There are rumors that two superstars could be doing a double turn.
Those superstars are Tye Dillinger and Rusev. It’s well known by now that there was a brief double turn with Dillinger at Rusev at Monday’s WWE Live event in Raleigh, NC.
Keep in mind that WWE was testing out the possible turns as they did not acknowledge it on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live in Norfolk, VA at the Scope Arena on the USA Network.
The sports entertainment company has done this in the past at live events or house shows.
Dillinger started training at the Hart Wrestling School in Cambridge Ontario with Smith Hart, Ike Shaw and Waldo Von Erich in 2002 and then with Eric Young at the WrestlePlex school before receiving further training from Derek Wylde and Cody Deaner.
Four years later, he signed a contract with the WWE and was placed in the company's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). He made his OVW television debut as "The Canadian Sensation" Shawn Spears, where he defeated then-SmackDown superstar Simon Dean.
After OVW split with WWE, he debuted in WWE's new developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), and teamed up with Nic Nemeth to defeat The Puerto Rican Nightmares for the Florida Tag Team Championship.
In 2008, he made his WWE television debut as a heel under the name Gavin Spears as part of Theodore Long's "New Superstar Initiative" in a losing effort to Ricky Ortiz. After his ECW debut, Dillinger began splitting time between ECW and FCW.
The day before he had been released from WWE, he broke his hand and was unable to wrestle. Thus, he was released. He had a tryout with TNA in 2009 but wasn’t signed.
Moving along to 2013, he signed with WWE again and was placed in WWE's developmental territory NXT. In early-2014, Dillinger formed a tag team with Jason Jordan, with the two described as a pair of blue chip athletes.
On January 29, 2017, Dillinger was a surprise entrant during the 2017 Royal Rumble pay-per-view as part of the eponymous match. On the April 4 episode of SmackDown Live, Dillinger made his main roster debut by defeating Curt Hawkins.
Dillinger went on Twitter to shoot down the reports of a potential heel turn. He wrote, “Hahaha! Don’t believe all you read kiddies. Regardless of how “informed” they claim to be.”
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