10 Times WWE REJECTED Million Dollar Ideas
1. Maxwell Jacob Feinstein
A stacked and jacked MJF (with a slightly adjusted surname) presented himself as the finished article as early as 2015, but WWE ultimately passed on the 'Salt Of The Earth'.
The above image comes from his Tough Enough audition tape, in which the prodigious talent is almost as fully formed as the incredible heel dominating every conversation in AEW.
Typical for the three-peating Dynamite Diamond Ring winner, what makes his self-filmed piece so captivating is in how it differs from everybody else's. There's a charm to seeing today's stars flounder and flub their way through early sales jobs, but MJF smoothly lays out his elevator pitch before laying out gimmick barely distinguishable from the megastar he became.
Friedman's made a joke of the "war of 2024" being which major organisation gets his signature when contracts get brought back up, but WWE shouldn't take it as a laughing matter. They missed this golden opportunity once - it would be wise to learn from that big mistake.