Micro Championship Athletics

Anytime I hear people complain about Mini’s being involved in WWE, I have to admit, it pisses me off. These little guys and gals have worked their asses off to be involved in pro wrestling their entire lives. They are fans. They are athletes. They love this business just as deeply as anybody else stepping through those ropes. All they want is the same chance afforded to every other wrestler — a moment to perform, to entertain, and to live their dream in front of the world. Sometimes the only opportunities they are given are comedy spots or “silly” bits, but damn it, they make the most of what they are handed. You cannot tell me Mini Hausen was not hella impressive in that match. The timing, the movement, the energy — the crowd reacted because the guy delivered. Yet all I see online is people boohooing that the spot should have gone to someone else. It’s a shame, because people forget that in the early days of wrestling, the “Midget” wrestlers were a massive part of the shows. This is not some made-up revisionist history. Their matches were often the highlight of the night for young fans. People lined up to see them because they were entertaining as hell. Lord Littlebrook was the godfather of midget wrestling. Alongside Little Tokyo, he trained the majority of the little wrestlers who came after them. They helped build an entire generation of performers and kept that side of wrestling alive for decades. Now imagine this for a second — one of Lord Littlebrook’s own grandchildren got to be part of WrestleMania as one of the Mini Danhausens. Wrestle-freakin-Mania. The same event that Lord Littlebrook himself was part of at WrestleMania III. That is legacy. That is wrestling history coming full circle. And honestly, with the way Mini wrestlers are treated sometimes, who knows if that young man would have ever gotten that opportunity otherwise? People always talk about respecting wrestling history until the history shows up in a form they don’t personally value. Mini wrestlers have always been part of pro wrestling. They belong here too.