If yâall been watching my posts youâll know that I post a lot about Mike Posey, considering you may only know him as that ref Athena likes. I be Posey Posting, but I have a good reason for this.
Let's take a look at the man behind the striped polo.
Here he is as an America themed gimp with a penchant for flailing his arms around in 2001.
Here he is in a bow tie and dress shirt that doesn't fit reffing a match in 2002.
Here he is again in 2002 this time wrestling in a ref shirt before fucking dying I assume after the real ref gets bumped and another ref comes out to ref the new match which is the original ref vs Mike's original opponent.
Here he is in 2004 in TNA reffing a match in the getup from earlier before he gets bumped and pulls out his "one good dropkick", and it's fucking beautiful if you ask me, AJ styles ain't got a communion wafer on this shit.
Here he is in 2005 hanging out with a faction called 3 Guys Who Totally Rule. Side note, the gentleman in the glasses is Salvatore Rinauro and yes he is the guy who pulled down Punk's trunks in FIP.
And here he is that same year for CyberFights.
This is him in 2011 as part of a stable called Jimmy Rave Approved infighting with cake in a softball field.
Here he is in 2013 freestyling and then losing a rap battle to my BOY Slim J (who needs his own timeline such as this one, let's be honest) after stealing his gimmick and becoming Slim P.
Here he is rapping again in 2017, this time in a durag for some reason. Important to note that he was getting billed as P Dog at this time.
Here he is getting sweaty and showing off his core muscles in quarantine. 2020 is also the year he wrestled his last real match.
Here he is in 2022 during the FTR/Briscoes double dog collar match after Dax Harwood paid him to take a ref bump so hard that he started bleeding (I'm assuming so he wouldn't be the only one in the ring not busted open).
Aaaaaand here he is on the 2023 Jericho cruise reffing a match between Eddie Kingston and Ryan Nemeth of all people before he takes a bump from Nemeth, tears his shirt off in a rage, and pins Ryan in 5 seconds while Eddie wears his little bitty shirt like a scarf. Then he gets up, catches his shirt which Eddie throws at him, and counts Ryan down for the pin after Eddie knocks his ass out.
So yeah what I'm trying to say is that Mike Posey has probably had a more interesting and varied career than your fav and you should appreciate him every time you see his face on your television.