10 Wrestlers You Never Knew Had WWE Tryouts

9. Alex Shelley (2005)

Not a great deal to this one but Alex Shelley, most famous as a former member of the Motor City Machine Guns with partner Chris Sabin, received a WWE tryout on June 12th, 2005. Shelley worked as an enhancement talent, losing a match to Simon Dean on WWE Heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7M8Zy0nqWY Although the match is nothing special, what is notable is that the commentators (Marc Lloyd and Todd Grisham) go out of their way to bury Shelley, who was making a name of himself in Ring of Honor and TNA at the time. This was not uncommon, as WWE would regularly book indie talent to work (read: do the job) on the weekend shows. Nothing came of the tryout as Shelley wasn't signed.