Former WWE European Champion D’Lo Brown, was the most recent guest on The Two Man Powertrip Of Wrestling Podcast. During the show, D’Lo revealed the origins of his chest protector that he wrestled in.
Here is a highlight from that particular portion of the podcast: (transcript by Still Real To Us)
D’Lo: “I was sitting in catering and Jim Ross came and sat down next to me and said; “Kid, you are a talent and you can wrestle and you’ve got some character, but we need to get you something that separates you and makes you stand out. I thought okay, but he said he needed time to think on it. The next week at catering he sat down next to me again and said; what about doing something like Iron Mike Sharpe with his forearm but something different and because you do a frog splash lets do a chest protector. My initial thought was to just nod and walk away and hope he would forget, but inside I thought about it and no way would that work and I’d be the laughing stock of the locker room.”
“At first, people still didn’t get it and they didn’t understand it and it really didn’t become part of the consciousness until DX did that parody of The Nation and Road Dogg played me. When he came out, he was shaking his head, he was wearing the chest protector and he was overdoing me and to a point where people thought that I didn’t do that and two seconds later, I came out and it was like, okay he really does do that and wear that.”
