Shane Douglas on his YouTube channel said Chris Candido could be dead asleep backstage and still go out and have "a five star performance" moments later. ​ "I've watched this multiple times. He'd be laying dead asleep, snoring, hours asleep. 'Chris, your music's playing.' Watch him jump, wipe his face off, pull his tights up, run down the hall, make his entrance and go out and have a five star performance. It was like breathing to him." ​ "He could do the ground and pound, chaining, high flying, brawling. Go see his matches with Terry Funk. There was nothing Chris couldn't do and do them believably." ​ Douglas said Candido avoided the political side of wrestling: "He didn't want to get sucked into the fighting and the political backstabbing and the shit side of our business. Chris was usually pretty upbeat." ​ On their chemistry in the Triple Threat with Bam Bam Bigelow: "Chris and Bammer, they were my big brother, my little brother, and I miss him to this day. The business misses them...