12 Secret FCW Histories Of WWE Superstars

9. Luke Harper & The Mayor

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Less about the former spiderfan and more a genuinely bizarre Nick Rogers creation called "The Mayor", a section of the documentary spliced together several of his promo class efforts in which he hilariously inserted the same verbiage in regardless of his character.

The visuals made the bit - he was a football player, a cowboy, a jock muscleman and a coach. He was The Rock then he was Steve Austin then he dropped a guy with a neckbreaker then he cosied up to Big E, yet he always did everything "WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT" much to the chagrin of verbal coach Dusty Rhodes.

It was in amongst these cutaways that a young Erick Rowan was inexplicably stationed next to him - a confused Diesel to his milquetoast Shawn Michaels.

 
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