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If you’ve ever listened to The Wrestling Album, the WWF’s 1985 curiosity that cast its muscled superstars as singers, you can hear why producer Rick Derringer figured he needed an actual vocalist for the 1987 follow-up, Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II. Sandwiched in among colorful rasslin’ managers like Jimmy Hart …

There was no more uplifting wrestling narrative in 2016 than career outlier James “Pretty Jimmy Dream” Ellsworth Morris’ rise through the ranks of WWE while performing as enhancement talent-done-good James Ellsworth. And a little over a year after his inauspicious debut against Braun Strowman, the company issued its most bittersweet …