SITTING RINGSIDE WITH DAVID PENZER
D-LO BROWN
05/25/20

D-Lo Brown was David Penzer’s guest this week. He started using the name D-Lo Brown in honor of a high school friend who passed away, whose nickname was D-Lo. He enjoyed his time in Smokey Mountain Wrestling and realizes that the heat was real because the wrestling was presented as real. He said there are stories on New Jack he would never tell.

When he went to WWF, he was happy to have a role and said riding in the car with Ron Simmons was like getting a degree. D-Lo had so much respect for Simmons he made sure to do everything asked of him so as to not let Ron down. Brown said the day after the match he had with Droz, he was scared to do anything in the ring. He told Jim Ross that he wanted to quit. Ross told him it was an unfortunate accident, but let’s not have two careers come to an end because of this. Brown continued to wrestle and said he altered his style and never did a running power bomb again.

He left WWE amicably in 2003 when they couldn’t agree on a new contract. He went to TNA and they wanted to change his name and make him a Matrix character. Brown said he is one of the few that was able to keep his WWE name thanks to Jim Cornette when Brown came to WWF from Smokey Mountain and he was not going to change it after having name recognition from WWE going into TNA.

He believes the Aces and Eights storyline ended too early and said if you go back and watch the shows, you will see Bully Ray gave hints that Bully would be the leader while he was still a babyface. He believes that now no company has a live audience, it is very evident that TNA has the best product because of good storylines.

The full episode is available at this link.