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9. Born Before Their Time (Naturally)

Former WCW and WWE star Chuck Palumbo has resurfaced and is doing the rounds to promote his YouTube channel Chuck of All Trades, shedding some light on his brief but very unique career in the process. 

The former tag champion made some interesting comments on the Natural Born Thrillers stable, the group of Power Plant training school graduates who burst onto the WCW scene in 2000, when he appeared on the Pro Wrestling Defined podcast. 

According to Palumbo, the business wasn't yet ready for what he, Mark Jindrak, Sean O'Haire, Mike Sanders, Reno, Johnny 'The Bull' and Shawn Stasiak had to offer. 

“All those guys were exceptional talents. If you look back now and look at the way they moved and worked, we were ahead of our time and at the time, the things we were doing athletically would be in comparison to what the guys do now. We were athletic. We were at that transition where the business wasn't ready for that yet. 

A majority of the guys in the business were working a different style and we came in very green so we didn't know about the psychology but we knew how to move in the ring and we kind of stepped it up from an athletic standpoint”.

I have to say, looking back, they were a rare highlight of WCW TV during the company's dying days. 

O'Haire, in particular, should have been a world-beater and probably would have had way more success if he had come around during a different era.