's Kushida) Alex Shelley rocked a bad-ass blonde streak in his jet black hair and turned independent pro wrestling on its ear. Ten years later, here's fellow one-time Midwestern United States independent wrestler Tyler Black (WWE fans know him as Seth Rollins) rocking a bad-ass blonde streak in his jet black hair and turning the WWE upside down. Everything comes from somewhere. Both men also share a mix of exciting athletic wrestling moves. The only difference? One is slightly famous for being in TNA, the other is far more famous having been in WWE.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
