7 things you should know about former WWE Superstar Darren Young aka Fred Rosser 

#2 Darren Young played a slight role in Kofi Kingston being signed by WWE

Darren Young and Kofi Kingston

Darren Young knew Kofi Kingston long before Kofi even came to WWE. They came up in the same area and he was doing shows for Chaotic Wrestling while Kofi Kingston was working in security.

What a lot of people may not know is that Kofi Kingston got signed off of his trial match with Darren Young. They had a trial match in Massachusetts and he got signed. So, in an indirect way, he was partially responsible for Kofi being signed by WWE.

Young would later be able to work with Kofi again in later years when Kofi was part of New Day. He also mentioned working with Big E and said that he fell in love with the fact that Big E was always working and he wanted to help him in any way possible.

"Kofi and I came up in the same area. I remember I was doing shows in Chaotic wrestling in Boston, Massachusetts area and Kofi was doing security. So I remember when Kofi started and a lot of people don’t’ know that he got signed off our trial match. Him and I had a trial match in Massachusetts area and Kofi had that boom boom going on and he ultimately got signed off of me and fast forward to him doing the New Day and me doing the Prime Time Players. Our paths met again so, to able to work with him and Xavier and Big E - who I remember he started in FCW and I fell in love with his size and his work and always wanted to help him as much as possible."