History Wrestling / RonSimmons

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Steiner Brothers (Rick and [[Wrestling/ScottSteiner Scott]]), the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), Lex Luger, [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]], Wrestling/{{Vader}}, Shane Douglas, Ahmed Johnson, Ken Shamrock, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]], [[Wrestling/MattHardy the]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardyz]], Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, Right to Censor.

'''Ron Simmons''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Florida), then in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{ECW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however. He defeated [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Big Van Vader]] for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Title]], making him the first black wrestler to be a World Heavyweight Champion.

* '''[[AtomicFBomb Atomic D Bomb]]''': '''DAMN!''' It's so powerful, the people he shouts it at jump ''all the time'', even though they know it's comming.

* [[AtomicFBomb Atomic D Bomb]]: '''DAMN!''' It's so powerful, the people he shouts it at jump ''all the time'', even though they know it's comming.

* {{Flanderization}}: Reduced to simply showing up to say "DAMN!"

* BashBrothers: Butch Reed, Wrestling/TooColdScorpio, [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield Bradshaw]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: "DAMN!"

* LesserStar: Apparently, when APA split up the second time in 2004, Simmons became this after Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield reinvented himself as JBL and underwent a BreakupBreakout

!!'''Tropes Associated with Ron Simmons include:'''

* {{Jobber}}: As a wrestler for ''his entire time'' in WWE.

* BashBrothers: Butch Reed, [[Wrestling/TooColdScorpio 2 Cold Scorpio]], [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield Bradshaw]]

''[[{{Catchphrase}} DAMN!]]''

'''Ron Simmons''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Florida), then in {{WCW}} and {{ECW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however. He defeated [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Big Van Vader]] for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Title]], making him the first black wrestler to be a World Heavyweight Champion.

As a WWE wrestler, Simmons was the leader of the Nation of Domination tag team entirely composed of black men, which included MarkHenry and [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. He also formed one half of the APA tag team, the other being JohnBradshawLayfield.

* CommutingOnABus: Makes sporadic appearances, mainly to say his {{Catchphrase}}.

* {{Garfunkel}}: Apparently, when APA split up the second time in 2004, Simmons became this after JohnBradshawLayfield reinvented himself as JBL and underwent a BreakupBreakout

* UrExample: Ron was wrestling's first black World Champion, paving the way for [[{{Wrestling/DwayneJohnson}} The Rock]] and Wrestling/BookerT.

'''RonSimmons''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Florida), then in {{WCW}} and {{ECW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however. He defeated [[{{Wrestling/Vader}} Big Van Vader]] for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-h.html WCW World Heavyweight Title]], making him the first black wrestler to be a World Heavyweight Champion.

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'''RonSimmons''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Mid-South Wrestling (later the Universal Wrestling Federation, or UWF), then in {{WCW}} and {{ECW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however.

* BreakupBreakout: In WCW over his Doom tag team partner Butch Reid.

* UrExample: Ron was WCW's first Black World Champion.

-->'''''[[RunningGag DAMN!!!]]'''''

* BottleFairy: Male version in his APA days.

* {{Garfunkel}}: Apparently, when APA split up the second time in 2004, Simmons became this after JohnBradshawLayfield reinvented himself as JBL and underwent a BreakupBreakout.

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-->''[[{{Catchphrase}} DAMN!]]''

* ScaryBlackMan: And how. [[RunningGag DAMN!!!]]

* [[AtomicFBomb Atomic D Bomb]]: '''DAMN!''' It's so powerful, the people he shouts it at jump ''all the time''.

* [[AtomicFBomb Atomic D Bomb]]: DAMN! It's so powerful, the people he shouts it at jump ''all the time''.

* MemeticMutation: "DAMN!"

* [[AtomicFBomb Atomic D Bomb]]: DAMN!!! It's so powerful, the people he shouts it at jump ''all the time''.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "DAMN!!!"

* MemeticMutation: "DAMN!!!"

* TheQuietOne: Ron only says "DAMN!!!" after his semi-retirement, and it's the only thing he ever currently says in his occasional appearances on WWE programming.

* RunningGag: "DAMN!!!"

* VerbalTic: "DAMN!!!"

'''{{RonSimmons}}''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Mid-South Wrestling (later the Universal Wrestling Federation, or UWF), then in {{WCW}} and {{ECW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however.

'''{{RonSimmons}}''' (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''') is a semi-retired African American [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestler]] who wrestled in numerous promotions, first in Mid-South Wrestling (later the Universal Wrestling Federation, or UWF), then in {{WCW}}, and most notably in Wrestling/{{WWE}} from 1996 to 2010, when he retired. He continues to show up at WWE events to this day, however.