Last year, it was announced that Rhino and Bob Ryder would be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame during their Bound For Glory weekend. However, Matt Hardy later divulged on his podcast that another name was also considered, with former NFL player Monty Brown suggested internally as an inductee. Yet this wouldn’t be possible as Brown couldn’t be located due to being “off the grid.”
Still, this is clearly no longer the case, as TNA co-founder Jeff Jarrett has shared a photograph taken prior to this week’s Dynamite taping in Detroit, alongside PWI’s 2004 Rookie of the Year.
After an ankle injury ended his NFL career, Brown would begin training under Dan Severn and Sabu, becoming a professional wrestler in the early 2000s. From there, he would have two runs in TNA wrestling against names like Christian Cage, Jeff Hardy, and Abyss on pay-per-view. This would, therefore, put him on WWE’s radar, and he became part of their ECW brand in 2006 under the new ring name Marcus Cor Von, although he unselfishly opted to retire the following year to raise his sister’s children after she sadly passed away.
