That time WCW tried to create the next Rey Mysterio in 99! 

A Mexican luchador who is actually American with a German name

Super Calo was going into business for himself multiple times, which is why people were so awkward when facing him. That made that six man match an absolute shitshow even more. Blitzkrieg was the precursor to Amazing Red and whatnot. It's crazy to think if he stuck around a bit longer, he could've been an absolute legend with some more work.

YAY BLITZKRIEG!!! I only recently discovered this guy when researching cruiserweight moves, and thought he'd be a throwaway chump at first. Then I saw one of his matches. Then another one. And then I wondered why he isn't spoken of as one of the very best cruiserweights of all time. This guy is INCREDIBLE!

I remember watching Blitz when he first arrived in WCW and I was blown away. I thought he could be a legit cruiserweight star and future champ. And then.....he disappeared. Loved his phoenix splash.

Match 13: Sid was "pinning" wrestlers in an attempt to equal Goldberg's streak with no one calling him about because they were afraid to upset him.

A luchador is not a fake just because they don't come from Mexico. And that "Twisting Moonsault" was a Phoenix Splash. It was Hayabusa's finishing move. Someone Blitzkrieg was obviously inspired by judging by his mask, pants and style

Blitzkrieg basically told the wrestling biz to shuv it. A shame too, as ROH and NWA-TNA were just a few years away and the resulting golden age of the flippy short guys was just waiting for Blitz to catapult himself to stardom.

I'll never forget watching Blitzkrieg when I was a kid. Very strange look but the flippy dippy moves were jaw dropping at the time. It's funny after all these years he's almost like a cult hero.

F'n Loved Blitzkrieg! This guy was absolutely on another level during the very short time he was a professional wrestler

Blitzkrieg doesn't get nearly as much recognition as he deserves. I think he would fit in with the high flyers of today like Ricochet, Will Osprey and Fenix

Blitzkrieg is the definition of "ahead of his time". He'd be a lot more successful today, albeit he might've fell into the mix a little bit as there is so many similar to him. He definitely needed to improve his psychology as he kinda just stood around a lot and we didn't get a lick of a character from him, although the latter isn't his fault. I didn't know too much about him prior to this video but I'm glad to have seen his WCW run highlighted.

The twisting moonsault is the Phoenix splash A very popular move by many wrestlers 😊

WCW's cruiserweight division always had this weird segregation thing. You had the bonifide stars - Rey, Eddy, Malenko, Kidman, Juvi, and Ultimo Dragon. Then you had the jobbers like Super Calo, Silver King, El Dandy, Damian, Ciclope and the Villanos. And then there was this midspace for guys who they wanted to keep somewhat credible but weren't actually going to make them the star of the division. Psychosis lived there with Lizmark Jr. and Hector Garza and was occasionally joined by a flavor of the month guy. Like Blitzkrieg in this case. The problem was that the fans could see the segregation lines and weren't going to get invested in anyone on the wrong side of them.

For the record, it’s not “the middle rope”, it is Brets Rope.

Blitzkrieg doing the most godly sh*t and MarkyD is like "combination attack. Not a long happening here. C."

Rey Mysterio is impossible to get booded 😂 that's why his son Dominick gets so much heat 😂

I remembered being a big fan of Blitzkrieg for some reason. I really wanted him to team up with Glacier and win the tag titles.

Biggest memory of Blitzkrieg is Bobby Heenan's callwhen Sid hit the powerbomb. "Oh my God, Blitzkrieg is a tag team"

15:38 The feels looking at these 3 men in the ring 🥲

I remember watching this guy, I thought he was pretty interesting, but that second match seemed more like it was Super Calo being a clutzy goof rather then Blitz.

Blitzkrieg debut match was full on insanity. He was an instant favorite for me. Then he was gone

Fun fact: Blitzkrieg trained at APW under Roland Alexander and crew. APW was featured in Beyond The Mat and was the school where Khali killed a student.

Juvy was my favorite cruiser weight. His masked hero thing, the more punk style after it was shed. Its just too bad he couldnt be worked up higher imon the card

A fucking LOVED Blitzkrieg. I remember marking out when he appeared on a Saturday morning episode of WCW Worldwide. Dude defied gravity.

No joke, first time I've seen Super Caló in action. Or at all, for that matter.

Props for covering blitzkrieg! I liked his mask and ring gear and dude would bust out some cool shit in ring.

I’m surprised you left off him randomly getting unmasked on TV for literally no reason.

I know both Psichosis and Super Calo would both qualify for an episode on here in regards to their times in ECW.

Brian Zane is known for saying you can't powerbomb Kidman? LOL, something else he blatantly stole. Scott Keith made that a running joke back when he was reviewing these shows live.

Blitzkreig was awesome with his acrobatic agility high flying moveset ⚡️

One of my favorite wrestlers as a pre-teen coming into teenhood! That mask and suit was cool, but then his moves defined him immediately.

6:46 love the playful marky-Brian Zane dig you had here 😂❤

Funny looking at a young , "small" Rey. He's so huge now.

Always fun to see a WCW video. Best one was of Big Papa Pump a couple months back. Please do a "Ring of the Hawk" for Chirsitans single run in 2001. We want to know if it got started off on the right foot or not.

As somebody who was a big fan of him, WCW didn't give up on him. He left the business for a Tech job that paid way better than what werestling was at the time. Still got named WON Rookie of the Year even after missing the last 4 months.

You gotta do Big swoll of the No Limit Soldiers.

So glad to see this one! Crazy to think a Ring of the Hawk contestant won Wrestling Observer's Rookie of the Year for his one and only year wrestling for a major promotion.

Good call on doing a Blitzkrieg vid !!! He came out of nowhere doing some crazy stuff ! I remember hearing rumors that he was Jack Evans ! While I could see the similarities a tad , I knew it wasnt true .

Hey, if ur watchin' Dynamite again tonight, I'd suggest watching the control center video they put up on youtube last night. It's only 12 mins or so, and the last few u can skip. It's just announcing future locations for shows. They put out Control Center videos the night before each show to preview the card, show things that have led up to whats going to happen, and give the wrestlers a chance to cut promos about their matches. Last night had MJF and Adam Cole cut a great promo, Sammie and Daniel Garcia actually cut a pretty good 1 for them, too. Plus, there is a bunch of stuff there about the fued between the Elite and The BCC that leads to blood and guts tonight. I watch em ea h week there usually really good, and would definetly benifit someone who is just starting watching the show.

Lizmark Jr & Blitzkrieg seemed to be the forgotten WCW cruiserwieght division guys (at least in the west), I wonder if they were more over in Germany were WCW was popular

Blitzkrieg not just looked cool, but damn he was fun to watch. I do wonder how he would have done in the Early-2000s Indy scene after he left WCW...but that's probably happened in some other timeline.

Vampiro went from Canada to Mexico to also learn the Lucha style and does he get called a fake?

The WCW cruiserweight division was ahead of its time, and Blitzkrieg was even further ahead. North American crowds were not ready for it and in some ways were even more obnoxious back then. He would be having epic showdowns with Omega and others if he were transported to today.

I loved Blitzkrieg. It's a shame more wasn't done with him.

LET’S GOOOOOOO! Totally psyched for this episode to be going over the career of Blitzkrieg!

Did Jeff Hardy find Blitzkrieg's mask on a dumpster? Is that how he made that Willow mask?😅😅

Nice Brian Zane reference

I love Blitzkrieg, dude trained Jack Evans but he retired and Jack Evan's used the gimmick for one night but that was it, he's the only one out of that SoCal lucha-Wrestling PWG crew who got dark matches on WCW.

I loved this guy back in the day!!!

I take a break from YT and what do I find? A MarkyD video dedicated to Blitzkrieg!!! What a treat! Literally Rey & Eddie vs La Parka & Blitzkrieg is my all time favourite match that what made me fall in love with the lucha libre style and wrestling in general!

If you take a shot every time he insists on saying "Hoo-vay" instead of "Hoo-vee" or even just "Hoo-ven-tood" you will end up needing a liver transplant.

rey lifting people up is such a culture shock

2:45 El Dandy stole his tights from Owen Hart’s Stampede Wrestling locker. But who am I to doubt El Dandy?

"Dean's in control now and the crowd looks extremely bored So every Dean Malenko match

We all loved Blitzkrieg.... Anyone watching at the time recall him..

Love the Brian Zane burial

Uh...I never looked at Blitzkrieg as a Rey Mysterio rip off, but he was definitely ahead of his time with some of the stuff that he could do. I'd say he put guys like Rey and even my boy, Juvi, to shame with some of his acrobatics. He came in at just the right time when cruiserweight wrestling (especially in WCW) was still somewhat new, fun, and exciting to watch. It's a shame he didn't last longer, although I heard the main reason he quit the business was due to multiple concussion issues, which is completely understandable.

I noticed you referenced Brian Zane on the powerbombing Billy Kidman thing. That was a thing WAY before Brian Zane. That was a constant running joke in certain circles because of how consistently he did that reversal. Maybe it's more of an American thing. Knowing the structure of WCW, it looks like they wanted him to be a jobber to the Cruiserweight stars until he paid his dues. I guess he didn't feel like playing that game.

Silver King was awesome! He had some badass masks too. Looked cooler that way.

I am shocked that I do not remember this guy at all and I thought I saw every episode of WCW during the era Marky is reviewing.

good stuff mate, you're rapid with these vids lol

Yay they also brought in a young super dragon due to his connection to blitzkrieg through the so cal scene.

Who was Blitzkrieg? WCW never really told us much about him, and that was his main problem. Dude had some moves and clearly had potential, but didn’t standout in any way for the crowd to care. He definitely made the guys you wanted to care about look good; he was a generic NPC for Juice/Eddy/Rey Jr./Iceman to trounce and move onto more important things.

The amount of times a wrestling company has tried to recreate Rey Mysterio. WWE tried it with Sin Cara and Kalisto. TNA tried it with Suicide Lucha Underground tried it with Ricochet as Prince Puma, and Rey Fenix

That arm drag escape is one of the cleanest things I’ve ever seen

Jeez- Super Calo moves like he's got poor internet connection 😂

This guy is incredibly good

Even back then i was a fan,his moves are rare that no other cruiseweight wrestlers does it back then only him.

One of the better WCW Lucha Suits

“Wow that girls face look like it’s frozen in time.” LOL

RIP WCW

Blitzkreig was SICK, a blast to watch

I LOVED Blitzkrieg when I was a kid!

9:45 That top rope maneuver looked like it would've been really cool if not botched. But at same time looked like it could've just a easily been disastrous, serverly injuring one or both wrestlers

STILL my favorite Luchadore

I actually liked Blitzkrieg he was a talented wrestler who could fly around the ring like nobodies business,he just never caught a break,it didn't matter who he was in there with he always put on the best match he could and always came up short. It actually pissed me off when he lost that fatal four-way match and didn't win the championship(not taking anything away from Juvi) but I really hoped Blitzkrieg would have pulled it off and won the championship.

Blitzkreig was pretty good. i enjoyed his matches. very underated high flyer

Insane clown posse wcw run is a good one too

Marky says Juvy the way Schiavone says yeti.

oy, I would really like to see a RoH with Retribution. they had 9 matches (a bit more if we count singles matches) and lost most of them while looking like complete jokes in pretty much every aspect. they would *definitely* go to the Shuv It zone, but I wonder just how hard they would shuv it

Yeah for the longest time i just knew him as the guy who traded super dragon

SH SH SH SH SHOCKER in TNA on The Ring of the Hawk

WWE Mexicools tag team run ring of the hawk

Van hammer, man another what if guy. Needs a show on his own

Been waiting for this one! He was a talented guy but WCW did nothing with him. Would like to see a Jushin Thunder Liger in WCW ROTH.

Way too tough on my boy Blitz here. He was awesome and that Spring Stampede match with Juvi was a barn burner. And that's Juvi, not "Huvay" lol.

Think the Hawk undersold the Spring Stampede 99 match. Love that one. Thats probably the last good WCW ppv too

Van Hammer vs Blitzkrieg was a dream match of mine, at the time. For real.

Thank For The Video 🙊🤯😃😍👍🥰💐🌟🥇🏆

He was so awesome

Blitzkrieg was one of the best I've seen

6:31 looks like a bad Angel's Wings without the spin. 6:49 I was wondering when you would reference Brian Zane.

6:50 Hawk watches Brian Zane! WrestleTube multiverse confirmed!

A whole video on ravens flock would be awesome too

Have you done a ring of the hawk about the ice man? I’d love to see a Dean video!

Love u MarkyD just wanna say you’ve really helped me while I’ve gone through a break up used to binge ur content THANK YOU HAWK Know it’s a bit cringe but u can shove it :)

8:17 that’s a Phoenix Splash

Nice!

Blitzkrieg has great moves.

I loved Blitzkreig. The wcw CW division was awesome at one point.