Greg Valentine - When I Punched A Fan in WWF 

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I love these interviews with the Hammer. What a guy

Greg: “I’m being sued.” Lawyer: “We’ll take care of it.” Greg: “Whatever happened with that lawsuit?” Lawyer: “Oh, he died.” 😉

My Father was a Jobber, back in the 50s & 60s. So many more threats from fans then. He would tell me stories. It was like running a gauntlet, to & from ring. People with razorblades on their shoes, kicking your legs. Seats that go right up to ringside. Narrow apron outside of ropes & no mats on floor. Working small towns, at a stock yard or national guard armory. The good & bad guys, staying together & trying to get safely to their cars. Finding a place to eat & keep an eye on each other. They were Tough & a little crazy. Special kind of brotherhood. And yes, what Greg said. If they could get someone to come through the ropes, they owned them. Even told me that people have gotten so excited, that they would have heart attacks. Dad's gone now, but he would WOW me with these stories.

I clearly remember seeing Greg in 1982 at New Britain High School in New Britain, Connecticut. He was walking through the crowd in a school hallway. I was with my dad. Went up to say hello & Greg kind of growled and said "get away from me." My dad yelled "hey!" Greg stopped and turned around. My dad grabbed my arm and said "c'mon let's go." The Hammer stayed in character. Miss those old days of the WWF coming to high school gymnasiums.

I'm sure Greg is proud to share these stories, since these incidents are solid proof that he was one heck of a heel. Fans trying to hit you is like the ultimate badge of honor for a bad guy, it means that you're doing your job very well and that you got their attention. 😉

Sorry about your bad experience Greg. I am Puerto Rican and we love you n wrestling as a whole.

Probably the most laid back and humble pleasant guy in wrestling.

Greg probably doesn't know this, but in the mid 80's, he and Hogan set the all time Detroit attendance record at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Over 25,000 fans packed the outdoor venue. Hulkamania was running wild at the time.Never mind that it was Free. This was decades before Ford Field was built.

Much respect to Ric Flair but the Hammer is where most of us 80's kids learned about the "figure four".

What a GREAT story teller, Thanks Greg.

Love Greg! When I met him I asked if we could lock up for the picture and he obliged. That was really cool.

I was at a match in the Boston Garden in the early eighties. Greg was walking up the ramp from the ring to the dressing room and a fan took a swing at him.. Greg hit the guy so hard that he got knocked 2 rows back. Then about a half dozen security guards swarmed over the fan and finished the job. They beat the guy unconscious, and dragged him out of the Garden. Back in those days, the security guards were just local guys who were just looking for an excuse to beat on someone. It happened at least once or twice per event.

Yeah, I dont care what sport theyre in, if you spit in another mans face you have to accept what you got coming to you.

Greg seems the most honest of any of these guys I've watched interviewed. I agree with other comments, that he seems to show a quite prudent attitude, in his responses--that he could say even more but stops himself. But then, he's just covering himself from possible litigation, too. I also feel the same about Wayne Farris, though he isn't afraid to say what he feels. A great interview would be to have them together.

I am a super fan of Valentine after watching his interviews! He is super smart and he is one of the best story tellers I’ve ever had the joy to listen to! He made so many men big shots in the wrestling ring! He is the guy who made these others get over! True tough guy! Cool as 🧊 ice!

Greg Valentine’s memory is spot on. After all he has been through during his wrestling career, his memory is incredible.

He was a great heel. No wonder they wanted to get at him. Really showed how good his work was.

Once you learn of the history of pro wrestling an how it worked and kayfabe was so important,you have a true appreciation for the work these guys did. I think the wrestling was the easy part for most guys,the travel an kayfabe was horrendous!

My best friend, we've been friends since we we're 4 and we're 53 now, reminded me so much of "the Hammer" I started calling him Mike " the Hammer" in the early 80's. Same kind of look, definitely the build, and tough, just like Greg.. We laugh about it when I occasionally bring it up, but he saved my mouthy ass alot when we were young..

Greg doesn’t like hitting fans - ha, ha, heeeee🤣

I love the stories Greg tells, really gives us an inside on the life's these guys lived. I watch them all.

When I was a kid I saw some kid spit on Tiger Chung Lee. Two security guards just picked him up and took him to the locker room. I have never seen fear in someone's face like that since.

I was about 8 in 1989 and WWE use to come to Cali where I lived and would hit up the local small venues. My aunt was paralyzed and in a wheelchair and at the time there was no handicap access to a few venues cause of steps leading to the front doors. So we were allowed to enter the buildings where the wrestlers would enter and walked literally through the locker rooms and hallways to our seats. I remember Greg picked my younger sister up and moved her to the side out of the hallways lol Koko b ware I can remember and Hercules in the back all oiled up and stretching. Was a cool experience as a kid

I could watch the Hammer tell stories all day.

Back in the day, the fan/wrestler interaction was no joke -- Fans would go after the wrestlers & they would go after the fans

I remember watching this on a Coliseum Video back in the day. A big fat guy grabbed the chair and Greg nailed him. Classic.

"I don't like hitting fans, I hate it." 🤣

Greg ‘the hammer’ Valentine, what a legend and gent.

Puerto Rican’s have bad tempers. Lol. You go Greg! Cancel culture has nothing on you! So proud.

My neighbor Ray looks, sounds and even moves like the hammer. He could be Greg's older grey haired brother, I just wish his long winded stories were as interesting as the hammer's

The "Most Unusual Matches" compilation video.......first Coliseum Video I ever saw

And here was me, feeling bad cause my friend through popcorn at him

I love the Hammer, so this is awesome.

'Darling, go and kiss your auntie Greg before we go' 😳

love this guy. man would I like to sit down and talk the old days of wrestling with him, and all the territories they worked. when wrestling was great.

I am so sorry you had to deal with that Mr.Valentine.I've seen over the years twice & always had a deep respect for your art.ESPECIALLY THAT FIGURE FOUR WHICH IN MY OPINION YOU ARE THE KING OF THE FIGURE FOUR. FLAIR PALED IN YOUR SHADOWS!!!!

I got the "WWF's Most Unusual Matches" VHS for my birthday one year. We watched that thing until it so worn out it was unwatchable. I loved Jesse Ventura's commentary on this thing. If you can find it, watch it. It has some great matches of pre-Wrestlemania WWF.

I’ll sit and watch Greg for hours thanks

"I put the belt over my face and head to the locker". Have to protect the money maker..

Before Greg hit him he said “ if he dies, he dies”

Greg, Puerto Ricans in New York love you 😆

Don't mess with The Hammer!!

Great interview!!

Just goes to show you how very good he was at his jjob.

Greg always looked so old :) Now he is really old and looking younger.... Scary.

I am reminded of when Rick Rude punched a fan out for simply talking smack outside the arena and Rude broke the dude’s palate and ended up getting sued but had to pay it all outta his own pocket. 😅

Back in the 1970's I was a believer in wrestling. Living here in Florida I grew up mostly watching Championship Wrestling from Florida which was the NWA. However on Saturdays at Midnight I could watch the WWF Main Event so this was my first look into the WWF wrestlers.

Enjoy listening to Greg's stories...

One of the best heels in history.

" once they get past the border and into the ring, they are all yours"...lol

The Hammer!!! Lol Great Villian

Puerto Ricans have bad tempers. You're not kidding Greg. I should know, I was married to one !

Who the hell would attack a wrestler? Big men baby!

Us 80 kids learned it from Ric Flair Jack Brisco and of the Las Vegas Nevada leg lock

I'VE BEEN A BELIEVER SINCE I WAS 8 YEARS OLD . . . NOW I'M 55 , , , AND I'M STILL A BELIEVER , , , ("IN THE OLD STUFF") ! ! ! """ WOOO" 👍👍👍

Greg seems like the wrong wrestler to test lol

Them Puerto Rico and Mexico shows back then you had to fight for life to make it out and if you was a heel with heat lord have mercy

"Once they get into the ring...their all yours....you can beat the crap out of em". lol!

I believe this incident is one that Bruno Sammartino mentioned when he talked about being upset that his son David got fired for hitting a fan. Bruno said David deserved it because WWF’s policy was that if a wrestler hit a fan they got fired, but he was upset that Greg Valentine and Randy Savage had hit fans and weren’t fired for it, that David was the only one who got fired for striking a fan. Bruno said he believed the fan was planted to spit on David just to give Vince an excuse to fire David when he struck the fan for spitting on him.

When I was 13 I kicked a wrestler I'm the back at an ECW show. I was a dangerous little bastard.

I love that VHS cassette most unusual matches. They should have called it the best of Don Muraco

fans were way worse back then. yet lebum james gets fans ejected for hurting his feelings with words

The first guy mentioned in this video who hit Greg Valentine, had serious health problems. He died before his bogus lawsuit could go to court.

Awesome. Look at Beefcake on the cover just chillin.

They didn’t call him the “Hammer” for nothing!!

C'mon Greg @1:28 My first WWWF match in 1973, I was ringside for Chief Jay Strongbow vs Baron Von Rashke. We kept shooting those red rubber bands at the Baron, so he came over to the ring post and spit right on me and my buddy - I thought it was hilarious but my friend started crying, then again he caught most of it - Lol....

Valentine and Beefcake were my favorite tag team as a kid.

Helped the heel angle. Fans are nuts.

If you spit in a guys face the least you should expect is a punch.

I remember in the early 70s in El Paso Texas He was wrestling as John Fargo, tag team champions with his "brother" Don Fargo. On his way to the ring he's arguing with a drunk fan ringside and the fan was pointing his finger in his face and the fan actually poked him in the chest with his finger so he punched the drunk fan and KOed him. The cops came and arrested the fan...lol (the good ol' days) My family knew the guy that got KOed which made it even funnier.

Greg " funny you mentioned that " Valentine

I remember my brother hitting one of the Andersons Ole or Arn at the Omni in Atlanta. You could get right up on the wrestlers. I think it was Ole turned and spit right in my brother's face. He deserved it

I know wrestling is kayfabe but this guy make it look real.

Summer 1977 in West Palm Beach I was at a match where the headliner was Dusty Rhodes vs Superstar Graham. After one of the preliminary matches, as one of the heels (can’t remember his name)was walking to the dressing room, an older friend in his teens went to yell at the guy. The heel then reaches out and grabs my friend by his shirt & starts shaking him like a rag doll. My friend came back to his seat & his shirt is messed up, I could see it was real & he was a bit shook up too. Maybe 15 minutes later security came up to my friend & asked him to come with them, the wrestler came back out to apologize & they shook hands & that was it. I think the wrestler was either Black Gordman or Great Goliath but can’t remember 100%. But the guy was a heel with a latin persona.

Steubenville Ohio! Born and raised lol...never remember seeing the Hammer there

The (Fuc-king) Hammer. A all-time great legend

Greg, You did the correct thing smacking a fan that spit on you, You don't spit on another human being, That Just Wrong.

The more I see these shoots with the Hammer the more I wish he’d a gotten a bigger push before Hogan

Greg once shoved my head on a traffic cone and chucked me at Jerich120, I was 10 lmao

I like him, and his stories.

When it comes to Puerto Rico and wrestling, those people are just crazy. I've met some wonderful people from there, but getting into that event just makes then do cazy shit.

I peed next to the Hammer in a bathroom at the LA Sports Arena in the 80s. He had his GV wrestling shoes on! I didn't spray on him though.

I remember when that first happened!

Ask Seth Rollins if they still got that problem. LoL 😂😂😂

Good job Mr. VALENTINE

How could a full grown adult believe it was real? Even most children had to know it was fake. 80s wrestling was by far the best era. The only reason I watched it was because of the bad guys. The humor was off the charts!

Saw a fam jump in the ring at Sunnyside gardens, the wrestler punched him and then continued with the match

The fans get nuts. I remember as a kid watching wrestling from St Louis.There were two elderly ladies and they would get all bent out of shape . They would be standing at the edge of the ring yelling at the wrestlers while slapping the surface .

Jake the Snake said an old lady cut him with a box cutter, and a guy in Texas shot at him in the ring! (I think I saw it on a Joe Rogan show/clip)

When a fan attacks wrestlers have a right to defend themselves. Blackjack Mulligan got sliced up with a straight razor in I believe Boston. If you respect the wrestlers then leave them alone.

The Hammer ! What a great wrestler, one of my favourites...

Back when Men were Men. I would take any fan that got in the ring with a Wrestler in the 70s or 80s, over anyone on a WWE, AEW, NWA, MLW, ROW, ROH or Impact roster in 2021.

Did you pull brass knuckles from your tights when you punched him?

We love you Greg!

Funny story! I actually know the man. I can not disclose his name but he is NOT dead lol.

Only Respect to The Hammer! If any fan was upset with you it was because you were SO GOOD as a Heel. That being said, hope you popped 'em a good one! Anybody that jumps into my job trying to punch me will get... The BUSINESS!!!👊🏾 Respect The Legend of The Hammer!

Wrestling isnt fake its staged thats a big difference

Did he say Stupidsville, OH?

Lowell Memorial Auditorium, mid 80s 3rd row on the main aisle to the Ring! Mr Valentine is walking to the ring, shorter than I was expecting but also Way Bigger than I thought. Like a walking Working Mans Muscle! This drunk on the other side of the aisle smacks GV on the back of his head-hard too. In a micro-second the guy was one handed dragged over the 4 ft fencing by his neck and deposited face first onto the concrete floor, hard too! LOL! GV Managed to give the guy a few light slaps off the back of his head before Security and Cops dragged the hemorrhaging (from the nose mouth and rest of his face) jerk away. I do know he (drunk) was arrested so it was real. Best story of the night: Harley Race gets suplexed right in front of us and in the process a huge rope of Snot comes flying out his nose. Up it goes in an arc, seemed like slo motion and its coming our way. Hits this kid in front of us right on the shoulder even though he was attempting to evade it. Sucker must of been 8 inches long and draped on this kids shoulder. Probably 12 - 13 yrs old, old enough to laugh at. He turns to see if the horror was real and now one end of it is sticking to his face! The kids now catatonic as my buddy Dave leans over to tell him "You know Pal, having the King Of Wrestling huck a big snot on you is quite an Honor"! The kind words didn't help! LOL