Sign Guy Dudley
Lou D'Angeli performing as "Lou E. Dangerously" in Extreme Championship Wrestling in August 2000.
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| Birth name | Lou D'Angeli |
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| Born |
August 19, 1972 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, US |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Lou E. Dangerously Sign Guy Dudley |
| Billed from | "Dudleyville" |
| Debut | 1995 |
| Retired | 2003 |
Lou D'Angeli (born August 19, 1972) is an American marketing professional and retired professional wrestling manager. He is the current Director of Marketing and Public Relations for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He is best known for his appearances with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995 to 2001 under the ring names Sign Guy Dudley and Lou E. Dangerously.
Before being publicly hired by ECW, D'Angeli was an ECW "fan" that came dressed like a Dudley family member, holding up signs like "Welcome to Dudley World" and sitting near other very well known ECW fans like Hat Guy and the original ECW Sign Guy. In reality, D'Angeli was already on ECW's payroll and was planted in the crowd to further the Dudley Family angle. D'Angeli would go on to be trained as a manager by Tommy Dreamer and Tazz.
D'Angeli started out in ECW as Sign Guy Dudley, the manager of the Dudley Boyz and member of the Dudley family. He led Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley to 8 ECW World Tag Team Championship reigns before they left for World Wrestling Federation (WWf).
After leaving the Dudleys, D'Angeli became a rip-off character of his boss, Paul Heyman, called "Lou E. Dangerously", with the gimmick of a giant cell phone (Heyman's ring name when a manager in World Championship Wrestling and early ECW was Paul E. Dangerously). As Dangerously, D'Angeli is known for several run-ins with Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins. On 22 July 2000, Corgan took to the ring at a match in Peoria, Illinois to play the national anthem, but Dangerously interrupted and harangued him, ending in Corgan hitting him over the head with an acoustic guitar. D'Angeli managed the tag team of Julio Dinero and EZ Money, which became Hot Commodity with the addition of Chris Hamrick and Elektra. He also managed Chris Chetti for a short stint in late 2000. D'Angeli appeared onstage before a Smashing Pumpkins gig in Philadelphia in October 2007, baiting the crowd.
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