Mike Jones (wrestler)
| Virgil | |
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Jones as Virgil
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| Birth name | Michael Jones |
| Born |
June 13, 1962 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Curly Bill Lucius Brown Mike Jones Shane Soul Train Jones Vincent Virgil |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | 250 lb (110 kg) |
| Billed from |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Palm Beach, Florida (as Virgil) |
| Trained by | Afa Anoa'i |
| Debut | 1985 |
| Retired | 2013 |
Michael "Mike" Jones (born June 13, 1962) is a retired American professional wrestler and actor, known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation as Virgil, Ted DiBiase's personal assistant, and in World Championship Wrestling under the ring names Vincent, Shane and Curly Bill .
After a standout amateur career, Jones started wrestling professionally as Soul Train Jones in the Championship Wrestling Association based in Memphis, Tennessee in 1985. He feuded with Chick Donovan and Big Bubba. He also made appearances in ICW with the Soul Train Jones gimmick.
Moving to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), he first appeared as a jobber wrestling under the name Lucius Brown, losing a squash match to "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff in Salisbury, MD on September 17, 1986.
He then went on to debut in the summer of 1987 as Virgil, the bodyguard for "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. His stage name, thought up by Bobby Heenan, was meant as a jab against then-World Championship Wrestling (WCW) wrestler Virgil Runnels, better known as Dusty Rhodes. Virgil carried DiBiase's cash that he liked to flaunt and was the one who got beaten up while DiBiase ran away after a devious act against a face. He would also occasionally be used in a wrestling capacity against DiBiase's rivals to try and soften them up; he would lose matches to such names as Randy Savage, Hercules and Jake Roberts.
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