One week after Pillman '99, Shark Boy finally captured the HWA Cruiserweight Title from Bobby Casanova and, during his title reign, was approached by WCW for a try-out match in Cleveland at a July Monday Nitro taping. Shark Boy was forced to vacate the HWA title after only two months when WCW signed him to a developmental contract that required the flesh-eating fish to move to Atlanta and train at the WCW Power Plant under men like Paul Orndorff and Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker. ABC's 20/20 even made Shark Boy one of their primary characters in doing a story on professional wrestling that aired in December of 1999.
However, the WCW deal didn't last more than six months. Despite being released from his WCW contract before the year's end, Shark Boy found himself being featured on WCW Saturday Night starting in February, 2000, when he wrestled Norman Smiley in Massachusetts. Week after week, more and more fans were shown on camera sporting their Shark Boy masks and T-shirts with hands raised to foreheads for the "shark salute." Shark Boy had now become a national wrestling phenomenon. With unfinished business remaining in Cincinnati, the finned warrior soon returned to the HWA and recaptured the Cruiserweight Title. In addition to WCW and the HWA, Shark Boy is currently competing in independent promotions across the country (maybe even where you live) and his popularity has never been greater. This is a tale that has yet to be completed. This is the tale of Shark Boy.
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