Marcus Corvon or Monty Brown if you watch videos online you may find some wrestling fan say how he was a failed wrestler. That is why I am writing this.
Now, pardon me for being smarter here then some fans, but this is one I am going to be pure Anderson asshole here.
Monty Brown was a TNA stalwart when they needed an identity and he helped them find it. I dare say if it wasn’t for the alpha male of early TNA then we may not know it in the way we do now. This was Bobby Lashley, before Bobby Lashley, skilled and multifaceted, a proper NFL history with a pair of super bowl victories.
Dude, was a thoroughbred, if he was a stock he would be a blue-chip stock. He knew how to talk and play a character and he had morals in an age I guess people were more about the money. His finish was a version of a spear called the pounce where instead of hitting someone from the front he would get an angle going from the opposing set of ropes. He was not the technical master, but he had enough that he knew where to go for 99% of wrestling life. He was a powerhouse and unique to boot.
He went to TNA, never won any titles because they didn’t have one to put on him. (Era of AJ, JJ Abyss, Raven, etc. etc. etc.) This was a guy everyone knew could be a world champion in a class of wrestlers that had all been not just champion level but was high tier. Everyone knew he could be world champ and they bought in when he fought for it because one pounce was all it took.
Behind the curtain there is not a single man that will say a bad word about him. In an industry where you had to defend your value, he let actions shine more then words. No one in an age where people have to be political saw him get into that portion of it. After TNA for so long where he basically helped keep it alive he had gone to WWE for the WWECW brand and became one of the bright spots there. I wanted to see him against Regal because it could have been very interesting.
I am generally a downer, a realist, I searched for hours online and not one single guy would say a single thing bad about how he was as a wrestler or as a man. Mind you this is an industry with more skeletons than a spirit Halloween store, and for one guy to not have any makes some suspicious. Except for years, for literal years at the highest point of two different very physical careers he had been a guy to lace up and let actions speak more then words. Honestly if I cannot find anyone after years of being in the public high of anyone trying to bring you down he must have done something right.
Because after Hurricane Katrina he did a lot more right. During that time his sister passed, and her kids were left without a parent or a home until he stepped in. Let’s just think of that, a guy with not one but two physical well paying careers currently in one and he goes.
“Nah, I’m gonna take care of my sisters kids.” I am going to be honest I do not know how many people would do that. I hope a lot but I do not know.
He gets a third career and now in his fifties and some people let themselves go and just work and be a parent.
Nah, not the alpha way. For me before Tate heard of alpha it was Brown’s and honestly for me it still is. This is him doing an interview in his fifties.
Dude, is still built like a brick shithouse. MVP needs to get him in the hurt syndicate, think of MVP going back to full time wrestling and they chose the Alpha Male to come in as a manager for title matches and big moments. Seriously, this man is a shape where if he wanted to say he was back in I do not think any worldwide company would say no to at least a couple matches.
So, the idea that he was a failure. No, bro was on his own time and he had morals, honestly good on him better the majority of us I would say. He got two rings in the NFL, he has done enough that he has to be one of the best wrestlers never to be world champion, which in wrestling lists that is a big one to be high on.
However, anyone who thinks he failed. Wrong, incorrect, failure of understanding, and now by the way he is the head of his own fitness and helps people train. Sometimes characters are more the people behind it and we wonder where in titles and tribulations but when someone like that knows when to call it and can rebuild himself time and time again, he is a success just a different kind of it, and if you don’t know that to quote Mr. Brown.
“Remember in the Serengeti, you are in the land of the Alpha Male, and the Serengeti is all I see.”
He knew how to be a character better then a lot of people. You can make the Alpha Male as Monty Brown a proper comic book and it would work. A dash of Kraven the Hunter, some Black Panther, some Blade, some Loki, and you got someone with the style and swagger that if he is a failure, then there are a lot of failures in the world.
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