10 Ridiculous Wrestling Gimmicks Which Are Actually TRUE

9. Big Boss Man

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It's a fairly damning indictment on the state of the United States prison system that, when the Big Bossman debuted for WWE in the summer of 1988, fans were perfectly willing to buy into the concept of a corrupt corrections officer wholesale. Armed with his trusty government issue nightstick, the former prison guard would handcuff his beaten foes to the ring ropes, before laying them out with some rough corporal punishment.

What's arguably more alarming is that the man serving this brand of rough justice, Ray Traylor, actually worked as a warden in Cobb County, GA before swapping prison bars for arm bars. Many of the greatest wrestling personas are simply exaggerations of the real-life performer. Hopefully, for the sake of those poor inmates down south, that wasn't the case with the Bossman.

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