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First African American to win a World Championship in any significant professional wrestling organization. On August 2, 1992 at a house show in Baltimore, Maryland, a scheduled title match between Sting and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Big Van Vader was canceled after Jake Roberts (kayfabe) injured Sting.

Simmons occasionally competed on WWE Heat, taking on jobbers from the town in which the show is being taped. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. [January 2005], View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, My pick for wrestlers no order just my favorites, Top 60 best performers in royal rumble match history, Top 10 tag team champions that never won the intercontinental/United States or a wwe world championship, (1994 - Simmons then teamed briefly with 2 Cold Scorpio. They have four children. [1] Simmons had a brief heel run when he teamed with Reverend D-Von until he left television in December 2002, but in June 2003 he returned to WWE with Bradshaw and the APA reunited.

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Simmons is a playable character in several wrestling video games including WWF Warzone, WWF Attitude, WWF WrestleMania 2000, WWF No Mercy, WWF SmackDown!, WWF SmackDown! Faarooq wanted the Rock to help him eliminate Austin but the Rock refused and eliminated Faarooq.

In the beginning, the members of Doom were masked and only known as Doom #1 and Doom #2, managed by Woman. Previous Managers: Woman, Theodore Long, Iron Sheik, Sunny, Clarence Mason, The Jackyl, Jacqueline and Bradshaw (as APA). In December, he finally entered the first sustained losing streak of his career as he dropped multiple house show matches to Mike Rotunda. Born in Perry, GA #1. They mostly feuded with Ahmed Johnson. [22] He would go on to feud with Sting and Bagwell, mostly competing in tag matches. Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, Simmons was an American college and pro football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL), Canadian Football League (CFL) and United States Football League (USFL) for four seasons during the 1980s. Simmons defeated midcarders including Oz and The Diamond Studd, then unsuccessfully challenged Lex Luger for the World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc, losing the best-of-three-falls match one fall to two. First Name Ron #22. He is a supporter of the Liberty Institute, which seeks to protect the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, and traditional marriage. At the Fully Loaded pay-per-view in 1999, they won the title back in a no disqualification handicap match against the Hardyz and Michael Hayes. In their pay-per-view debut at Halloween Havoc 1989, Doom defeated The Steiner Brothers.

Later in the evening, Faarooq was the only NOD member absent from Rock's title defense against Ken Shamrock. During this time the Acolytes had two short reigns as tag team champions; they defeated the team of Kane and X-Pac but lost the title to the Hardy Boyz. After Layfield hit Slater with the Clothesline from Hell, Simmons took to the microphone exclaiming "Damn!". [21] Simmons won the raffle and defeated Vader with a snap scoop powerslam to win the championship. 108 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003, Ranked No.
He is an actor, known for, Faarooq / Ron Simmons / Faarooq Asad / Faarooq- The Nation of Domination, Wrestling Retrospectives: The Good Ole Career of Jim Ross, Harley Race, Nwa Champion Pro Wrestler, Dies at 76, Real reason Jinder Mahal won WWE Championship? Taurus Wrestler #29. 4, Mike Graham Presents: The Best of Classic Championship Wrestling Vol. After the Undertaker suffered an injury in late 1999, the Ministry of Darkness disbanded. Played for the United States Football League's Tampa Bay Bandits in 1984 and 1985. ", "Nostalgia News: Ron Simmons elected to College Football Hall of Fame. Just Bring It, WWE WrestleMania X8, WWE SmackDown! In WCW, Simmons was a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion;[1][4] as the first African American to win the title,[5] he is recognized by WWE as the first black world champion in professional wrestling history. Ron Simmons was born on May 15, 1958 in Perry, Georgia, USA. Both formed their rival factions, known respectively as The Disciples of Apocalypse and Los Boricuas, and Faarooq recruited more African American members for the Nation, including half-Samoan Rocky Maivia. On the January 15, 2007 episode of Raw, he was seen in the ring with Chris Masters in the "Master Lock Challenge", which ended prematurely after interference from Super Crazy. In October 2002, Simmons dropped the Faarooq ring name. [18] Simmons wrestled only preliminary level competition that summer, but on August 7 he scored the biggest victory of his career when he defeated Ivan Koloff in St Louis. At Starrcade, Simmons was scheduled to wrestle Rick Rude, but due to Rude being injured he faced "Dr. Death" Steve Williams instead, wrestling to a double countout that was changed to a disqualification win for Simmons when Williams attacked him after the match. [13] In 1988, Simmons's jersey (number 50) was retired by FSU,[14] the third time a number has been retired in school history. He defeated Big Van Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on August 2nd, 1992. Wrestled with "Hacksaw" Butch Reed as his tag team partner under the name of Doom. [11] Simmons played four years (1977–1980) as a defensive nose guard at FSU under coach Bobby Bowden (whom Simmons described as "a second father"), earning Consensus All-America honors in 1979 and 1980. Originally they were masked and known as Doom #1 and Doom #2, being brought in by Woman (. After being dumped from the Nation, Faarooq feuded with the Rock but failed to win the Intercontinental title. Born in Perry, Georgia, Simmons attended Warner Robins High School, where he played football as a tight end and linebacker. He is an actor, known for WWF War Zone (1998), WWE Smackdown! The feud was started when Faarooq attacked Ahmed during a tag team match pitting Johnson and Shawn Michaels against the Smoking Gunns.

Simmons was inducted into the Orange Bowl Hall of Fame for his accomplishments while playing at Florida State, and he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.[5][15][16][17]. In the spring of 1994, Simmons was working for WCW without being signed to a contract, also Simmons was briefly managed by Sherri Martel during this time. [24], On Raw's 800th episode on November 3, 2008 Simmons interrupted wrestlers, who were dancing in the ring, with his catchphrase.

He also appeared at the Raw Reunion show on July 22, 2019 in a backstage segment involving Mike and Maria Kanellis, Eve Torres, and Jimmy Hart; using Hart's megaphone to exclaim "Damn!". He married Michelle Golden on October 22, 1987.

He has been married to Lottie since 1994. His final match was a win over Scott Armstrong on the September 10, 1994 edition of WCW Worldwide.[23]. Occasions include episodes of WWE Old School Raw (November 15, 2010 and January 6, 2014) and Raw (May 2, 2011 and January 28, 2013), Hell in a Cell 2012 and WrestleManias 30 and 31.

91 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with, This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 16:29. Other Works Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008.

Ron Simmons was born on May 15, 1958 in Perry, Georgia, USA. He played college football for Florida State University, and was recognized as an All-American. Simmons won the match when the referee, Ron's future manager Teddy Long made a fast count (Long was fired (kayfabe) as referee by Jim Herd immediately following this match). The Seminoles were 39–8 during Simmons's years at the school, finishing in the Associated Press Top 20 three times ('77, '79 and '80), and earning back-to-back Orange Bowl trips after Simmons's junior and senior seasons. He was the first to be eliminated, via countout. In the Summer of 1997 Faarooq again lost a tournament final for the Intercontinental title, this time to Owen Hart after Stone Cold Steve Austin interfered. Among their most memorable encounters during their title reign was a street fight against Horsemen Arn Anderson and Barry Windham at Starrcade 1990 which ended in a no-contest when Windham pinned Simmons while Reed simultaneously pinned Anderson. 62 Year Old Wrestler #4. After ECW, Simmons joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and made his debut on the July 22, 1996, episode of Monday Night Raw.

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