10 Things You Didn't Know About Brodie Lee

7. There Was A Lot Of Colin Delaney In His Early Years

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Like many of his contemporaries, Brodie Lee began his career as a backyard wrestling, duking it out in lawns in and around his home town of Rochester, New York. He was joined by a young man by the name of Colin Delaney, another Rochester-native looking to dip his toes into the wacky world of pro wrestling. The two were eventually trained by Ric Matrix and worked for both Roc City Wrestling (RCW) and Rochester Pro Wrestling (RPW).

The career parallels continued through NWA Upstate and CHIKARA, with both eventually finding themselves signed to WWE, albeit at different times. Delaney didn't exactly have the best of times in the Fed, existing for five minutes on ECW where his gimmick was 'jobber who gets violently squashed by giants week after week'. It didn't get over particularly well.

As Brodie Lee became established as Luke Harper in WWE, it seemed as though the two had locked up for the last time. Fate has a funny way of working, however, and Harper vs. Delaney somehow found itself onto an episode of SmackDown in 2017. Well, it was actually The Bludgeon Brothers vs. Colin Delaney & Joe Monroe (former CHIKARA Grand Champion Juan Francisco de Coronado), a match best remembered for Monroe's tremendous pre-powerbomb squeal.

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