8 Wrestling Megastars That Started As Backyarders
7. Seth Rollins
Clearly born with the desire, drive and genetics to be an athlete of some description, it's perhaps no surprise that Colby 'Seth Rollins' Lopez got his start (of sorts) in backyard wrestling. It's only a little bit more shocking that the future 'Crossfit Jesus' chose 'God' as his moniker.
Revealed on a 2014 edition of The Kevin Steen Show with Chris 'Kassius Ohno' Hero in between the former's WWE signing and the latter's NXT exit, the pair gently ribbed their old friend for his grandiose nickname.
He was reduced to disciple status at the same time too - Rollins later shared a story of him sharing his backyard snaps with Chris Jericho at a local WWE event. As he put it; “I was really bad at meeting wrestlers. I lived in a small town in Iowa. We didn’t have shows very often, so I didn’t get to meet many of the guys. Chris Jericho was really cool to me when I first met him. I was a 16-year-old kid who barged in on him because I wanted to show him my backyard wrestling pictures. He was very cool about it when he had no reason to be.”