Height: 6’2″
Weight: 243 lb
Hometown: The North Woods
Glory Days: 1991-1992
Fun Fact: Big Josh’s finisher was a prototype version of the Whoopie Cushion which he used as Doink The Clown in the WWF. Basically, it was the Earthquake Splash.
Category Archives: Icons of Wrestling
Icons of Wrestling #45 – Rocco
Height: 2’6″
Weight: 7 lb
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Glory Days: June – August 1992
Fun Fact: Rocco actually made his debut at a house show but was introduced as ‘Freckles’, despite him not actually having any freckles. Reports claim that the gimmick bombed with the live crowd, yet the company still went ahead and wrote it into a TV storyline.
Icons of Wrestling #44 – The Disciple
Height: 6’4″
Weight: 272 lb
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Glory Days: 1998-1999
Fun Fact: Despite dressing like a biker and his WCW bio stating that he likes to ride Harleys, The Disciple never once rode or was even seen near a bike on WCW TV, not even at the Road Wild pay per view.
Icons of Wrestling #43 – Master P
Name: Percy Robert Miller aka Master P
Occupation: Rapper, actor, businessman, record executive extraordinaire
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Glory Days: A couple of weeks in June of 1999
Fun Fact: One of the cited reasons for Master P’s direct involvement in WCW being so brief was his apparent unhappiness that the fans in Washington D.C. and New Orleans (his home town) did not react to him as expected i.e. loads of them booed the shit out of him.
Icons of Wrestling #42 – Kurrgan
Height: 7’0″
Weight: 305 lb
Hometown: Dunno but somewhere in South Africa, surely?
Glory Days: 1997-1999
Fun Fact: Like fellow Icon of Wrestling, Brakus, Kurrgan also trained at the famous Hart Family Dungeon with Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart. Hey, you can’t hit a home run every time…
Icons of Wrestling #41 – Salvatore Sincere
Height: 6’3″
Weight: 270 lb
Hometown: Somewhere in Italy
Glory Days: 1996-1998
Fun Fact: Tom ‘Salvatore Sincere’ Brandi previously wrestled as Johnny Gunn. As Gunn, he tagged with Tom Zenk in WCW and won the ECW Tag Titles alongside Tommy Dreamer.
Icons of Wrestling #40 – Art Donovan
Height: 6’2″
Weight: 275 lb
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Glory Days: June 19 1994
Fun Fact: Not only is Art Donovan in the Professional Football Hall of Fame, he’s also in the U.S. Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame having served his country during World War II.
Icons of Wrestling #39 – Brakus
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 300 lbs
Hometown: Somewhere in Germany
Glory Days: 1998
Fun Fact: Brakus was named after the baddie from the 1993 martial arts movie Best of The Best II.
Icons of Wrestling #38 – Nailz
Height: 6’5″
Weight: 297 lbs
Hometown: C Block, Cobb County Jail
Glory Days: 1992
Fun Fact: Nailz spent 2,478 days in prison, that’s more than six and a half years and takes him into the territory of a Class D Felony. That could mean anything from armed robbery and manslaughter to pissing in the local water supply… seriously.