Ray Traylor

Raymond Ray Washington Traylor Jr was an American professional wrestler Traylor was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation WWF under the ring name Big Boss Man as well as for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as The Boss Guardian Angel and Big Bubba Rogers During his appearances with the WWF Big Boss Man held the WWF World Tag Team Championshiponce and the WWF Hardcore Championship four times In the summer of 2000 Boss Man disappeared from the WWFs primary television shows wrestling mainly on Jakked and Heat where he had a minor feud with Crash Holly until suffering a legit injury in January 2001 When he returned on the December 20 2001 of SmackDown he formed a team with Booker T after Vince McMahon ordered him to be Bookers enforcer on the December 27 episode of Smackdown Bossman and Booker T defeated Stone Cold in a handicap match on the January 7 2002 episode of Raw Bossman and Booker T was defeated by Stone Cold The Rock on the January 17 episode of Smackdown Bossman lost to Diamond Dallas Page At the Royal Rumble 2002 Bossman competed in the Royal Rumble match where he was eliminated by Rikishi On the January 24 episode of Smackdown Bossman lost to Rikishi The team quietly split in late January 2002 and Boss Man returned to JakkedMetal and Heat On the February 2 episode of Metal Bossman defeated The Hurricane On the February 2 episode of Metal Bossman defeated Perry Saturn In April he formed a shortlived tag team with Mr Perfect after both were drafted to the Raw brand On the March 23 episode of WWF Jakked Bossman and Mr Perfect lost to The APA On the April 1 episode of Raw Bossman and Mr Perfect lost to The Hardy Boyz On the April 14 episode of Heat Bossman lost to Bradshaw On the April 28 episode of Heat Bossman defeated Crash Holly On the May 6 episode of Heat Bossman lost to DLo Brown On the May 20 2002 Heat taping he lost his final WWE match to Tommy Dreamer Traylor was assigned to train developmental wrestlers in Ohio Valley Wrestling before being released from WWE in 2003 International Wrestling Association of Japan 2004 Traylors final matches were in the International Wrestling Association of Japan where he competed in a tournament for the vacant IWA World Heavyweight Championship He made it to the final by defeating Freddie Krueger before losing to Jim Duggan Traylor had two daughters Lacy Abilene Traylor and Megan Chyanne Traylor and was married to Angela his childhood sweetheart In July 2004 Traylor ran for Commission Chairman for Paulding County Georgia He was the owner of a Dallas Georgia storage company called RWT Enterprises Traylor died of a heart attack on September 22 2004 aged 41 at his home in Dallas Georgia He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016 with his wife and daughters accepting the award on his behalf