After originally playing the role of DiBiase's bodyguard, Virgil turned babyface and went on to win the Million Dollar Championship from DiBiase at SummerSlam 1991.

The Virgil-DiBiase feud included a March 1991 match at WrestleMania VII that ended in a count-out win for Virgil. It reached its peak at SummerSlam later that year, when he pinned DiBiase for the ...

Michael Jones, known to professional wrestling fans as Virgil, the dour bodyguard of WWE star “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, died Wednesday. He was 61.

WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase spoke about his feud with the late Virgil, and what he wishes was different in the storyline that happened three decades ago.

Arguably the pinnacle of Virgil’s wrestling career came at the 1991 SummerSlam, where he defeated DiBiase to win the Million Dollar Championship.

Michael Jones, who was best known as Ted DiBiase's bodyguard Virgil in WWF in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died at age 61.

Between 1986-1995, Jones was known in the WWE as the bodyguard for Ted DiBiase. Virgil eventually beat DiBiase for the Million Dollar Championship at SummerSlam 1991.