When Rosey debuted in WWE, he was part of the promising tag team of 3 Minute Warning. Unfortunately, the other half of the team, Jamal (later Umaga), was a bit of a headcase behind the scenes and was let go. WWE didnt know what to do with the remaining member, so they did what they often end up doing with potential monsters: they made him a horrendously unfunny comedy act! See Heidenreich, Gene Snitksy, The Great Khali and Akeem the African Dream for details. Rosey took a liking to Hurricane Helms for some reason, and also wanted to be a superhero. Hurricane, though, told him you cant just be a superhero, you must first be a Super Hero In Training (a S.H.I.T.). This means you have to star in a bunch of incredibly unfunny sketches like trying to change in a phone booth. He had trouble with that, because hes overweight, get it! Yeah, having S.H.I.T. as the name was basically the entire joke, as WWE clearly wrote out S.H.I.T. on his T-shirts. Like many bad WWE jokes, this one just kept going and going and going month after month before he finally graduated to a full on superhero. He got to drop the (literally) crappy name, but not the crappy gimmick.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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