In his early wrestling days he had a short stint with the then WWF (World Wrestling Federation). Wearing bright yellow tights, knee pads and sporting long blonde hair he made it to _Wrestlemania II (1986) (V)_ as a participant in the twenty man battle royal. In the late eighties, he moved on to the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) as Dangerous Dan Spivey. There he would be a force to be reckoned with along with team mates Sid Vicious and Mean Mark Callous (WWE'S Undertaker) and managed by Teddy Long as the Sky Scrapers. Spivey, like his partners, was nearly seven feet tall and would wear black tights and black vests to the ring. During this time Dan still had long blonde hair but he would fix it in a spike style. He would always give a psychotic look to the camera and at the fans in the arena where ever he would wrestle. In the early 1990s he admitted using steroids. He took a break from the wrestling scene but in the early summer of 1995 he would return to the WWF as new wrestler named Waylon Mercy. A wrestler who wore Hawaiian shirts and dressed in white pants. As this new wrestler Dan sported the southern accent, had long black hair with little hair on the top but braced it back and had tattoos on his arms and a tattoo of a dagger on his forehead. Before actually wrestling on WWF television he would be in some promos saying that he is a peaceful man and what he is going to do in the ring. It wasn't too long after this that the wrestling world found out what he was like. He would come to the ring as a gentleman and shake hands with the referee and his opponent. After he would shake hands with his foe he would snap and attack him and then the match would be over. Dan Spivey's potential Waylon Mercy character was really never tested until at one of the first In Your House Pay Per View events where he fought Savio Vega (World Wrestling Council's TNT and WWF's Kwang) and lost by pinfall. After this, Mercy wasn't seen much on World Wrestling Federation TV and he retired in the fall due to an injury although he was in Monday Night RAW's new intro at the time. The WWF never clearly explained why Waylon Mercy disappeared.
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