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James Ware (born June 20, 1957) is a retired American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er from Union City, TN who competed from the 1970s through the start of the 21st century as Koko B. Ware. He started in the territories, working in Georgia, Mid-South, Memphis and elsewhere. He was primarily a midcarder, though he held several regional titles. He arrived in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1986, where, despite being very popular, he was pretty much stuck forever in midcard {{Jobber}} mode, including being the first-ever televised victim for Wrestling/TheUndertaker, at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 90''. He stuck around until 1994, though WWE's interpromotional relationship with Wrestling/JerryLawler's USWA led to him defeating Wrestling/{{Kamala}} for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-uh.html USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title]], and then winning it a second time from Lawler himself. He went into semi-retirement in 1995, and eventually retired for good in 2009, being inducted in WWE's Hall of Fame in the same year.
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!! "Hi-flying tropes":
* AnimalCompanion: Frankie, his precious blue Macaw.
* {{Animal Motif|s}}: Exotic birds, of course.
* ArchEnemy: His biggest feuds (All of them in Memphis), were with Jimmy Valiant, Bobby Eaton and Wrestling/TheFabulousOnes.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.
* BashBrothers: With Wrestling/OwenHart as ''High Energy''
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: As Stagger Lee in Memphis.
* CombatParkour: One of the earliest examples in pro wrestling. Sturdy enough to flip over his average opponents and not falling on the FragileSpeedster category.
* CoolShades: From time to time he was seen sporting colorful "Venetian blinds".
* DanceBattler: Type II with just the nice, funny parts of type IV.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfMsBitPIQ "Piledriver"]], it was even the "flagship" tune that gave name to the second WWF's Wrestling album.
* FaceHeelTurn: When he joined Wrestling/JimmyHart's stable the First Family and renamed himself ''Sweet Brown Sugar''.
* FinishingMove: ''The Ghost Buster'' (Brain Buster) and Top-rope Missile Dropkick.
* FriendToAllChildren: Yeah, kids of all age everywhere loved him!
* FunPersonified: After placing Frankie on his perch and give him some yummies while he waited, Koko entered to the ring walking in slow motion and "flapping" his arms as if he was showing to the audience he could fly... and he ''did''!
* IdentityImpersonator[=/=]PlayedForLaughs: Koko did it twice, once while teaming with "The Killer Bees" (Impersonating "Jumping" Jim Brunzell) and once when he was trying to help prove that "The Rocket", his former Tag Team partner wasn't "The Blue Blazer" (''He was''). Neither time worked, the joke being that Koko; an african american, was trying to replace an ''evident'' caucasian.
* {{Irony}}: His single, greatest contribution to his whole WWF stint wasn't a memorable match or an innovative, breathtaking move... but ''his singing voice''.
** Incidentally... he was never known for performing an actual piledriver.
* {{Jobber}}: The bulk of his WWE run was this. Along with the Taker's example, Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} {{Squash|Match}}ed him in the opening match of the debut episode of ''Raw.''
* {{Leitmotif}}: Music/TheTime's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZUoEMDeiow "The Bird"]].
* LightningBruiser: Believe it or not, Koko held a good number of [[SquashMatch squash matches]] under his belt here and there. On his top, his average match was won and over in 4 minutes or less.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial[=/=]PunnyName: Really his full name was a FunWithHomophones for "Oh, oh ...beware!" due to his daring Hi-Fly stunts, but if you want to find a meaning for his middle "B"... "Birdman"... maybe?
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His TagTeam with Norvell Austin, ''The Pretty Young Things'', (Renamed ''The P.Y.T. Express'' later), based their image on Music/MichaelJackson, as part of their "PrettyBoy" image.
* PowerStable:
** [[Wrestling/PaulBearer The Pringle Dynasty]]
** [[Wrestling/JimmyHart The First Family]]
*** [[Wrestling/JimNeidhart Neidhart's Raiders]] (A breakaway group led by The Anvil)
* RedBaron: "The Holy Ghost", "The Birdman" and "Union City's Best".
* SignatureMove: Cartwheel flip/Leapfrog evade-Dropkick combo, several Crossbody variants as well.
* SpiritualSuccessor: For every Hi-Fly style performers after him, but is worth to notice that many of his traits were inherited by a future SuperStar, one who rose to win several titles and established a new way to watch entrtaining and awesome wrestling matches in the States: Wrestling/ReyMysterio.
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