Line #45 Wrestling/Slick


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3	->''"You're a jive soul bro, a jive soul bro\
4	And you're always lying to your friends\
5	You're a jive soul bro, a jive soul bro\
6	And you never get nothing in the end"''
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8	Kenneth Wayne Johnson (born December 8, 1957) is a retired ProfessionalWrestling manager as "The Doctor of Style" Slick. He started in Texas All-Star Wrestling before moving on to NWA Central States Wrestling in UsefulNotes/KansasCity, MO. In 1987, he and "Hacksaw" Butch Reed moved to Wrestling/{{WWE}}. As part of [[Wrestling/FreddieBlassie "Classy" Freddie Blassie]]'s retirement, he sold the debuting Slick the contracts of Wrestling/TheIronSheik, Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff and [[Wrestling/HerculesHernandez Hercules]], though Hercules' was sold to Wrestling/BobbyHeenan. Slick also managed Wrestling/TheOneManGang, Wrestling/BigBossman, Wrestling/BorisZhukov, Wrestling/RickMartel, The Warlord, Power and Glory (Hercules and Paul Roma) and Wrestling/{{Kamala}}. He left WWE in 1993.
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10	!!"Jive Soul Tropes":
11	* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/TitoSantana, Wrestling/HulkHogan
12	* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Inducted into the IHWE Hall of Fame in 2009.
13	* TheBigGuy: He's 6'4 but was billed as 5'11, meaning that he was as tall as some of the wrestlers he managed.
14	* BullyingADragon[=/=]TooDumbToLive: The second verse of "Jive Soul Bro":
15	-->"Well you'd think this dude might've learned a lesson but he didn't learn a thing at all\
16	Cause late last night I was out there messing with a lady who was seven feet tall\
17	Now that was a big woman\
18	So I said, 'Hey baby come and spend the night at my house'\
19	She said, 'No way you jive little mouse'\
20	I said, 'Hey there baby can't take no more'\
21	So she threw me on the floor in a Figure-4"
22	* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: "The Natural" Butch Reed defeated [[Wrestling/KokoBWare "The Birdman" Koko B. Ware]] at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} III'' by pinning Ware with his feet on the ropes. Tito Santana ran out and beat up Slick for this.
23	* CatchPhrase: When one of his wrestlers won a match, Slick would turn to the floor camera and sing "Turn out the liiiiiiights, the party's oooooverrrrrr."
24	* CoolShades: As seen above.
25	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Sang his entrance theme "Jive Soul Bro'."
26	* HeelFaithTurn: Became "Reverend" Slick after Johnson became a born-again Christian in real life.
27	* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Said word for word at the end of "Jive Soul Bro," though followed with an EvilLaugh.
28	* JiveTurkey[=/=]SoulBrotha: His theme song was titled "Jive Soul Bro," thus combining these tropes.
29	* LargeHam: Well, he was a wrestling manager, so it comes with the territory. He dressed well, cut entertaining promos, danced before his wrestlers' matches (and after if they won), sang his own theme song and had a great EvilLaugh.
30	* InformedAttribute: He was billed as being smaller than he actually was and one time even claimed to just be 130 pounds which would not be healthy for a male his size. This was notable when he stood next to Wrestling/BamBamBigelow and he vertically dwarfed Bam despite the announcers referring to Bam as ''colossal''.
31	* LoserLeavesTown: Wrestling/BruiserBrody defeated him and "Hacksaw" Butch Reed in one of these matches to send them out of [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA Central States Wrestling]].
32	* NonActionGuy: He lost some house show matches to Wrestling/DustyRhodes' valet Sapphire, who was not a wrestler at all.
33	* PutOnABus: He disappeared from WWE TV in 1991 after Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith powerslammed him.
34	* RedBaron: "The Doctor of Style".
35	* RefugeInAudacity: He, Bossman and Akeem once appeared on ''Series/TheArsenioHallShow'', and he said that Akeem would be the first black WWF Champion. Keep in mind that Akeem was Wrestling/TheOneManGang (a white man) acting like he was a black man ("re-embracing his African roots").
36	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: From "Jive Soul Bro":
37	-->"That's right, I'm clean and I'm mean, and my pocket's full of green."
38	* SharpDressedMan: Always wore a suit to the ring, complete with a nice hat.
39	* TagTeam:
40	** (in Central States): The Success Express (Bobby Jaggers and Ed "Moondog" Moretti[[note]]Real name Ed Giavonetti and no relation to [[Wrestling/{{Ivory}} Lisa "Ivory" Moretti]].[[/note]])
41	** (in WWE):
42	*** The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov)
43	*** The Twin Towers (The Big Bossman and Akeem [formerly The One Man Gang])
44	*** Power and Glory
45	* UrExample: The first African American manager in WWE history, opening the door for [[Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination Clarence Mason]], [[Wrestling/TeddyLong Mr. Theodore R. Long]] and [[Characters/WWEManagers Abraham Washington]].
46	* WrestlingDoesntPay: Discussed. In his first interview on WWE TV, he claimed to be a real estate investor. Wrestling/MeanGeneOkerlund accused him of "running some girls," implying that he was actually a pimp. This was all abandoned, and he became a regular manager. Then he became a managing reverend as Reverend Slick.
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