10 Early Internet Wrestling Outrages
3. 'THEY ARE NOT VANILLA MIDGETS THEY ARE...
...THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING!'
If you were a fan of pro wrestling, at the turn of the millennium, and you were in your formative adolescence, there's a very good chance you borrowed wholesale the opinions of Scott Keith and his ilk. Having been wowed by the athleticism of the WCW cruisers, and made inroads into the dirtsheet racket, they - we - me - proclaimed the likes of Billy Kidman and Crowbar as the future.
These guys weren't old dinosaurs throttling WCW with creative control (and inconvenient sh*t we just ignored like demonstrable drawing power), they were state-of-the-art performers who just needed a push and a live mic to usher us into a new era.
One WrestlingClassics user, a Richard Sullivan, predicted his own vision of that future, and his name was...
...Jamie Howard.
You may know him as Jamie Noble, so the snarky response to that post - "You mean that guy who jobbed to Kid Romeo on last weeks WCW Saturday Night? *LOL*" - wasn't entirely warranted. Sinister_Playa had played himself.
J followed up by writing "If WCW has a chance it is in the cruiserweight division." He wrote this in the year 2000, which doesn't speak to their prescience.
Daffney and Crowbar didn't reverse WCW's fortunes. If only Sting had laid down.