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->''You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Don't be afraid to shoot. Even if you don't score, you're already a winner in the most important game of all. All you have to do... is'' '''BO'''''-lieve.''

Taylor Michael Rotunda (born May 25, 1990) is an American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Brooksville, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} best known for his time in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Bo Dallas. He debuted in WWE's developmental promotion FCW in 2008 and is currently in ''Wrestling/{{WWE Raw}}.'' He is a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fcw/fcw-fl-t.html FCW Florida Tag Team Champion]] with his brother [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt Duke Rotunda/Husky Harris/Bray Wyatt]], a former 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fcw/fcw-fl-h.html FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion]] a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-nxt.html WWE NXT Champion]] and a [[https://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/raw-tag-team-championships WWE Raw Tag Team Champion]] alongside Wrestling/CurtisAxel.

In February 2021, he started a real estate family business with Wrestling/LivMorgan to prepare for life after pro wrestling. On April 15, 2021, he was released by WWE. From late 2022 to early 2023, he returned to play Bray Wyatt's accomplice, Uncle Howdy.
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* AbortedArc:
** His feud with Wrestling/WadeBarrett. He eliminated Barrett in the Wrestling/RoyalRumble, who in turn eliminated Dallas. They then had a match on Raw the following night, in which Dallas won, then a couple of backstage confrontations. Then the arc was dropped and Bo was sent back to ''[=NXT=]''.
** Despite being released by WWE in 2021, he would quietly returned the following year with his [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt brother]] as Uncle Howdy. The storyline ended abruptly with Windham's tragic death on August 24, 2023 without Taylor revealing that he is Uncle Howdy.
* AffablyEvil: During his early years, he would act like a charismatic inspirational speaker (with hints of condescencion) to his opponents who were going through slumps, telling them "All you have to do is bo-lieve!"
* AffectionateParody: His whole character is a send-up of Wrestling/JohnCena with a dash of Wrestling/KurtAngle thrown in.
* ArchEnemy: In NXT Wrestling/SamiZayn.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: As "The Inspirational One", Dallas plays a seemingly upbeat, squeaky-clean wannabe role model who insults and condescends to crowds and opponents alike.
* BumblingHenchmenDuo: As part of the Miztourage with Curtis Axel, the two being a pair of bungling cronies to the Miz.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Bolieve and other assorted [[{{Pun}} puns]] based on his name.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Bo's original stint on the main roster has never been referred to since his 2014 call-up. This is despite gaining a victory over the then Intercontinental champion Bad News Barrett and taking part in the 2013 Royal Rumble.
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: After being banned from NXT, Bo tried to make a comeback wearing a luchador mask and calling himself "Mr. NXT." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp6t40wbBFY It didn't work out]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4NvpSKCEI so well.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Was introduced as an entrant in the Royal Rumble, and had a brief feud with Wade Barrett before vanishing without a trace.
* DarkhorseVictory: His (first) WWE singles debut had him facing and beating current Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett. He also had a decent showing in his true debut - the Royal Rumble (where he also eliminated Wade Barrett).
* FaceHeelTurn: In August of 2013, after his return to NXT, he began talking down to Wrestling/SamiZayn and became delusional that the audience loves him despite them booing him relentlessly for months.
* FinishingMove:
** [[SuplexFinisher Belly-To-Belly Suplex]], [[RammingAlwaysWorks Spear]], Double-Arm DDT.
** After jumping to [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} the main roster]], the Bo-Dog (a springboard bulldog).
* {{Glurge}}: InUniverse. He lays the motivational speaker angle on so thick that the dissonance between his would-be good nature and his actual nature is even more glaring. It fits his faux-inspirational figure nature.
* HeroicWannabe: Styled himself the second coming of John Cena, despite not matching that description in any way. He also consistently tried to act like a motivational speaker, but was such a smarmy {{Jerkass}} that it came across as completely insincere. However, [[IntendedAudienceReaction this was entirely intentional]].
* ImplausibleDeniability: For the longest time in NXT, he could not, would not admit that the crowd hated him. Case in point: once when the crowd chanted "''BORING''" at him, he smiled and yelled back "Yes, this [[InsultMisfire is]] [[{{Pun}} Bo's ring]]!"
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy:
** Invoked in a match with R-Truth, where Bo attempts to imitate Truth's way of playing to the audience by asking "What's going on?"
** On the 1/25/16 episode of Raw, Bo actually ''won'' a rap battle against Music/FloRida. Bo used to do freestyle rap offs with Wrestling/AdrianNeville and Wrestling/SamiZayn back in Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}.
* PutOnABus: Was sent back to NXT for reasons unknown. [[TheBusCameBack He returned a year later.]]
* RedBaron: "The Inspirational" Bo Dallas.
* StepfordSmiler: In his heel incarnation on NXT.
* TagTeam:
** With his brother, as The Rotunda Brothers.
** With Wrestling/CurtisAxel, first as [[Wrestling/TheMiz the Miztourage]] and later as [[Series/TheATeam the B-Team]].
* TooDumbToLive: Interrupted '''''Wrestling/BrockLesnar''''' the night after Lesnar lost to Wrestling/TheUndertaker via submission (due to being knocked out by Hell's Gate), and then had the audacity to mock him about it in his own "inspirational" way. Even JBL, normally a fan of Bo, outright called him "the dumbest man on the planet" on commentary. And that's how Bo became a resident of Suplex City.
-->'''Michael Cole''': Why would you ever want to make Brock Lesnar even ''more'' mad?
* VillainousBreakdown: [[ParodiedTrope Spoofed]] when he lost his last NXT match, [[LoserLeavesTown which cost him his job]]. The normally [[FauxAffablyEvil chipper and positive]] Dallas finally lost his cool and railed at the audience for spurning him. Of course, his insults were [[BigStupidDooDooHead a little weak]].
-->'''Dallas''': I don't usually use language like this, but I want you all to know...that you people ''stink''!
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** After being in the Rumble, winning a match against Wade Barrett, and having a few backstage segments that hinted on a feud between the two, Bo simply disappeared off TV.
** He appeared on the March 4th 2013 episode of Raw, however very briefly, in the front row of a group of superstars gathered around Mae Young's 90th birthday cake(s) - he was basically shoved aside as Wrestling/CMPunk interrupted the party for his entrance. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* WrestlingFamily: Grandson of [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks Blackjack Mulligan]], nephew of Wrestling/{{Barry|Windham}} and Kendall Windham, son of Wrestling/MikeRotunda (known in WWE as Irwin R. Schyster and later as (Mr.) Michael [=/=] V.K. Wallstreet), and younger brother to Windham Lawrence Rotunda (formerly known as Wrestling/TheNexus's Husky Harris, before being known as Wrestling/BrayWyatt until his death). He met his current wife, Sarah Backman, during her short stint in NXT as well.