10 Weirdest WWE Cameos By Wrestlers Before They Were Famous

While Punk had appeared as a background extra on SmackDown in 2003, he made his in-ring debut for WWE that same year during a dark match on Heat. Punk would even gain TV time on Heat in 2005, working a tag against Maven and Simon Dean as well as a singles bout with Val Venis. Nevertheless, it wouldn't be until ECW re-emerged in mid-2006 that his real push began.

However, Punk did appear between his Heat bouts and his ECW debut, on the grand stage of WrestleMania, no less. Sadly, it wasn't in-ring or even in any kind of physical role at all. He was instead placed in the suit and fedora of a 1920s gangster.

During one of John Cena's extravagant WrestleMania entrances, 'The Champ' would make his arrival in typically unique fashion, this time preceded by a gangster car filled with mobsters. One of said mobsters just so happened to be Charles Montgomery Punk.

Holding a Tommy Gun and surveying the scene in cheesy fashion, Punk and his campy cohorts surrounding the ring - which housed a bemused Triple H - put the "hustle" in "Hustle, Loyalty, Respect" ahead of Cena's arrival. Triple H himself had made his entrance dressed like a medieval barbarian moments earlier, making the whole spectacle a bizarre hodgepodge of historical confusion.