Road Dogg apparently isn’t buying the idea that Mercedes Moné belongs anywhere near the top of the all-time women’s wrestling list. When one wrestling personality called Mercedes the greatest women’s wrestler ever, Road Dogg responded by comparing her to a barely remembered Attitude Era performer.
The whole thing actually started after The Ringer Wrestling Show host Kazeem Famuyide responded to a post asking whether Mercedes is the greatest women’s wrestler of all time. Famuyide didn’t hesitate.
“Easily.”
Road Dogg took to Twitter and strongly disagreed with that assessment and made sure Famuyide knew it. Instead of offering another legendary women’s wrestler as his pick, Road Dogg compared Mercedes to Barbara Bush while tagging X-Pac.
“Me and you are gonna STRONGLY DISAGREE here Kaz. She’s Barbara Bush @TheRealXPac”
That comparison is a pretty brutal one. Barbara Bush was the ring name briefly used by Catherine Dingman, also known as B.B., during the WWF Attitude Era. She initially appeared as an EMT in several television segments before becoming an on-screen performer herself.
B.B. eventually became involved in WWF’s women’s division, but her run was extremely short and was largely built around the kind of sexualized segments the company regularly featured during that era. She competed in matches including the Evening Gown Pool match at Armageddon and appeared in several angles before Bubba Ray Dudley powerbombed her through a table in February 2000. That ended up being her final WWF appearance before her release.
She certainly wasn’t presented as one of the major women’s wrestlers of her generation, which makes Road Dogg’s choice of comparison hard to miss. Putting Mercedes—one of the most decorated women’s wrestlers of the modern era—in the same conversation with B.B. was essentially Road Dogg’s way of completely dismissing Famuyide’s GOAT argument.
Road Dogg could have simply said Mercedes isn’t the greatest ever. Comparing her to an obscure Attitude Era performer who barely had a wrestling run at all takes the disagreement somewhere way more disrespectful.
Do you think Road Dogg went too far with his Mercedes Moné comparison, or do you think people overrate her place among wrestling’s all-time greats? Let us know in the comments.
