Mike Bucci Michael Bucci ( June 5 , 1972 ) is an American professional wrestler . He previously appeared on the WWE Raw and SmackDown ! brands with a fitness instructor gimmick , under the ring name Simon Dean ( a name inspired by the real name of former wrestler and current WWE Producer Dean Malenko ) . He previously performed as Nova or Super Nova in Extreme Championship Wrestling , Ultimate Pro Wrestling , Phoenix Championship Wrestling , World Wrestling All - Stars and Ohio Valley Wrestling . Career . After graduating in 1990 from Toms River High School East in Toms River , New Jersey , he attended nearby Ocean County College for a few semesters . There he met a friend and his friend informed him of a wrestling school in nearby Brick Township , New Jersey , run by " Iron " Mike Sharpe . Bucci trained at the school and officially went pro in 1992 . Bucci ' s first taste of superstar exposure came between 1992 and 1994 , when WWF Chairman Vince McMahon used talent from various promotions as jobbers to various up and coming superstars on WWF programming . During his time spent in Mike Sharpes wrestling school Bucci was wrestling as a superhero with a mullet , his attire included a star over his right eye and a sparkly blue cape . Bucci sparked the interest of Raven , at the time Raven was looking to put together a new stable known as The Flock in Extreme Championship Wrestling and asked Bucci to appear at the ECW Arena in South Philadelphia . Extreme Championship Wrestling . Upon his arrival in ECW , Bucci was immediately paired with Raven , Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie in the Flock . His first exposure to the crowd was as a member of KISS where they came out to Kiss ' s hit " Rock and Roll All Night " and did the bump and strut with air guitars . Although it was to be a garner for heat with the crowd , it was an immediate hit . Later a quote was stated to have been said by Bubba Ray Dudley in the " " Rise and Fall of ECW " " book , " that was great the crowd really loved it , the only thing better than that would be . . . a parody of the nWo . " Bucci along with Stevie asked permission from both Raven and Paul Heyman to parody the nWo , it was granted , and Bucci was given credit with the creation of the bWo logo . Bucci would parody Hollywood Hogan , after a dispute between Raven and Richards , where Richards said " if he ' s Hogan fans ' ll think he ' s the leader of The Flock " , Raven than said , " Fuck it . . . he ' s Hogan " , ( and was originally introduced by Stevie as " Hollywood Bob Star " ) . While Richards became " Big Stevie Cool " ( a takeoff on Kevin Nash ' s nickname of " Big Daddy Cool " ) , and Meanie was " Da Blue Guy " , a takeoff on Scott Hall , " Da Bad Guy " . Between 1996 and 1998 many other members were added and removed before the team broke up in 1998 . In 1998 he along with many other ECW talent competed at Jersey All Pro Wrestling ' s 1st anniversary show . Bucci was known for having a unique and creative move set , and was called by Joey Styles " the most imitated man in wrestling " and the " inNOVAtor of Offense " by Jeremy Borash due to the fact that almost all his moves were copied by other wrestlers in the business . In late 2000 through early 2001 he started a heated rivalry with his former tag partner Chris Chetti , who he won a loser is fired match against , his last televised appearance in ECW was at their last pay - per view as a company at the 2001 ECW Guilty as Charged . At the second to last ECW event in Poplar Bluff , MO , he was named as Danny Doring ' s tag team partner to help defend the ECW tag titles against Hot Commodity filling in for an injured Amish Roadkill , and won . Independent circuit and Ohio Valley Wrestling . From the purchase of ECW by the WWF in 2001 , Bucci wrestled in various promotions until 2003 . Bucci wrestled in places such as California ' s Ultimate Pro Wrestling , and New Jersey ' s , Phoenix Championship Wrestling . During this time he formed a tag team with Frankie Kazarian known as Evolution . Through most of the promotions they competed for , they were successful in becoming tag team champions . He also briefly wrestled in Australia based World Wrestling All - Stars where he feuded with A . J . Styles amongst other " cruiserweights " for the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship , which he did not win . In late 2001 , he even worked a number of shows in England . In April 2002 Bucci received a phone call by WWE ( formerly WWF ) to partake in a developmental program at Ohio Valley Wrestling . In May 2002 , Bucci , beat Prototype and became the OVW Heavyweight Champion , as Nova . He held the title for half a year before losing the title to Damaja . It was around this time he was called up to start competing in SmackDown ! dark matches and on WWE Velocity . Also he was asked by WWE management , mainly Stephanie McMahon , to cut his hair because he supposedly looked too much like Triple H . He then began to try out a Richard Simmons - like fitness expert type gimmick . World Wrestling Entertainment . In his debut for World Wrestling Entertainment , he portrayed the gimmick of a physical - fitness guru named Simon Dean in the vein of numerous infomercials . Introductory promos showed him " selling " his " Simon System , " a supposed program of diet , exercise , and supplementation . The promos parodied fitness infomercials , as Simon routinely insulted his supposed customers . The promos went so far as to provide an actual telephone number to call and order the Simon System ; however , unlike virtually all infomercials , the number was not toll - free . People who called the number wound up hearing a WWE promotional message . During this gimmick he acted as the sponsor of " WWE Raw " , occasionally wrestling after first insulting the fitness of the crowd and the area in which they were located . After not making much of an impact on " RAW " in March , 2005 he formed a tag team with fellow heel wrestler Maven who supposedly was a user of the " Simon System " . The team again didn ' t make much of an impact as Bucci was traded to SmackDown ! on June 30 , 2005 and Maven was released the next month . During a WWE produced ECW PPV , One Night Stand 2005 , Bucci returned as Hollywood Nova with Da Blue Guy and Big Stevie Cool as the bWo . During the event , Joey Styles made a reference to his " Simon Dean " character . After Bucci was hit with two chairs , Styles said , " That ' s more painful than having to be Simon Dean on national TV . " When Bucci moved to " SmackDown ! " as part of the WWE Draft he joined the other members of the bWo , appearing as " Hollywood " Nova for his first appearance on the show . His next appearance for the brand was wrestling on its sister show , WWE Velocity as Simon Dean . The general belief was that the bWo appearance was going to be a one off , meaning Bucci would keep to his " health sponsor " gimmick , but it was next announced that the bWo would participate in a 6 - man tag match at the Great American Bash against The Mexicools . The announcement of this match occurred on the same edition of " SmackDown ! " that Bucci ' s Simon Dean character had a match with Booker T . At the 2005 Great American Bash , the bWo lost to the Mexicools ( Juventud , Psicosis and Super Crazy ) in the six - man tag team match . The appearance of the bWo soon faded . With no mention of The Blue Meanie staying with the company and Richards returning to his previous heel gimmick , Bucci continued with the Simon Dean persona . In late August 2005 the Simon Dean character began coming to the ring on the " Dean Machine " ( a Segway HT type machine ) and force feeding " Simon System " products to jobbers who wouldn ' t accept his offer to try them after defeating them in squash matches . The Simon Dean character had his first major WWE pay - per - view appearance at WWE No Mercy , in a loss against Bobby Lashley . After the match Simon ate 20 double cheeseburgers which caused him to vomit backstage . Dean has been noted on his recent appearances as the " Head of Smackdown ' s welcoming committee " , a position in which he was used as a jobber to debuting wrestlers . During the January 6 episode of " SmackDown ! " , Dean came to the ring and challenged any tag team . Paul London and Brian Kendrick answered the challenge , only to be brutally attacked by The Gymini ( Jake and Jesse ) , two " users " of The Simon System . Dean began managing the team , but the team soon faded off television , after Jesse suffered an injury in May 2006 and Dean went back to jobbing to other superstars . Bucci became assistant booker for Deep South Wrestling , LLC and moved closer to the area , where he worked on another gimmick to mask that of the Simon Dean character before becoming head of talent for WWE . Bucci was released from his WWE contract in 2007 . Independent Circuit ( 2007 - Present ) . Bucci now works as a licensed mortgage broker throughout the United States . Although he has received offers to wrestle in various places , he had yet to do so , stating his inability to be entertaining in the ring in any way as an excuse , but still has love for his fans . He has claimed he may and then said he will definitely do some shows on the independent circuit next year , but is now focusing on real estate and his family as heard in a November 2008 interview . In April 2009 , he along with many other ECW alumni had appeared at 1 Pro Wrestling ' s " To The Extreme " weekend event , where he teamed with the Blue Meanie for his first in - ring performances in nearly 3 years . Total Nonstop Actioni Wrestling ( 2010 - Present ) . It was reported that Bucci and The Blue Meanie had signed contracts with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on February 10 , 2010 , with thoughts of reforming the Blue World Order in light of TNA ' s re - creating of the nWo as " The Band " . In wrestling . Finishing and signature moves