5 WWE superstars who started very young in the WWE
Divas’ Champion by age 21WWE is the top pro-wrestling company in the world, and it took effort, time and talent to make it. A lot of wrestlers spend years in the independent circuit trying to learn their skills and master their craft, just to get noticed by Vince McMahon’s company.Some wrestlers, however, made it to WWE really quick. They were either born into the business or started wrestling at a really young age. One wrestler on this list has also held the record for being the youngest World champion in history until it was broken by another person on the list. The list ranges chronologically, with the oldest being first and the most recent being last.
#1 X-Pac
Before X-Pac was the crotch-chopping, Broncho-busting wildcard of D-Generation X, he had begun training under Boris and Joe Malenko, and constantly switched between Japan and North America in independent promotions. Four years later, at the age of twenty-one,
WWE (then WWF) had signed him and he debuted as The Lightning Kid, a persona he had only for his tryout match. After he received a contract, he officially debuted as The Kamikaze Kid, at one point scoring a famous upset win over Razor Ramon.
With this, he took up the popular 1-2-3 Kid persona, in which he was half underdog-half jobber but was over with the crowds. One of the 1-2-3 Kid’s most famous matches was a long bout with Bret Hart on an episode of RAW, for the WWE Championship.
He would lose, of course, but it was a surprise at the time. In his last match, before going to WCW, he lost to Savio Vega. Upon his return after two years, he introduced his X-Pac gimmick, and, well, the rest is history.