WWE SmackDown Debut Wrestlers: Where Are They Now?
13. D'Lo Brown
D’Lo Brown was one hell of a wrestler, and one of his era’s most underused talents. One of only a handful of wrestlers to hold the European and Intercontinental Titles at the same time, D’Lo was a big, burly fighter who didn’t have a great look, but could always be relied on for a good match.
Managed by Ivory at the time of SmackDown’s debut, D’Lo defeated Droz that night. The duo’s paths would cross paths with more devastating results later in the year, but D’Lo started teaming with The Godfather by the end of 1999, then moved into the oft-forgotten Lo Down team with Chaz the following year.
Brown took a sabbatical from WWE shortly after, but return for another spell from 2002-03, before leaving from TNA and All-Japan Pro Wrestling. He came back for a brief WWE run in 2008, but he was rarely used, and soon went back to the indies. Brown’s last prominent televised angle came as a member of TNA’s Aces & Eights stable in 2013, and in 2014, Brown started hosting a weekly class at Las Vegas’ Future Stars of Wrestling training center. Now working as a certified public accountant, Brown occasionally appears on smaller-scale independent shows.