History Wrestling / DanSpivey

** There's a clear ShoutOut to the Waylon Mercy character in Bray's new 2019 gimmick as the host of the [[SubvertedKidsShow 'Firefly Fun House']], where one of the supporting characters on the show is a puppet buzzard called Mercy, who at one point slipped in a [[CatchPhrase "You know what I mean?"]]

** His match and subsequent locker room brawl against Adrian Adonis in Flint, Michigan. The reason why the whole thing began is a bit murky (Wrestling/BobOrtonJr said it was miscommunication during the match, while Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan, Wrestling/HillbillyJim, and Hansen himself said it was because Adonis was being stiff even after Spivey had told him to stop), but everyone says the same order of events: Spivey knocked him out cold in the middle of the match in a single punch that was so hard Adonis' cheekbone was showing. Adonis then tried to pull a rear neck hold on Adonis backstage in retaliation but Spivey punched him again. Adrian came back a couple of times, only to be struck by Spivey every time. As Hillbilly Jim puts it, "every hit split something." By the end of it, Adrian's jaw was left hanging by a single bone while Spivey was unscathed. Bob Orton drove Adonis to the hospital, and it took him one whole week to recover.

* LegacyCharacter: Wrestling/BrayWyatt, aka [[Wrestling/TheNexus Windham "Husky Harris" Rotunda]], has definite elements of Waylon Mercy, though amplified as he is the leader of a {{Cult}}, Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.
** Which is an interesting choice because Windham Rotunda is the son of Mike Rotunda[=/=]grandson of [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]][=/=]nephew of Wrestling/{{Barry|Windham}} and Kendall Windham, and Spivey goes back a long time with that whole family, though this is most likely a coincidence.

As usual, you can find the basics about his career at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spivey The Other Wiki]].

** His match and subsequent locker room brawl against Wrestling/AdrianAdonis in Flint, Michigan. The reason why the whole thing began is a bit murky (Wrestling/BobOrtonJr said it was miscommunication during the match, while Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan, Wrestling/HillbillyJim, and Hansen himself said it was because Adonis was being stiff even after Spivey had told him to stop), but everyone says the same order of events: Spivey knocked him out cold in the middle of the match in a single punch that was so hard Adonis' cheekbone was showing. Adonis then tried to pull a rear neck hold on Adonis backstage in retaliation but Spivey punched him again. Adrian came back a couple of times, only to be struck by Spivey every time. As Hillbilly Jim puts it, "every hit split something." By the end of it, Adrian's jaw was left hanging by a single bone while Spivey was unscathed. Bob Orton drove Adonis to the hospital, and it took him one whole week to recover.

As usual, you can find the basics about his career at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spivey The Other Wiki]].

** His match and subsequent locker room brawl against Wrestling/AdrianAdonis in Flint, Michigan. The reason why the whole thing began is a bit murky (Wrestling/BobOrtonJr said it was miscomunication during the match, while Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan , Wrestling/HillbillyJim, and Hansen himself said it was because Adonis was being stiff even after Spivey had told him to stop), but everyone says the same order of events: Spivey knocked him out cold in the middle of the match in a single punch that was so hard Adonis' cheekbone was showing. Adonis then tried to pull a rear neck hold on Adonis backstage in retalation but Spivey punched him again. Adrian came back a couple of times, only to be striked by Spivey every time. As Hillbilly Jim puts it, "every hit split something." By the end of it, Adrian's jaw was left hanging by a single bone while Spivey was unscathered. Bob Orton drove Adonis to the hospital, and it took him one whole week to recover.

* ConMan: Commentator [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] often called Waylon Mercy this for how he would shake everyone's, including the referee's, hands before his matches...and then go and beat the hell out of his opponents.
* DeepSouth: Waylon Mercy was billed from Griffin, GA, and emphasized the accent.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Walked out of [=WCW=] prior to the ''[=WrestleWar=] 90'' [=PPV=], February 25, 1990, where the Skyscrapers (he and "Mean" Mark Callous were scheduled to face The Road Warriors in a "UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} [[GimmickMatches Street Fight]]." Callous instead was teamed with, for one night only, "The Masked Skyscraper" ("Mean" Mike Enos). The Warriors won, of course. Spivey was fired for no-showing the March 18, 1990 show.
** TheBusCameBack: Returned in September. The original Skyscrapers (Spivey and Sid) reunited just once, to {{Squash|Match}} the Motor City Madman (Mike Moore, no connection to those [[Music/TedNugent other]] [[Creator/MichaelMoore guys]]) and the Big Cat (Curtis "Mr." Hughes) at ''[=Starrcade=] 90.''[[note]]The Madman and Big Cat were 2/3 of a failed monster trio with [[Wrestling/BryanClarke the Nightstalker (Bryan "Adam Bomb"/"Wrath" Clarke)]], and Sid, a member of the Four [=Horsemen=] at the time, had had a notoriously terrible match with the Nightstalker in November at ''Clash of the Champions XIII'' which featured a run-in by the Big Cat.[[/note]]
*** An earlier "Bus Came Back" moment in his career came in the fall of 1987, when he returned to the WWF ... just months after he and Wrestling/MikeRotunda split up and both left the promotion. Spivey came back with a heelish attitude, but as was the case with much of his earlier US Express run, he never was really over with fans, seldom appeared on television (and never on ''WWF Superstars'' or ''WWF Wrestling Challenge'') and soon disappeared in early 1988. (Unlike Spivey, Rotunda's return to the WWF, which came three years after Spivey's departure ... was far more successful.)

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Barry Windham in the American (formerly U.S.) Express

** His match and subsequent locker room brawl against Wrestling/AdrianAdonis in Flint, Michigan. The reason why the whole thing began is a bit murky (Wrestling/BobOrtonJr said it was miscomunication during the match, while Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan , Wrestling/HillbillyJim, and Hansen himself said it was because Adonis was being stiff even after Spivey had told him to stop), but everyone says the same order of events: Spivey knocked him out cold in the middle of the mach in a single punch that was so hard Adonis' cheekbone was showing. Adonis then tried to pull a rear neck hold on Adonis backstage in retalation but Spivey punched him again. Adrian came back a couple of times, only to be striked by Spivey every time. As Hillbilly Jim puts it, "every hit split something." By the end of it, Adrian's jaw was left hanging by a single bone while Spivey was unscathered. Bob Orton drove Adonis to the hospital, and it took him one whole week to recover.

** For unknown reasons, a jobber decided to no sell his or [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid [=Vicious=]]] offense during a match. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thCQFZdpCok The match quickly fadded to black by the time Spivey and Sid were just wailing on him]] and according to both wrestler, it [[FromBadToWorse it got even worse when the jobber went back to the locker]].

** For unknown reasons, a jobber decided to no sell his or [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid [=Vicious=]]] offense during a match. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thCQFZdpCok The match quickly fadded to black by the time Spivey and Sid were just whaleing on him]] and according to both wrestler, it [[FromBadToWorse it got even worse when the jobber went back to the locker]].

* BullyingADragon: An ex-bouncer in Tampa Bay who had also done some professional Arm-Wrestling and bill collecting, most wrestlers knew Dan Spivey was not someone to mess with. Wrestling/BrucePrichard has stated that he would put Dan Spivey up there with Wrestling/Meng when it came to how '''terrifying''' he could be when someone fought him. Three times in particular stand out: