5.
I didn't watch him past WWF, so I'm only judging him for his work there.
From the Nation up till SummerSlam 1999, he looked to be a good prospect that could maybe do some good things higher up the card. Him and Mark Henry were entertaining as a duo. He was trending upwards. Then they split him and Mark up for really no reason at all. Then the Droz thing happened, and everything just trended downward. Tagging with Mosh?
He didn't have any awful matches I remember, but I don't remember any great ones either. I remember liking his match with Jeff Jarrett at SummerSlam till Mark Henry turned on him, but I haven't seen it in forever.
So all in all, I'm giving him a 5 (average).
He had some good matches with Val Venis and X-Pac. I'll try to post those matches sometime this week.
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he was a good worker and was athletic as hell for his size. I think his finishing moves were dope.The definition of a solid lower/midcarder that the fans loved. I think we all did his ring strut growing up lol. off the top of my head, I remember him being in a good 8-10 minute triple threat match at Armageddon 99' with Val Venis and Bulldog..I don't think he ever truly got the opportunity to show what he could REALLY do in the ring. I listened to a few Cornette shoots recently and he thinks the world of D'lo and he hates everybody and EVERYTHING 
that says something about the kind of guy he is/was.
) and his theme was cold. The chest protector deal was a great gimmick and added to his finish. After 99 I don't remember much by him minus a mini tag run with Godfather and that disastrous Lo Down team. Seen his work here and there post WWF/E in TNA and his later WWE return, not enough to really say much about. His Aces & Eights run was whatever because the group itself was pretty lame minus a good concept and a solid start.
. As far as mic skills, he was alright, nothing special, but definitely didn't embarrass himself. He was always great at playing off other people. I'm sure he didn't have classic promos, but cool and hilarious segments with the Nation and later on with Mark Henry when they pretty much split off from the Nation. Those segments of D'Lo trying to help Mark Henry lose weight were very funny. He had a nice hot run that was unfortunately cut short once Russo left, and when The Radicalz came in. He (and some other WWF mid-carders at the time) could have really benefited from feuds with them, but it just didn't happen for some reason. Pretty much got lost in the shuffle. Didn;t care to see him as a pimp teaming with the Godfather. That just wasn't him, he mentioned that himself. Him and Chaz also formed an alright tag team, even having matching gear and a tandem finisher, but I never felt like they'd go anywhere.
at pairing him and Chaz with Tiger Ali Singh, then throwing them in turbans. 02-04 wasn't much better, facing HHH in a silly blindfold match, being 3 Minute Warning fodder in a match with Planet Staziak, and beat up by Rodney Mack to end that WWE stint. I liked seeing him in TNA, as he put on good matches with AJ Styles (
), and as much I was hyped when D'Lo returned to the WWE, they had no idea what to do with him other than "Hey it's D'Lo Brown, he was from the Attitude Era". The crowd response was so weak, and they made him look like a jerk in segments with Santino Marella. Dude was in great shape at that time, and they had nothing for him. Lukewarm way to go out. *ignores Aces & Eights tenure* Will give him a 7 overall. He was very interesting from 97-99, and showed great development during that time. He was apart of the hottest era in wrestling, and a very hot character himself. Peep his crowd responses during matches then. He was legit. 
