20 or 30 years ago any embarrassing photos taken of you as a child or a teenager were only readily available to those closest to you and let's be honest, that was bad enough. Nowadays with the widespread use of the internet, photos taken of you when you were at high school can be seen by anyone around the world. For the majority of us I guess that isn't that big a deal, I can't imagine many people are that bothered about seeing a school photo of me, but if you're a celebrity then we want and need to see it. We're dying to see what our heroes looked like when they were awkward teenagers, to get a glimpse of them when they were merely mortal.

Recently there has been a spate of pro wrestlers high school photos and pictures of them as teenagers doing the rounds. There are a lot, but they're a little scattered. Well what if I told you there was a collection of 40 of them all in one place compiled for your viewing pleasure? That's exactly what you've got right here. We've scoured the internet and the seemingly endless amounts of (mostly) embarrassing high school photos of wrestlers and picked our favorite 40 for you to view and scroll through. It contains some legends, some Superstars who are still with WWE, but most importantly it contains evidence that even the likes of John Cena and Stone Cold were once awkward teenagers like we once were.

42 40. Roman Reigns

There are a few reasons WWE is giving Roman Reigns a seemingly never ending push and are adamant that he must be the face of the company. One of the main reasons is simply the Samoan's look. He's a well built, former football player and let's be honest, he's pretty handsome to boot. We may not admit it but that's probably the underlying reason most guys hate him. However, if you take away the long wet hair, smoldering look and slap a cap and gown on The Big Dog, he doesn't seem so intimidating does he? Lucky for Roman he grew up and into the former WWE Champion that we know and Vince McMahon loves today because otherwise he may not have received WWE's undying love.

41 39. Luke Harper

Who the hell is Johnathan Huber I hear you ask, he's no wrestler I've ever heard of! Well yes, that much is correct. But very few wrestlers are lucky enough to step between the ropes while still keeping their given name. Johnathan Huber is in fact the real, everyday life name of former Wyatt Family member, Luke Harper. If you thought the addition of a beard to Roman Reigns changed the game then just take a look at what young Luke looked like without facial hair. In all fairness if Harper turned up to school looking the way he does now he would probably be either expelled or arrested. The man formerly known as Johnathan Huber has undergone a drastic transformation in order to become the unstable SmackDown Live Superstar we know today.

40 38. Kurt Angle

Before he was Raw General Manager, WWE Champion, hell before he was even winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, Kurt Angle was a teenager at high school just like the rest of us. Okay, maybe Angle wasn't ever really like the rest of us as it would seem he's always been the incredible athlete we would later know him as, but that certainly isn't plain to see in the above photograph. That being said, at the time of it being taken Kurt will have already gotten his amateur wrestling career well and truly under way. What's for certain is that the Angle above would not have been the pro wrestling fan he'd later become. Kurt didn't watch the business growing up and never actually watched it until he started training to be a part of it.

39 37. Andre the Giant

It's hard to believe that Andre the Giant was ever a child. I always imagined that the man who would become the first inductee into the Hall of Fame just emerged from the mountains or a forest one day and lived among the other inhabitants of his native France. As entertaining as a story as that would be, it was not the case. Andre was born to a mother and father like the rest of us but suffered from gigantism. It was what led to his incredible size and ultimately what sadly led to his premature death in January of 1993. By the age of 12 the former WWE Champion was already an incredible six foot three, and in the picture above he was only nineteen years old despite what his size might lead you to believe.

38 36. Stone Cold Steve Austin

Look at that full head of hair. Who could that young buck with long blonde locks possibly be? Chris Jericho? Triple H? Nope, it's Stone Cold Steve Austin. A man famed for having a completely hairless head. The slightly older wrestling fans among you will know that before The Texas Rattlesnake went for the cue ball look his gimmick was actually his hair, partnering up with Brian Pillman in WCW to form a team called the Hollywood Blondes. Even that head of hair wasn't a patch on Austin's high school hair though. Pictured above is Steve while he was playing football for his high school in Edna, Texas. I wonder if Stone Cold's career would have taken the same trajectory had he kept his long, blonde hair. I guess we'll never know.

37 35. Nikki Bella

Both Bella Twins will be making appearances on this mammoth list, and first up is the ever so slightly older of the two, a whole sixteen minutes older, Nikki. The former Divas Champion was very much into soccer growing up and played it in both high school and college. The photo on the right might very well have been taken on a soccer pitch by the looks of it. Clearly a lot of time has passed between the two photos being taken, and I don't mean that in a bad way. Even if you were to put a current photo of Nikki next to a picture from her first day in WWE they would be worlds apart. The older Bella wound up taking a very different career path to the soccer player that she once was.

36 34. Vince McMahon

Much of Vince McMahon's life outside of the wrestling business is kept very much under wraps, especially when it comes to the Chairman's childhood. That's why I'm as surprised as you are that this photo is out there at all. It may have been taken a long time ago but there's no question who it is in this high school pic. Despite Vince's well known dislike for southern accents, WWE's owner is actually southern himself and spent his formative years growing up living in a trailer park. Probably not the humble beginnings you would have expected from a man running a multi million dollar worldwide corporation. It's why he insisted that even his own children had to start from the bottom when they wanted to be a part of WWE as young adults.

35 33. Randy Savage

Talk about wrestlers who were unrecognizable when you rewind just a few years back to their high school days. This next entry is a photo of a young version of the one and only "Macho Man" Randy Savage. As wrestling fans when we think of the Macho Man we picture a jacked up, long haired, unique looking guy in flamboyant and colorful outfits. Evidently that outlandish personality that would make Savage one of the most legendary and beloved figures in pro wrestling history hadn't come to fruition at the time this photo was taken. Hard to believe that Randy wasn't always the eccentric man that he would become as by all accounts he was as much the man we knew behind closed doors as he was in the ring.

34 32. Raven

Of all 40 Superstars featured on this list, this was probably the one I would have struggled to identify the most if I had seen the photos without names next to them. The handsome young man pictured above who looks like he may be on his way to prom is none other than Raven. The former hardcore, grungy looking ECW guy, that Raven! If you had asked me to describe what I thought a teenage Raven looked like before I had seen this photo it would have been a lot different. The image in my head would have been of him sat in his room in scruffy clothes listening to whatever music was anti establishment at the time.

33 31. Alexa Bliss

If you've seen Alexa Bliss's mini feature by WWE with her and her parents, you'll know that her time as a teenager and a young adult was a turbulent one. Bliss used to suffer from an eating disorder, and a pretty serious one at that. It was so serious that while she was a teenager the disorder was considered life threatening. In the grand scheme of things Alexa is actually quite new to the wrestling business, and it was an interest in body building that saved her when she had her disorder, and that interest led to her competing. Going from her disorder to body building to pro wrestling, you can imagine Bliss has gone through some pretty drastic changes physically which is why the above two photos look so different.

32 30. Seth Rollins

I apologize to Seth Rollins in advance for this one, but of all 40 photos featured in this article this one made me laugh the loudest by quite some way. You take a look at the former WWE Champion now and he's basically some sort of Crossfit Jesus. A man that WWE can, and have at times, labelled as the face of their company. When I saw what The King Slayer looked like in high school, well suffice to say I can't imagine he would have been slaying much of anything back then. Similar to Raven, I envisioned Rollins having a much grungier look as a teenager, yet the photo above symbolizes to me that Seth was more of a free spirit when he was at school and college.

31 29. The Miz

What was I just saying about Seth Rollins' high school photo being the funniest of all these 40 entries? The Miz may very well have a strong shout when it comes to funniest high school look also. We all grew up in eras that had signature hair styles, and they're all styles that when we see photos of us or others with them from that time, we cringe. The Miz must be a victim of that with the curtains he's sporting in the above photograph. That young man went on to be a reality star on MTV and is currently a Hollywood A Lister and WWE Superstar. I wonder if Maryse has ever seen this photo?

30 28. Randy Orton

Randy Orton is a man with professional wrestling running through his veins. A third generation Superstar whose father, grandfather, and uncle all preceded him when it comes to performing in the ring. Needless to say the squared circle was always where The Viper was going to end up, and since the photo above was taken Randy has gone on to win an incredible thirteen World Championships. In all fairness to Orton despite the number of years that have passed between the two photos, compared to some others on this list he has aged pretty well and his high school photo isn't particularly embarrassing. In fact judging by his attire it looks like the SmackDown Live star might have been getting his wrestling career under way.

29 27. Brock Lesnar

I feel like it's only fitting to go from Randy Orton on to a man that he shared an OVW class with all the way back at the beginning of their professional wrestling careers, Brock Lesnar. I also think it's quite a fitting segue to make as we just discussed how Orton has changed very little between high school and now whereas Brock Lesnar may as well be a completely different person. Nowadays Brock is a terrifying specimen and portrayed as an unbeatable force and let's be honest, that might be more than just a portrayal. Despite the fact that he would have begun his incredibly impressive amateur wrestling career at the time of this photo, Lesnar looks far and away from the legit ass kicker that he would later become.

28 26. Triple H

Aside from a few years ago when he decided to shave his head, Triple H has actually managed to keep more or less the same look for his entire, impressive career. When you take a look at this photo it makes you think that taking the decision to cut his hair was an even bigger one than we first thought as he clearly had a full head of hair long before he became Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Also considering Triple H is still only in his 40s, this photograph looks a lot older than it should be and probably doesn't do The Game justice as he was very in to fitness and body building from a very young age.

27 25. Brie Bella

Earlier on in this extensive list we covered Nikki Bella and her high school photo, so with the similarities she shares with her twin sister it's only fair that we include Brie also. If nothing else it's interesting to discover how much the sisters looked alike back in high school compared to now. Although they're identical twins during their latest time together in WWE it was always easy to tell which of the twins was which, unless you're a referee of course and they were using twin magic. Judging by their high school photos it wasn't always so easy. Back then the two of them both played soccer and had pretty similar lives. Despite both going on to become wrestlers, the two have gone on very different paths and that has led to them changing in their own unique ways.

26 24. Kevin Nash

No offence to this latest entry, but whereas Triple H's photo looks a lot older than I would imagine it to be, Kevin Nash's high school picture is one that I would expect to be in black and white. If you're reading Kevin, I promise that'll be the meanest thing I say. In all fairness Nash is a whole ten years older than his good friend Triple H so I think that lack of surprise from me is warranted. Aside from that Kevin's high school look is not what I would have expected. When you hear the former WWE champ discuss his formative years on podcasts and in interviews he sounds like he was something of a trouble maker. This photo makes Kevin look like he was quite the contrary.

25 23. Bayley

None of you that have watched WWE Raw in the past six months or so will be taken aback by what Bayley used to look like before she became a wrestler. Both her major rivals since arriving on Monday nights, Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, have utilized the multiple photos of a young Bayley at their disposal in an attempt to embarrass and humiliate how she used to be. The former Raw Women's Champion was effectively a super fan of WWE as a teenager and it's hard to find a pic of a young Bayley that doesn't have some sort of wrestling memorabilia within it. Bayley is never embarrassed by the photos her opponents parade out in front of the crowd, and good on her because neither would I be.

24 22. Goldberg

Well, well, well, who is this handsome devil? Would you believe me if I told you that it's GOLD-BERG! Much like his adversary Brock Lesnar, Bill looked a lot different in high school than he does now, and even a lot different to how he looked when he was in WCW running through Superstars and building his incredible streak. In fact Goldberg looked like he did as a wrestler when he was playing football, so I'm struggling to pin point the moment he lost his full head of hair and went from being a teen heart throb to a juggernaut of a human being. I'm seriously struggling to imagine the young man pictured above going on to put his fist through a car window during a fit of rage.

23 21. Big Show

Speaking of wrestlers losing a full head of hair, check out the crop on the top of Big Show's head when the big man was in high school. With these two photos side by side it actually looks like the hair began on Show's head when he was 18 and has gradually made its way down to his chin throughout his life up until the present day. Show and Andre the Giant actually suffered from the same issue with gigantism so the man pictured above probably dwarfed his class mates as much as Andre would have during his school days. Unfortunately though this more conventional high school photo doesn't do Show's height any justice. Despite these two photos looking so different though, it's pretty plain to see that the man on the right is a young Big Show.