10 People You Had No Idea Worked For WWE

3. Scott D'Amore

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A power player in Impact Wrestling for much of its existence, Scott D'Amore's was a wrestler before taking up management and office roles. This possibly explains why WWE wasn't destined to be the place he'd make his name.

Working on becoming a successful wrestler and promoter in the Canadian independent scene, he earned extra cash working tryout dates for WWE and ECW throughout the rest of the decade before landing in Total Nonstop Action as a road agent (and, eventually, manager and occasional wrestler) in 2003.

In a curious trivia note, it was during these one of these tryouts that D'Amore wrestled in front of the biggest crowd of his career - or at very least those that had arrived early to the show he was opening. With partner Larry Brun, he did the honours for The Acolytes ahead of a legendary February 1999 Toronto SkyDome Raw taping that pulled a whopping 41,432 people.

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