8 Greatest Karate Dudes in pro wrestling history

#3 Ernest "The Cat" Miller

Ernest Miller and James Brown

Ernest Miller is awesome.

Before becoming a professional wrestler, Ernest "The Cat" Miller was a karate instructor for WCW President Eric Bischoff's son, Garrett. Before that, he was a three-time Karate World Champion. Think about that: Eric Bischoff was able to hire the guy who was the best guy in the world at Karate three times to teach it to his kid. Bischoff had some serious swing back in the late 1990s, let me tell you.

Miller started in WCW when he arrived to help Glacier (another one of our karate dudes) fight off the aforementioned Mortis and Wrath (who had cool costumes but were decidedly not Karate Dudes). Eventually, though, he became the dancing, trash-talking, ruby show wearing he is the greatest somebody call his mama son of a gun we all came to know and love in both WCW and WWE.

The man even did a dance-off with The Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, at a WCW pay-per-view once.

Granted, this was when Brown was really old and kind of broke and pretty out of it, but still. James Brown! Have you ever danced with James Brown live on PPV? I didn't think so.

"The Cat" keeps busy these days. He had an important role in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler in 2008. In 2012, WWE reused his theme music and gave it to Brodus Clay, which Miller was none to happy about.

And he retweeted me on Twitter the other day.

I told you he was awesome.