During the Attitude Era, D’Lo Brown was a very popular WWE wrestler and established himself in the midcard thanks to winning both the European Championship and Intercontinental Championship. However, during a television taping in October 1999, he accidentally botched a running powerbomb on Darren Drozdov, leaving him with quadriplegia.
Yet, while everyone acknowledges it was an accident, Brown’s WWE career was never the same. And now, on his podcast, Jim Ross has confirmed what most already assumed, that this tragic incident led to WWE management losing faith in Brown, which resulted in the end of his push.
“The office rather just kind of, hell, I don’t know, lost confidence, and you know he couldn’t get away from that moment, and it’s too bad too, because D’Lo, like Droz, was very well-liked and a smart guy, and he could contribute with finishes and things of that nature. He was always very reliable. I thought D’Lo got a bad break on that whole damn thing, but when you look at the other side of the issue, the one that got the bad break, no pun intended, was Droz. Yeah, so D’Lo kind of got lost in the shuffle, and just he couldn’t regain that confidence that the office had in him.”
Jim RossAfter Drozdov suffered two fractured vertebrae, he was left with virtually no feeling below the neck, resulting in him needing 24-hour in-home care. Still, WWE would stand by him, and in addition to writing for WWE’s website and magazines, he would also be featured as a regular guest on their internet chat show WWE Byte This! Tragically, though, his life would be cut short in 2023 when he died from natural causes aged just 54 years old.
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