10 Recently Revealed WWE Ideas That Were Pitched And Went Nowhere

With each week more and more former WWE Superstars that were let go in April’s massive cuts (as a result of the financial impact of global health crisis) are speaking out about their releases and sharing details about their careers. One of them being the Dominican dancer who conga-ed down the aisle, No Way Jose.

Jose said that when he could gather the courage to pitch ideas to Vince and the creative team he found himself receiving no feedback at all. Divulging one idea of many he pitched, he wanted to be Elias' "groupie." Though it seemed like everyone had enthusiasm for the idea, it never happened:-

"One of the first things I pitched was actually with Elias, my first year, I kept pitching to try to walk with Elias, like be a groupie, and go out there and try to play the guitar, one week go out with the conga drums, have everybody in the conga line do something different in order to keep interrupting him, piss him off, maybe we can build something there, and then he turns on me. It was very intricate, I had six to seven weeks planned of this damn thing. And then, no, that didn't happen. At one point, I had a prominent athlete ready to go for WrestleMania, I reached out, and I was like, look, bro, he was on board, and that didn't happen, which bummed me out because I thought that was a sure thing. I sent in 13 pitches, and I didn't even get a reply back. So when I'm fighting that damn hard, it's kind of demoralizing when you're like, I'm working hard to try to be something else, I'm talking to people, trying to be something else, trying to be more."

Jose also revealed that he pitched an idea that would have seen him train members of the conga line, with Vince even suggesting an idea of him turning on the conga line down the line:-

“I wish we could have done more. Since we used them for two solid years, we could have done more to give them a different side, like boot camp was something I had like training with them to get them tougher. I had talks with the boss a couple of times and he was like if the turn ever happened, I’d need to like lay them out and show that aggressiveness. I was super excited to get an opportunity to do that. I thought that’s where we were going to end up going… maybe it was a plan down the line but I guess we’ll never know.”

It’s a shame it never happened. It’s also a shame Jose doesn’t seem to know what a groupie really is.