[7.0] "Even though he's far from the most notable wrestler from Michinoku Pro's early years, Wellington Wilkins Jr. might best encapsulate its charm that won me over. Here's this American wrestler barely anyone has ever heard of working preliminarily matches halfway around the world for a couple of hundred people. He was a bruiser who kept up with some of the world's fastest wrestlers at the time. He could go hold for hold, he could power guys around, and he even could do some comedy. What is unfortunate is that he never really pushed himself to be more than that lower card gatekeeper type."
[7.0] "Everybody's favorite shoot-style enhancement talent ! It is highly respectable to have been able to make a living off of wrestling in Japan despite being rather unknown in America. He was excellent in UWF-style bouts and even managed to do a complete 180 to become a comedy act in Michinoku Pro."
[8.0] "A REALLY good wrestler all in all, even if he had a tendency to no-sell and sandbag. Wilkins had this weird combination of surprising agility alongside really solid technical work, but he also threw a lot of brutal stuff alongside it: he wasn't just a Sabre Jr act where it was just consistent showing off of submissions with little realism, everything felt fought for and gritty to the point of being uncomfortable at points. Having such a strange career path as well (starting off as a Fujiwara/UWF guy before bizarrely going into lucha stuff) gives him such a wide range of opponents that it almost doesn't sound real rattling off some of the names. But yeah, solid all in all despite the fact that most people know him from his Midnight Express beatdown."
