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* DarkerAndEdgier: He was already one of the more foul heels in the cartoonish WWF (what with his brutal beatings of {{Face}} jobbers and the whole storyline with Nailz) but his return during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra had him come back as Vince's nasty, sadistic and utterly unhinged bodyguard. His misdeeds include murdering a defenseless puppy and ''feeding the remains'' to its [[Wrestling/AlSnow poor owner]] and crashing the funeral of Wrestling/TheBigShow's father while happily driving away with the casket. His runs with the Hardcore Championship also had him become more of a GarbageWrestler thanks to his willingness to use ''anything'' as a weapon just to defend the championship.
* DemotedToExtra: He had a pretty fun run as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push, Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. Then he had a stint in WCW which was strange; from 1994-1998 he went through five name changes: The Boss Man, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95 and being turned down by the nWo in '96. His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery.
* DemotedToExtra: He had a pretty fun run as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push, Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. Then he had a stint in WCW which was strange; from 1994-1998 he went through five name changes: The Boss Man, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95 and being turned down by the nWo in '96. His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: He was already one of the more foul heels in the cartoonish WWF (what with his brutal beatings of {{Face}} jobbers and the whole storyline with Nailz) but his return during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra had him come back as Vince's nasty, sadistic and utterly unhinged bodyguard. His misdeeds include murdering a defenseless puppy and ''feeding the remains'' to its [[Wrestling/AlSnow poor owner]] and crashing the funeral of Wrestling/TheBigShow's Wrestling/BigShow's father while happily driving away with the casket. His runs with the Hardcore Championship also had him become more of a GarbageWrestler thanks to his willingness to use ''anything'' as a weapon just to defend the championship.
* DemotedToExtra: He had a pretty fun run as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push, Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. Then he had a stint in WCW which was strange; from 1994-1998 he went through five name changes: The Boss Man, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95 and being turned down by the nWo in '96. His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness CorporateMinistry"]] Ministry]]" thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery.
* DemotedToExtra: He had a pretty fun run as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push, Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. Then he had a stint in WCW which was strange; from 1994-1998 he went through five name changes: The Boss Man, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95 and being turned down by the nWo in '96. His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The catalyst behind him turning on Slick and Wrestling/TedDiBiase in 1990. Boss Man [[BerserkButton doesn't take kindly]] to [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules being bought off.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The catalyst behind him turning on Slick and Wrestling/TedDiBiase in 1990. Boss Man [[BerserkButton doesn't take kindly]] to [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules being bought off.]] off]].
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* HangingAround: At the end of one of the main events in [=WrestleMania=] XV, Wrestling/TheUndertaker proceeded to hang him from the Hell in a Cell structure. Of course, this was mitigated as an illusion, because Big Boss Man had worn a safety bungee harness underneath his suit when he was attatched to a long harness cord that had accompanied the noose; and he had to be taken down off-camera so that he could get to a hospital on a stretcher. The next time he returned no worse for wear, he became known as [[TheManTheyCouldntHang The Man Taker Couldn't Hang]].
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** The Mountie (Wrestling/JacquesRougeau) claimed in 1991 that ''he'' was the only legitimate law enforcer in the WWF. You know the rest.
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** The Mountie (Wrestling/JacquesRougeau) claimed in 1991 that ''he'' was the only legitimate law enforcer in the WWF. You know This led to them having a "Jailhouse match" (the only one of its kind in the rest.WWE) at that year's [=SummerSlam=], which the Boss Man won.
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* LargeHam: Has a pretty high-pitched voice for a guy his size, and often has to rely on hamminess to hide this. As a result of this, every single character he portrayed (save for Big Bubba Rogers) was a large ham.
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* DemotedToExtra: According to people like Wrestling/JimCornette, Wrestling/XPac Heat" was originally called "Boss Man Heat" until he got eclipsed by Waltman.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; he had a pretty fun run before that as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push. Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. The Identity Crisis Man, as he should have been called, had a stint in WCW which was strange. From 1994-1998 he went through four name changes: The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95, and then he got written into Wrestling/VinceRusso's worst shit.
** His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery. People thought Boss Man was a proper dick for smashing The Big Show's family heirloom, his grandfather's gold pocket watch, with a hammer and anvil. He was a well-liked guy in the back; a shame he died so early, as he was teaching wrestling to youngsters at the time.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; he had a pretty fun run before that as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push. Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. The Identity Crisis Man, as he should have been called, had a stint in WCW which was strange. From 1994-1998 he went through four name changes: The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95, and then he got written into Wrestling/VinceRusso's worst shit.
** His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery. People thought Boss Man was a proper dick for smashing The Big Show's family heirloom, his grandfather's gold pocket watch, with a hammer and anvil. He was a well-liked guy in the back; a shame he died so early, as he was teaching wrestling to youngsters at the time.
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* DemotedToExtra: According to people like Wrestling/JimCornette, Wrestling/XPac Heat" was originally called "Boss Man Heat" until he got eclipsed by Waltman.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; heHe had a pretty fun run before that as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push. push, Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. The Identity Crisis Man, as Then he should have been called, had a stint in WCW which was strange. From strange; from 1994-1998 he went through four five name changes: The Boss Man, The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95, '95 and then he got written into Wrestling/VinceRusso's worst shit.
**being turned down by the nWo in '96. His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery. People thought Boss Man was a proper dick for smashing The Big Show's family heirloom, his grandfather's gold pocket watch, with a hammer and anvil. He was a well-liked guy in the back; a shame he died so early, as he was teaching wrestling to youngsters at the time.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; he
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Raymond Washington "Ray" Traylor Jr. (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004) was an American {{Professiona Wrestl|ing}}er most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the '''Big Boss Man''', although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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Raymond Washington "Ray" Traylor Jr. (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004) was an American {{Professiona {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the '''Big Boss Man''', although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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Raymond Washington Traylor (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004), Jr., a.k.a. Ray Traylor, is most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the '''Big Boss Man''', although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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Raymond Washington "Ray" Traylor Jr. (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004), Jr., a.k.a. Ray Traylor, is 2004) was an American {{Professiona Wrestl|ing}}er most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the '''Big Boss Man''', although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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* {{Awesome McCool Name}}: His real name was so damn cool that one must wonder why he didn't stick with it.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: Any depiction of Boss Man in games nowadays removes the Confederate flag patch on his sleeve, replacing it with the regular American flag instead.
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* {{Corpsing}}: During his time as Big Bubba Rogers, Wrestling/JimCornette would intentionally try to make Traylor laugh during their promos. Since he was playing TheStoic, Ray would bite his own lip until it bled holding the laughs in.
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Raymond Washington Traylor (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004), Jr., a.k.a. Ray Traylor, is most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the Big '''Big Boss Man, Man''', although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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* HeelRealization: See EvenEvilHasStandards.It's implied that his HeelFaceTurn in 1990 is also partly the result of him realizing his villany.
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* LargeHam: Has a pretty high-pitched voice for a guy his size, and often has to rely on hamminess to hide this.
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* WeaponSpecialization: Proficient at using his [[CarryABigStick nightstick]] as a weapon, to the point that wrestlers regularly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ditched the ring]] when he started wielding the nightstick. He was even able to instantly knock out Wrestling/{{Test}} by whacking him in the head with it. ''[[OneHitKill Once]]''.
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* CoolShadesCoolShades: Wore a pair of large shades as the Big Bossman. It doubles as SinisterShades, since he was almost always a heel.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: He was already one of the more foul heels in the cartoonish WWF (what with his brutal beatings of {{Face}} jobbers and the whole storyline with Nailz) but his return during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra had him come back as Vince's nasty, sadistic and utterly unhinged bodyguard. His misdeeds include murdering a defenseless puppy and ''feeding the remains'' to its [[Wrestling/AlSnow poor owner]] and crashing the funeral of Wrestling/TheBigShow's father and driving away with the casket. His runs with the Hardcore Championship also had him become more of a GarbageWrestler thanks to his willingness to use ''anything'' as a weapon just to defend the championship.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: He was already one of the more foul heels in the cartoonish WWF (what with his brutal beatings of {{Face}} jobbers and the whole storyline with Nailz) but his return during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra had him come back as Vince's nasty, sadistic and utterly unhinged bodyguard. His misdeeds include murdering a defenseless puppy and ''feeding the remains'' to its [[Wrestling/AlSnow poor owner]] and crashing the funeral of Wrestling/TheBigShow's father and while happily driving away with the casket. His runs with the Hardcore Championship also had him become more of a GarbageWrestler thanks to his willingness to use ''anything'' as a weapon just to defend the championship.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: See RoaringRampageOfRevenge below.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: See RoaringRampageOfRevenge below. Despite being a pretty sadistic guy, he loves his mother to the point that he wrecked havoc on the Heenan Family after Bobby Heenan insulted her.
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* FinishingMove: The Boss Man Slam (Scrapbuster (Spinning Side Slam/Scrapbuster slam to pin).pin). The move is so indelibly associated with him to this day that whenever almost any wrestler in any promotion uses it it's still called the "Boss Man Slam".
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He debuted in [=WCW=] going by Raymond Traylor, and soon after became the monster {{Heel}} Big Bubba Rogers, feuding with Wrestling/DustyRhodes. However, his run only lasted a couple years before he made the jump to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], and based a new character off his original job as a prison guard in Cobb County, Georgia, and adopted Wrestling/{{Slick}} as his manager.
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He debuted in [=WCW=] going by Raymond Traylor, and soon after became the monster {{Heel}} Big Bubba Rogers, feuding with Wrestling/DustyRhodes. However, his run only lasted a couple years before he made the jump to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], WWF]][[note]]He left WCW over a disputed payoff on a scaffold match, specifically the fact that manager Wrestling/JimCornette was paid $10,000 and he was only paid $5,000, even though he climbed up on the scaffold just like everyone else. Cornette himself even agreed that this was bullshit and went to management and told them to make it right, but to no avail. Traylor wasn't on any sort of contract and immediately jumped ship[[/note]], and based a new character off his original job as a prison guard in Cobb County, Georgia, and adopted Wrestling/{{Slick}} as his manager.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In the Wrestling/AttitudeEra.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: In He was already one of the Wrestling/AttitudeEra.more foul heels in the cartoonish WWF (what with his brutal beatings of {{Face}} jobbers and the whole storyline with Nailz) but his return during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra had him come back as Vince's nasty, sadistic and utterly unhinged bodyguard. His misdeeds include murdering a defenseless puppy and ''feeding the remains'' to its [[Wrestling/AlSnow poor owner]] and crashing the funeral of Wrestling/TheBigShow's father and driving away with the casket. His runs with the Hardcore Championship also had him become more of a GarbageWrestler thanks to his willingness to use ''anything'' as a weapon just to defend the championship.
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* IAteWhat: In his feud with Al Snow, he actually kidnapped Al's dog, Pepper, ''cooked her and fed her to Al.'' This was the match that actually made [[Wrestling/JimRoss J.R.]] apologize, bah gawd.
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* CassandraTruth: During his first WWF run, Nailz basically told everyone Boss Man was bad news based on their history when Nailz was an inmate in Boss Man's jail. Nobody believed the convict. Then Boss Man left, came back as Vince's hired bodyguard, and eventually showed that he's the [[FanNickname Worst Person Ever]]…
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* CassandraTruth: During his first WWF run, Nailz basically told everyone Boss Man was bad news based on their history when Nailz was an inmate in Boss Man's jail. Nobody believed the convict. Then Boss Man left, came back as Vince's hired bodyguard, and eventually showed that he's the [[FanNickname Worst Person Ever]]…Ever…
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Traylor left the WWE in 2002 and worked the independent circuit before passing away of a heart attack in September of 2004, at the age of 41. As always, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Boss_Man_%28wrestler%29 That Other Wiki]] has a more detailed biography of the career of Ray Traylor.
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Traylor left the WWE in 2002 and worked the independent circuit before passing away of a heart attack in September of 2004, at the age of 41. As always, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Boss_Man_%28wrestler%29 That Other Wiki]] has a more detailed biography of the career of Ray Traylor.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Teased during a match between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/OneManGan Akeem]], where Bossman was at ringside, the Twin Towers brutally beat down Hogan before they and manager Slick set their sights on Wrestling/MissElizabeth. Bossman actually grabbed Liz’s wrist and put her in handcuffs, and seemed like an instant away from a burtual, bloody beatdown ... until Wrestling/RandySavage ran to the ring to run the bad guys off. This was a common scene during house shows where Randy Savage, Elizabeth and Bossman and/or Akeem were on the card.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Teased during a match between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/OneManGan [[Wrestling/OneManGang Akeem]], where Bossman was at ringside, the Twin Towers brutally beat down Hogan before they and manager Slick set their sights on Wrestling/MissElizabeth. Bossman actually grabbed Liz’s wrist and put her in handcuffs, and seemed like an instant away from a burtual, bloody beatdown ... until Wrestling/RandySavage ran to the ring to run the bad guys off. This was a common scene during house shows where Randy Savage, Elizabeth and Bossman and/or Akeem were on the card.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Teased during a match between Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/OneManGan Akeem]], where Bossman was at ringside, the Twin Towers brutally beat down Hogan before they and manager Slick set their sights on Wrestling/MissElizabeth. Bossman actually grabbed Liz’s wrist and put her in handcuffs, and seemed like an instant away from a burtual, bloody beatdown ... until Wrestling/RandySavage ran to the ring to run the bad guys off. This was a common scene during house shows where Randy Savage, Elizabeth and Bossman and/or Akeem were on the card.
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* DownerEnding: Died fairly young.
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* DownerEnding: Died fairly young.DemotedToExtra: According to people like Wrestling/JimCornette, Wrestling/XPac Heat" was originally called "Boss Man Heat" until he got eclipsed by Waltman.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; he had a pretty fun run before that as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push. Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. The Identity Crisis Man, as he should have been called, had a stint in WCW which was strange. From 1994-1998 he went through four name changes: The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95, and then he got written into Wrestling/VinceRusso's worst shit.
** His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery. People thought Boss Man was a proper dick for smashing The Big Show's family heirloom, his grandfather's gold pocket watch, with a hammer and anvil. He was a well-liked guy in the back; a shame he died so early, as he was teaching wrestling to youngsters at the time.
** That's a leftover from his Wrestling/AttitudeEra run; he had a pretty fun run before that as Big Bubba Rogers in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]]. During the golden era of WWF, he was with the Twin Towers as a heel, and then he was the good ol' boy from Georgia fighting The Mountie. Top heel, matches with Wrestling/HulkHogan, worked with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and got a decent push. Boss Man was ''over'' with crowds back then. The Identity Crisis Man, as he should have been called, had a stint in WCW which was strange. From 1994-1998 he went through four name changes: The Boss, The Guardian Angel, Big Bubba Rogers, and finally his real name Ray Traylor. In WCW, he was just another guy on the roster, with his biggest feud being {{Wrestling/Sting}} in '95, and then he got written into Wrestling/VinceRusso's worst shit.
** His 1998-2003 WWE run started well, with him being Wrestling/TheCorporation's enforcer; he'd just stand around in tactical gear and look imposing, and he even held the tag titles with Wrestling/KenShamrock for a while. But after that he became an afterthought. Once the "[[Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness Corporate Ministry"]] thing wrapped up, WWE put him in some weird feuds: like the time he showed up at a funeral for Wrestling/BigShow's dad, stole the casket, attached it to the back of his truck and drove it off the cemetery. People thought Boss Man was a proper dick for smashing The Big Show's family heirloom, his grandfather's gold pocket watch, with a hammer and anvil. He was a well-liked guy in the back; a shame he died so early, as he was teaching wrestling to youngsters at the time.
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** The Mountie (Jacques Rougeau) claimed in 1991 that ''he'' was the only legitimate law enforcer in the WWF. You know the rest.
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** The Mountie (Jacques Rougeau) (Wrestling/JacquesRougeau) claimed in 1991 that ''he'' was the only legitimate law enforcer in the WWF. You know the rest.
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* MadeOfIron: During his time as Big Bubba, he was involved in a feud between Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/DustyRhodes, which included one spot where Dusty would run in and hit him over the head with a folding chair, which would be rigged to shatter without harming him. The spot seemingly went as planned, and by random luck Bubba's hat didn't even fall off, but when Cornette went to congratulate the prop guy afterwards, it turned out he had forgotten to rig the chair.
* NoIndoorVoice: ''Every'' promo he did was shouted. Then again, that's ProfessionalWrestling in TheEighties for you.
* NoIndoorVoice: ''Every'' promo he did was shouted. Then again, that's ProfessionalWrestling in TheEighties for you.
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* MadeOfIron: During his time as Big Bubba, he was involved in a feud between Wrestling/JimCornette and Wrestling/DustyRhodes, which included one spot where Dusty would run in and hit him over the head with a folding chair, which would be rigged to shatter without harming him. The spot seemingly went as planned, and by random luck Bubba's hat didn't even fall off, but when Cornette went to congratulate the prop guy afterwards, it turned out he had forgotten to rig the chair.
chair. Important to note: Bubba had a real wooden folding chair smashed over his head, and he didn't even FLINCH.
* NoIndoorVoice: ''Every'' promo he did was shouted. Then again, that's ProfessionalWrestling in TheEighties for you. Possibly because, as Wrestling/JimCornette has stated on more than one interview, Traylor's real voice was quite high pitched for his size.
* NoIndoorVoice: ''Every'' promo he did was shouted. Then again, that's ProfessionalWrestling in TheEighties for you. Possibly because, as Wrestling/JimCornette has stated on more than one interview, Traylor's real voice was quite high pitched for his size.
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He debuted in [=WCW=] going by Raymond Traylor, and soon after became the monster {{Heel}} Big Bubba Rogers, feuding with Wrestling/DustyRhodes. However, his run only lasted a couple years before he made the jump to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], and based a new character off his original job as a prison guard in Cobb County, Georgia, and adopted Slick as his manager.
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He debuted in [=WCW=] going by Raymond Traylor, and soon after became the monster {{Heel}} Big Bubba Rogers, feuding with Wrestling/DustyRhodes. However, his run only lasted a couple years before he made the jump to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], and based a new character off his original job as a prison guard in Cobb County, Georgia, and adopted Slick Wrestling/{{Slick}} as his manager.
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After a few years, Traylor returned to WCW and underwent a series of name changes, as listed above, due to the WWF's legal team claiming his gimmick was too similar to the Big Boss Man gimmick. He finally settled on Big Bubba once again, meanwhile having rivalries with the likes of Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Wrestling/{{Vader}}, and even feuding with the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]. Traylor did return to the WWF for some time in the late 1990s, but this time, for the more mature Wrestling/AttitudeEra, he modified his Big Boss Man character into more of a bodyguard-like personality complete with a S.W.A.T. team-inspired outfit, and served with [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]'s [[Wrestling/TheCorporation Corporation]] during this run. During this time, he also had a title feud with Wrestling/TheBigShow, and another feud with Wrestling/AlSnow, both of which [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} fans would rather forget]].
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After a few years, Traylor returned to WCW and underwent a series of name changes, as listed above, due to the WWF's legal team claiming his gimmick was too similar to the Big Boss Man gimmick. He finally settled on Big Bubba once again, meanwhile having rivalries with the likes of Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Wrestling/{{Vader}}, and even feuding with the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]. Traylor did return to the WWF for some time in the late 1990s, but this time, for the more mature Wrestling/AttitudeEra, he modified his Big Boss Man character into more of a bodyguard-like personality complete with a S.W.A.T. team-inspired outfit, and served with [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]]'s [[Wrestling/TheCorporation Corporation]] during this run. During this time, he also had a title feud with Wrestling/TheBigShow, Wrestling/BigShow, and another feud with Wrestling/AlSnow, both of which [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} fans would rather forget]].
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** And, of course, Al Snow and Wrestling/TheBigShow.
* AwesomeMccoolName: His real name was so damn cool that one must wonder why he didn't stick with it.
* AwesomeMccoolName: His real name was so damn cool that one must wonder why he didn't stick with it.
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** And, of course, Al Snow and Wrestling/TheBigShow.
Wrestling/BigShow.
*AwesomeMccoolName: AscendedExtra: While working as a {{Jobber}} under his own name for [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Jim Crockett]], he impressed booker Wrestling/DustyRhodes with how he took Tully Blanchard's Slingshot Suplex, which led to Dusty creating the Big Bubba Rogers persona for him.
* {{Awesome McCool Name}}: His real name was so damn cool that one must wonder why he didn't stick with it.
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* {{Awesome McCool Name}}: His real name was so damn cool that one must wonder why he didn't stick with it.
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** BeardOfEvilBadassBeard[=/=]BeardOfEvil: Depending on whether he was a face or a heel.
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* JerkAss: Part of his character during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra. Hell, anytime he was a heel, he was a total thug.
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* JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: Part of his character during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra. Hell, anytime he was a heel, he was a total thug.
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Raymond Washington Traylor, Jr., a.k.a. Ray Traylor, is most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the Big Boss Man, although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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Raymond Washington Traylor, Traylor (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004), Jr., a.k.a. Ray Traylor, is most famous to longtime wrestling fans as the Big Boss Man, although he is also known by [[IHaveManyNames various other pseudonyms]] like Big Bubba Rogers, Big Bubba, The Boss, The Boss Man and the Guardian Angel.
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* {{Corpsing}}: During his time as Big Bubba Rogers, Wrestling/JimCornette would intentionally try to make Traylor laugh during their promos. Since he was playing TheStoic, Ray would bite his own lip until it bled holding the laughs in.
