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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Feb 14, 2024 0:13:43 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan said that when they were doing the Machines gimmick (Andre as Giant Machine, Hogan as Hulk Machine, etc.) he went to Vince and said, “Why don’t you put a mask on Jake Roberts and call him Coke Machine?”
Vince’s response? “He swore at me.”
Another Bobby story : he was about to get on a 7 am flight whe he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see Andre (pre-haircut), who has been drinking all night in the airport lounge. They boarded the plane and Andre started fiddling with the arm rests, trying to give himself more room. A flight attendant approached and asked, “Can I get you anything?” Andre replied, “Screwdriver.” As Bobby said, he wanted to keep drinking.
The attendant returned with a Black and Decker screwdriver. Andre looked at it and said, “What would you have brought me if I’d said Bloody Mary?”
At this point, Bobby asked the attendant for a word and they take a walk. Bobby said, “I’m going to give you some advice that may help you in your aviation career. A man gets on your plane. He’s 7 feet tall, 500 pounds. He has hair like the MGM lion, he’s got a plaid suit on, and he’s drunk.”
“Don’t bring the f***er tools!”
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Post by mrpeacock on Feb 14, 2024 8:24:04 GMT -5
ANOTHER Cornette story: The NWA guys were on a turbulent flight and Jim is terrified of flying. He’s sitting next to Hawk of the Road Warriors and says to him “Listen, if anything goes wrong and this plane starts to go down. I want you to punch me in the face as hard as you can and knock me out so I’m not awake for the crash.” And without missing a beat Hawk says “I’ll do that for you Jim! You fell off the scaffold for me and I’ll do this for you!”
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Post by salz4life on Feb 14, 2024 10:59:04 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan said that when they were doing the Machines gimmick (Andre as Giant Machine, Hogan as Hulk Machine, etc.) he went to Vince and said, “Why don’t you put a mask on Jake Roberts and call him Coke Machine?” Vince’s response? “He swore at me.” Another Bobby story : he was about to get on a 7 am flight whe he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see Andre (pre-haircut), who has been drinking all night in the airport lounge. They boarded the plane and Andre started fiddling with the arm rests, trying to give himself more room. A flight attendant approached and asked, “Can I get you anything?” Andre replied, “Screwdriver.” As Bobby said, he wanted to keep drinking. The attendant returned with a Black and Decker screwdriver. Andre looked at it and said, “What would you have brought me if I’d said Bloody Mary?” At this point, Bobby asked the attendant for a word and they take a walk. Bobby said, “I’m going to give you some advice that may help you in your aviation career. A man gets on your plane. He’s 7 feet tall, 500 pounds. He has hair like the MGM lion, he’s got a plaid suit on, and he’s drunk.” “Don’t bring the f***er tools!” Cancer really F'd us with Heenan. I have to believe Conrad would have a podcast with Heenan that would be the best podcast in history. F Cancer!!!
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Feb 14, 2024 13:36:45 GMT -5
When WCW was putting the Misfits In Action together, the original plan was for Van Hammer's MIA character to be named Private Stash. Van Hammer threw a fit over having the lowest 'rank' in the stable, leading to his name becoming Major Stash. Just the image of Van f***ing Hammer throwing a tantrum over his name... The top guy in the stable was "G.I. Bro", what a f***ing mark. Over a silly pun!
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Post by J. Hova on Feb 14, 2024 22:50:24 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan said that when they were doing the Machines gimmick (Andre as Giant Machine, Hogan as Hulk Machine, etc.) he went to Vince and said, “Why don’t you put a mask on Jake Roberts and call him Coke Machine?” Vince’s response? “He swore at me.” Another Bobby story : he was about to get on a 7 am flight whe he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see Andre (pre-haircut), who has been drinking all night in the airport lounge. They boarded the plane and Andre started fiddling with the arm rests, trying to give himself more room. A flight attendant approached and asked, “Can I get you anything?” Andre replied, “Screwdriver.” As Bobby said, he wanted to keep drinking. The attendant returned with a Black and Decker screwdriver. Andre looked at it and said, “What would you have brought me if I’d said Bloody Mary?” At this point, Bobby asked the attendant for a word and they take a walk. Bobby said, “I’m going to give you some advice that may help you in your aviation career. A man gets on your plane. He’s 7 feet tall, 500 pounds. He has hair like the MGM lion, he’s got a plaid suit on, and he’s drunk.” “Don’t bring the f***er tools!” Cancer really F'd us with Heenan. I have to believe Conrad would have a podcast with Heenan that would be the best podcast in history. F Cancer!!! I was never more disappointed as when the Heenan twitter account ended up being fake. I'd have loved for Heenan to have a podcast these days. I'd even settle for him making the rounds on different podcasts.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 14, 2024 23:10:52 GMT -5
I remember a story where Jack Petty/Jungle Boy was talking about his father Luke wanting to go backstage at an indie show, and of course people are super stoked to meet him, and he hears Cody is in the locker room, and he insists on wanting to go talk to him, saying he knew Dusty in some capacity. (I do not remember for the life of me if there was any truth to it.)
Luke barges in and Cody's just kind of sitting around in his underwear, and Jack's expecting Cody to get annoyed, but instead, he is really cool about the whole thing and listening to Luke's Dusty story.
Not wrestling related, but Luke also apparently could be weirdly a tightwad, and at least once picked up Jack from school while wearing a rope or extension cord as a belt and driving a really bland SUV.
One for Cody isn't so much as a story as kind of a cute thing, with Preston Vance being apparently pretty shy off-camera and that, as one of Cody's guys, he'd often hang out at his place, and Pharaoh absolutely adored him and would be happy to see him any time he dropped by.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Feb 14, 2024 23:14:41 GMT -5
Another Heenan story:
Bobby was open about the fact that he quit school in 8th grade to help take care of his mother, aunt, and grandmother. He joked that Ray Stevens maybe had a 3rd grade education. Regardless, they were quite different from Nick Bockwinkel, who loved to use as many big words as he could.
One day they were in the car and Nick said something about a paradox. Noting the expressions of his friends, Nick asked, “Do you know what a paradox is?”
Bobby replied, “Yeah, it’s two long dogs.” Ray said, “No, it’s two brain surgeons.” Bobby added, “No, it’s two places to put a boat!” And they left it at that.
The next day, Bockwinkel asked, “Have you been reading about the egg deficit in Guam?” Stevens immediately replied, “Hey, asshole, we’re still working on paradox!”
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Post by jason1980s on Feb 14, 2024 23:59:26 GMT -5
I was never more disappointed as when the Heenan twitter account ended up being fake. I'd have loved for Heenan to have a podcast these days. I'd even settle for him making the rounds on different podcasts. That was so sad. It takes a twisted to pull that kind of scheme. That was in the final year or two of Bobby's life too. We all wanted so badly to think of imagining Bobby in good spirits on a laptop or computer tweeting his memories.
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Post by salz4life on Feb 15, 2024 10:00:20 GMT -5
Cancer really F'd us with Heenan. I have to believe Conrad would have a podcast with Heenan that would be the best podcast in history. F Cancer!!! I was never more disappointed as when the Heenan twitter account ended up being fake. I'd have loved for Heenan to have a podcast these days. I'd even settle for him making the rounds on different podcasts. Yeah.... that was a very deflating moment. I was SO HYPED when that account came up and it seemed so real.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Feb 15, 2024 21:47:18 GMT -5
A Jim Cornette told story: Basically a fan tackled Hercules when he was doing a run in. The police brought the guy to the back and when Hercules comes back the guy tries to apologize and Herc slaps him so hard he smacks his head on the wall and knocks the dude out. The Midnight Express step over the guy have a full match come back and have to step over the guy again as the dude is still laid out and an ambulance is coming. Cornette asks Hercules if he was so mad why didn’t he punch him, which Hercules replies “Oh Jimmy, If you hit someone with your fist you could hurt them.” He also has a good Hercules story about a car door being torn off by another vehicle and I think Hercules had been holding on to the door. I can't remember the specifics but it was funny. I think the car story was Herc got out to piss and was holding on to the door while getting out, a semi hit the door and bent it to 90 degrees to the car to where it couldn't be closed. Corny said "You're lucky the f***ing thing didn't come flying off!" Herc replied "Yea, it was a good thing I was still holding on to it when it got hit." And on the first story, after the fan got corralled, but before Herc came back, Barry Darsow tells the guy "You know, I'd hit you, but I can't hit you any where near as hard as he will once he get's back here."
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Post by FHgrad99 on Feb 16, 2024 10:03:00 GMT -5
I don't know where to find the video but the CM Punk and Samoa Joe shoot interview where they tell the story about CM Punk waking up to a drunken Homicide almost peeing on him was hilarious.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Feb 16, 2024 11:12:55 GMT -5
Paul London told a story about he and Renee Dupree and a few others venting about being frustrated while on tour in Italy and they were all just talking on a beach... and Rico just runs by stripping nude to jump into the ocean for a swim.
Another Low Ki one is during an indy show he sat in front of Sunny's bag while she was doing her hair and make up. She saw Low Ki sitting there and jokingly asked "oh are you doing your make up too?" Which got Low Ki mad, he immediately jumped up knocked over all the bags and yelled "YOU WILL RESPECT LOW KI"
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Post by Garyspivey on Feb 16, 2024 13:36:27 GMT -5
I want to say this an old episode from Pritchard’s show.
There was I believe some kind of international tour and this guy was driving around Mr. Fuji. Fuji had a reputation for doing a lot of ribbing. Basically this guy is paranoid the whole tour waiting for Fuji to get him. Whole tour goes and Fuji never does anything to the guy. The guy asks Fuji why he never ribbed him. Fuji’s answer was Best rib no rib.
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Post by FHgrad99 on Feb 16, 2024 18:58:49 GMT -5
I remember a story from one of Bobby Heenan's books that happened early in his career where he was playing cribbage with some of the wrestlers, some heels and some babyfaces and a fan walked by and one of the faces, who wanted to keep kayfabe, picked up the cribbage board and hit Heenan over the head with it.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 16, 2024 19:52:20 GMT -5
A Jim Cornette told story: Basically a fan tackled Hercules when he was doing a run in. The police brought the guy to the back and when Hercules comes back the guy tries to apologize and Herc slaps him so hard he smacks his head on the wall and knocks the dude out. The Midnight Express step over the guy have a full match come back and have to step over the guy again as the dude is still laid out and an ambulance is coming. Cornette asks Hercules if he was so mad why didn’t he punch him, which Hercules replies “Oh Jimmy, If you hit someone with your fist you could hurt them.” He also has a good Hercules story about a car door being torn off by another vehicle and I think Hercules had been holding on to the door. I can't remember the specifics but it was funny. Heenan and Hercules were outside waiting for a cab. There’s radiant heaters above them and a button and sign says “Push for heat”. Hercules, turns to the businessmen next to them and says “What happens if you push that button? Does a guy run out and pull your tights?”
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 16, 2024 19:58:45 GMT -5
Andre loved playing cards before the shows, he’d be backstage, nude and play cards. Except this one venue didn’t have any room backstage, so Andre sets up his card table in the lobby. Game ran long and there’s Andre, nude, playing cards with Tito Santana as fans begin arriving. Andre didn’t give a shit.
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Post by jp49er80 on Feb 17, 2024 4:52:38 GMT -5
Dunno if this counts as backstage but at a particular British Indy show in the early 2000s, the ring didn't show up (there's lots of conjecture why, I'd get myself in trouble for suggesting that ALEX SHANE SABOTAGED IT), but in attendance was Ted Robbins, an actor and comedian who played the villain in a popular sitcom of the time (Phoenix Nights for the fellow Brits) and he apparently got up and did a stand up routine while everyone was stalling for time.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 17, 2024 5:07:52 GMT -5
Bradshaw decided to f*** with Steve Blackman at an airport, and Blackman without a word after being poked long enough, roundhouse kicked him in the face, knocked him out cold, and walked away
I'd say that was a pretty funny counter to a "rib" attempt...
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Post by FHgrad99 on Feb 17, 2024 10:56:12 GMT -5
Bradshaw decided to f*** with Steve Blackman at an airport, and Blackman without a word after being poked long enough, roundhouse kicked him in the face, knocked him out cold, and walked away I'd say that was a pretty funny counter to a "rib" attempt... Bradshaw f-ed around and found out, it looks like.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 17, 2024 11:09:39 GMT -5
Bradshaw decided to f*** with Steve Blackman at an airport, and Blackman without a word after being poked long enough, roundhouse kicked him in the face, knocked him out cold, and walked away I'd say that was a pretty funny counter to a "rib" attempt... Bradshaw f-ed around and found out, it looks like. I mean wasn't Brawl 4 All a giant on screen rib at Bradshaw's expense because of how much of a "fake tough guy" he was to everyone?
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