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4. Drake Younger (Bullied Backstage Staffer)
Cult favourite perma-tanned and ripped referee Drake Younger traded a light tubes for striped shirts when he made the move to WWE in 2014.
It parked a celebrated independent deathmatch career but likely added years to his career in such a physical environment, but thanks to a need for smaller-statured folk during one of Ryback's final pushes in 2013, he still took bumps as an extra in what served as a tryout audition before he became so familiar on screen.
August 2013 saw the once-undefeated musclehead slumping hard following a post-WrestleMania heel turn, with his anger often emerging at the expense of those that didn't stand a chance against him. Cutting his own promo short during an edition of SmackDown, Ryback caught a glimpse of the unnamed Younger apparently eyeballing him a little too long for his liking.
The former Skip Sheffield smashed the future man in the middle all over the backstage area as if he was exorcising some sort of Nexus demon, though the vignette ultimately did more developmentally for the smaller man than 'The Big Guy'.