10 Most Entertaining WCW Cruiserweights Of All Time
6. Ultimo Dragon
Debut a wrestler holding eight light-heavyweight championships alongside a stereotypically evil Japanese manager with a penchant for taking pictures of the champ and his titles. Instant cocky heel, right? Of course. But, if the wrestler is Ultimo Dragon, he's going to eventually become a babyface, and in having a tremendously unique mask (in a company filled with masked grapplers) and unique finish (the Dragon Sleeper, an inverted crossface headlock) he differentiated himself immediately. Even further, consider the fact that while holding the eight-championship "J-Crown," Dragon also won the UWA Middleweight Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, too, thus giving him ten simultaneously held titles and making him the most decorated-at-one-time grappler (of championships in major promotions) in pro-wrestling history. As well, with his Toryumon dojo students like Magnum Tokyo, Don Fuji, CIMA, Dragon Kid and SUWA also appearing at various points in WCW, his hybrid style of Mexican/Japanese wrestling entertainment influenced others who wrestled in the company, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
