BIXBY

He started wrestling at an early age.  His main inspiration was “The Incredible Hulk” TV show and he felt like taking something from the show as his stage/ring persona.  “Hulk” Hogan was fairly big at the time, so instead of copying that guy, he went with the name Bixby.  It was a strange name, plus it had an “x” in it and he’d always liked “x’s.”

 

 

 

No one ever bothered telling him that Bixby was the actor’s name who played Bruce Banner, the non-Hulk counterpart.  Everyone always assumed that he knew that.  Surely, if he was such a big fan of the TV show, he’s know that, right?  Well, he didn’t.  He’d always thought that the Hulk actor was named Bixby.  Sadly, no one ever told him.  Not his managers, his agents, his trainers or sparring partners, nobody.  They all were on the same page as him.  Why would a wrestler go by the name Ferrigno?




-SLL