10 People You Had No Idea Worked For WWE
9. El Hijo Del Santo
A Mexican pop culture icon and the country's most iconic wrestle, El Hijo Del Santo was a quarter of a century into a glittering career when he rather randomly put in a few shifts on WWE's late-1990s Super Astros broadcast.
Taped during the Shotgun/Metal/Jakked slots before Monday Night Raw from November 1998 through to June 1999, the show was an experimental Lucha Libre/WWE hybrid concept made exclusively for a lucrative Latin American market the company desperately covets to this day.
With their era-defining cruiserweight division, WCW had already gobbled up much of that audience by then, with Super Astros becoming yet another Vince McMahon misunderstanding of the style's appeal. In Del Santo, it did at least provide a cute link to the genre's glorious past while trying in vain to promote a bright future.
On shows that are only really for the completists, he was one of the weekly highlights along with rising stars Papi Chulo (Aguila/Essa Rios) and fellow lucha legend Negro Casas.