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Mike Bucci

マイク・ブッチ　/　まいく・ぶっち

American professional wrestler

June 5, 1972 (age 54)　・　Toms River, New Jersey, United States

New Jersey
professional wrestler

My Take

Mike Bucci fascinates me as a study in reinvention. The same man who tore it up in ECW as the gritty Nova later morphed into the smug fitness heel Simon Dean in WWE, and pulling off two such opposite personas takes real performer's intelligence. At 178 cm he was never the biggest guy in the locker room, which tells me he survived on character work and ring smarts rather than raw size. I have a soft spot for wrestlers like this, the craftsmen who understand that the job is storytelling first. His career reads like a quiet masterclass in adaptability.

Overview

Michael Bucci (born June 5, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) as Nova, Super Nova, and "Hollywood" Nova and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Simon Dean.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Mike Bucci
Name (Japanese): マイク・ブッチ
Reading: まいく・ぶっち
Born: June 5, 1972 (age 54)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Gemini / Rat
Origin: Toms River, New Jersey, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: 178 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: professional wrestler

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%83%E3%83%81

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