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If you don’t know who Mr. T is then you’re a ‘fool’
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21, 1952) is an American actor and former wrestler known for his roles as Sgt. Bosco “B.A.” Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team and as boxer “Clubber Lang” in the 1982 film, Rocky III. He is also well-known for his distinctive Mohawk hairstyle and for wearing an extreme amount of gold jewelry.

He played football, studied martial arts, and won a scholarship to Prairie View A&M University, Texas, and majored in mathematics but was thrown out after a year. After that he went to a couple of small Chicago colleges on athletic scholarships. After leaving college he was a Military Policeman in the U.S. Army before trying out for the Green Bay Packers.[citation needed] His professional football career was finished when he suffered a knee injury.
For about a decade, he was a bodyguard who provided additional security to such personalities as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Steve McQueen, and Diana Ross when they were in Chicago. He charged around $3,000 a day. His business card read, “Next to God, there is no greater protector than I”

He entered the world of professional wrestling in 1985. He was Hulk Hogan’s tag-team partner at the first WrestleMania. Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T endangered the main event of WrestleMania I between them and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff because when he arrived and security would not let his large entourage into the building, he threatened to walk out. Hogan claims he had to personally talk Mr. T into staying and performing. Piper has said that he and other fellow wrestlers resented Mr. T because he was an actor and had not paid his dues as a professional wrestler. Mr. T later took on Bob Orton in a boxing match on an episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event on NBC. This ultimately culminated in another boxing match against Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 2. He returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987, before disappearing from the wrestling world. He reappeared as a special referee for a Hogan-Ric Flair match, seven years later in World Championship Wrestling, in October 1994.