Amongst those who exited from the WWF in the early 90’s and made their way to WCW would be none other than Ray Traylor, known of course to his friends as…
THE BOSS.
Well, I guess he would be just slightly better known as The Big Bossman, his persona from the run that made him famous in a feud with Hulk Hogan. Of course, he was not able to bring that name with him the WWF’s rival, so they came up with this clever offshoot. As Bobby Heenan once said, “The Boss…man, he sure is big!”
Today he’ll be taking on Jake Stevens. Apparently ol’ Jake didn’t get the memo about how Saturday Night jobbers were doughy and pale!
The two lock up and Boss throws him face first into the mat. It was always weird to me to see Traylor back in WCW and not going by his ol’ Big Bubba Rogers moniker.
I mean, I can’t be the only one that remembers when Dusty Rhodes clocked him with a chair and he completely no sold it, right?
Anyway, Boss rakes Stevens’ eyes then kicks him right upside the head a couple times as well for good measure.
Next, he picks him up into what I thought was going to be a gut wrench suplex, but instead was a running shoulder breaker. I was going to ask why we like never saw him use that, but as it looked to have crippled Stevens I may have my answer.
And now he’s just beating him from pillar to post, including a back suplex that is almost turned into a chokeslam.
Of course, there’s only one way for this to end, and that would be via the Bossman Slam. Wait, no it’s the SPIKE SLAM per Tony Schiavone…who also still mistakenly says it was done by the “Bossman”. No shock WCW would file suit after that I suppose!