Over time, Darsow said he began getting mixed reactions as Repo Man, with some in the crowd loving him and some hating him. At one point, McMahon reportedly wanted Darsow to portray Doink the Clown, but the former tag champion left the WWF after McMahon wouldn’t turn him face. He wound up signing with WCW in 1994.

“Ric Flair was the booker then,” Darsow said. “Ric came up to me and [said], ‘Barry, I want you to be a bully somehow. A trucker. I just want you to be a mean truck driver. Come up with a name for yourself.'”

Darsow recalled getting in touch with Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton and, over some beers, brainstorming up a new name for the incoming performer. The retired wrestler credited Anderson as being the one to come up with Darsow’s new ring name.

“Just right out of the blue, [he] looks at me and he goes, ‘You’re the Blacktop Bully,'” Darsow shared. “And I looked at him and I said, ‘Arn, that’s the greatest name of all time.'”

Flair loved the idea, and it wasn’t long before Darsow was booked in WCW as the Blacktop Bully rather than his real name. However, after a match against Dustin Rhodes at WCW Uncensored 1995, Darsow and Rhodes were both fired. The two men used blood in their match — something that was strictly forbidden in WCW at the time. Though he would later return to WCW, that was the end of the Blacktop Bully.

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