98. MVP

Alvin Burke’s wrestling career did not begin until after he served over nine years in prison for armed robbery.  While in jail, he befriended a corrections officer who wrestled part-time, and after he was released, the future MVP entered the world of professional wrestling.

Beginning his career in 2002, MVP signed with the WWE as a developmental wrestler three years later.  In 2007, he was packaged as Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP), a pastiche of egocentric football/basketball players, who cared more about looking good than performing good.  It was a great gimmick, and he won the United States and World Tag Team Titles and was a string mid-card performer.

MVP sought his release so that he could go to Japan, and he won a tournament to become the inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion.  He would later work for TNA, leading a stable that included Bobby Lashley.

In 2020, MVP returned to the WWE, and as of this writing, MVP is managing Lashley, and showing the wrestling world that few can match him with a microphone.  It is very possible it is this run, although he rarely wrestles, that could get him into the WWE Hall of Fame.