10 People You Had No Idea Worked For WWE
6. Bubba The Love Sponge
With the gradual decline of Hulk Hogan's influence over wrestling conversations has come an even steeper one for the once-prevalent Bubba The Love Sponge. This is no bad thing.
For well over a decade, Hogan used Bubba's mammoth radio presence in Florida to spout whatever bullsh*t he liked while fostering a friendship that briefly resulted in on-screen work for the shock-jock in TNA. There, he was quickly despised due to a serious of backstage incidents with other wrestlers, making his brief Attitude Era appearances for WWE feel almost quaint by comparison.
Then a hit on morning drive, Bubba was the comedic cornerman for Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco at a Florida house show when the old dogs taught The Mean Street Posse some new tricks.
It generated a bit of local buzz for the event - so much so that the group were able to craft an angle for the return to the Tampa venue later that year. In a sequel which sounds as charmingly sh*te as the original, the Posse interfered in a Brisco/Bubba singles exhibition, resulting in Pete Gas taking a Vader Bomb from the DJ when the contest morphed into an impromptu tag.