After wrestling indy's for a long time Sean Waltman made his way to the Global Wrestling Federation, a fed that popped up in Dallas in the early 1990's. The fed worked out of the same region that World Class used to, and even had the same home, the Sportatorium. Waltman, who was using the Lightning Kid moniker at the time, was over as a major heel, and despite his lesser size, his wrestling was fantastic. His mix of karate style moves, and aerial ability, really put Waltman over, and he feuded with the likes of Sam Houston and others in the fed. Other future stars that made their way into the GWF before making it big elsewhere was Marcus Bagwell (The Handsome Stranger), The Patriot, Stevie Ray and Booker T, and others. The GWF, despite putting on quality programming, and even having a daytime slot on ESPN, didn't last, and when the group went out of business, Waltman went to the WWF. He started with the monicker he used in the GWF, but switched to the Cannonball Kid, and then to the 1-2-3 Kid. Waltman was used as an up and coming jobber, but got a major push when he had a surprise win on RAW when he defeated Scott Hall, the Razor Ramon, with a moonsault. The victory was a major shocker, as Hall was a huge heel in the WWF in 1993. Hall, whose pride was hurt, offered the Kid 10,000 dollars to wrestle him again in a rematch. After being warned by officials and announcers not to let Hall get his hands on him, the 1-2-3 Kid accepted the offer anyway because he needed the cash to help his family. Waltman fought Hall, and in the middle of the match Waltman grabbed the bag of money and ran out into the parking lot to a running car and took off, in one of RAW's funniest moments. Waltman went on to face IRS (Mike Rotunda) and upset him too. When Ted Dibiase and IRS swore revenge on the Kid, and started bashing him, Hall came to his aide, and made his face turn. The two would stay together until 1995 when Waltman turned on Hall as a special ref during one of Hall's IC title defenses. In between that time, Waltman won the tag belts with Bob Holly. After backstage problems in the WWF, and the departing of his friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, Waltman jumped to WCW where he was the perfect fit as the nWo's cruiserweight. He adopted more of an attitude and went immediately went after Eddie Gurrero and his US title belt, stealing it from him right after he beat Diamond Dallas Page for it in a tournament. In one of WCW's better matches in 1997, Gurrero and Syxx, who was his moicker at the time, had a Ladder Match at the first nWo Sould Out which featured Waltman drop kicking Gurrero while they were both on the top of the ladder. Waltman lost the match, but would later get gold anyway. He took on Dean Malenko, and defeated the Iceman for his Cruiserweight title when Gurrero attempted to help Malenko and the help backfired, setting up a Gurrero/Malenko feud. Syxx would go on to hold the belt for a while, but lost it at a special L.A. house show to Chris Jericho when the Lionheart was still a face. Waltman made comments the day after winnning to Jericho the next night "..you didn't beat anything until you got back to your hotel room that night.." and started what would be his long run at giving the censors a sweat. After fighting Jericho several times, Syxx started bashing Ric Flair, accusing him of ripping off Buddy Rogers, and started pointing out that he was one of the reasons why Hall and Nash were held back during their first WCW stint. Flair, who just had recovered from rotator cuff surgery, started sending verbal barages Waltman's way, and thus one of the best interview vs interview feuds in recent memory started. Both men started getting into trouble with the censors, and Flair really had them steaming when he made the comment to Waltman "... I've had more World Titles, then you've had pieces of ass!!!" which shocked Waltman to the point, he started cracking up laughing before the response. The two fought, and had some good matches. The highlight was when the Outsiders were taking on Chris Benoit and Flair, and Waltman attacked Flair outside the ring during the match, getting him in the Buzzkiller on the floor, which really put Syxx over. Inside the ring, Benoit took on both Outsiders for a while, but seemed doomed when Kevin Nash picked him up for the powerbomb. Benoit countered with a dozen rapid fire punches to Nash's face, and sent the both of them tumblin over the top rope hitting the guardrail. After feuding with Flair, Syxx injured his neck,a nagging injury which always seemed to strike whenever he was starting to get hot in the ring, and was taken off the air after Larry Zybysko got him in a Gracie Lock when he interfered in a match last fall at a pay per view. While Waltman was recovering from his neck injury, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were having it out backstage with Eric Bischoff, Waltman, who Bischoff hired, despite a bad backstage reputation, as a goodwill gesture to Nash and Hall, became caught up in the battle, and was let go via Fed Ex by Bischoff while Waltman sat at home. After realizing his mistake, Bischoff tried to make up, and seemed to have smoothed things out after the WWF made their first offer to Waltman, but the WWF made a significant second offer, and then Waltman was off to titanland. After Waltman left WCW, Bischoff and Hogan covered it as "Syxx not cutting the mustard." An irate Waltman came out on RAW as the new co-leader of Degeneration X, and bashed Hogan and Bischoff for their rip job on him on Thunder the week before. Waltman got over huge on his return, Waltman went on to his prankish ways, and returned to the ring during the stables feud with the Road Warriors. As D-X continued to make it over as a face stable, Waltman won the European title. He lost the title after an injury, but regained it after the IC Tournament, where he lost the finals to Ken Shamrock. Waltman held onto the title until interference from a now "Corporate" Chyna helped Shane McMahon steal the belt in a tag match, where the rules were that anyone who pinned X-Pac got the title. X-Pac was expected to get the belt back, but lost it when HHH attacked him and turned corporate at Wrestlemania. This led to X-Pac challenging him at the next ppv. X-Pac and Kane teamed up, after the Corporation turned on him, and the two beat Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett for the tag titles.

Waltman got involved in a long tag team relationship with Kane for most of 1999. After Kane was dumped by the Corporation, the duo went on to hold the WWF tag titles multiple times. X-Pac and Kane almost broke up a couple times when X-Pac didn't think he was cutting the mustard, and was the weak link in the tag team. The duo later reunited, but that fell apart when X-Pac turned on Kane and reformed a heel D-X with HHH. After assaulting Kane's girlfriend, Tori, Kane continued to go after X-Pac with a vengeance.

On October 16, X-Pac took time off to heal a neck injury and was out for several months. On February 12, 2001, X-Pac came back and healed fine from his injury and beat Grandmaster Sexay that night. Shortly after, X-Pac teamed up with Justin Credible and wrestled a few tag team matches. Then Albert joined them and they formed X-Factor. On June 25, 2001, X-Pac defeated Jeff Hardy to win the Light Heavyweight title. Shortly thereafter, on July 30, 2001, X-Pac won the WCW Cruiserweight Championship for a second time from Billy Kidman during the WCW invasion. By doing this, X-Pac became the first man to hold both a WWF and WCW Championship at the same time. However, they weren't unified, and had to be defended seperately, leading to X-Pac losing the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship to Tajiri on August 6, 2001. He won it back only a few days later, however, on August 19, and didn't lose it since. When the newly reformed ECW joined the WCW invasion, forming the Alliance, Justin Credible left X-Factor, causing X-Pac and Albert to become a 2 man operation, which slowly drifted apart until the X-Factor stable no longer existed. On October 11, 2001 X-Pac lost the WCW Cruiserweight Championship to Kidman. A short while later, X-Pac had yet another neck injury, and was forced to take a leave of absense. During this time, Commissioner Mick Foley ordered that matches be made to unify all of the WCW Championships with their WWF counterparts, sans the WCW Championship (this would be unified at a later date). However, X-Pac, the WWF Light Heavyweight Champion, was injured, so the belt could not be merged with the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. After the WWF defeated the Alliance at the 2001 Survivor Series, the WCW Cruiserweight Championship became the WWF Cruiserweight Championship, and the Light Heavyweight championship was dropped, X-Pac being the final man to hold that title. After a long absense, X-Pac returned to the WWF on the March 21, 2002 episode of WWF SmackDown!, during a match involving Waltman's long time kliq-buddy Kevin Nash (who, along with Scott Hall and Hollywood Hogan, had joined the WWF as the nWo in February) taking on The Rock. At the end of the match, Scott Hall had run out to help Nash destroy the Rock. While the two nWoites were dismantling the Great One, Hogan, who had been kicked out of the nWo at Wrestlemania only a few days earlier for losing to and shaking the hand of the Rock, ran down to assist the People's Champ. This save was worthless, however, as X-Pac ran out from the back, chair in hand, wearing nWo colors. He took out Hogan with the chair, and the three men continued to beat on him. X-Pac then grabbed a bottle of spraypaint and branded Hogan with the letters "nWo". X-Pac had joined Nash and Hall as the newest member of the New World Order.

The nWo feuded with the Rock and Hogan for a while, and eventually X-Pac's long time rival and one time friend Kane joined in the fray, on the side of the Rock and Hogan. When the WWF conducted it's first ever draft for the impending roster split, the nWo was drafted as a unit to Ric Flair's RAW program. Hogan and The Rock were drafted to Vince McMahon's SmackDown! brand, but Kane had been drafted to RAW. On the first RAW under the Flair banner, X-Pac faced Kane. The Outsiders helped X-Pac take him out until Bradshaw, who had been trashed (along with his former APA office) by the nWo earlier in the night, came out to make the save for Kane. The remaining nWo members X-Pac and Scott Hall (Nash had been suspended on the April 8th edition of RAW for putting his hands on Ric Flair) waged war on RAW until they were disbanded when Nash and Waltman both end up on the injured list. On August 25, 2002, Jim Ross announces that Sean Waltman and WWE have parted ways on good terms.

Waltman appears briefly in 3PW under the name Syxx-Pac before making his debut in NWA: TNA under the same name. Waltman spends much of his first bouts teaming with former partners, BG James (formerly Road Dogg Jesse James) and Scott Hall (Razor Ramone) before hitting the X-Division ranks. On October 9th, 2002, SyxxPac defeats several other wrestlers in an X-Division ladder match to win the X-Division Championship, losing it later that month to AJ Styles. It is announced in November of ’02 that he is officially engaged to Joanie Laurer and that he is released from TNA as well due to disputes with writer Vince Russo. Spending some times wrestling for 3PW and Fusion wrestling, Sean Waltman takes a break from the main screen for 2003-2005 before he returns to TNA in the corner of Kevin Nash as he faces Jeff Jarrett. Since his return to TNA in Feburary of this year, he has had minor fueds with Raven and Jeff Jarrett. But with TNA’s future in an uncertain state, Sean Waltman’s future with the wrestling is opaque.

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