NWO Twenty Years Later: Where Are They Now?
25. Michael Wallstreet
Mike 'I.R.S.' Rotunda and Mike 'Virgil' Jones have a lot in common. For starters, they're both called Mike. Secondly, they were both heavily associated with 'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase throughout their careers. Thirdly, they were both used by WCW to deride Vince McMahon.
A full year before Jones was lumbered with the 'Vincent' moniker, Rotunda returned to Turner under his old gimmick, Michael Wallstreet, before being suddenly renamed 'V.K. Wallstreet', with no explanation to the fans forthcoming. The new initials were a clear rib on McMahon, aping his own forenames: Vincent Kennedy. The name was curiously prescient: it was given four years before McMahon floated WWF on the stock exchange.
Like Vincent, WCW did little with the gimmick to really stab home the parody, and Rotunda eventually went back to his previous name, joining the nWo following an offer from former Money Inc. partner Ted DiBiase. Like...basically every person on this list...Wallstreet's stint in the renegade group was entirely inconsequential. Maybe he dealt with the faction's tax returns? Got to have made some dollars on those shirts, after all.
Rotunda's career began to wind down after his nWo dismissal, and positively went in reverse when he formed his '80s faction The Varsity Club with fellow washed-up pros Rick Steiner and Kevin Sullivan.
The one-time taxman quit the business to concentrate on running a security outfit, but he could never wean the wrestling out of his blood. Rotunda operated the business with his wife - the daughter of Blackjack Mulligan, and sister of brothers Barry and Kendall Windham - and the pair's sons were similarly bitten by the grappling bug. It wasn't long before Mr. Wallstreet returned to the WWE as a road agent, overseeing the development of his offspring in the company - the two younger Rotunda's eventually rose through the ranks to become Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas.