10 Wrestlers You Didn't Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1996

8. Chris Harris

Okay, okay, Braden Walker. ECW legend.

The former seven-time NWA World Tag Team Champion may be an internet meme but there was a lot of excitement when Chris Harris was picked up by WWE in 2008. The Wildcat had threatened to break out as a singles star in TNA and WWE was impressed enough to offer him a contract, something that just wasn’t done at the time. Then Braden Walker happened, and it all went to the dogs.

Walker’s two matches on ECW in 2008 don’t represent the sum of his time in a Vince McMahon-owned ring. Chris Harris performed the role of a human punching bag for Faarooq and Justin ‘Hawk’ Bradshaw over two weeks in 1996, the latter of which is available for perusal on YouTube. It isn’t the most exciting of squash matches and includes a perplexing abdominal stretch that lasts just a few seconds but hey, Bradshaw had a decent lariat.

Harris bounced around the indies for a few years before showing up in WCW in 2000, probably the worst possible time to show up in whatever was left of that company.

To make matters worse, Harris was used as a jobber on WCW Saturday Night and WCW Worldwide, losing to the likes of Shawn Stasiak and Buzzkill in front of worldwide television audiences of, well, not very many.

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