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* WeaponOfChoice: Tables, though they would use anything they could find.
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** Lost to the Smokin' Gunns in a dark (non-televised) match before ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 95.'' For that matter, given that they made their WWE TV debut on the February 22 (taped February 16), 1999 ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'' with a DQ win over the Brood ([[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}}), and their last appearance on the April 10 (taped March 30) ''[[{{BShow}} Shotgun Saturday Night]]'' was a DQ loss to the Hardys (Wrestling/{{Matt|Hardy}} and Wrestling/{{Jeff|Hardy}}), you could call their entire WWE experience a cameo.
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** Lost to the Smokin' Gunns in a dark (non-televised) match before ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 95.'' For that matter, given that they made their WWE TV debut on the February 22 (taped February 16), 1999 ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'' with a DQ win over the Brood ([[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}}), Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}), and their last appearance on the April 10 (taped March 30) ''[[{{BShow}} Shotgun Saturday Night]]'' was a DQ loss to the Hardys (Wrestling/{{Matt|Hardy}} and Wrestling/{{Jeff|Hardy}}), you could call their entire WWE experience a cameo.
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Not to be confused with Music/PublicEnemy or ''Film/ThePublicEnemy''.
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Johnny Grunge (Michael Lynn Durham, July 10, 1966 – February 16, 2006) and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Theodore James "Ted" Petty, September 1, 1953 – September 21, 2002) were an American ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam best known for their work in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as The Public Enemy. After having spent years in various promotions under different names, and after increasingly facing each other on international tours, including a dark (non-televised) match at the very first episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Monday Night Raw]]'', they debuted as the Public Enemy at ''ECW [=UltraClash=] '93'', September 18, 1993. They would go on to be 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW/ECW World Tag Team Champions]] before going to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1996. They would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] for 8 days, beating Harlem Heat (Wrestling/BookerT and Stevie Ray) on September 23, 1996 and losing them back on October 1, in preparation for the Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) winning the belts and basically killing them off. They would flounder for some two more years in WCW before returning to ECW at ''ECW House Party 99,'' January 16, 1999, in response to a challenge made six days earlier at ''ECW Guilty As Charged'' by [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Buh Buh Ray Dudley]]. The Dudleys ran TPE out in February and they would be in and out of Wrestling/{{WWE}} and WCW by the middle of August. In between leaving WWE and returning to WCW in July, they were [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champions]] for 2 days in June 1999. They would bounce around various independent promotions for the next three years, until Rocco, wrestling as a single, died of a heart attack during a match in September 2002.
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Johnny Grunge (Michael Lynn Durham, July 10, 1966 – February 16, 2006) and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Theodore James "Ted" Petty, September 1, 1953 – September 21, 2002) were an American ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam best known for their work in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as The Public Enemy. After having spent years in various promotions under different names, and after increasingly facing each other on international tours, including a dark (non-televised) match at the very first episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Monday Night Raw]]'', they debuted as the Public Enemy at ''ECW [=UltraClash=] '93'', September 18, 1993. They would go on to be 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW/ECW World Tag Team Champions]] before going to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1996. They would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] for 8 days, beating Harlem Heat (Wrestling/BookerT and Stevie Ray) on September 23, 1996 and losing them back on October 1, in preparation for the Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) winning the belts and basically killing them off. They would flounder for some two more years in WCW before returning to ECW at ''ECW House Party 99,'' January 16, 1999, in response to a challenge made six days earlier at ''ECW Guilty As Charged'' by [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Buh Buh Ray Dudley]]. The Dudleys ran TPE out in February and they would be in and out of Wrestling/{{WWE}} and WCW by the middle of August. In between leaving WWE and returning to WCW in July, they were [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champions]] for 2 days in June 1999. They would bounce around various independent promotions for the next three years, until Rocco, wrestling as a single, died of a heart attack during a match in September 2002.
2002. Grunge died as a result of sleep apnea on February 2006.
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[[caption-width-right:316:L-R: "Flyboy" Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge]]
Johnny Grunge (Michael Lynn Durham, July 10, 1966 – February 16, 2006) and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Theodore James "Ted" Petty, September 1, 1953 – September 21, 2002) were an American ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam best known for their work in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as The Public Enemy. After having spent years in various promotions under different names, and after increasingly facing each other on international tours, including a dark (non-televised) match at the very first episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Monday Night Raw]]'', they debuted as the Public Enemy at ''ECW [=UltraClash=] '93'', September 18, 1993. They would go on to be 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW/ECW World Tag Team Champions]] before going to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1996. They would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] for 8 days, beating Harlem Heat (Wrestling/BookerT and Stevie Ray) on September 23, 1996 and losing them back on October 1, in preparation for the Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) winning the belts and basically killing them off. They would flounder for some two more years in WCW before returning to ECW at ''ECW House Party 99,'' January 16, 1999, in response to a challenge made six days earlier at ''ECW Guilty As Charged'' by [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Buh Buh Ray Dudley]]. The Dudleys ran TPE out in February and they would be in and out of Wrestling/{{WWE}} and WCW by the middle of August. In between leaving WWE and returning to WCW in July, they were [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champions]] for 2 days in June 1999. They would bounce around various independent promotions for the next three years, until Rocco, wrestling as a single, died of a heart attack during a match in September 2002.
Not to be confused with Music/PublicEnemy or ''Film/ThePublicEnemy''.
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!! "The Original Mack Daddies of Troping"
* {{Acrofatic}}: Rocco Rock had some decent high flying moves. Before he was Rocco Rock he worked a high flyer gimmick as The Cheetah Kid.
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''occo '''R'''ock.
* BatterUp: Regained the ECW World Tag Team Titles from [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] and Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck in a "Brawl Game" match where [=Baseball=] bats were used as weapons.
* TheBerserker: Rocco introduced them as "''...the first generation of American children that is more afraid of living than dying.''" Wrestling/PaulHeyman had read a ''[=Newsweek=]'' article that discussed cultural changes in the U.S. and the perils faced by young men growing up in areas such as Los Angeles and had included the line, "The generation of today is more afraid of living than dying."
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: In ECW, Johnny would sometimes blade mere ''seconds'' into a match.
* BullyingADragon: They defeated [[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} the Tazmaniac]] and Sabu on the January 31 (taped January 16th), 1995 ''ECW Hardcore TV''. [[Wrestling/AlPoling 911]] went to chokeslam the ref and Rocco Rock hit him with a chair, which 911 no-sold. Rocco tried again, and this time 911 responded...by chokeslamming Rocco.
* TheCameo:
** Lost to the Smokin' Gunns in a dark (non-televised) match before ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 95.'' For that matter, given that they made their WWE TV debut on the February 22 (taped February 16), 1999 ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'' with a DQ win over the Brood ([[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}}), and their last appearance on the April 10 (taped March 30) ''[[{{BShow}} Shotgun Saturday Night]]'' was a DQ loss to the Hardys (Wrestling/{{Matt|Hardy}} and Wrestling/{{Jeff|Hardy}}), you could call their entire WWE experience a cameo.
** Their second run in WCW could also count as one. They returned to WCW in the Hardcore Junkyard Invitational at ''Bash at the Beach'' on July 11, and were gone after [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid Vicious]] {{Squash|Match}}ed them both in a handicap match on the August 26 (taped August 19) ''WCW Thunder.''
* CoolShades: As seen above.
* DanceBattler: They would challenge their opponents to dance-offs in ECW.
* DancePartyEnding: When they won they would often invite the fans into the ring to dance with them.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: They would challenge their opponents to dance-offs in ECW.
* FinishingMove: The Drive-By (inverted DDT by Grunge followed by a top-rope somersault senton by Rocco.)
* GarbageWrestler: Petty had a lot of solid experience as a high-flyer under the name the Cheetah Kid. However, as a team, this was their style. This was lampshaded when they faced the reunited Bad Breed[[note]]On the January 17 (taped January 7), 1995 ''ECW Hardcore TV'', The [=Pitbulls=] defeated The Bad Breed in a "Losing Team Must Split" match, leading to their violent feud.[[/note]] (Axl and Ian Rotten) at ''[=3PW=] A War Renewed'' on June 29, 2002. Uncharacteristically for both teams, the match started with some mat wrestling. Ian acknowledged this and said that they needed to go back to their hardcore roots, leading to the fans filling the ring with chairs like at ''ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994.''
%%* InTheHood: In their early days in ECW.
* {{LOL 69}}: In WCW, Rocco had "00" on the back of his gear and Johnny had "69," sometimes with the words "Naughty Macdaddy." (Rocco's would read "Violent Macdaddy.")
* OneSteveLimit: During their brief [=WWE=] tenure Flyboy Rocco Rock was simply known as Flyboy Rocco because they already had [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
* PowerStable: Hot Stuff International, in NWA New Jersey in 1998.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Wrestling/PaulHeyman had the idea of two wannabe rappers. TPE were presented as "hoodies" who loved HardcoreHipHop.
* RedBaron: "The Mack Daddies of Violence"
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: '''The''' Public Enemy.
* TrashTheSet: A rare unintentional example. After winning a match once in ECW, they invited fans into the ring to dance with them...and the ring collapsed.
* WeaponOfChoice: Tables, though they would use anything they could find.
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[[caption-width-right:316:L-R: "Flyboy" Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge]]
Johnny Grunge (Michael Lynn Durham, July 10, 1966 – February 16, 2006) and "Flyboy" Rocco Rock (Theodore James "Ted" Petty, September 1, 1953 – September 21, 2002) were an American ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam best known for their work in Wrestling/{{ECW}} as The Public Enemy. After having spent years in various promotions under different names, and after increasingly facing each other on international tours, including a dark (non-televised) match at the very first episode of ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Monday Night Raw]]'', they debuted as the Public Enemy at ''ECW [=UltraClash=] '93'', September 18, 1993. They would go on to be 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW/ECW World Tag Team Champions]] before going to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1996. They would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Titles]] for 8 days, beating Harlem Heat (Wrestling/BookerT and Stevie Ray) on September 23, 1996 and losing them back on October 1, in preparation for the Outsiders (Wrestling/ScottHall and Wrestling/KevinNash) winning the belts and basically killing them off. They would flounder for some two more years in WCW before returning to ECW at ''ECW House Party 99,'' January 16, 1999, in response to a challenge made six days earlier at ''ECW Guilty As Charged'' by [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys Buh Buh Ray Dudley]]. The Dudleys ran TPE out in February and they would be in and out of Wrestling/{{WWE}} and WCW by the middle of August. In between leaving WWE and returning to WCW in July, they were [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champions]] for 2 days in June 1999. They would bounce around various independent promotions for the next three years, until Rocco, wrestling as a single, died of a heart attack during a match in September 2002.
Not to be confused with Music/PublicEnemy or ''Film/ThePublicEnemy''.
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!! "The Original Mack Daddies of Troping"
* {{Acrofatic}}: Rocco Rock had some decent high flying moves. Before he was Rocco Rock he worked a high flyer gimmick as The Cheetah Kid.
* AlliterativeName: '''R'''occo '''R'''ock.
* BatterUp: Regained the ECW World Tag Team Titles from [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] and Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck in a "Brawl Game" match where [=Baseball=] bats were used as weapons.
* TheBerserker: Rocco introduced them as "''...the first generation of American children that is more afraid of living than dying.''" Wrestling/PaulHeyman had read a ''[=Newsweek=]'' article that discussed cultural changes in the U.S. and the perils faced by young men growing up in areas such as Los Angeles and had included the line, "The generation of today is more afraid of living than dying."
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: In ECW, Johnny would sometimes blade mere ''seconds'' into a match.
* BullyingADragon: They defeated [[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} the Tazmaniac]] and Sabu on the January 31 (taped January 16th), 1995 ''ECW Hardcore TV''. [[Wrestling/AlPoling 911]] went to chokeslam the ref and Rocco Rock hit him with a chair, which 911 no-sold. Rocco tried again, and this time 911 responded...by chokeslamming Rocco.
* TheCameo:
** Lost to the Smokin' Gunns in a dark (non-televised) match before ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 95.'' For that matter, given that they made their WWE TV debut on the February 22 (taped February 16), 1999 ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} Raw]]'' with a DQ win over the Brood ([[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and Wrestling/{{Edge}}), and their last appearance on the April 10 (taped March 30) ''[[{{BShow}} Shotgun Saturday Night]]'' was a DQ loss to the Hardys (Wrestling/{{Matt|Hardy}} and Wrestling/{{Jeff|Hardy}}), you could call their entire WWE experience a cameo.
** Their second run in WCW could also count as one. They returned to WCW in the Hardcore Junkyard Invitational at ''Bash at the Beach'' on July 11, and were gone after [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid Vicious]] {{Squash|Match}}ed them both in a handicap match on the August 26 (taped August 19) ''WCW Thunder.''
* CoolShades: As seen above.
* DanceBattler: They would challenge their opponents to dance-offs in ECW.
* DancePartyEnding: When they won they would often invite the fans into the ring to dance with them.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: They would challenge their opponents to dance-offs in ECW.
* FinishingMove: The Drive-By (inverted DDT by Grunge followed by a top-rope somersault senton by Rocco.)
* GarbageWrestler: Petty had a lot of solid experience as a high-flyer under the name the Cheetah Kid. However, as a team, this was their style. This was lampshaded when they faced the reunited Bad Breed[[note]]On the January 17 (taped January 7), 1995 ''ECW Hardcore TV'', The [=Pitbulls=] defeated The Bad Breed in a "Losing Team Must Split" match, leading to their violent feud.[[/note]] (Axl and Ian Rotten) at ''[=3PW=] A War Renewed'' on June 29, 2002. Uncharacteristically for both teams, the match started with some mat wrestling. Ian acknowledged this and said that they needed to go back to their hardcore roots, leading to the fans filling the ring with chairs like at ''ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994.''
%%* InTheHood: In their early days in ECW.
* {{LOL 69}}: In WCW, Rocco had "00" on the back of his gear and Johnny had "69," sometimes with the words "Naughty Macdaddy." (Rocco's would read "Violent Macdaddy.")
* OneSteveLimit: During their brief [=WWE=] tenure Flyboy Rocco Rock was simply known as Flyboy Rocco because they already had [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]].
* PowerStable: Hot Stuff International, in NWA New Jersey in 1998.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Wrestling/PaulHeyman had the idea of two wannabe rappers. TPE were presented as "hoodies" who loved HardcoreHipHop.
* RedBaron: "The Mack Daddies of Violence"
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: '''The''' Public Enemy.
* TrashTheSet: A rare unintentional example. After winning a match once in ECW, they invited fans into the ring to dance with them...and the ring collapsed.
* WeaponOfChoice: Tables, though they would use anything they could find.
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