“Das Wunderkind” Alex Wright was a WCW lower midcarder who was often featured early on WCW Nitro broadcasts and regularly on WCW Saturday Night.
In this Wrestling Salvage Yard, we look at his career and if he could’ve gone to the next stage.
Wrestling Career in the U.S
What stood out about Wright—besides his generic, loud green trunks and dancing intro—was his advanced wrestling ability at a young age.
Wright is a second-generation wrestler who debuted in 1991 at 16. He wrestled throughout Europe before joining WCW in 1994.
Most of his career saw him as a part of the cruiserweight division. Wright was booked competitively and didn’t really become involved in storylines until 1998.
Prior to this, he had a running rivalry with Disco Inferno which eventually resulted in their Dancing Fools/Boogie Knights tag team.
For a brief time in 1999, he was the rivet-headed, “cold” German character Berlyn, accompanies by The Wall. As it went in WCW, The Wall would go on to a more eventful singles career.
Now, Berlyn was kneecapped by the Columbine High School shootings. His career wore all black and had a trench coat and any similarities with any tragedy was gimmick death (see Hassan).
Berlyn lasted a couple of months before Wright went back to being a dancing German guy who didn’t stand out on the shows.
When WWE purchased WCW, Alex Wright was unable to get out of his AOL contract and retired regular from in-ring competition. The dude retired before 26.
Salvaging Alex Wright
Honestly, none of Wright’s career hiccups or pitfalls were his fault. He showed up, wrestled, and did what was asked of him. Wright was a victim of timing with the Berlyn gimmick.
He was a victim of a constantly bloated roster. However, this was one of a few times that I couldn’t blame WCW creative for their creative decision. An attempt was made.
Not only that but Berlyn wasn’t an awful idea—it was just a year or two late. Also, the Boogie Knights could’ve worked as a threat to the Tag Team titles.
Like, yeah both Alex Wright and Disco Inferno were portrayed as comedy acts but both have delivered good competitive matches.
I’m not saying that the Boogie Knights should’ve been made into a serious tag team but they could’ve been that reoccurring but unexpected threat to the belt.
They did hold the belts for four days in late 2000 but I feel they could’ve really been in the mix of WCW’s hot tag division during 1996-1998.
Other than that, Wright is a hard salvage job. Timing was his greatest opponent in WCW.
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