He was, but even then most people didn't know about that either. I remember not to long ago people were like "Yo balrog, you were in vVv?"
I heard of vVv through word of mouth in the smash bros age and seeing how smash bros has a HUGE scene back then I would consider it common knowledge. Thats just me though
It was a huge scene but you have to remember, fighting game scenes are very insular. They tend to keep to themselves. Do you really think a good portion of anybody here follows the tekken/blazblue/VF/sc5/doa scene really well? Like people in the SF scene still don't know about number notation likq 236+p = qcf+p, or that mids = overheads. Or that people in the MK scene don't know what links are (trust me there are a number of people that don't know what links are).
In the end its just the FGC scenes tend to be insular and so what might be common knowledge to one scene is not known except for a few in another scene.
