7 Forgotten WWE Appearances By AEW Stars

Do you know why people love to talk about

MGF being backstage during a Samoa Joe WWE entrance. Now, if you don't know, this was before Maxwell Jacob Freeman became a huge star

so he was paying his dues and all that, and today it basically makes for a very cool cameo that us nerds can go

ha ha ha, that's brilliant. So let us broaden this conversation because, of course, my friends

there are a list of AEW stars who have also treaded the boards in New York

so let's expand your trivia today. I am Simon Miller, the living fool

Let's go. Number seven, Scorpio Sky. The current story of Scorpio Sky in AEW is strange, because he returned briefly in 2025, and he was gone again

Maybe the company has just passed him by, but if you do go back a few years, Sky was all over AEW

He had a proper character as him and SEU lit up the tag team scene. I mean, they even had a chant

Don't know whether you know this, but it's good to have a chant in wrestling. Scorpio also won a TNT title, so he did pretty good for himself, and of course this wasn't his first rodeo

PWG, Ring of Honor. the dude has been all over the place, including WWE

It just so happened it was a very specific position there. So we go all the way back to 2010, and of all the duos, Team Hell No

If you don't know, this was Bryan Danielson and Kane being thrown together, but they didn't really like each other

It got so bad, they were told to go to anger management. It was very Vince McMahon

I suppose they were forced as off they went with Kane keeping his wrestling gear on

when they met Harold. I do not expect you to remember this attendee

but he was desperate to befriend the tag team champions and yep, it was the future Scorpio Sky

Harold could be one of the nicest folks to ever appear in a fake therapy session as he even agreed to do the trustful exercise with these two idiots

Surprise, surprise, Brian and the big red machine started to argue and poor Harold fell on the floor

This now sounds like some kind of nursery rhyme. Also, just imagine that being your first appearance in WWE

although to be fair there have been far worse. A decade later though, he did become a star in his own right

6. Daniel Garcia Man, do I hate the Thunderdome era. It still a period of time I just can watch because it too weird Plus my brain wasn happy then Being trapped in your house is not good The WWE did keep on trucking though So despite housing shows in a big empty room guys and girls were basically getting tryouts

One of these was Daniel Garcia, who, of course, has gone on to do great things with AEW

I mean, you have to be a pretty good technical wrestler for Bryan Danielson to go

I think you're a pretty good technical wrestler. As he was making his way to the top, though, he went to WWE

and got a match with another potential signing, Tyler Rust. Although at this point, Danny was called Dante Rios

I have no idea, but Rios lost. I'm not sure anybody remembers this because, again

the world was ending and we'd all gone crazy. Garcia also had another go-around in 2018 on 205 Live

but that was a proper, well, I'm just here to do a job. Drew Gulak beat him in 30 seconds

It goes to show, though, you never know what the future holds, so say yes and do the best job you can

prove you've got what it takes for more Daniel did all of it Number 5, Chris Statlander

Right now as I talk to you my friends Chris Statlander is the AEW Women's Champion

It doesn't just happen and as an OG of the company she has busted her ass

and earned the opportunity also won a TBS title on her travels

She's great Before she became an alien though all the way back in 2019

Statlander was kind of put in a cool position After the Iconics had won the Women's Tag Team titles

at WrestleMania 35 Peyton Royce and Billie Kay defended their belts on Raw against the Brooklyn Bells

We were in New York, after all. The team was made up of Carissa and Kristen

which was indeed Chris Statlander and the future Electra Lopez. Because the Iconics were great

they also said this team had gone 46-0. I don't want to ruin your day, but I think they were lying

Peyton and Billie then ran right through them, though it does sort of feel like Statlander could end up back with WWE one day

because in this stupid business, you never say never. Either way, she smashed it, though

she rose to the top of the industry. Number four, MJF. So let us talk about it in case somehow you don't know

as you've been living under a rock. I promise you it gets discussed all the time I think it all comes back to the fact that MJF is such a big star these days but it just goes to show you can do anything with the right mindset and talent Maxwell is interesting too as he never actually got a match in WWE to show his skills

and instead found himself working security at NXT TakeOver Brooklyn 2. Samoa Joe was about to face Shinsuke Nakamura, which was a huge deal

and as Joe was headed to the ring, he had an entourage, or at least the venue had provided him with some security

I don't think Samoa was into this though because he shoved MGF right into the wall

And as soon as they were both in AEW, they recreated this of course. I don't think anybody saw round one though and thought

hey, there's a dude that's going to be one of the brightest stars of the next generation. So once again, you just never know

Before you ask, no, I was not talking about Star Trek. Number three, Prince Nana

In 2025, Prince Nana is known as the most wonderful addition to the Swerve Strickland Act

They really do work well together and they have a unique chemistry. Narno also got that dance over, but it is no fluke

because the Prince has been an in-ring wrestler himself for years, going all the way back to the early 2000s

and in 2025 that kind of feels like it doesn't exist. But he was in Ring of Honor for a while

and also, yes, found his way to WWE for a couple of matches. One came at Madison Square Garden of all places for WWE jacked

and that's awesome, whereas sadly the Prince did lose to Crash Holly in four minutes

Round two also came on jacked where Steve Blackman tapped him out, and that was at the Nassau Coliseum

So yeah, once again, Prince Nana went and got some very cool experiences under his belt

The Crash Bout is worth watching too, because you can hear legendary announcer Howard Finkel hamming up Prince Nana's name

It sort of feels like he hung up his boots in 2019 to take on the manager role

Either way, Nana has this sort of secret career we don't talk about

The man basically kept it going for 20 years. More power to him

Number two, the Young Bucks. I don't care what anybody says, the Young Bucks changed the game

If you go back to 2018 and really take in the lay of the land, they were paving the way for how to make money without being in WWE

They were huge without national TV. I think it was kind of incredible

In ring they were next level too which continues today But when WWE ECW reboot became a thing well Matt and Nick Jackson appeared like Pokemon It was when the Miz and Morrison were feuding with D X in 2008 and the

heels wanted to embarrass their rivals. Therefore they told DX to come out and that sort of happened

to humans who kind of looked like Triple H and Shawn Michaels were here but it soon turned out

this was a mockery and yep the impersonators were the young bucks in full-on insulting cosplay

Of course, The Miz and Morrison destroyed them, but it is crazy we selected Matt and Nick for this

given where they are now and who they were parodying. Nobody knew it at the time, but still

Anybody else could have done this, and it went to Matt and Nick. I think it was their experience of WWE backstage also kind of suggested to them

maybe this wasn't the company they actually wanted to go to in the first place. Number one, Britt Baker

Britt Baker is an interesting discussing point as I record this video. Nobody really knows what's happening

Now, it's not our right to have any information either, but it's because Baker was such an important part of AEW for so many years

Now, nothing. She hasn't been on TV in forever. Back in 2016, though, when All Elite Wrestling didn't exist

Brit was looking for work, so yep, she got booked on NXT. It was when WWE was building up Nia Jax as a monster

so she needed to squash people, and the easiest way to do that is to bring in local talent

I don't think Baker even gets a punch in, and within one minute and 30 seconds it's done

That was the point. Nia is going to kill you. It's also proper blink and you'll miss it stuff, but she's still got her moment that as this list has shown, it can lead to other opportunities, and I'm sure Britt Baker used this to get more work

We will have to see if she does go back to WWE, but it does feel that way

Even with her absence, it would still send social media crazy, because that happens every time

Back in October, we couldn't even handle a video with some shoes

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