There were a lot of what ifs with Brian Pillman there is no doubt about that, however even with that said I feel he was a wrestler that made better use of his opportunities than Marty Jannetty ever did. That's not a slight to Marty Jannetty it's just obvious that there are personal problems with him that none of us on this forum truly even have the slightest grasp of outside of what we hear on the internet.

Just the same though while arguably one could say that Pillman's highest accomplishment as a singles wrestler in the was his win as the inaugural WCW Light Heavyweight Champion (the precursor to the Cruiserweight Championship and its title histories are often merged) and his subsequent regaining of the title, Pillman in my opinion was far from being a Marty Jannetty. He was a solid hand in matches against guys like Jushin Thunder Liger, Scotty Flamingo (better known as Raven), Ricky Morton when he was a champion of that division, just imagine if Bischoff was in full control back then instead of later on, I truly think Pillman would have been one of the top names amongst the other Cruiserweights like Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero and so on.

Marty Jannetty had an IC Title push that lasted all of about a month and then we all saw where that went. Pillman on the other hand also went up against some heavy duty competition in the way of guys like Barry Windham, Lex Luger, Sting to name just a few. To be honest Pillman was that little dog in the fight much like we see Rey Mysterio today.

Sadly when Pillman's car accident took out most of the wind from his sails and he only wrestled occasionally we were easily deprived of someone that could have made a run for the IC title and possibly even the World strap. But the WWF still made good use of him as a heel commentator and having his own in ring talk show segment, who can forget when Steve Austin attacked him viciously and this led to the infamous Pillman has a gun incident as we all fondly remember (I didn't really like the gun part but screw it a lot of the angle was still good). He was also an interesting fit in the Hart Foundation.

Anyway, they made a DVD of him so that should say a lot of how the WWF/E viewed his contributions to the organization and wrestling as a whole as opposed to Marty Jannetty who doesn't even have that.

Good topic to discuss RicoLen but I definitely would not call Brian Pillman the Marty Jannetty of the group in this dynamic there was no such thing in my view. Personally speaking, I don't see every team having a "Jannetty" much in the way where I don't see John Morrison as one either considering he has had consistency in his career even though he's never won WWE's definition of a World Title (since we all know your status as a superstar depends on whether or not the ECW Title is a World Championship or not).