Mike Jones (wrestler)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
This article has been tagged since January 2007.

For other persons named Michael Jones, see Michael Jones (disambiguation).

Mike Jones


Statistics
Ring name(s)	Curly Bill Mr. Jones Shane Soul Train Jones Vincent Virgil
Billed height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Billed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Born	June 13, 1962 Nashville, Tennessee
Billed from	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Trained by	Afa Anoai
Debut	1987

Mike Jones (born June 13, 1962) is a professional wrestler better known as Virgil in the World Wrestling Federation and Vincent in World Championship Wrestling.

1 Career
2 Wrestlers managed
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 Notes

[edit] Career

After a standout amateur career, Jones started wrestling professionally as Soul Train Jones in the Continental Wrestling Association in Tennessee in 1987. He feuded with Chick Donovan and Big Bubba.

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 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 under-card. 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 Saggs), Repo Man and The Mountie. Virgil pinned Knobbs after five minutes of action following a heel miscommunication. He remained with the company until 1994.

He appeared in WCW as Vincent in 1996 where he was the "Head of Security" for the nWo. His name, also thought up by Heenan^{[citation needed]}, was meant to be a mockery of WWF owner Vince McMahon. Although winning a few matches on the low profile WCW Saturday Night, Jones again took the brunt of the beatings as other nWo members scurried away. He was part of nWo Hollywood when the faction split and was one of the last members of the nWo when it dissolved in 1999. Along with an nWo T-shirt, Jones almost always wore Tommy Hilfiger brand jeans and shoes with the Tommy logo quite visible, leaving one to wonder whether this was an act of advertisement or simply his love for Tommy Hilfiger clothing.

Jones then became Shane to mock Shane McMahon and jobbed regularly on WCW Saturday Night. In late 1999, he joined The West Texas Rednecks in their dying days as Curly Bill but the faction split shortly after.

Jones went to wrestling under his real name until he left WCW in 2000. After some time on the independent circuit, Jones retired from wrestling as a living. Jones is currently a math teacher at Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and still makes regular memorabilia show and military goodwill appearances.^[1]