Last month, 59-year-old Mike Jones, best known for his time in WWE as Virgil, shared the unfortunate news that he’d recently suffered two strokes and been diagnosed with dementia. Sadly he has now disclosed further miserable information, revealing he also has stage 2 colon cancer and has requested that fans help him via Paypal. And by clicking the link, he explains he has already spent $5721 on medical bills, and subsequent procedures will cost him $3400. It’s also noted that WWE doesn’t help him and that he currently receives $862 a month from social security to live on. As of writing, he has received $2145 from generous fans.
Jones first began wrestling in 1985 as Soul Train Jones before working as an enhancement talent for WWE in 1986. The following year, after impressing WWE management, he’d be given his big break becoming the bodyguard of Ted DiBiase and was renamed Virgil, which was a shot at Dusty Rhodes, whose real name was Virgil Runnels. Over the next several years, he’d be a heavily featured performer working alongside DiBiase and then feuded with him. Then following his release in the mid-90s and spell on the indies, he’d sign for WCW in 1996, going by the new name Vincent, chosen to mock Vince McMahon.
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