PWI Article
Pro Wrestling Illustrated Annual 1999 Edition
Neither a serious neck injury, nor the mighty pen of Eric Bischoff, could keep Sean Waltman out of wrestling ... Fed Ex may have delivered Waltman his walking papers, but DX gave him a new life ... Helped fill the void Shawn Micheals left after WrestleMania XIV ... Stayed on the sidelines for a while, but slowly worked his way back into competition ... The Lightning Kid, The Kid, The 1-2-3 Kid, Syxx ... Whatever the name, the talent remains the same ... Immediately clicked with former Kliq partner Hunter Hearst Hemsley ... Meshed well with the New Age Outlaws ... And Chyna supplied moral and physical support ... Lost first match back to "Triple-H" when Owen Hart interfered ... X-Pac is probably still smarting from a vicious drop over the security railing ... Some WWF superstars have had fun tossing him around ... Mark Henry likes to count how many revolutions X-Pac's body makes when hit with a hearty clothesline ... Ken Shamrock likes suplexing him like a rag doll ... The Undertaker gets his kicks by chokeslamming him through the canvas ... Before he returned to active competition, X-Pac was not very highly thought of ... In fact, he was more like X-Punk ... Now that he's facing the WWF's toughest, X-Pac is winning over a lot of fans who appreciate his fighting spirit ... Yeah, X-Pac got game ... By the way, Jim Cornette, his name is not X-Pack ... It's X-Pac, as in X-POC ... Oh, we forgot: Jim Cornette also pronouces Louisville "Looouval" ... X-Pac defeated D-Lo Brown for the European title in September, only to lose it back a couple weeks later ... Regained the belt from Brown at Judgement Day ... His next big challenge will be "A Real Man's Man" Steven Regal ... It should be a classic match between aerial ability and technical skill ... Doing just fine without the constant interference of DeGeneration X ... Thanks Hunter and Chyna, but this kid's doing just fine on his own ... Maybe he'll actually see Europe someday.
