Every Tuesday, we take a look at an outlandish character from wrestling’s days gone by. Sometimes laughable, sometimes revolting, but always preposterous, they’re part of what makes pro rasslin’ so great. Ranging from slightly peculiar to downright ludicrous, these are the wrestlers that time has rightly forgotten.
Kwang was hyped for weeks. Vignette after vignette, promo after promo, World Wrestling Federation fans were made aware that he was coming. In January 1995, The WWF had signed a mysterious Asian martial artist, and they made sure we knew it. Unfortunately, upon his debut, fans soon learned that Kwang was not exactly as he was billed. In fact, he wasn’t a martial artist at all. He wasn’t even Asian. He was just Savio Vega behind a mask. Managed by Harvey Wippleman, the only thing that Kwang had in common with the mysterious Asian wrestlers who came before him was his penchant for spitting a green mist into the faces of his opponents. For the most part, Kwang only earned victories over true jobbers. Whenever he was in the ring opposite a fixture on the roster, he usually was there to put them over. The character only lasted about 16 months before being dropped, but that was long enough to forge its way into the collective memory banks of wrestling fans as one seriously awful gimmick. Despite the brevity of the character’s lifespan, Kwang did manage to appear in two Royal Rumbles, not faring particularly well in either. After abandoning the mask, Savio Vega underwent a massive character remodeling, becoming the fiery Puerto Rican friend of Razor Ramon.
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I love how they’re repeatedly selling his Asian heritage haha
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