Lou D'Angeli

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Lou D'Angeli
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Lou E. Dangerously Sign Guy Dudley
Billed height	5 ft 10 in
Billed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Resides	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Debut	1995

Lou D'Angeli (aka Sign Guy Dudley & Lou E. Dangerously) is a Professional wrestling manager who is best known for his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling. He is also known for his work in CZW, PWF & MECW.

1 Career
2 Wrestlers Managed by D'Angeli
3 In wrestling
- 3.1 Nicknames
- 3.2 Illegal weapons
4 External links

[edit] Career

Before being publicly hired by ECW, Lou D'Angeli was an ECW "fan" that came dressed like a Dudley family member, holding up signs and sitting near other very well known ECW fans like Hat Guy and the original ECW Sign Guy. In reality, D'Angeli was already on ECW's payroll and was planted in the crowd to further the Dudley Family angle. D'Angeli would go on to be trained as manager by Tommy Dreamer and Tazz.

D'Angeli started out in ECW as Sign Guy Dudley, the manager of the Dudley Boyz and member of the Dudley family. He led Buh Buh Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley to 8 ECW Tag Team Championship reigns before they left for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Lou then became a rip-off character of his boss, Paul Heyman, called Lou E. Dangerously. (Heyman's ring name was Paul E. Dangerously while a manager in World Championship Wrestling and early ECW.)

Dangerously is best known for several run-ins with Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins. The D'Angeli/Corgan storylines were covered by MTV, Rolling Stone magazine, Launch, and many other mainstream media outlets. D'Angeli and Corgan are often seen together at wrestling and music events, including WrestleMania 21, 22, 23 and several other Hollywood type events.

On October 22 and 23 (2007) D'Angeli appeared on-stage with The Smashing Pumpkins in Philadelphia. On the first night, D'Angeli berated the crowd before the band went on in classic ECW fashion. The crowd ate it up. Later in the night Corgan announced it was just him and D'Angeli having some fun and Billy dedicated the Pumpkins smash hit "1979" to Lou. The following night things were very different. The Pumpkins were playing both an acoustic and electric set. D'Angeli introduced the band prior to the acoustic set. Prior the electric set D'Angeli came out with incense, bottled water, a table, stool, and microphone and began reading poetry to the confused crowd. The crowd started to boo D'Angeli and every time they did that D'Angeli would start the poem over again. The theatrics of the entire stunt received some internet coverage and very good reviews. It was noted in several places that after the show D'Angeli would express disgust for not being able to read his poetry. It is rumored that audio and video of this stunt exist. The chapter between Corgan and D'Angeli continues.

When ECW went bankrupt, Lou went to work for other pro wrestling companies such as CZW, PWF & MECW. At one point D'Angeli was working with Steve Corino on booking the PWF. D'Angeli last appeared in a ring as a manager in February of 2003 with Alexis Laree (Mickie James) and Justin Credible. D'Angeli had a cameo at the 2006 WWE ECW One Night Stand PPV in NYC when Rob Van Dam defeated John Cena for the WWE Title.

More recently D'Angeli appeared as part of Montel Vontavious Porter's entourage on WWE Saturday Night's Main Event from Madison Square Garden when Evander Holyfield, in place of MVP, had a boxing match with Matt Hardy. D'Angeli did not appear as any former character, but more of a "suit" in the corner of MVP & Holyfield.

D'Angeli currently works for World Wrestling Entertainment in marketing. Prior to working for WWE and after ECW, D'Angeli worked for Comcast-Spectacor/Global Spectrum as Director of Marketing and Assistant General Manager in several arenas throughout the United States.

Outside of WWE it is rumored that D'Angeli is working on a book (non-wrestling)and several screen plays.^{[citation needed]}