20 Secret Highlights Of WCW That WWE Won't Tell You About
11. Último Dragón Was Lucha Before Lucha Was Underground
The WCW cruiserweight style was actually a pretty complex melange of light heavyweight techniques from around the world, but the two most visible components were Mexican lucha libre and Japanese junior puroresu. If you had to pick a guy that best exemplified that blessed mixture of weightless aerialism, hard strikes and wicked submissions, you could do worse than the Último Dragón. He was a multiple time cruiserweight and TV champion, and still holds the record for the most championships simultaneously held. It's ten, incidentally, should you ever want to feel bad about your own accomplishments.
Apart from his stellar ring work, though, Dragón was the owner of a gloriously pulpy origin story. See, WCW sometimes translated the guy's name as "Ultimate Dragon", but that's not the connotation implied by his gimmick. He wasn't using "ultimate" to mean "supreme", but to mean "final." That's right, he was supposed to be Bruce Lee's final pupil, the Last Dragon. Dario Cueto, if you're reading this, please bring Último Dragón to your filthy warehouse and let him fight the Shogun of Harlem.