Big Boss Man

Big Boss Man was the ring name of Ray Washington Traylor Jr., an American professional wrestler born in Marietta, Georgia, in 1963, who died in 2004. He worked as a corrections officer in Cobb County, Georgia, before debuting in 1984 as a jobber for Jim Crockett Promotions, where Dusty Rhodes repackaged him as the bodyguard Big Bubba Rogers. He won the Universal Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Championship from One Man Gang in April 1987 and joined the World Wrestling Federation in May 1988 as Big Boss Man, a heel character built on his prison guard background who handcuffed beaten opponents to the ropes and used a nightstick. In the WWF he held the World Tag Team Championship once and the Hardcore Championship four times, and for World Championship Wrestling he appeared as the Boss, the Man, the Guardian Angel and Big Bubba Rogers. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016, after his death.