page_title: Dan Spivey
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Spivey
caption_attribution_description: English: Dan Spivey as "Waylon Mercy" prepares to wrestle at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Taken October 4, 1995.
context_page_description: Daniel Eugene Spivey is an American retired professional wrestler best known under the ring names "Dangerous" Dan Spivey, Dangerous Dan The Left Hand Man, Danny Spivey, and Waylon Mercy, and initially worked under the name Starship Eagle. Throughout his career he has worked extensively for World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He retired from wrestling in 1995 due to injuries and now works in alcoholism counselling in his native Florida.
  Spivey spent a lot of his career as part of various tag teams and is especially known in the U.S. for teaming with Sid Vicious as "The Skyscrapers in WCW and teaming with Mike Rotunda to form The American Express in WWF. He started his career teaming with Starship Coyote, collectively known as "American Starship". In Japan he teamed with various wrestlers over the years winning the World Tag Team Championship with Stan Hansen and teaming with Johnny Ace for long periods of time.
  His last wrestling persona, Waylon Mercy, was inspired by Robert De Niro's portrayal of Max Cady in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear.
context_section_description: Daniel Eugene Spivey (born October 14, 1952) is an American retired professional wrestler best known under the ring names "Dangerous" Dan Spivey, Dangerous Dan The Left Hand Man, Danny Spivey, and Waylon Mercy, and initially worked under the name Starship Eagle. Throughout his career he has worked extensively for  World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He retired from wrestling in 1995 due to injuries and now works in alcoholism counselling in his native Florida.
  Spivey spent a lot of his career as part of various tag teams and is especially known in the U.S. for teaming with Sid Vicious as "The Skyscrapers in WCW and teaming with Mike Rotunda to form The American Express in WWF. He started his career teaming with Starship Coyote, collectively known as "American Starship". In Japan he teamed with various wrestlers over the years winning the World Tag Team Championship with Stan Hansen and teaming with Johnny Ace for long periods of time.
  His last wrestling persona, Waylon Mercy, was inspired by Robert De Niro's portrayal of Max Cady in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear. While he only worked a few matches under that name, he later inspired the creation of the Bray Wyatt character as Spivey worked with Windham Rotunda to initially develop it.
caption: Spivey as Waylon Mercy in October 1995
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