Ex-WWE Star Reveals Scrapped Plotline

Rob Conway may not have had a good run in WWE and fans may not remember the former memeber of La Résistance with Sylvain Grenier and René Duprée. Speaking on the 'Insight' podcast, he revealed a scrapped storyline that the company did not use. He said, 'Back then, they were a little tougher on the Tough Enough guys and stuff like that, because everybody, for the most part, was still coming up through two or three years of the grind. But I hit it off with him (Sylvain Grenier), he's a fun guy, and so they were going to bring me up, and I went to TV, and I had hair like I've got now. It's a little bit longer, blonde hair, curly. I wore white and pink trunks, and they brought me up specifically to team with Stevie Richards, and Victoria was going to be my girlfriend, and they were going to call me the Golden Boy, and I was going to wrestle Tommy Dreamer, and we already had the match planned out. That was my TV debut as an actual character.' 'About an hour before the show starts, John Laurinaitis came to me and says, 'Hey, Robbie, we should change your match tonight, and you're not on the road next week.' Because I'd already got an itinerary that I was going to be on four nights a week, and that's pretty much there goes your dreams. 'But we are going to bring you to TV next week. We think we got something better.' I was like, 'Okay.' So they called me during the week, you see that number, and you think either something good or something terrible. They told me to get a military outfit, so I went with my dad, he had got drafted in the army, so he was in the army at one point, and we went to army surplus store, and I got the nicest army outfit you could imagine.' 'The fans never stopped hating us. They broke us up way too soon, like you took one faction that had more heat than anybody and broke us up into three not that strong of characters. So I felt like it was kind of a demotion when they broke us up. Went from being all the shows, being on pay-per-views, to having bad music, and being on middle to low card, having bad music.' How He Got His WWE Call-Up He also revealed how he got his WWE call-up, he said, 'So Renee had already been in OVW for like a year or so, and then Sylvain came, he was a referee at Hulk Hogan versus The Rock or something. He was learning to wrestle, but he was already under contract, and they sent him to OVW, and he wasn't real popular with the other guys, because he got into the business from not going the indie route and stuff like that. Back then, they were a little tougher on the Tough Enough guys and stuff like that, because everybody, for the most part, was still coming up through two or three years of the grind.' 'But I hit it off with him, he's a fun guy, and so they were going to bring me up, and I went to TV, and I had hair like I've got now. It's a little bit longer, blonde hair, curly. I wore white and pink trunks, and they brought me up specifically to team with Stevie Richards, and Victoria was going to be my girlfriend, and they were going to call me the Golden Boy, and I was going to wrestle Tommy Dreamer, and we already had the match planned out. That was my TV debut as an actual character.' 'About an hour before the show starts, John Laurinaitis came to me and says, 'Hey, Robbie, we should change your match tonight, and you're not on the road next week.' Because I'd already got an itinerary that I was going to be on four nights a week, and that's pretty much there goes your dreams. But [he said] 'We are going to bring you to TV next week. We think we got something better.' I was like, okay. So they called me during the week, you see that number, and you think either something good or something terrible.' 'They told me to get a military outfit, so I went with my dad, he had got drafted in the army, so he was in the army at one point, and we went to army surplus store, and I got the nicest army outfit you could imagine, even said R. Conway on. I think I made myself a sergeant. We don't want to be like a four-star general at 29. So I got to TV, and they said, 'Let's see it, and I showed it to them, and they said, 'That is beautiful, but we can't use it because the army is one of our sponsors. So the seamstress backstage, her husband was retired from the Air Force.' 'I'm not sure, that must have been where they live, because she brought that uniform. So I debuted in the uniform with La Resistance that night, but first they set me down in a chair and cut off all my hair. I actually sat with Robbie Roode, Tyson Dukes and Showtime Eric Young, that's first time I met him. So yeah, I had an outdated Air Force uniform on, and they gave me tickets, and there was a girl backstage, it was an extra too, so we went through the front with the ticket. I sat in the front row with my cell phone, just in case they decided to do something different, and I ended up coming out of the crowd and leaving the Dudleys laying and joining La Resistance.'