Well, I was trying to post a Backlash Review, but I can't seem to find any matches on YouTube. Go figure, I can find ten different versions of every Mania match but I can't find a full Backlash card. Oh, well.

This is the blog I am most disappointed about posting late. Two days ago marked the third anniversary of the death of one of the consumate performers of his generation, Chris Candido.

Chris Candido was a second-generation wrestler, grandson of Chuck Richards, and was trined by Larry Sharpe, who also trained Bam Bam Bigelow and Kevin Von Erich. He started out wrestling for the World Wrestling Association before moving on to a fledgling ECW. He tagged with Chris Michaels and fellow Sharpe trainee Johnny Hotbody as the Suicide Blondes, and together they won the ECW Tag Titles and defended them under the Freebird Rule.

Candido then moved on to Smokey Mountain Wrestling where he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in a 10-man tournament. The Title had been vacated just months prior by Shane Douglas during his infamous incident in which he threw the belt down. Candido held the belt for three months before dropping it to Dan "The Beast" Severn.

Candido then moved on to WWE where he had a brief run as Tag Champion along with Tom Prichard as The Bodydonnas.

Candido then moved back to ECW where he started one of his most famous runs as part of Shane Douglas' Triple Threat, along with Lance Storm and then fellow Sharpe trainee Bam Bam Bigelow. After having a brief fued with Storm, Candido captured his third ECW Tag Team Championship with him. They enjoyed a six month reign before dropping the Titles to the crowd favorite team of Sabu and Rob Van Dam. He then had a short-lived stint in WCW where he held the WCW Cruiserweight Title for a month and reformed the Triple Threat with Douglas, Bam Bam, and long-time manager and now wife Tammy Lynn Sytch a.k.a. Sunny. He left WCW along with Sytch after Sytch had a falling out backstage.

Candido wrestled with Xtreme Pro Wrestling for a while before joining TNA in 2005. During his short time there, he aided the young tag team The Naturals in their quest for TNA gold. The Naturals captured their second NWA World Tag Team Championship, and thier first with Candido as manager, on April 26, 2005, two days after Lockdown, by beating America's Most Wanted. Two days later Chris Candido passed away due to a blood clot.

Candidio was one of the hardest working men in pro wrestling. He was never completely over with management or the fans, but he did his best to make up for it in the ring. He was a consumate worker, and he never hesitated to give back to the business that he loved. Although forgotten by most mainstream wrestling fans, hardcore fans will always remember him as one of the most underrated and talented tag wrestlers out there.