10 Things We Learned From Nail In The Coffin: The Fall And Rise Of Vampiro
3. The WCW Experience
As mentioned elsewhere, to wrestling fans outside of Mexico, their first real taste of seeing Vampiro in action came when the Canadian grappler turned up in World Championship Wrestling back in 1998.
For the fans of Vampiro, they were hoping that Vamp's arrival in WCW would soon see him positioned at the top of the card. And while Vampiro did get to square off against star names like Sting, Ric Flair, and Hulk Hogan, it's impossible not to say that WCW dropped the ball on Vampiro and maybe never quite appreciated the performer that they had on their hands.
Speaking in Nail in the Coffin, Jeff Jarrett gives his take on why things didn't work out all that well for Vampiro in WCW.
“Nowadays, with social media, people would’ve known who he was walking in the door. In that era, Vampiro walking out to that Monday Nitro audience, a lot of them immediately went, ‘Is this a Sting storyline? Is he supposed to be Sting’s partner?’ Had the wrestling business had the ability to truly show here comes an icon, it would’ve been really cool. But he didn’t get that opportunity and neither did the wrestling business."
On that same matter, an archived interview sees Vampiro himself give his blunt thoughts on his WCW stint.
"The company WCW ruined three years of my life. F**k ‘em. When I broke my neck in WCW, I had a three-year $6 million contract and I let it go."