“The
Back” is one of the strangest concepts in the already seriously
strange wrestling industry. You see, even through the WWE tours and
every person has to have been
flown in for the event at company expense there are always random and
seemingly unexpected people be hanging around backstage. Sometimes
the camera will follow someone out of the arena and into the back
where they will encounter, amongst other oddities, retired wrestlers
trying to sell things, aliens, marauding managers, chicken
deliverymen, and...
… Big
Dick Johnson. Big Dick Johnson was, for several years, World
Wrestling Entertainment's on-call male stripper as well as being one
of the writers (under his real name of Christopher deJoseph).
Whenever they needed a male stripper (and it happened more often than
you'd think) out came Big Dick Johnson and a bottle of baby oil.
Because of course they needed a slightly overweight male stripper
about the place and of course
he had his own entrance music, it made perfect sense.
Well,
perfect sense for the wrestling industry, anyway.
As
you can imagine, we wrestling fans are ridiculously fond of the guy.
As evidence, please note this video where Big Dick Johnson (in
“costume”) was invited to a wrestling industry event to present
an award. His speech is... particularly memorable.
Professional
wrestling is it's own particular brand of insane and I love it for
that.
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