Alex Wright is probably a name that most wrestling fans haven't thought about in a long time. I wasn't the most avid WCW viewer so I don't know a whole lot about Wright's career. I know he debuted with WCW in 1994 at the tender age of 19. He was immediately popular with the fans and was a pegged as a future star. He seemed to get kind of lost in the shuffle of the crowded WCW roster during the Monday Night War as many stars did during that era. Wright was on tv often but was rarely a featured part of the show from what I remember. Wright stayed with WCW until the WWF bought the company in early 2001. Like many others, Wright was under contract with AOL Time Warner and WWF did not buy out the contract.
Had Alex Wright come to the WWF in 2001 he probably would have been an Alliance lackey like Shawn Stasiak or Chavo Guerrero. In 2002 a lot of WCW guys came over to the WWF as their contracts were expiring. We saw Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Ric Flair (late 2001), Rey Mysterio, and Scott Steiner all come into the WWF after the invasion angle ended. Obviously Alex Wright is nowhere near as big a name as any of those guys but with the brand extension just taking place 2002 might have been a good time for him to join the WWF. I don't know when his Time Warner contract was up but I assume it was around that time since so many others had come up.
I'm not saying Alex Wright would have ever been a main event player but I could see him fitting in pretty well on Smackdown in the mid 00s. Wright was only 27 years old in 2002 and had seven years experience wrestling for a top promotion in the US. He could have been a top guy in the cruiserweight division or he just as easily could have worked with guys like John Cena and Eddie Guerrero. I mostly remember Wright as a face but he could have worked heel too against guys like Mysterio, Edge, or Benoit. I don't see Wright coming out on top that often against those guys or even getting big enough angles to go to ppv with them but I think he is the type of guy that would have always been picked to make an opponent look good in a lengthy match regularly on Smackdown, kind of a Gregory Helms type.
Maybe I'm underestimating Wright. As I mentioned I wasn't a hardcore WCW fan and really don't remember much about him once the nwo took over. Could he have been better than I'm suggesting? Given his age and experience it's kind of surprising that Wright never came to WWE. How do you think he would have fared had he come in around 2002/2003?
Had Alex Wright come to the WWF in 2001 he probably would have been an Alliance lackey like Shawn Stasiak or Chavo Guerrero. In 2002 a lot of WCW guys came over to the WWF as their contracts were expiring. We saw Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Ric Flair (late 2001), Rey Mysterio, and Scott Steiner all come into the WWF after the invasion angle ended. Obviously Alex Wright is nowhere near as big a name as any of those guys but with the brand extension just taking place 2002 might have been a good time for him to join the WWF. I don't know when his Time Warner contract was up but I assume it was around that time since so many others had come up.
I'm not saying Alex Wright would have ever been a main event player but I could see him fitting in pretty well on Smackdown in the mid 00s. Wright was only 27 years old in 2002 and had seven years experience wrestling for a top promotion in the US. He could have been a top guy in the cruiserweight division or he just as easily could have worked with guys like John Cena and Eddie Guerrero. I mostly remember Wright as a face but he could have worked heel too against guys like Mysterio, Edge, or Benoit. I don't see Wright coming out on top that often against those guys or even getting big enough angles to go to ppv with them but I think he is the type of guy that would have always been picked to make an opponent look good in a lengthy match regularly on Smackdown, kind of a Gregory Helms type.
Maybe I'm underestimating Wright. As I mentioned I wasn't a hardcore WCW fan and really don't remember much about him once the nwo took over. Could he have been better than I'm suggesting? Given his age and experience it's kind of surprising that Wright never came to WWE. How do you think he would have fared had he come in around 2002/2003?
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