Sean Waltman Sean Michael Waltman ( July 13 , 1972 ) is an American professional wrestler . Waltman is perhaps best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name s 1 - 2 - 3 Kid and X - Pac , World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Syxx and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Syxx - Pac . He is currently signed with WWE under a Legends contract , but also appears frequently on the independent circuit . Early career . After training under Eddie Sharkey , Joe Malenko , and Boris Malenko , Waltman began his career as The Lightning Kid , working his way through various independent organizations such as Pro Wrestling America ( PWA ) and the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ) , winning the PWA Light Heavyweight title , the PWA Iron Horse TV Title and the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship Throughout the early part of his career , Waltman worked extensively with Jerry Lynn in both North America and Japan . The duo even teamed up to win the PWA Tag Team titles twice in the spring of 1993 . World Wrestling Federation ( 1993 – 1996 ) . When he arrived in the World Wrestling Federation he was made a jobber and given a number of different names such as the Kamikaze Kid , Cannonball Kid , and The Kid . After a few months of this he suddenly won an " upset " over Razor Ramon on the May 17 , 1993 episode of WWF Monday Night Raw after which the crowd chanted " 1 - 2 - 3 ! " to mock the then - heel Ramon . Waltman then renamed himself the 1 - 2 - 3 Kid . This win and the Kid were worked into Ramon ' s feud with Ted DiBiase with DiBiase taunting Ramon repeatedly over losing to a nobody until he too was pinned by the Kid . For the next two years , Waltman ' s character played the role of the natural underdog and displayed a rebellious attitude until the Raw before Survivor Series 1995 where he was the guest referee in a match between Razor Ramon and Sycho Sid and turned heel . While Razor was attempting the Razor ' s Edge , The Kid pulled Sid down and fast counted Razor , giving Sid the win . Doing this , he joined Ted DiBiase ' s Million Dollar Corporation . 1 - 2 - 3 Kid remained with this faction until the end of Waltman ' s first WWF run . In his first run , he held two WWF World Tag Team titles , once each with Marty Jannetty and Bob Holly , and came close to defeating Bret Hart for the WWF title in July 1994 . World Championship Wrestling ( 1996 – 1998 ) . He continued using the 1 - 2 - 3 Kid name until his departure for World Championship Wrestling in 1996 . Upon joining WCW , he immediately became a part of the nWo . Waltman appeared , sitting at ringside , during a live episode of WCW Monday Nitro on September 16 , 1996 . At one point in the show , he stood up and used a remote control to release nWo propaganda from the ceiling , revealing himself as the newest member of the recently formed heel faction . To play upon his previous gimmick of 1 - 2 - 3 Kid , he was given the name Syxx , supposedly because he was the sixth member of the nWo . Waltman , now known as Syxx , immediately began taunting the cruiserweights , going as far as to steal Eddy Guerrero ' s WCW United States Heavyweight Championship title belt , an act that led to a ladder match for the title at Souled Out 1997 , which Syxx lost . In February 1997 at SuperBrawl VII , Syxx had another opportunity for championship gold , defeating Dean Malenko to officially become the Cruiserweight Champion . In June 1997 , he dropped the Cruiserweight Title to Chris Jericho at a non - televised webcast house show in Los Angeles , California minutes after a successful defense against Rey Mysterio , Jr . . Syxx then began a feud with Ric Flair , losing to Flair at Road Wild in August . Syxx was then involved in a controversial parody of the Four Horsemen stable , where he portrayed Ric Flair . This led to the WarGames match at Fall Brawl , with Syxx teaming with Kevin Nash , Buff Bagwell , and Konnan to face the Four Horseman team of Flair , Steve McMichael , Chris Benoit , and Curt Hennig . The nWo won the match after Hennig turned on the Horsemen and joined the nWo . Syxx briefly substituted for Kevin Nash , as part of the Outsiders with Scott Hall , in defending the WCW tag - team titles . On October 13 , 1997 , Hall and Syxx dropped the titles to the Steiner Brothers . During that October , Waltman injured his neck and was forced out of action . While he was out injured , he was fired by then WCW President Eric Bischoff as a show of force to keep the more popular Scott Hall and Kevin Nash in check due to locker room instability caused by the three . When Kevin Nash questioned Bischoff and Hogan about Waltman ' s release on an episode of WCW Thunder , Hogan replied that Waltman could not " cut the mustard . " Return to the WWF . 1998 – 2000 . Waltman returned to WWF programming on March 30 , 1998 , the night after WrestleMania XIV and days after being released from WCW . With Shawn Michaels out of action following his title loss and back injury , Triple H was now the leader of D - Generation X . In a promo , he stated that he was forming a DX army and " when you start an army , you look to your blood . . . you look to your buddies . . . you look to your friends . . . you look to The Kliq . " Waltman appeared on the stage and immediately cut a promo on Bischoff and Hulk Hogan , as well as claiming that if contractually free to do so , Hall and Nash would have been joining him in returning to the WWF . Up to this point in the Monday Night Wars , wrestlers only jumped from the WWF to the big money , guaranteed deals available in WCW . Waltman ' s return proved that it was a two - way street . This heated promo actually prompted Bischoff to respond on Nitro the following week , telling Waltman to " bite me " . Following that Raw , Waltman was initially being billed as " The Kid " on the World Wrestling Federation homepage , but became known as " X - Pac " by the next broadcast . As a member of DX , Waltman feuded with many wrestlers such as Jeff Jarrett , and he eventually won the European Championship from D ' Lo Brown in 1998 . Brown and Waltman traded the title a couple of times with Waltman ultimately winning the championship at Judgment Day in October 19 98 . Waltman held the European Championship until February 1999 when he lost the title to Shane McMahon . At WrestleMania XV in 1999 , Waltman had a rematch with McMahon for the European Championship , but Triple H turned on him and cost Waltman the title . Waltman then paired off with Road Dogg against Triple H , Chyna and Billy Gunn in a split of DX over the principles of the stable . Waltman and Road Dogg wanted DX to be about rebellion while Triple H , Chyna and Billy Gunn wanted it to be about making money . A few weeks after WrestleMania Waltman formed a tag team with Kane ; a mute , brooding , menacing loner . Waltman and Kane went on to hold the WWF Tag Team Championship two times . After DX was reunited in late 1999 , Waltman led Kane to believe that he would be inducted into DX , but instead betrayed him and eventually stole his girlfriend , Tori . In the summer of 2000 , Waltman feuded with fellow DX member Road Dogg and Chris Jericho . He was out of action for three months due to a neck injury caused when Jericho botched a powerbomb in the fall of that same year . 2001 – 2002 . Upon his return to action , Waltman found himself without an angle . His most notable actions in the next two years were forming the short - lived stable X - Factor along with Justin Credible and Albert . During this time , he won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship , held by Billy Kidman , and became the first and only person to hold both belts simultaneously . When X - Factor broke up due to Credible joining The WCW / ECW Alliance , he feuded with Kidman and Tajiri , until he had to take time off for another injury , after losing the WCW Cruiserweight Title to Kidman . The WWF Light Heavyweight Championship was abandoned upon his return to WWF television , although he defended the belt on several house shows just before his return to television . When Hall , Nash and Hogan returned to the WWF in 2002 and Hogan ' s nostalgic popularity required that he be turfed from the latest incarnation of the nWo , Waltman , who had been out with an injury , returned and immediately attacked Hogan , claiming he had been waiting four years to do so , stemming from shoot comments from Hogan on WCW Thunder in 1998 after he was fired that he couldn ' t " cut the mustard " . This storyline was immediately dropped with the nWo members being drafted to Raw while Hogan being drafted to SmackDown ! in the first ever WWE Draft Lottery . During the nWo ' s feud with the tag team of Booker T and Goldust , Booker was set to take the next step in his WWE evolution to the main event level . To achieve this end , he was booked to beat nWo member Waltman in a short feud between the two . Waltman was often misrepresented as refusing to lose to Booker T , but he denied this in an interview in November 2008 , referencing a botched spine buster giving him an injury and keeping him from participating . This , combined with an incident at an airport where he collapsed for " unknown reasons " , led to Waltman being released by WWE on August 25 , 2002 . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Xtreme Pro Wrestling ( 2002 – 2003 ) . Waltman joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on September 18 , 2002 , wrestling under the ring name Syxx - Pac . Teaming with his former tag team partners Scott Hall and B . G . James , Waltman feuded with Jeff Jarrett and Brian Lawler . On October 9 , 2002 , Waltman made his X Division debut , defeating six other wrestlers to win the vacant TNA X Division Championship in a ladder match . He held the title for two weeks before losing to A . J . Styles on October 23 , 2002 in a no disqualification match . He remained in TNA until November 2002 , when he resigned after Vince Russo , whom he disliked , joined the company . Waltman debuted in Xtreme Pro Wrestling on February 28 , 2003 , winning the XPW Television Championship from Kaos . He retained the title in a bout with Juventud Guerrera on March 1 , 2003 and held the title until the promotion closed in April 2003 . Return to TNA ( 2003 , 2005 – 2006 ) . Waltman returned to TNA for a single night on June 18 , 2003 at the TNA first anniversary pay - per - view , where A . J . Styles was to team with a mystery partner against Jeff Jarrett and Sting . Styles ' manager Vince Russo described the mystery partner as being " a dirtbag " , " a degenerate " , and " the scum of the Earth " before adding that he was " just like [ him ] " . Russo then announced the return of Sean Waltman . Waltman and Styles went on to lose the match . Russo left TNA in November 2004 , and Waltman returned to the promotion on February 13 , 2005 at Against All Odds , attacking Jeff Jarrett during his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match with Kevin Nash . Nash , Waltman and Diamond Dallas Page formed an alliance against Planet Jarrett ( Jarrett , The Outlaw and Monty Brown ) which disbanded when Nash and Page left TNA to focus on their respective acting careers . At TNA ' s Hard Justice in 2005 , Waltman substituted for Jeff Hardy , who no - showed , and faced Raven in a Clockwork Orange House of Fun match . Waltman lost the match after Raven back - dropped him through a steel cage . On June 19 at Slammiversary , Waltman took part in a five - man King of the Mountain match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship . In the course of the match , Waltman cost the incumbent and defending champion A . J . Styles the title , by delivering an X - Factor off a ladder . As a result , Waltman turned heel . The heel turn eventually lead to a match between Styles and Waltman at No Surrender , which Styles won after guest referee Jerry Lynn prevented Waltman from cheating . As a result , Waltman challenged his former partner to a match at Sacrifice . After Lynn won the match with a victory roll , Waltman attacked him and endeavored to re - injure his shoulder . After Sacrifice , Waltman was partnered with Alex Shelley , and together they won the Chris Candido Cup . As a result of their tournament victory , Waltman and Shelley received a shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship at Unbreakable . At Unbreakable , however , Waltman was announced as having no - showed the event . He was not heard from until September 19 , 2005 when he was reported to have contacted a family member in Florida . Waltman made a final appearance with TNA at Final Resolution on January 15 , 2006 , defeating Raven with the assistance of Larry Zbyszko . On September 15 , 2006 , Waltman made an appearance at a live WWE show in Tampa , celebrating with the newly reformed DX after their match , performing the crotch chop with them . Wrestling Society X ( 2007 ) . In February 2006 , Waltman joined MTV ' s newly formed Wrestling Society X ( WSX ) promotion . At the inaugural WSX tapings on February 9 , 2006 , Waltman ( wrestling as X - Pack ) faced nine other wrestlers in a hardcore battle royal ladder match , which both Waltman and Vampiro won by climbing the ladder to take possession of WSX contracts . Waltman lost a WSX Championship title match to Vampiro the following week . Waltman challenged Vampiro during Episode four , as a ruse to introduce Ricky Banderas , who attacked Vampiro from behind . Afterwards , Waltman defeated Human Tornado and Scorpio Sky in singles competition , and teased an affair with Lizzy Valentine ( the valet and girlfriend of Matt Sydal ) , though WSX folded before the angle could go on any further . Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and National Wrestling Alliance ( 2007 - present ) . Waltman as the NWA Heritage ChampionIn June 2007 , Waltman began wrestling as a regular in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( AAA ) as alternatively 6 - Pac or X - Pack as a member of Konnan ' s Foreign Legion . He was managed by girlfriend Alicia Webb . Waltman usually used the D - Generation X theme music when he came out to the ring . He briefly left to go into rehab back in mid 2008 but returned at the Verano de Escandalo event of 2008 , shockingly turning against the Foreign Legion and announcing the creation of D - Generation Mex , an incarnation of WWE ' s D - Generation X , alongside Rocky " Azúcar " Romero and Alex Koslov . On July 8 , 2007 , Waltman teamed up with Billy Kidman as part of a triple threat match in McAllen , Texas to crown the new NWA World Tag Team Champions . The title was previously vacated by Team 3D after the National Wrestling Alliance severed its working relationship with TNA Wrestling . They lost the match to Karl Anderson and Joey Ryan . Waltman re - appeared on the May 14 , 2008 edition of NWA Wrestling Showcase , facing Adam Pearce for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship . The match came to a quick end when Waltman legitimately injured his knee five minutes into what was supposed to be a 30 – 60 minute long match . Waltman won by disqualification when The Real American Heroes attacked him , along with Pearce . On June 1 , 2008 Waltman and The Sandman wrestled in a tag team match for the NWA against the Illuminati which resulted in a defeat for Waltman and the Sandman . Personal life . Waltman was married in 1990 to a woman named Terry . Together they have two children : a son Jesse ( born 1992 ) and a daughter Kaitlyn ( born 1995 ) before divorcing in 2002 . Waltman was also in a relationship with and eventually engaged to Joanie Laurer , who formerly competed as Chyna in the WWF . Before Laurer and Waltman split , they filmed a sex tape which was later released under the name " 1 Night in China " in late 2004 . Since WWE still owned the rights of the name Chyna , the video included live shots of Waltman in China walking over to the Great Wall to spare Red Light District Video any legal issues . In March 2005 , Waltman appeared on the VH1 reality TV show The Surreal Life when he visited Laurer in an attempt to reconcile with her . After Laurer refused to reconcile , Waltman was eventually ejected from the house by the other guests . Three days after that episode was aired , Waltman posted a statement about the episode in his forums . Later , Waltman began dating Alicia Webb , who formerly competed as Ryan Shamrock in the WWF . In an early 2008 interview , Juventud Guerrera , who had been working with Waltman in AAA , claimed Waltman had recently tried to commit suicide due to depression . This was confirmed by The Wrestling Observer , which reported that Webb had found Waltman hanging by his neck in his Mexico City apartment , on the verge of death . He was subsequently taken back to the U . S for treatment . Reportedly , Waltman had been speaking positively of his experiences in AAA , and he has denied attempting suicide , claiming the incident was a result of mixing alcohol and anti - depressants . Following the incident , long - time friend Kevin Nash flew to Texas to check Waltman into a rehabilitation facility for both his addiction and his psychiatric state . Nash also contacted friend Paul " Triple H " Levesque to discuss the new WWE policy of financing rehab for ex - employees .