10 People You Had No Idea Worked For WWE
4. Steve Corino
There was little fanfare when former ECW Champion and independent wrestling icon Steve Corino joined WWE as an NXT trainer and producer in 2016.
The terms of the deal were well established, with the 'King Of Old School' there to coach rather than wrestle, which is what he'd done almost everywhere but Vince McMahon's company for the bulk of his career. Apart, that is, from some largely forgotten special guest appearances.
Corino got on the WWE extras rotation in 1996, and was used in enhancement roles before ECW came looking to make more of the star lurking beneath in 1998. A C-show favourite alongside the likes of the aforementioned Christopher Daniels, Corino worked Kai En Tai, The Oddities, and fellow future Extreme Championship Wrestling signee Julio Dinero.
Wrestling with a technical flair that appealed to Paul Heyman, he was a long way from the of-the-times star he'd become in Philadelphia. There, his edgy loudmouth promos went down a storm. It was hard to imagine the slight and slender weekend warrior getting much mic time had he stayed put.