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Tryouts that thankfully went nowhere

By Scott Keith on 13 March 2019

Just found out Van F'n Hammer had two tryout matches against Virgil and Demento in July 1993 for the WWF. Dodged a bullet there. What are other tryouts that thankfully didn't lead to TV appearances/full-time jobs?

As noted by others, if AJ Styles / Samoa Joe / Christopher Daniels had been swallowed up by the WWE system when they were having their tryouts at the tail end of the Attitude Era, the wrestling landscape might be a completely different place, in a very bad way.  

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