In 1984, he started wrestling professionally and first appeared under the ring name "Big John Harris" in Jerry Jarrett's Memphis-based CWA.

[1] In 1985, he worked as "Little John" for Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling and acted as the bodyguard for The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers).

At one point in June 1987, he made an appearance in WWE as Trapper John and wrestled in a dark match, but was never used again.

He was also said to have mainly been a truck driver, and was an owner of several small businesses in his post wrestling and acting life.

Harris married Rayola Johnson in the mid-'80s, and divorced a few years later in Calvert County, Maryland.