10 Things You Need To Know About WWE's UK Tryout Wrestlers

3. Flash Morgan Webster Started Out As A Backyarder

Flash Morgan Webster WWE Tryouts
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Produced by Adam Williams, the recent 'Road Back To Malice' documentary focused on Flash Morgan Webster's journey from Welsh backyarder emulating his heroes to fully-fledged star of promotions like PROGRESS.

Reinventing himself as 'The Modfather', Webster isn't the most heavily-muscled guy WWE will have ever welcomed to a tryout. He does have heart though, and has repeatedly shown how character work can mask perceived physical deficiencies.

Merely rolling around in a WWE ring ironically represents progress for the Welshman, because there was a time when he was performing 450 Splashes from garden walls onto a trampoline. In the same vein as Rockstar Spud (to use one example) years before him, Flash has turned diminutive size into a positive.

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