Gorilla Monsoon stories

[héad.casé]

I was just thinking about a story I heard about Gorilla, cannot for the life of me remember where I heard it, but it made me smile thinking of it. Anyway, two guys were in the ring having a match, and their signal to go home was timekeeper Mark Yeaton putting a pencil in his mouth. So the time is nearing for the finish, Mark puts a pencil in his mouth. The wrestlers don't notice, keep going on with the match. Mark puts two pencils in his mouth - match still goes on. This happens until Mark has something like 5 pencils in his mouth, and the wrestlers are still going on with the match. So Gorilla Monsoon, angry as hell walks out from backstage, up to the ring and shouts "GO HOME!" at both of the wrestlers and walks back to the Gorilla position.

Imagine what the fans must have thought? They must have thought Gorilla was telling them literally to go home. Does anyone else have any fun Gorilla Monsoon stories?

[G✇JI☈A]

The funny thing is most people don't know wrestling lingo.

So a lot of the crowd must of thought Gorilla was doing an angry old senile man gimmick.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Apr 3, 2015 6:32:57 GMT -5 héad.casé said:

I was just thinking about a story I heard about Gorilla, cannot for the life of me remember where I heard it, but it made me smile thinking of it. Anyway, two guys were in the ring having a match, and their signal to go home was timekeeper Mark Yeaton putting a pencil in his mouth. So the time is nearing for the finish, Mark puts a pencil in his mouth. The wrestlers don't notice, keep going on with the match. Mark puts two pencils in his mouth - match still goes on. This happens until Mark has something like 5 pencils in his mouth, and the wrestlers are still going on with the match. So Gorilla Monsoon, angry as hell walks out from backstage, up to the ring and shouts "GO HOME!" at both of the wrestlers and walks back to the Gorilla position.

Imagine what the fans must have thought? They must have thought Gorilla was telling them literally to go home. Does anyone else have any fun Gorilla Monsoon stories?

You read it in Heenan's first book.

Also, Heenan says Gorilla used to walk around with like $25K worth on cash on him. Heenan asked him why he'd do this. Gorilla said, "what if I wanna buy something?" Heenan said, "What? A house? Stop by Green Bay and buy a football team and a hotdog"

[willywonka666]

I've heard that he had a license plate that read "Kayfabe"

I always thought he'd be the sweetest neighbor.

[MrElijah]

I do like the fact Gorilla was so liked he had wrestler named after him in tribute.

Also how many guys can say "I airplane spin the world heavyweight boxing champ"?

[Aceorton]

Apr 3, 2015 7:56:25 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I've heard that he had a license plate that read "Kayfabe"

I always thought he'd be the sweetest neighbor.

"The postal carrier LITERALLY HANDED ME your mail by mistake."

[Hit Girl]

My all time favourite announcer.

[Deleted]

Apr 3, 2015 13:09:39 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

Apr 3, 2015 7:56:25 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

I've heard that he had a license plate that read "Kayfabe"

I always thought he'd be the sweetest neighbor.

"The postal carrier LITERALLY HANDED ME your mail by mistake."

It was a miscarriage of justice.

[Main Eventer]

Apr 3, 2015 17:43:24 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

Apr 3, 2015 13:09:39 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

"The postal carrier LITERALLY HANDED ME your mail by mistake."

It was a miscarriage of justice.

Now stick out your phalanges so I can give you your mail.

[nm]

Apr 3, 2015 17:59:08 GMT -5 Main Eventer said:

Apr 3, 2015 17:43:24 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

It was a miscarriage of justice.

Now stick out your phalanges so I can give you your mail.

::Light bag of dog poop on fire on his porch::

"Will you stop?!?!?"

[tms]

I wish he and Ventura could call matches forever. Those two were just perfect together, even more so than Monsoon and Heenan. I used to love hearing them go from argumentative to mutual respect to agreement once in a while. It was a fascinating dynamic and it made anything they called seem important.

They made the Rude-Warrior pose down sound like a legitimate event. Compare that to the ridiculous Steiner-Hunter one. The announcers make all the difference in the world, and this is comparing them to Ross-Lawler!

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

He was almost blind without his glasses. Bobby said he was yelling at someone at a show, and Bobby said, "What are you yelling at? You can't see who's out there." Gorilla said, "I hear somebody out there."

[ICBM]

Apr 3, 2015 20:45:49 GMT -5 tms said:

I wish he and Ventura could call matches forever. Those two were just perfect together, even more so than Monsoon and Heenan. I used to love hearing them go from argumentative to mutual respect to agreement once in a while. It was a fascinating dynamic and it made anything they called seem important.

They made the Rude-Warrior pose down sound like a legitimate event. Compare that to the ridiculous Steiner-Hunter one. The announcers make all the difference in the world, and this is comparing them to Ross-Lawler!

Wow man. Great example. You were right. Dead on dude. Its one of the reasons wcw as loyal as I was to her, was hard to watch sometimes. Tony Schiovone and Mike Tenay were either overselling or not selling the important pieces. Sometimes you could hear Heenan's frustration as he'd try to set them up and they fail to cash in. To be fair there was a golden moment that stretched about 18 months with wcw announcers. Hell I even liked Larry "new world Oder" Zybisco on commentary with those guys. Best line I ever heard on wcw programming:

Juventud wins a match and runs to a camera to show off his new tattoo. He yells something in Spanish into the camera

Schiovone: " hey brain, you know a little Spanish don't you? Any idea what he said?
Heenan: "I like to draw pictures on myself! See look at my arm!"

[salz4life]

Apr 3, 2015 16:02:53 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

My all time favourite announcer.

Him and Heenan could call ANYTHING and I would watch and listen.

[Nickybojelais]

Didn't he have quite a penchant for gambling?

[AJ Smudgico]

Monsoon and Heenan in my opinion were the greatest commentary pairing. Particularly good was the bickering, which with the benefit of hindsight, shows amazing respect between the two. Some of the late 80s early 90s WWE ppvs were made so much better by those two

[jmule]

I wish I could see more of gorillas wrestling matches I've only been able to find like two..he was a decent wrestler...

[ICBM]

[somsta]

I can't stand Gorilla. He was so biased. I'll never forget him blaming Shawn Michaels for that coward Jannetty jumping through the barber shop window. Then a year later he had the nerve to throw out the great Bobby Heenan from the WWF. Gorilla? More like jackass.

[Abadebe]

Apr 3, 2015 18:50:24 GMT -5 nm said:

Apr 3, 2015 17:59:08 GMT -5 Main Eventer said:

Now stick out your phalanges so I can give you your mail.

::Light bag of dog poop on fire on his porch::

"Will you stop?!?!?"

Look at my Christmas decorations! They're hanging from the rafters!