If Debbie Miceli ever thought about the WWE Hall of Fame, would she have followed Eric Bischoff’s instructions and have thrown the WWE Women’s Championship on her shocking debut on WCW Nitro?  Regardless of that still talked event from the Monday Night War, Madusa (we refuse to call her Alundra Blayze) was one hell of a wrestler and one of the few American females of her day who could compete with super talented Japanese women and still have the looks to compete for a fickle American audience.  American women have struggled to show what they could do in a ring, but Madusa was still able to show plenty.  It can only be imagined what she would have done had the shackles been taken off of her.

In WCW, Mark Canterbury and Dennis Knight wrestled as the Texan duo of Shanghai Pierce and Tex Slazenger, a mid level heel tag team that rarely picked up the big win.  The pair migrated (kayfabe) to Arkansas when they joined the WWE and became hog farmers – The Godwins.  The hillbilly gimmick may have seemed dated, but they got it over as both faces and heels and were given more chances to succeed under Vince.  Knight would later wrestle as a solo as Mideon (though we are trying to forget his naked alter ego), and though his won loss record was not spectacular, he was always on television.  As former two time Tag Team Champions, they may not be as much of an outside shot as originally thought.

We are positive that we are not the only ones who wish that Dan Spivey did not retire in 1995.  This was the year that he returned to the WWE as ‘Waylon Mercy”, which was a persona that he held only for months but is still talked about as one of the greatest “what ifs?” in wrestling history today.  Prior to that, Spivey established his skills in All Japan and in WCW, though in the later he was never able to escape the shadows of other big men mostly that of his Skyscraper partner, Sid Vicious; even though he carried the workload for a then very green Sid.  Had Spivey’s Waylon Mercy character lasted longer, he could have been easily on a Hall of Fame path.

Chris Kanyon started off his WWE run well, but he fizzled out to enhancement status by the end.  This was a shame as although he was not a main eventer in WCW, he was at least allowed to showcase his ample skills.  Kanyon developed an offensive move set that defined innovation and more often than not he would usher a move that had never been seen before. Kanyon would later claim that he was let go by the WWE because of his homosexuality.  Whether that is true or not will remain a mystery, but Kanyon would later commit suicide do to inabilities to deal with his depression.