Greg Gagne - What I Thought of Jesse Ventura in AWA 

for somebody who apparently lies about everything, he is right about a lot

His son loved it because he got to party in the Governor's mansion and destroyed the place with his friends.

You’d prefer Gavin Newsome or perhaps George Traitor Bush, you most likely prefer pedo Joe as president too.

Have you seen the RU-vid of Bobby Heenan burying Jesse? ("When the bell rang...forget it. He couldn't work!!"). Greg pretty much confirmed it.

@gregbailey8253 That story, like alot of stories Jesse Ventura tells, is probably not true. I remember back in the 1980s when part of that story was that he got the clots from herbicides when he was fighting in Vietnam. Except that he never fought in Vietnam. If you look at match results and when Jesse stopped wrestling, if there were blood clots they were amazingly coincidental blood clots. Jesse Ventura in singles matches was worse than even Ivan Putski. Putski would at least get into the ring and try to do something. Jesse didn't even do that.

Jessie never saw combat but he was deployed to Vietnam and spent time in the jungles.@@Jim-Tuner

@@christopherjames9843 Jesse says he was deployed to Vietnam, but that its such a national secret that he can't say where or when. Typical Jesse Ventura BS.

Uh, He has a Vietnam Service Medal.@@Jim-Tuner

I always thought that too. Lol

I thought he was boring away from The Hi Flyers and we called him Greg Brady as kids😂

Hogan was more of a cross between Graham and Austin Idol (Hulkamania was taken from Idolmania). Ventura was an outright Graham wannabe

Jesse lives in Mexico

Jesse's lived in Mexico for at least 10 years now

I think Jesse had a ranch in Corcoran (or Maple Grove) at one point. Verne was from Corcoran, but I don't know if him or Greg had a place out there at the time Jesse was there.

I still don’t know who he is

Greg was better in the Ring. While he didn't have the flashiness,or the Steroid body,he knew how to make it look like a Wrestling match. Almost as if he could use a Wrestling hold or 2. But I guess its the in thing to hate every Promoters kid but Shane. Oh and it seems to be popular to hate every Promoter from the old territory days.

😂😂

Bobby the Brain said he wasn’t that good in the ring either. Numerous ppl have said it

​@@casiemny1219 You are correct that numerous people make that claim. It is true that Jessie didnt know very many holds, but neither did Bruno Samartino, Hogan, or Superstar Graham. Big muscle bound guys tend to stomp, flex, and kick. In my defense I will say that Nobody has every shown me a video where someone got injured because of Jessie. Jessie wasn't dangerous. Nobody has ever shown a video where the finish got ruined or changed because of Jessie. Nobody has ever made a video of Jessie botches. I love the way Jessie sells for others. Jessie is a comic genius when he is ruffled or hurt. I feel he elevates his opponents.

Jesse had to left feet and skipped leg day. He called himself Jesse the body but was never built like Hogan and that drove him nuts😂

Sorry but Jesse sucked.

Verne loved Bobby Heenan. And yes Verne was a tough old Marine bastard. You had to be tough or the wrestlers would walk all over you. He always bragged that Bobby was the only talent that gave him fair notice. Yes, Vince McMahon did screw the AWA Territory and Verne Gagne and there is a simple reason for it. He could not compete against our talent. Think about it, Hulk Hogan, Jesse Ventura as commentator Mean Gene as lead interviewer, Curt Hennig IC Champ. Rick Martel our former world champ, Ricky Steamboat trained by Gagne. Ric Flair who Verne had to beat his ass in front of his wife on his front lawn because he wanted to quit. You tell me, take just the people I mentioned out of the WWF and the NWA and what would wrestling have looked like in the big 80s? We now know what a sick freak Vince has always been. And all of the sexual degenerates that reside in the WWF. At least with Verne, you had a tough old man who was always known to be a fair payoff guy and who didn't run his talent into the ground like circus animals. He gave his talent the summers off to spend with their families.

How is that even when he was fat he could kick tail if you just mean that he look horrible them I agree also that horrible character that Vince shitbrain force him to perform it was just an insult to his skills.

@@AngelSanchez-dw4gs Absolutely.Had I been him,I would have refused to do that.McMahon got so lewd I quit watching after the mid '90's.

Adonis was a bully, He was mean spirited, loved to hurt jobbers. He intimidated people until he met a bigger bully. Jessie was a team player and never hurt anyone. If the script called for the East/West connection to lose, Jessie would take the pinfall, and it never diminished his heat.

​@@scoh840Dan Spivey put Adrian in his place without a doubt.

You got 2 out of 3 right. He was rubbish as a worker.

@@St_AngusYoung WELL 2 OUT OF 3 AIN'T BAD INIT, 😂

Ugh, no Jesse was a horrible wrestler - Talker and Announcer yes

Can't say he was a great worker. He was one of the worst actually. His strength was on the mic.

Even Jesse would say he wasn’t a good worker in the ring

But we have videos of Jesse and he was horrible in the ring

Yeah. All the videos of Jesse wrestling bad singles matches that are on internet were generated by AI I guess.

I think Jesse would be considered "woke" by a lot of voters, and he HATES Trump.

Greg Gagne isn’t bitter. If only the various promotions had listened to him, things would have turned out quite differently and Greg would have assumed his rightly place on Pro Wrestling’s Mt. Rushmore. 😮 Let’s also not forget that Bob Geigel would have kept NWA Central States in Kansas City open for 10 more years if he had followed Greg’s advice.