D'Lo Brown

Accie Julius Connor (born October 22, 1970), better known by his ring name D'Lo Brown (also formatted as D-Lo Brown), is an American professional wrestler.

He is best known for his time in Impact Wrestling and WWE.

Brown is also known for his appearances in Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah.

Connor began his wrestling career in New Jersey as "Ace the Animal".

He then wrestled Earthquake in the WWF in 1994 under his given name as a jobber.

This led to his first widely known accomplishment in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, as he became the head of security for The Gangstas, using the moniker of "Downtown" D'Lo Brown.

When the Gangstas left SMW in 1995, he signed a deal with the WWF and was sent to the Heartland Wrestling Association for more training while also continuing to make more appearances as a jobber on WWF television.

D'Lo also spent most of 1996 wrestling in Puerto Rico for the World Wrestling Council.

Connor made his official WWF debut in April 1997 as a member of Faarooq's Nation of Domination heel stable, debuting as one of several non-descript people in suits that accompanied the group to the ring.

During this time, his most notable moment was when Ahmed Johnson slammed him onto the roof of a car during Shotgun Saturday Night.

His first televised match as a member of the Nation was on the April 26, 1997, episode of Shotgun Saturday Night, as he, Crush, and Savio Vega defeated Aldo Montoya, Steve Corino, and Freddie Joe Floyd.

On May 26, 1997, he had his first match on Monday Night Raw (which was called Raw Is War at the time), defeating Bob "The Spark Plugg" Holly.

After the King of the Ring 1997, Faarooq fired the rest of the Nation's members, except for D-Lo, who was later joined by Ahmed Johnson (later replaced by Rocky Maivia), Kama Mustafa, and Mark Henry.

In early 1998, the group turned on Faarooq, allowing Maivia, now going by the name "The Rock", to assume leadership.

During this period Kama also changed his name to "The Godfather" and began portraying a pimp character.

D'Lo and Henry eventually turned on both Rock and Godfather separately, moving into a feud with the Rock before finally branching out as a moderately successful tag team, later turning face along the way.

Prior to the face turn, Brown had started wrestling with a chest protector, supposedly for a torn pectoral muscle sustained in a match against Dan "The Beast" Severn.

Instead, he used the chest protector to his advantage, making his finishing move, the Lo Down, more effective.

In 1998, he feuded with X-Pac over the WWF European Championship.

His career peaked when he held the European and Intercontinental Championships simultaneously during a feud with Jeff Jarrett and Mark Henry.

This feat has only been duplicated by Jeff Jarrett, Kurt Angle, and Rob Van Dam, all of whom became world champions in some form, later in their careers.

Brown was involved in inadvertently ending the career of Droz on October 5, 1999, when a running powerbomb was botched due to Droz' baggy shirt.

The match was filmed for the October 7 edition of SmackDown!, but was never aired.

Droz suffered a severe neck injury, rendering him a quadriplegic.

During an interview with Title Match Wrestling, D'Lo Brown dispelled a popular rumor that a fan had thrown an object into the ring which caused him to slip and badly injure Darren Drozdov.

D'Lo took responsibility for botching the move, stating that the accident could have happened to "any" wrestler he had been in the ring with that night.

He also said the accident caused him to "wrestle differently" and to second guess every move he performed in the ring from that day forward.

Drozdov maintained that he did not blame Brown for his injuries and believed the incident was an accident.

During the rest of the year and into some of the next, Brown became an ally of former fellow Nation member The Godfather, emulating his dress and walking motions.

The teaming ended when Brown turned heel on the Godfather.

Brown then formed a tag team in July 2000 with Chaz named Lo Down.

The team mostly wrestled on Sunday Night Heat and WWE Jakked / Metal.

Shortly after the team formed, Tiger Ali Singh joined the team to become their manager.

The tag team then came dressed towards the ring in Sikh attire and took on a gimmick very similar to Tiger's. The team was removed from WWF television in January 2001 after Singh was injured.

According to Brown, it was the lowest point in his career.

Chaz and Singh were later released by WWE while Brown stayed in WWE's developmental territory, OVW.

Notably, Brown wrestled future World champion Batista in a losing effort.

Brown also spent six months in Puerto Rico wrestling for the International Wrestling Association teaming with Glamour Boy Shane holding the IWA tag team titles.

Later that year he returned to OVW and worked for Heartland Wrestling Association going into 2002.

Brown returned to television on the April 28, 2002, episode of Heat, losing to Eddie Guerrero.