10 Wrestlers You Didn't Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1996
7. Tajiri
Many years before he became a cult hero in ECW and a major star in WWE, Yoshihiro Tajiri featured on an episode of Monday Night RAW. His privilege? Getting squashed by The Godwinns, as Henry O. and Phineas I. went to town on a young Tajiri and his tag team partner, Tim Patterson. As with almost everything that the Godwinns were involved, the match was secondary to nonsense on the outside, as Hilbilly Jim and Ol' Blue chased Sunny away. Ol' Blue was a dog, if you were curious, although Lord only knows why you would be.
Tajiri managed to avoid most of the misery of the match, even getting a standing moonsault in before giving the tag to Patterson. TP fared much, much worse, getting stuck in something that may or may not have been a bearhug before being hit with the Slop Drop, an actual move, I swear. Henry even got in a little bit of rooting before getting the pin. Because, you know, he was a pig, or something.
Back home in Japan, Yoshihiro Tajiri was a BJW regular and a frequent performer across the country, including the odd appearance in NJPW. Tajiri took part in Best of the Super Juniors IV just one year after facing the might of the WWE's pig farmers, picking up wins over Robbie Brookside and Shinjiro Otani along the way.