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Erik Watts managed to weasel his way into sixteen different wrestling companies throughout his "career" while looking like he'd had twenty minutes of training.

The son of renowned racist and homophobe 'Cowboy' Bill Watts, Erik joined WCW from the Power Plant, an apparent World Champion-in-the-making. Scoring wins over a young Steve Austin and Diamond Dallas Page, challenging for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, and wrestling four WCW pay-per-views, Erik Watts was a future World Champion - statistically.

In reality, he was fecklessly bad to an almost reckless extent.

Ostensibly given favourable treatment at the time of his father's tenure as WCW booker, he failed to make a lasting impression and soon followed Daddy to the then-WWF where, as part of the hapless Tekno Team 2000 duo, Erik Watts failed to grab the attention of the audience once again. This cycle repeated everywhere Watts went; TNA, ECW, AJPW, and assorted North American independents were subjected to a cataclysmic Erik Watts booking.

It wasn't just the nepotist booking from his father that derailed him, though. He was hopeless as a performer. A charisma vacuum, Erik couldn't work the most basic of matches, routinely flopping when attempting virtually any fundamental wrestling strike. One of the worst wrestlers ever, Erik Watts made Eva Marie look like peak-Kenny Omega.