WWE writer speaks on the passing of Ray "Big Bossman" Traylor
Submitted by Matthew Tremley on Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 12:00 PM EST







• The gentle man who dispensed hard time
  by Keith Elliot Greenberg
  
  Ray Traylor wanted a tattoo devoted to his wife, Angela, but was too superstitious to get one.
  
  He told me that if he officially inscribed Angela’s name on his flesh, he might put a jinx on their marriage. And Traylor – the hulking, billy club swinging Big Boss Man of World Wrestling Entertainment – was afraid to tinker with fate.
  
  I thought about that conversation earlier this week when I learned that the Boss Man had died of a massive heart attack. It was Angela who found his body in their home.
  
  At 42, he was three years younger than I am. And, despite his fame in the ring, I always viewed him as kind of a kid. Maybe it was his quiet way of speaking when he wasn’t waving his nightstick at the TV camera, and threatening to mete out “hard time” to an opponent. Or his ability to maintain an innocent countenance while describing some deviant act he’d witnessed as a prison guard. Or how he’d open his eyes wide and wondrously while we were joking around.
  
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  Credit: WWE.com
  

  
  

  
  
  

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