![]() Eventually he’d find his way to the World Wrestling Federation as well, and start hanging out with Jean Paul as one half of the rarely talked about tag team the New Age Outlaws, part of the oft-forgotten faction D-Generation X. Not too long after this, Brian - now with a fresh new hairstyle - would run afoul Terra’s French twin, Jean Paul Levesque. His dad is the legendary Bullet Bob Armstrong, and if you watched enough WCW in the ’80s and ’90s you saw his brothers Scott, Steve, and Brad. ![]() One of Terra Ryzing’s earliest opponents was this Georgian Justin Timberlake of the ’90s, the youngest of the famous-in-the-south Armstrong wrestling family. He’d head to the World Wrestling Federation a few months later, get repackaged as a Connecticut Blueblood, and within 25 years would be pretty much running the entire company with an iron fist, a sledgehammer, and a garage full of increasingly embarrassing vehicles. Midway through his rookie year, the name gets dropped completely in favor of Jean Paul Levesque, a snooty Frenchman who speaks in a cartoonish French accent because he can’t actually speak French. I think he’s supposed to be a French-Canadian Lex Luger? In true WCW fashion, they didn’t realize “Terra Ryzing” was supposed to be wordplay and originally named him Terror Risin’, complete with an apostrophe on the end. So let’s get started and take a look at ten faces you would’ve never guessed would become some of the biggest stars in pro wrestling and sports-entertainment: World Championship Wrestling flavor.įirst and foremost on any, “can you believe this guy was in WCW?” list is the hilariously named TERRA RYZING, famous pro wrestling son of Theo and Memo. WWE Network makes it easy to hunt through the archive for rare gems, but if you see a particularly grainy and janky image, know I had to shovel it from the bowels of YouTube. WWE hasn’t always been the only game in town, however, so this week we’re looking at ten former jobber journeymen who started in WCW before making it big. Last week’s inaugural Job Opportunities pro wrestling jobber retrospective took a look at ten former enhancement talents who’d go on to be big stars in WWE. And now, an article that has nothing to do with WWE
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