8 Best WCW Cruiserweight Championship Matches

At Clash of the Champions XXXV in August 1997, Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero went out and had a perfectly acceptable, technically-sound twelve-minute match. The action was fluid and the execution fine. The only trouble was, not a single soul in the audience gave a damn and the bout played before periods of prolonged silence.

The main problem was that neither man had character. Both were vanilla babyfaces, akin to sudden death in an nWo-dominated landscape. Come Fall Brawl a month later, however, fans had a reason to care for their Cruiserweight Title rematch: Eddie was now a full-on heel, and he was loving it.

The match started with Jericho giving Eddie armdrags and elevated snapmares, for which Eddie hilariously claimed Jericho had pulled his tights and hair on. After the initial shenanigans were out of the way, it was time to get down to business, with Y2J bouncing Eddie around the ring and getting the better of their technical exchanges.

A Jericho Lionsault seemed to wake Eddie up, with Latino Heat proceeding to take over, working on Jericho's back with dropkicks and a surfboard. The advantage swaying back and forth, each man continued to counter and find counters for counters until Lionheart rocked Black Tiger with a humungous German suplex, folding up Eddie like the proverbial accordion.

After yet more finishers and counters and other assorted big moves, Eddie countered a superplex and landed a precision Frog Splash to win the Cruiserweight Title for the first time. A massive improvement on their Clash of the Champions clunker, this is seventeen minutes of fantastic cruiserweight wrestling.