"FLY BOY"  ROCCO ROCK
Height: 6'2
Weight: 245 lbs.
Hometown: Woodbridge, NJ
Finisher: The Table-Bomb
Birthdate: Aug 5, 1963 Debut: 1985
EARLY DAYS BELIEVE IT OR NOT, TED PETTY (a.k.a Rocco Rock) GRADUATED FROM RUTGERS UNIVERSTY, WITH A DEGREE IN NUTRITION. WHILE IN RUTGERS, PETTY COMPETED ON THE RUTGERS WRESTLING TEAM. AFTER MANY VICTORIES, PETTY JOINED THE MANAGEMENT TEAM AND BECAME A TRAINER. AFTER HIS ACADEMIC COLLEGE DAYS, PETTY JUMPED INTO A NEW RING (WHICH HE WOULD FIND HIMSELF DOING VERY MUCH IN THE FUTURE) AND ACTUALLY BECAME A BOXER. AS HE TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD, PETTY FAIRED WELL IN HIS NEW MEDIUM, BUT IT BEGAN TO TAKE ITS TOLL, SO PETTY BEGAN TO START LOOKING FOR A NEW PROFFESSION. SO HE BEGAN ALTERING BOXING RINGS TO SELL THEM TO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING PROMOTERS, AS THERE WAS NO MAJOR COMPANIES TO PURCHASE THEM FROM. TED GOT HIS FIRST WRESTLING CONNECTION BY BUILDING MANY OF THE WRESTLING RINGS THAT ARE STILL BEING USED TODAY. SOON AFTER, HE ENROLLED INTO THE WILD SAMOAN WRESTLING SCHOOL, UNDER THE TUTALAGE OF AFA ANOIA, THE WILD SAMOAN.  PETTY BEGAN WRESTLING AROUND THE WORLD AS THE CHEETAH KID AND FOUND GREAT SUCCESS IN JAPAN. IN AND OUT OF THE STATES, THE CHEETAH KID BEGAN TO RACK UP VICTORIES, BUT EVENTUALLY GOT STALE. LIKE ANY OTHER GIMMICK OF THE TIME, THE FANS STARTED TO LOSE INTEREST IN THE CHEETAH KID, SO TED PETTY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT CHANGING HIS CHARACTER. THE PUBLIC ENEMY WHEN WRESTLING FIRST BECAME POPULAR IN THE 198O' S, MIKE DURHAM MOVED NORTH, FROM LOUISIANA TO NEW JERSEY, WHERE PROFFESSIONAL WRESTLING WRESTLING WAS STARTING TO BOOM. AFTER TRYING OUT IN MANY INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS, DURHAM MET TED PETTY WHO WAS WRESTLING AS THE CHEETAH KID. THE 2 FORMED THE TEAM OF PUBLIC ENEMY, ROCCO ROCK AND JOHNNY GRUNGE IN 1993, IN WOODBRIDGE, NJ, DEBUTING IN THE UWF WRESTLING PROMOTION. IN 1994, THE PUBLIC ENEMY DECIDED TO TRY OUT IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANNIA'S EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING (SOON TO BECOME EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.) THE PUBLIC ENEMY SOON BECAME THE MAIN EVENTERS ALONG WITH RAVEN, TOMMY DREAMER AND THE SANDMAN AT E.C.W.,  TOGETHER, THEY MADE THE ENTIRE AMERICAN WRESTLING INDUSTRY CHANGE BY CREATING A WHOLE DIFFERENT STYLE OF PROFFESSIONAL WRESTLING. WHEN THE PUBLIC ENEMY WAS IN E.C.W., THEY FOUGHT AND BATTLED THEIR WAY THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST HARDCORE WRESTLING STYLE MATCHES AMERICA HAD EVER SEEN, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, RIVALING ONLY A FEW UNDERGROUND PROMOTIONS IN JAPAN. AT TIMES P.E. WERE EVEN TOO EXTREME FOR E.C.W. HISTORY AND WERE ASKED TO TONE THINGS DOWN, BY PROMOTER PAUL HEYMAN.  THE PUBLIC ENEMY ARE FIVE-TIME EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD. WCW AFTER COMPETING, IN EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS, P.E. LEFT TO JOIN THE ATLANTA, GEORGIA BASED PROFFESIONAL WRESTLING ORGANIZATION,  WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, OR W.C.W. THE PUBLIC ENEMY - MADE THIER W.C.W DEBUT, ON JANUARY 15, 1996 ON W.C.W. MONDAY NITRO, FACING AND DEFEATING THE AMERICAN MALES, MARCUS "BUFF" BAGWELL, AND SCOTTTY RIGGS. AFTER DEFEATING, THE AMERICAN MALES, ROCK AND GRUNGE MADE THIER OPENING IMPACT ON W.C.W. BY HITTING BOTH MEMBERS OF THE MALES WITH THEIR TRADEMARK FINISHING MANUVUER, "THE DIVE BY," ONTO TWO TABLES, FROM THE TOP TURN BUCKLE TO THE ARENA FLOOR.  AFTER, ABOUT A YEAR, ROCCO ROCK AND JOHNNY GRUNGE, ON MONDAY NITRO,  SEPTEMBER 22, 1996, THE PUBLIC ENEMY DEFEATED THEN W.C.W TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS, BOOKER T & STEVIE RAY, HARLEM HEAT, TO BECOME WCW CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD  ECW AFTER RETURNING TO ECW FOR ABOUT 1 MONTH, AND FEUDING WITH THE DUDLEY BOYS, THE PUBLIC ENEMY JUMPED TO BEGIN WRESTLING FOR THE WWF. WWF P.E.'s ANGLE INVOLVED OTHER WRESTLERS FROM THE WWF NOT ACCEPTING THEM BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY WERE IN ECW, AND WCW. AFTER COMPETING IN THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION FOR ONLY A FEW WEEKS, THE PUBLIC ENEMY RECIEVED A BETTER OFFER TO RETURN TO THE NOW TROUBLED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, TO TRY TO IMPROVE TALENT, RE-START A TAG TEAM DIVISION AND TO FORM A HARDCORE DIVISION. BUT FIRST, ROCCO ROCK WOULD STOP BY AND CHILL WITH FELLOW HOME-BOY, KENNY CASANOVA. NBW On April 9th, 1999, at Spring Slamfest '99, Kenny Casanova was acting as a ring announcer, due to a contractual obligation by NBW Commisioner Mike Cappano, to "keep him out of trouble for the evening."  But this did not stop The Prince of Passion. Casanova had WCW's Power Company destroy the team of Rodney Allen & Danger, then surprised the world as Fly Boy Rocco Rock stormed to ringside. Kenny left his announcing position and aided Rocco Rock into a bloodlust victory over Little Bud Liscious. WCW ON JULY, 18, 1999, THE PUBLIC ENEMY MADE THEIR WCW RETURN DEBUT, COMPETING IN WCW BASH AT THE BEACH PAY PER VIEW. IN TAMPA, FLORIDA P.E.'S RETURN WAS AT THE JUNKYARD INVITATIONAL MATCH. A BOUT THAT WAS CHALLENGED AND SET UP BY HARDCORE HAK, AKA THE SANDMAN, JIM FULLINGTON.  USA Pro Wrestling Rocco Rock, now trying his luck as a singles competitor, met up again with Kenny Casanova in the Spring of 2000. Due to his lack of contact with Kenny Casanova (and Rocco's resistence to recognize Karaoke as a professional sport) The Prince of Passion turned the tables on The FLy Boy and had his re-found protege, Danger, beat the flying snot out of him.