With a decade plus tenure in the WWE and a won/loss record that resembles NBA expansion franchises, Sho Funaki was a great entertainer and a decent worker. Funaki is one of those wrestlers whose winning percentage does not reflect what he did in the ring. Initially a member of Kaientai in Japan, and then in the United States, Funaki was a singles wrestler for years and actually won the Cruiserweight Title with the WWE. He is probably not a Hall of Fame wrestler, but his overall body of work in the WWE is more than most people remember.

In some ways Ron Harris & Don Harris were a journeyman tag team, but the identical Harris Twins did have a certain level of success in the two largest wrestling promotions in North America. They were at their biggest in the WWE, as Skull & 8-Ball, members of, and then appropriated the name as the Disciples of Apocalypse. In WCW, they were the unfortunately named Patrick and Gerald (a play of Patterson & Brisco in the WWF) as Creative Control, but under their own names they did win the World Championship there. As they were saddled often with silly gimmicks (Creative Control, Blu Twins etc.) it makes sense that they were just themselves, which was not that far from their DOA persona, they would probably have been more successful.

A journeyman wrestler in the eyes of many, Ed Wiskoski became a successful commodity in the industry when he adopted the gimmick of a South African mercenary.  Wiskoski played a “Polish Prince”, a “Maharaji” but once he decided he was an African racist in the American Wrestling Association, he struck gold in the last half of the 1980’s.  

It defied logic, but the Jamaican born Dory Dixon became a major star in Texas and Mexico in the squared circle. He was a bodybuilder in his native country but during a meet in Mexico, he fell in love with the culture and stayed. With his physique, he was given a chance in EMLL and would be given the NWA Light Heavyweight Championship. Mexico was his love, but he did have successful stints north of the border, specifically Texas and a run in New York. Dixon was another black wrestler who helped blaze a trail for many other minority grapplers to follow.