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X-pac always rode with friends, he literally never did anything of import a lone.
When he was 1-2-3 Kid, he was a whatever mid card dude, but then when he became Syxx, he just rode with early NWO coat-tails, and the only reason he was relevant was because of them.
Cue joining DX, woohoo, yay year and a half of getting free reaction, dude literally went from the hottest stable in wrestling to, a close 2nd. Then he just kind of existed, did some stuff with Kane, they made fun of the whole voicebox gimmick and milked it til nobody cared.
DX dies, and he still is riding it, all the way until he had to be put into an X-factor stable , because Solo X-pac can't do anything or draw a dime. he keeps doing his drugs and getting Hep C from ring rats, then shows up to join the TOTALLY NOT NWO in TNA. And then that whole TOTALLY NOT NWO gimmick dies when his Hep C prevents him from wrestling anymore.
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I never liked xpac
To me xpac was never a good wrestler at all. He was mediocre at best in the ring and on the mic.
He had no charisma. No qualities that separated him from other wrestlers.
The only reason he was relevant was bc he rode the coattails of his friends in DX and NWO.
His feuds were trash.The feud with kane was trash. Xpac basically dominated the feud. He should of never went over kane in the first place. Kane only won one match against him. That was at Armageddon 1999.
It destroyed kanes character.
Another thing I hated about xpac was that he barely lost clean in single matches. Which was BS.
xpac is not that good of a wrestler. He is a mediorce wrestler who only got where he is bc of who he knew.
What killed his character was drugs.
Refusing the evolve his character. Watch edge 2001 promo about xpac (it speaks the truth)
Boring matches.
No charisma.
Xpac heat.
All of those killed his character
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As part of a group, I think X-Pac, Syxx, Waltman, whatever you want to call him played a good sidekick role. I thought he did well whenever he was playing the "little buddy" to the likes of Hall, Nash, Triple H or even Kane but I was never all that impressed by him on his own.
Drugs played a factor, he's admitted that himself on numerous occasions. Another factor was that by 2000, while he was a young man, he was someone who'd still been around and been featured prominently for a long time and there were just simply guys coming along who many felt were simply just better pro wrestlers than he was. This was the time guys like Jericho, Benoit, Mysterio, Guerrero and Angle were on the scene just tearing things up. Generally speaking, when I look at Sean Waltman and compare him with Jericho or Angle as to who should be pushed, I just have to go with Jericho and Angle all day everyday and twice on Sunday.
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The problem was there wasn't any substance to him other than those he was taking.
As the 1-2-3 Kid it worked as a bland literal vanilla midget... people bought into him as "The Great White Hope" and it helped that guys like Yoko had the belt... He had a couple of great matches in that era with Bret and Razor before settling into mediocrity as part of The Corporation. He was awful as a heel and arguably did the least "good work" as part of DiBiase's stable. Tatanka didn't work as well, but he at least was putting forth effort to improve as a heel, futile as it was. Backstage he was already getting into trouble and was part of the infamous Shawn/Davey/Marine encounter...
Then he got hurt and went to WCW... and things continued to suck... he was the worst member of the NWO by far, even Vincent had more going for him... he was clearly there for who his buddies were and in a place where cruisers like Rey, Jericho, Malenko and Eddie were tearing up the place, and with real lucha and japanese stars in the mix, he was quickly out of his depth. He medicated himself accordingly and got his shot to go back to WWE cos he got fired... not so he could go back, but cos he was so messed up, Bischoff could get away with firing him as a message and say "Hey, he's fcuked himself..."
There's a revisionist view that Waltman was over as part of DX... he really wasn't... Even his big return was overshadowed by the Outlaws joining the fold. JR's commentary when he walked out kind of summed up many fans opinion... he made "look whose back..." sound like he'd just found a Mark Henry floater in the canHe was part of DX thanks to Hunter, but the group would have been far more successful with someone else in that role... had someone like Jericho come over that bit sooner then he would have been great in DX instead of X-Pac.
As time went on he was more exposed as a busted flush... The Kane stuff worked better with RVD... X-Factor was embarrassingly bad and even now, Waltman appears like the little hanger on at the HOF rather than ever getting in there himself.
Once DX ended there was no more "wriggle room" to hide his deficiencies and his increasingly pallid appearance due to the drug use... you had a lot of hungry talents appearing like Angle and Jericho and by then a whole developmental class including Brock, Orton, Cena and the like... Waltman probably COULD have flown under the radar in a jobber/lower mid role for a couple more years if he wasn't so messed up all the time.
But this was a WWE where guys like Kendrick got booted cos Vince despised his smoking...and guys like Jannetty (whose problem was directly linked to them) was released as often as he was rehired... So Waltman can have no complaints, he got away with far more than many did.
Ultimately he always got away with more his whole WWF career, even as far back as 1993...
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Not at all. X-Pac is an overrated hack that made his career in the big time by riding the coat tails of others far more talented and more powerful behind the scenes. He did it with Shawn Michaels & Triple H in the WWF and he did it with Scott Hall & Kevin Nash in WCW. Take him out of the DX & nWo settings and the guy was nothing, had nothing going on and really had nothing to contribute.
Guys like Booker T and Kevin Nash still mean something in wrestling, which is why the WWE offered them deals to appear at the Rumble. Booker's doing commentary on SmackDown! and Nash will probably have something of a similar role when it's all said and done. Sean Waltman, on the other hand, is irrelevant and has pretty much always been irrelevant. He's a hanger on and nothing more.
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