One of favorite stories about Bobby Heenan is: Someone from the office called Bobby's house and his wife answered. The caller asked "My I speak to The Brain please?" and Bobby's wife said, "You're speaking to the brain. If you want the a$$hole, he's not home right now.".
I worked out with Nick Kozak at hanks gym in Houston Texas when I lived there. At 71 years old he could squat 315 lbs and not overly muscular. He loved to surf and watch wrestling and encouraged me to give it a shot. He took me and a friend of mine to the cauliflower alley club reunion in Dallas back when red bastain was around. We went there and sat in a room with mic foley, bill mercer, al snow, Rick Steiner, Eddie Gilbert, the putsky (spelling) family, King Kong Bundy, skandor akbar when he was alive. They treated me like one of the boys and had the time of my life. Never needed or asked for an autograph. Kept the memory in my heart...
Conrad & JR I met Bobby at a AWA house house in Oakland California after it ended Bobby got me tickets to get in free At AWA shows and later got me in free to WWF shows in California Great man art friendly
As good as Conrad & his stable of hosts are, if The Brain was alive & able to do a podcast today, he'd be killing it with downloads, even better than Bruce.
He was incredible. I remember when Bobby called the match between Andre and Hulk. He and Tony Schiavone called the match between Hulk and Bill Goldberg. Absolutely incredible!!!!
@General BUTTNAKED He'd rip AEW,Heenan was a true heel,he'd actually rip it all,WWE included. I'd imagine he'd be a bit more tame than Corny but I'd bet every bit as viceral.....
I miss Bobby Heenan he made that late 80s and early 90s WWF wrestling a whole lot better with Bobby on commentary. And I miss Jim Ross on WWF/ WWE with Jerry lawyer on commentary. I love hearing JR talk and call Stone Cold Steve Austin's matches. Jim take care of your self. Love you God Bless 🙏 you
When I was watching WWF back when I was a kid, Jesse Ventura, Jim Cornette but mostly Bobby was who entertained me the most. I would tune in to hear these guys more than anything else. 3 years ago, when Locked Down I got curious. I knew many Wrestlers I admired passed like Henig, Bulldog and some others but I thought to myself...."What happened to Bobby". When I looked and caught up with what had gone on, I was shocked, saddened beyond words really. I saw how he was post 2007 when things were in Remission, but even that pales into insignificance compared to how he looked near the end. He must have suffered so badly for 15 years. I had to pay my respects. Years too late. But RIP Mr Heenan and thank you for your entertainment Sir.
Bobbys best work was in the AWA in the 70s. Go onto youtube and watch his weasel suit match with Greg Gagne and youll hear audience heat the likes of which the WWE will never see. By the time Bobby became widely known in the WWE he was much less active in the matches and was just a mouthpiece. One of the all time greats.
Bobby Heenan is the best announcer/manager in the history of wrestling. Loved him and Monsoon. Bobby Heenan could have been a comedian and had his own talk show. Miss him and Monsoon greatly.
My favorite Heenan joke came while he was interviewing a kid and his father at a show in the south...he asks the father "if you and your wife got divorced, would you still be brother and sister?"
I know it was the way he wanted to go and how a heel should but I still get angry everytime I see him getting kicked out of RAW when he left for WCW. The best ever.
Remember Bobby Heenan as a wrestler as a young kud and then manager thru my teenage years to commentator into my mid 30's. One of the greatest of all time.
I remember chasing Bobby Heenan through the mezzanine at the old St. Paul auditorium = Why he was alone on the Mainfloor =` l will never know = But he was = And he was speed walking REALLY fast to keep ahead of the crowd = l was about 11 yrs Old = my brother and his friend about 18 yrs Old = Everyone was gearing and saying get him = l think he was call the Weasel back then = he worked well back in them days for VERN G. =` HE INDEED DREW THE HEAT BACK THEN 50 SOME YEARS AGO = HE WAS GREAT = AND MEAN GEAN ORKERLAND = WAS GREAT ALSO. = I MISS THEM OLD TIMES = MANY VERY ENJOYABLE MOMENTS = I THINK BOBBY WAS THE BEST
Legally, it doesn't matter how old you are to own a home or car or whatever. The difficulty is getting a bank to accept the contract. Just try getting a checking account at 12 without a co-signer. The hoops I had to go through to do this were enormous. And all because of my age. It didn't matter that I had a cashflow and thousands of dollars.
It’s all the sadder he had the issues he did in his late life. He would have had his own podcast every but as big as Cornette’s of cancer hadn’t destroyed his voice.
What if there was a membership program we could join to not have to sit through an infomercial 3 or 4 times? At this point if I was to be financially wrecked I'd not call Conrad just out of spite.
