Real Name - Kenneth Johnson
Birthdate - ?/?/??

Aliases - Brother Slim, Reverend Slick

Professional background - San Antonio(`7?-`86), Kansas City(`86), WWF(`86-`92)

Groups - Jive Soul Bros

Wrestlers - Akeem, Big Boss Man, Bulldog Bob Brown, Kamala, Rick Martel, One Man Gang, Power & Glory (Hercules & Paul Roma), Butch Reed, Warlord, Zeus, Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff, Art Crews & Timothy Flowers, Hacksaw Higgins & J.R Hogg, Bobby Jaggers & Moondog Moretti, Lord Humongous & Madd Maxx

Place in History - Managers are a strange lot in pro-wrestling history. The best are obnoxious heel talkers who get their charges over and help build matches with babyfaces. Slick was an excellent promo who seemed to come from obscurity to helping top heels against Hulk Hogan in the WWF. Ken Johnson original trained to wrestle and had significant size, but never became a notable wrestler in his native Texas. Instead, he built a name for himself as a smooth talking heel whose promos were cutting edge. Pro-wrestling had been using stereotypical managers for many years - Saul Weingeroff, Skandor Akbar and Lord Alfred Hayes were some notables, but Slick was something unique. He played a pimp-like character who dressed the part, danced around and talked jive. In Texas and the Midwest, that approach drew great heat. Slick garnered enough attention that he was brought into the WWF to replace Freddie Blassie, who had significant shoes to fill. Over the next six years, Slick went up and down the card. After picking up Blassie's charges for a stint, Slick really developed his character as the "Doctor of Style" with his signature "Jive Soul Bro" theme song. When the Big Bossman came in and moved up the card quickly, Slick was his mouthpiece. After the Bossman was dropped down, Slick was dropped with him and he remained there for the rest of his WWF run. After becoming an ordained minister, Revered Slick had a run trying to reform Kamala, but times were tough and he was amongst those who left. Slick is one of the distinct stereotypical characters in pro-wrestling history that anyone who views the sport as racist could point to as proof. He was also an exceptional talker who did not get the opportunities that he might have deserved, which also suggests racism. Regardless of these issues, Slick is someone who was a key star during the 1980s boom of the WWF.