Virgil (wrestler)
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Mike Jones  | |
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| Born | June 13, 1962 Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
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| Ring name(s) | Curly Bill Mr. Jones Shane Soul Train Jones Vincent Virgil |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | [undue weight? ] |
| Billed from | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Trained by | Afa Anoa'i |
| Debut | 1987 |
Mike Jones (born June 13, 1962) is a professional wrestler better known as Virgil in the World Wrestling Federation and Vincent in World Championship Wrestling.
Career
After a standout amateur career, Jones started wrestling professionally as Soul Train Jones in the Championship Wrestling Association based in Memphis, Tennessee in 1987. He feuded with Chick Donovan and Big Bubba.
He then went to the WWF as Virgil, the bodyguard for "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. His stage name, thought up by Bobby Heenan, was meant as a jab against then-WCW wrestler Virgil Runnels, better known as Dusty Rhodes. Jones carried DiBiase's cash that he liked to flaunt and was the one who got beat up while DiBiase ran away after a devious act on a face.
Eventually, Jones tired of being humiliated by DiBiase and turned on him, hitting him with his own Million-Dollar Title belt at the Royal Rumble in January 1991. He defeated DiBiase by count-out at WrestleMania VII and pinned him for the belt on August 26, 1991 at SummerSlam. He would lose the belt back to DiBiase in November of that year as a result of outside interference by the Repo Man.
After this feud ended, Jones wrestled in the under-card. At WrestleMania VIII at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana, he, along with The Big Boss Man, Sgt. Slaughter, and Jim Duggan, defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags), Repo Man, and The Mountie. Virgil pinned Knobbs after five minutes of action following a heel miscommunication. He remained with the company until 1994 (his last appearance on a PPV event was the 1994 Royal Rumble where he was a late substitute).
He appeared in WCW as Vincent in 1996 where he was the "Head of Security" for the nWo. His name was meant to be a mockery of WWF owner Vince McMahon. Although winning a few matches on the low profile WCW Saturday Night, he even pinned a then unknown Bill Goldberg in his debut match. Jones again took the brunt of the beatings as other nWo members scurried away. He was part of nWo Hollywood when the stable split and was one of the last members of the nWo when it dissolved in 1999. Jones would soon return to WCW, and he would then became Shane to mock Shane McMahon and jobbed regularly on WCW Saturday Night. In late 1999, he joined The West Texas Rednecks in their dying days as Curly Bill but the faction split shortly after.
Jones went to wrestling under his real name until he left WCW in 2000. Jones is currently retired from wrestling.
Wrestling facts
Finishing and signature moves
- Fade To Black (Camel clutch)
- Cobra clutch
- Russian leg sweep
- Dropkick
- Inverted atomic drop
- Fallaway slam
Wrestlers managed
- Ted DiBiase
- Craig "Bluto" Louttit
Championships and accomplishments
- Articles lacking sources from January 2007
- Professional wrestling biography stubs
- 1962 births
- African American professional wrestlers
- American professional wrestlers
- Living people
- New World Order wrestlers
- People from Tennessee
- Professional wrestling managers and valets
- World Championship Wrestling alumni
- World Wrestling Entertainment alumni