Dwayne Bruce

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Dwayne Bruce is a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker.

[edit] Career

As Sergeant Buddy Lee Parker, Dwayne Bruce wrestled in WCW with his tag partner Lieutenant James Earl Wright as 'The State Patrol.' He became a member of the Dungeon of Doom under the short-lived identity Braun The Leprechaun before being repackaged as Military Man Jack Boot. Boot only lasted a short time before Buddy Lee Parker returned, this time as a Military Sergeant. Bruce's final wrestling persona was simply The Sarge, and after this, he became a trainer at the official WCW wrestling school, the Power Plant. He would occasionally pop up on WCW Saturday Night as enhancement talent during his lesser famed career, and WCW commentators would credit him multiple times for training the highly popular Bill Goldberg. Towards the end of WCW, Bruce was involved in a somewhat major storyline where he teamed up with Goldberg to wrestle against Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell.

Bruce also made an appearance on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. When Theroux asked him about the use of storylines in wrestling, Bruce became enraged, forcing Theroux to do sit ups until he was physically sick, in a misguided attempt to prove that wrestling was "real". It is generally accepted ^{[citation needed]} in the wrestling community, however, that he did not prove wrestling is real, just that he is a "contemptible prat" ^{[citation needed]}.

WWE Superstar Batista also claimed in the August 2006 issue of WWE Magazine that Bruce told him that he didn't have what it took to be a successful pro wrestler.