20 WCW Easter Eggs, References And In-Jokes You Never Noticed

4. Vincent

Man, one look at the Memphis promo video for Mike "Soul Train" Jones, and one can't help but be impressed. He's a dancing, muscular African-American babyface, basically doing the same gimmick as Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky and Rocky II. The idea that 15 years after that video that he'd be the butt of a terrible rib being played between the WWF and WCW on their television is sad, but then again, of the many sad things in pro wrestling, this is far from the worst of them. In the WWF as the manservant for the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Jones was known as Virgil, a shot a Virgil "Dusty Rhodes" Runnels, the then booker of the Mid-Atlantic region's NWA Territory. Of course, when Virgil was signed to WCW, he appeared as "Vincent," a shot at WWF owner Vince McMahon. Humorously enough, there are likely very few wrestling fans that ever honestly called "Virgil" the name "Vincent" during his WCW run. Thus, it's a case of a rib all of the way backfiring on WCW, and this some sort of weird circular WCW reference being accidentally made back to their product a decade prior on their current television. Wrestling is a STRANGE business.