Sean Waltman Recalls Getting Called for His WWE Tryout

– During a recent interview with Monopoly Events’ For The Love of Wrestling, Sean Waltman recalls getting the call for his WWE tryout in the early 1990s and getting signed to the company. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Sean Waltman on getting a call for a WWE tryout: “I honestly … I never like not saying I never wanted to go to WWE, but I just didn’t think I was there. They didn’t cast people like me. Like, it was the typical person that you thought of 1980s WWE — big, jacked-up guys, all looking the opposite of how I looked.”

On Sgt. Slaughter contacting him for his tryout match: “I went and had the tryout and I was so lucky. A lot of people — like after I got there I saw how tryouts went, and a lot of times it was like, okay, they’d bring a guy in like me and they’d have him work with Brooklyn Brawler or Virgil. Honestly, it wasn’t [like] they weren’t the right guys to have tryout matches with [but] those guys work every night, they’re on the road, and like they’re not trying to catch me diving off the top rope doing flips and just not something they want to do. So I got to work with Louie Spicolli, you might know him from ECW and WCW. Louie was great and he gave me a great tryout match and I got hired.”