History Wrestling / RonSimmons

* RatingsStunt: The public murder of {{kayfabe}} lead to several questions about pro wrestling, like why WCW had so many black wrestlers who weren't champions. Yes, Simmons was respected in the locker room but it took an [[MediaWatchdog NAACP]] complaint to get Doom the tag team titles. When former UWF boss "Cowboy" Bill Watts took over as head of WCW in 1992, he was more than happy to take Simmons' career further, since as Mick Foley wrote, "One of Bill's trademarks was creating a black babyface and building the company around him." Simmons would go on to become the first ever officially recognized black world heavyweight champion.

* {{Tweener}} Doom eventually started getting cheered like baby {{face}}s but the WCW bookers refused to officially turn them.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Steiner Brothers (Rick and [[Wrestling/ScottSteiner Scott]]), Ahmed Johnson

!!! "All-American Tropes":

Ronald Simmons (also otherwise known in-ring as '''Faarooq''', born May 15, 1958) 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.

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

'''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.

* RatingsStunt: The public murder of {{kayfabe}} lead to several questions about pro wrestling, like why WCW had so many black wrestlers who weren't champions. Yes, Simmons was respected in the locker room but it took an [[MediaWatchdog NAACP]] complaint to get Doom the tag team titles.

** The Jannetty to Bradshaw, when the APA split up the second time in 2004 and Bradshaw repackaged himself as Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield. Of course he was ''retiring'', as well.

* CoDragons: To The Undertaker in the Ministry of Darkness alongside Bradshaw.

You can learn more about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Simmons his career]] at TheOtherWiki.

* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision D-Strike]]: [[RuleofThree DAMN!!!]]

* {{CatchPhrase}}: "DAMN!"

-->*Surveys the list of tropes*…… '''''[[RunningGag DAMN!!!]]'''''

** The Breakout over his Doom tag team partner Butch Reed.
** The Jannetty to The Rock and Mark Henry in the Nation of Domination
** The Jannetty to Bradshaw, when the APA split up the second time in 2004 and Bradshaw repackaged himself as Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield.

As a WWE wrestler, Simmons was the leader of Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination stable entirely composed of black men, which included Wrestling/MarkHenry and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. He also formed one half of the Acolytes tag team (Later repackaged as the '''A'''colytes '''P'''rotection '''A'''gency), the other being Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield.

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

* HiredGuns: Acolyte Protection Agency (APA)

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

* RatingsStunt: The public murder of {{kayfabe}} lead to several questions about pro wrestling, like why WCW had so many black wrestlers who weren't champions. Yes, Simmons was respected in the locker room but it took an [[MediaWatchdogs NAACP]] complaint to get Doom the tag team titles.

* TagTeam: Doom, with Butch Reed

* MartialArtsHeadband: Which pinched his afro

* FanNickname: When he was going by Faarooq, internet writers would sometimes refer to him as "Vowels".

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Added [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Rocky Maivia]] to the Nation of Domination on the presumption that the timid, weak Maivia wouldn't be able to overshadow him the way Ahmed Johnson had. Instead, Maivia shed the nice-guy image, renamed himself "The Rock," drew even more intense hate heat than he had as a babyface, and went from being Faarooq's [[TheDragon Dragon]] to TheStarscream, kicking Faarooq out of the group on the ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'' after ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XIV'' and taking over the group himself.

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

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

* AngryBlackMan

* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard
** [[RetiredBadass Semi-Retired Badass]]

* {{Beergasm}}: In his APA days.
* BestBeerEver: In his APA days.
* BloodKnight: In his APA days.
* BreakupBreakout: In WCW over his Doom tag team partner Butch Reed.
** Fell victim to one when the APA split up the second time in 2004 and Bradshaw repackaged himself as Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield.

* HammyHerald[=/=]DoItYourselfThemeTune: This was PG-13's role in the Nation of Domination.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Male version in his APA days..
* HijackedByGanon: [[Characters/WWEDivas Sunny]] had once approached Ahmed Johnson about managing him and he had rejected her and called her "trash." Faarooq Asad's surprise debut was her retaliation.

* [[UnderwearOfPower Leotard of Power]]: From his gladiator gimmick in Mid-South Wrestling/UWF.

* MightyGlacier

* SoulBrotha

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Steiner Brothers (Rick and [[Wrestling/ScottSteiner Scott]]), the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin), Wrestling/LexLuger, [[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.