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**'''''Million Dollar Dream''''' ([[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]]) / '''''Blackout''''' ([[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]]) ([[Professional wrestling holds#Cobra clutch|Cobra clutch]]) <ref>[http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/virgil/bio WWE: Superstars > WWE Alumni > Virgil > Bio<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
**'''''Million Dollar Dream''''' ([[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]]) / '''''Blackout''''' ([[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]]) ([[Professional wrestling holds#Cobra clutch|Cobra clutch]]) <ref>[http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wwealumni/virgil/bio WWE: Superstars > WWE Alumni > Virgil > Bio<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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**'''''Fade to Black''''' ([[Professional wrestling holds#Camel clutch|Camel clutch]]) - WCW <ref>[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/m/mike-jones.html Online World of Wrestling<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
**'''''Fade to Black''''' ([[Professional wrestling holds#Camel clutch|Camel clutch]]) - WCW <ref>[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/m/mike-jones.html Online World of Wrestling<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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**'''[[Professional wrestling throws#Russian legsweep|Russian legsweep]]''' <ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/cawthon777/92.htm 1992 WWF results (search the page for "Russian legsweep"]</ref> |
**'''[[Professional wrestling throws#Russian legsweep|Russian legsweep]]''' <ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/cawthon777/92.htm 1992 WWF results (search the page for "Russian legsweep")]</ref> |
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**[[Professional wrestling holds#Fujiwara armbar|Fujiwara armbar]] |
**[[Professional wrestling holds#Fujiwara armbar|Fujiwara armbar]] |
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| Mike Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 13, 1960 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Curly Bill Mr. Jones Shane Soul Train Jones Vincent Virgil |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | 215 lb (98 kg; 15.4 st) |
| Trained by | Afa Anoa'i |
| Debut | 1987 |
| Retired | 2000 |
Mike Jones (born June 13, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional wrestler better known as Virgil in the World Wrestling Federation and Vincent in World Championship Wrestling.
Career
Championship Wrestling Association (1987)
After a standout amateur career, Jones started wrestling professionally as Soul Train Jones in the Championship Wrestling Association based in Memphis, Tennessee in 1987. He feuded with Chick Donovan and Big Bubba.
World Wrestling Federation (1988-1994)
He then went to the WWF as Virgil, the bodyguard for "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. His stage name, thought up by Bobby Heenan, was meant as a jab against then-WCW wrestler Virgil Runnels, better known as Dusty Rhodes. Jones carried DiBiase's cash that he liked to flaunt and was the one who got beat up while DiBiase ran away after a devious act on a face.
Eventually, Jones got tired of being humiliated by DiBiase and turned on him, hitting him with his own Million Dollar Title belt at the Royal Rumble in January 1991. He defeated DiBiase by count-out at WrestleMania VII and pinned him for the belt on August 26, 1991 at SummerSlam. He would lose the belt back to DiBiase in November of that year as a result of outside interference by the Repo Man.
After this feud ended, Jones wrestled in the undercard. At WrestleMania VIII at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana, he, along with The Big Boss Man, Sgt. Slaughter, and Jim Duggan, defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags), Repo Man, and The Mountie. Virgil pinned Knobbs after five minutes of action following a heel miscommunication. He remained with the company until 1994 (his last appearance on a PPV event was the 1994 Royal Rumble where he was a late substitute).
World Championship Wrestling (1996-2000)
He appeared in WCW as Vincent in 1996, where he was the "Head of Security" for the nWo. His name was meant to be a mockery of WWF owner Vince McMahon. Jones had minor success when first arriving, winning a few matches on the low profile WCW Saturday Night. In his debut match on WCW Saturday Night, Jones pinned a then unknown Bill Goldberg (who would later become known as one of the most popular wrestlers worldwide). Jones, like his role in the WWF, would again take the brunt of the beatings as other nWo members scurried away. He was part of the nWo Hollywood faction when the stable split and he was one of the last members of the nWo when it dissolved in 1999. Jones would soon return to WCW and he would then become Shane (to mock Shane McMahon) and again jobbed regularly on Saturday Night. In late 1999, he joined The West Texas Rednecks in their dying days as Curly Bill but the faction split shortly after. His last role for the company had him seconding Ernest "The Cat" Miller under the name Mr. Jones, but he was soon replaced by a valet coincidentally named Ms. Jones.
Retirement
Jones went to wrestling under his real name until he left WCW in 2000. Jones is currently retired from wrestling and is a math teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia.[1]
He does autograph appearances in both wrestling conventions and non-wrestling conventions. In April 2006, Jones toured South Korea at different US Military installations as part of the Moral, Welfare, and Recreation program for soldiers stationed overseas.
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
- Million Dollar Dream (WWF) / Blackout (WCW) (Cobra clutch) [2]
- Fade to Black (Camel clutch) - WCW [3]
- Russian legsweep [4]
- Fujiwara armbar
- Various boxing punches
- Dropkick, sometimes from the top rope
- Superplex
- Neckbreaker
- Belly to back suplex
- Inverted atomic drop
- Fallaway slam
- Airplane spin
- Back elbow smash
- Wrestlers managed