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D'Lo Brown was one of the most famous mid cards of WWE during the Attitude Era also won multiple Championships during his time in the promotion. He joined the professional visiting world back in 1994, and he started working on the independent circuit. After working on the independent circuit for 3 years, he got the biggest opportunity of his life when he joined WWE in 1997.
D'Lo Brown worked in WWE for the next 6 years, and throughout this time, he had been treated as one of the top mid cards of the promotion. He had multiple rivalries with some of the top mid cards of his time. The Rock was one of his early rivals. He also had other big rivalries with some of the big stars, like X-Pac and others.
D'Lo Brown reveals how he came up with his famous signature headshake
One of the biggest signatures of D'Lo Brown was his headshake that he used to do again and again during his entrance and even during the matches. The fans still remember him for his headshake. D'Lo recently remembered how he came up with his signature headshake. Speaking on “The Velvet Ropes” podcast, he revealed the following;
D'Lo Brown worked in WWE for six years
“There is a great movie that I love very much called Friday… there’s a scene where Deebo… gets knocked down, and Chris Tucker flies over top of him, goes, ‘You just got knocked out,’ and he’s shaking his head… The next night, on Raw, Rocky is wrestling Ken Shamrock… I see the camera go up on Ken Shamrock.
He won multiple Championships in the promotion
"And I go, ‘Yes, I know the camera’s gonna be on him,’ and I just slid up to him, one ‘You just got knocked out!’ And that was the first time I did the head shake… Vince McMahon saw it. He took notice of it, told me to keep doing it, because if it peaked his curiosity, then it peaked a lot of people’s curiosity.”
D'Lo remained active in WWE until 2003. He had been one of the top mid cards of the Attitude Era, and he even got the opportunity to work during the early Ruthless Aggression Era, too. He won the WWE European Championship four times, and he also won the WWE Intercontinental Championship once. He never returned to WWE after his release.
