Icons of Wrestling #45 – Rocco

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Jamie Lithgow

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.

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Icons of Wrestling #43 – Master P

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Jamie Lithgow

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.

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Icons of Wrestling #38 – Nailz

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Jamie Lithgow

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.

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