10 Wrestlers WWE Should’ve Signed When They Had The Chance

2. Samoa Joe (During The 2000s)

The sad truth about Samoa Joe was that he was once employed with WWE as a jobber during the late 1990s and early 2000s, but they never saw something in him. A big part of that was due to (you guessed it), him not having the chiseled physique that Vince looks for. While working in WWF-affiliate Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW), Jim Ross and Bruce Prichard told him that he€™d never have a future in wrestling. They must€™ve regretted that at some point. Joe would go on to become one of the best wrestlers of the 2000s to never work for WWE. while working in the independent circuit, as well as in Ring of Honor and in the early days of TNA, he had great match after great match, against the likes of CM Punk, Kenta Kobashi, and AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels at Unbreakable 2005. Joe has since gone on to become one of the faces of TNA, as well as performing in other American promotions and in Japan. He has demonstrated that he can go toe-to-toe in submission wrestling against someone like Kurt Angle, engage in a power contest against someone like Kobashi, and can fly out of the ring like a much lighter wrestler. In short, WWE judged Joe solely by his looks, and they made the terrible mistake of letting him go, instead of overlooking the whole physique thing that Vince strangely holds onto to this day, even as it becomes less significant with each passing day.