10 MORE 'Before They Were Famous' WWE Cameos You Won't Believe
1. Adam Cole (Serena's Date)
'The Panama City Playboy' has moved away from any womanising ways since becoming arguably the biggest potential breakout star in NXT, but his Hollywood good looks were first capitalised on by Vince McMahon in 2010 when CM Punk's supposedly Straight Edge sidekick Serena was caught on camera falling off the wagon alongside him.
Punk had assembled the Straight Edge Society as the harshest vision of his notoriously strict mantra - Serena, Luke Gallows and Joey Mercury had all been lost souls before the christ-like Punk came into their lives with a violent message of hope. It was, of course, merely a trojan horse for his selfish plans of domination.
'The Voice Of The Voiceless' later suggested that the gimmick only got over as well as it did because The Chairman repeatedly missed the cynicism and religious symbolism of it, and he may have been onto something - this bar scuffle featuring Cole, Punk, Gallows and Serena foreshadowed the real life reasons for her release and was an extremely unsatisfying way to tear a hole in the group.
Serena showered in scorn by her Society friends as the future Undisputed Era flees the scene - he wouldn't perform for McMahon again until he stormed the TakeOver: Brooklyn stage in 2017.