Edward Ferrara (born November 22, 1966) is a former professional wrestling booker and agent for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, often alongside Vince Russo. In WCW, he portrayed the character "Oklahoma", a mockery of WWF's commentator Jim Ross, and was the heaviest WCW Cruiserweight Champion, although he was forced to vacate the title for exceeding the 220 lb weight limit. Ed Ferrara began his work in television production and writing, contributing to shows such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show and Weird Science on the USA Network. Ferrara was also a wrestler in Slammers Wrestling Federation known as Bruce Beaudine. He was most recently working on the creative team for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
Teaching a "Writing for Television" class at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. [June 2004]
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Ed Ferarra initially wrestled in the Slammers Wrestling Federation in Southern California.
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Ed Ferarra signed on as color commentator for Jerry Jarrett's upstart NWA Total Nonstop Action promotion. In August 2002, Ed left TNA to pursue other opportunities.
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While working for WCW, he portrayed an on-air character called Oklahoma, which was a parody of WWF announcer Jim Ross. He wore a black cowboy hat, pulled faces (making light of Ross' Bell's Palsy), and was always seen carrying a bottle of barbecue sauce with him (in mockery of J.R.'s actual brand of barbecue sauce).
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In late 1999, along with Vince Russo, left the WWF to write for Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling.
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Former writer for the World Wrestling Federation.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Agent One-Half
2008
screenplay
WCW Halloween Havoc
2000
TV Movie
WCW Thunder
1999-2000
TV Series 23 episodes
WCW Starrcade
1999
TV Movie
WCW Mayhem
1999
TV Movie
WCW Halloween Havoc
1999
TV Movie
WWE Sunday Night Heat
1998-1999
TV Series 59 episodes
WWE Smackdown!
1999
TV Series 7 episodes
WWE Raw
1998-1999
TV Series 46 episodes
WWF Unforgiven
1999
TV Special
Summerslam
1999
TV Special
Fully Loaded
1999
TV Movie
King of the Ring
1999
TV Special
WWF Over the Edge
1999
TV Special
WWF Backlash
1999
TV Special
WrestleMania XV
1999
TV Special
WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1999
TV Special
WWF Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell
1999
TV Special
WWF Rock Bottom: In Your House
1998
TV Special
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
TV Series developed for television by - 2 episodes, 1998 creator - 2 episodes, 1997 written by - 1 episode, 1998
Survivor Series
1998
TV Special
WWF Judgment Day
1998
Video
WWF Break Down
1998
TV Special
Summerslam
1998
TV Special
Fully Loaded
1998
TV Movie
Weird Science
TV Series writer - 9 episodes, 1994 - 1997 story - 2 episodes, 1996 teleplay - 2 episodes, 1996