We took a lot of people from other sports and turned them in to wrestlers. “Kevin Greene, Steve McMichael, Bill Kazmeier… Then, you look at the athletes (from other sports) like Kevin Nash, DDP, and The Giant. “I also trained football players,” Bruce continued. But if you look at who graduated, there’s like 80 people who went on to have good careers. “Some people say the Power Plant wasn’t successful. He also helped produce a crop of young stars like Shane Helms, Elix Skipper, and Molly Holly. Nothing was just handed to me there.”ĭuring his time there, he would work with names like Diamond Dallas Page, The Giant ( Paul Wight), and Bill Goldberg. “People think I was appointed to that spot that wasn’t the case,” Bruce said. Originally fueled by such luminaries as Hamilton and Ole Anderson, Bruce would eventually take over as its lead trainer. Originally founded by ‘The Assassin’ Jody Hamilton in 1989, the Power Plant would officially become WCW’s talent factory two years later. Bruce’s greatest achievements would come later, at the WCW Power Plant, where he molded several, significant careers. At that point, he was already putting his skills and wrestling acumen to work in a different way. Unfortunately, singles success would also elude him. And nobody ever fought back with me on it. In fact, I could work with guys and lean things a different direction. “So, I didn’t get any flak or anything (as a single performer). “I had earned the respect of all the top guys,” Bruce said. He also appeared as Braun the Leprechaun as part of Kevin Sullivan’s Dungeon of Doom stable. Over the course of the next few years, he would portray a military style character. Then, when they got us back to the police station? They asked us for some autographs and let us go.” Solo Runīruce would later be re-packaged as a solo performer. “And then one time, we got stopped at a roadblock in Florida. “I got stopped many a time at the airport,” he laughed. You never check your ‘wrestler bag’, because if you lose it? You can’t work.” I can’t tell you how many times we were stopped in the airport. We went out and bought everything that looked real.
Wcw roadblock full#
Roadblock defeated Jim Powers in his last WCW match on the Augepisode of Saturday Night.ĭ'Acquisto retired from wrestling in 1999 after disappointment in not being signed to a full time contract with WCW, and reaching the age of 40 and working for the City of Rochester.Ĭhampionships and accomplishments Roadblock spent the next two years in WCW working mainly on WCW Saturday Night, WCW Pro, and WCW Monday Nitro against the likes of Meng, Chris Benoit, The Giant, Lex Luger, Jim Duggan, and Diamond Dallas Page. He was eliminated by the eventual winner The Giant. He made his only pay-per-view appearance in WCW at World War 3 on November 24 by participating in the namesake battle royal for a future World Heavyweight Championship opportunity.
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After the match, Roadblock challenged Lex Luger to a match to take place two nights later on Monday Nitro, which Acquisto lost. Roadblock made his televised debut in WCW on the Octoepisode of Saturday Night by defeating Dale Wolfe, a replacement for D'Acquisto's originally scheduled opponent Randy Savage. In keeping with his ring name, D'Acquisto would carry a roadblock or a sawhorse to the ring. World Championship Wrestling (1996–1998) ĭuring the late 1990s, D'Acquisto competed as a preliminary wrestler for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Roadblock (also spelled as Road Block). He would also wrestle for the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico, where he competed under the masked gimmick of Torre Infernal ("Infernal Tower") and after months of chaos D'Acquisto lost his mask in a match against the legendary UWA World Heavyweight Championship El Canek. In 1992, D'Acquisto made several appearances with the Japanese W*ING promotion, where he feuded with Jason the Terrible. In 1991 made some appearances in the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. In 1990, D'Acquisto was the subject of an article by journalist Glen Duffy published in Rolling Stone.
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He competed in New England and East Coast independent promotions during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably as a mainstay of International World Class Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled as The Rochester Roadblock.
Wcw roadblock professional#
Professional wrestling career Early career ĭ'Acquisto debuted on October 28, 1987.