8 Unfairly Maligned Wrestlers From The Monday Night Wars

"Who are you to doubt El Dandy?"

With one throwaway attempt at humour, then WCW United States Champion Bret Hart launched a joke that reduced luchador El Dandy to a laughing stock that still persists to this day. To the majority of North American wrestling fans, unaware of the immense legacy he has established in his native Mexico, El Dandy is a cult figure of comical proportions.

Despite the occasional noteworthy segment, such as winning an opportunity to challenge for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship only to relinquish it through injury, Dandy was merely a face in the crowd of a bloated cruiserweight division. As was the case with the majority of the cruiserweights, his role was to excite the crowd in short undercard matches that bared no wider relevance once they reached a conclusion.

A stalwart of Mexico's CMLL promotion throughout the eighties and into the nineties, El Dandy has some tremendous peaks, even if he sometimes lacked the consistency required of an all time great. His most famous feud came against Satanico, as the dissolution of their tag team proved the catalyst for a rivalry spanning over 20 years.

It's worth noting that El Dandy was never a disappointment in WCW. He was just an underutilised afterthought, a metaphor often apropos for the cruiserweight division as a whole.