10 current WWE Superstars and what happened on their WWE debut (Part 2)

#4 Daniel Bryan (2003)

Daniel Bryan had a long road to WWE

Daniel Bryan swapped the independent scene for WWE in 2010 to be part of NXT Season 1, which began with him losing to Chris Jericho.

However, it was actually seven years earlier that he made his first televised appearance in a WWE ring, losing to Jamie Noble on an episode of Velocity in January 2003.

Then going by the ring names Bryan Danielson (his real name) and the American Dragon, he also faced Rico, John Cena and Brian Kendrick & Paul London on television but he wasn’t offered a WWE contract.