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Mike Bucci (born June 5, 1972 in Toms River, New Jersey) is a professional wrestler performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand appearing both as "Hollywood" Nova, one third of the blue World order, and as Simon Dean, a fitness instructor (with a name possibly inspired by the real name [Dean Simon] of former wrestler and current WWE road agent Dean Malenko). He previously performed as Simon Dean on the RAW brand and as Nova or Super Nova in Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Career
ECW
Bucci made a name for himself while wrestling in ECW as Super Nova. He was a flunkie of Stevie Richards, who was a flunkie for Raven. Nova, Richards and The Blue Meanie did several hilarious skits where they imitated other people. For a time, they all dressed up as the hard rock band KISS. Their most well-known was the Blue World Order (bWo). They parodied the nWo and Richards was "Big Stevie Cool" (a takeoff on Kevin Nash's nickname of "Big Daddy Cool"), Meanie was "Da Blue Guy", a takeoff on Scott Hall, "Da Bad Guy," and Bucci was "Hollywood Nova", a takeoff of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan.
Bucci was known for having a very unique and creative move set, and was often called "the most imitaded man in wrestling" due to the fact that almost all his moves were copied by other wrestlers in the business.
WWE
In his debut for World Wrestling Entertainment, he portrayed the gimmick of a physical-fitness guru named Simon Dean in the vein of numerous infomercials. Introductory promos showed him "selling" his "Simon System," a supposed program of diet, exercise, and supplementation. The promos parodied fitness infomercials, as Simon routinely insulted his supposed customers. The promos went so far as to provide an actual telephone number to call and order the Simon System; however, unlike virtually all infomercials, the number was not toll-free. People who called the number wound up hearing a WWE promotional message.
During this gimmick he acted as the sponsor of WWE RAW occasional wrestling after first insulting the fitness of the crowd and the area in which they were located. After not making much of an impact on RAW he was teamed up with fellow heel wrestler Maven who supposedly was a user of the "Simon System," the team again didnt make much of an impact.
During a WWE produced ECW PPV, One Night Stand, Bucci returned as Hollywood Nova with Da Blue Guy and Big Stevie Cool as the bWo.
He was next moved to SmackDown! as part of the WWE Draft, leaving Maven and joining the other members of the bWo, appearing as "Hollywood" Nova for his first appearance on the show. His next appearance for the brand was wrestling on its sister show, WWE Velocity as Simon Dean. The general belief was that the bWo appearance was going to be a one off, meaning Bucci would keep to his "health sponsor" gimmick, but it was next annouced that the bWo would participate in a 6-man tag match at the Great American Bash against The Mexicools. The annoucement of this match occured on the same edition of SmackDown! that Bucci's Simon Dean character had a match with Booker T. At the 2005 Great American Bash, the bWo lost to the Mexicools (Juventud Guerrera, Psicosis and Super Crazy) in the six-man tag team match.
Profile
- Height: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
- Weight: 215 lb (98 kg)
- Birthday: June 5, 1972
- Hometown: Brick Township, New Jersey
- Billed from: Clearwater, Florida
- Trained by: Mike Sharpe
- Professional Debut: January 1991
- Previous Identities: Nova, Hollywood Nova, Super Nova, Mike Bucci, Co-Secretary of Defence Bash-me
- Previous Managers: Trudi DeNucci, Looney Lane, Chastity, "Big 80s" Donnie B.
Finishing and signature moves
Simon Dean
- The Simonizer (Modified spinning leghook fireman's carry slam)
- Curve Stomp (Modified surfboard hold with a stomp to the back)
"Hollywood" Nova
- '''Atomic Leg Drop'''
- Parodies of other attacks and taunts used by "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan
Nova/Super Nova
- '''Novacaine'''
- Kryptonite Krunch
- Super Kryptonite Krunch
- Spin Doctor (Rolling Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog)
- Deep Impact (Sitout Double Underhook Facebuster)
- Nova Blast (Blockbuster)
- DDT Squared (Reverse DDT)
- One Arm Bandit (One Armed Swinging Neckbreaker)
- Scream Machine (Electric Chair Bomb)
- Sledge-O-Matic (Powerbomb followed by elbow drop to groin)
- Smash Mouth (Powerbomb into Stunner)
- Nova Missile (Spear; victim is in corner)
- Elevator (Powerbomb; victim is face up across shoulders)
- Third Degree (two Rolling Piledrivers followed by a Spinning Sitout Powerbomb)
- Diamond Dust
- Senton Bomb
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