1 00:00:05,179 --> 00:00:08,891 And listen to the ovation for Brutus the Barber! 2 00:00:08,891 --> 00:00:11,727 [narrator] Fan favourite, Brutus the Barber Beefcake, 3 00:00:11,727 --> 00:00:14,522 helped define the golden age of the WWF 4 00:00:14,522 --> 00:00:16,774 with his larger than life persona. 5 00:00:16,774 --> 00:00:19,402 The blades are part of me! 6 00:00:19,402 --> 00:00:21,487 Brutus is known for cuttin' and struttin'. 7 00:00:21,487 --> 00:00:24,782 He was very popular, very charismatic. 8 00:00:24,782 --> 00:00:28,369 But backstage, Brutus had to fight for respect due to a 9 00:00:28,369 --> 00:00:31,706 lifelong friendship with the industry's biggest star. 10 00:00:31,706 --> 00:00:33,082 Wherever Hulk Hogan goes, 11 00:00:33,082 --> 00:00:35,293 Brutus the Barber Beefcake goes. 12 00:00:35,293 --> 00:00:37,295 It's the number one Hulkamaniac ever. 13 00:00:37,295 --> 00:00:39,756 Hulk took him under his wing like a little brother. 14 00:00:39,756 --> 00:00:41,174 They were best friends. 15 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:42,843 So why would you not want to help somebody that 16 00:00:42,843 --> 00:00:44,344 helped you so much? 17 00:00:44,344 --> 00:00:48,390 Everything I was getting is because I worked my ass off. 18 00:00:48,390 --> 00:00:50,517 While at the top of his career, 19 00:00:50,517 --> 00:00:53,937 a devastating accident leaves Brutus shattered... 20 00:00:53,937 --> 00:00:56,273 This was one of the most traumatizing moments 21 00:00:56,273 --> 00:00:58,024 that I have ever witnessed. 22 00:00:58,024 --> 00:01:00,068 His face is totally smashed. 23 00:01:00,068 --> 00:01:03,321 And I'm telling everybody, "My face is falling off." 24 00:01:03,321 --> 00:01:05,240 I never thought he'd recover. 25 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,533 He almost died. 26 00:01:06,533 --> 00:01:09,453 Hulkster says, "You're gonna live, you son of a bitch. 27 00:01:09,453 --> 00:01:11,037 You're gonna get better." 28 00:01:11,037 --> 00:01:13,999 ...Leading to a reversal in fortunes. 29 00:01:13,999 --> 00:01:18,211 He had everything and then nothing. 30 00:01:18,211 --> 00:01:20,589 And a falling out with the friend who had 31 00:01:20,589 --> 00:01:22,382 carried him to the top. 32 00:01:22,382 --> 00:01:26,636 Hogan is a class act, and if you are loyal to Terry, 33 00:01:26,636 --> 00:01:28,597 Terry is loyal to you. 34 00:01:28,597 --> 00:01:30,807 But don't ever betray him. 35 00:01:30,807 --> 00:01:35,395 ♪ 36 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:38,440 ♪ 37 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:47,784 In 1984, Vince McMahon's WWF was transforming 38 00:01:47,784 --> 00:01:50,536 the wrestling business into pure spectacle. 39 00:01:50,536 --> 00:01:53,956 And Ed Leslie, a young wrestler from Florida, 40 00:01:53,956 --> 00:01:56,167 soon became one of the era's 41 00:01:56,167 --> 00:01:58,002 most memorable characters. 42 00:01:58,002 --> 00:02:01,506 I love Brutus... so do a whole lot of others. 43 00:02:01,506 --> 00:02:04,967 The fans like to be entertained 44 00:02:04,967 --> 00:02:06,219 and let me tell you something, 45 00:02:06,219 --> 00:02:09,096 this Brutus character was entertaining 46 00:02:09,096 --> 00:02:10,973 the hell out of them. 47 00:02:10,973 --> 00:02:12,350 ♪ 48 00:02:12,350 --> 00:02:13,768 I'm Brutus the Barber Beefcake, 49 00:02:13,768 --> 00:02:15,770 WWE Hall of Famer. 50 00:02:15,770 --> 00:02:18,523 The crazier I got, the wilder the things I did, 51 00:02:18,523 --> 00:02:20,900 the people loved it, 'cause it's about 52 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:23,611 connecting with the people. 53 00:02:23,611 --> 00:02:25,613 His wrestling wasn't even that great. 54 00:02:25,613 --> 00:02:30,284 Please. [Laughing] 55 00:02:30,284 --> 00:02:32,578 Hello. I'm Nasty Boy, Brian Knobbs, 56 00:02:32,578 --> 00:02:34,038 one half of 'The Nasty Boys', 57 00:02:34,038 --> 00:02:37,083 and I knew Brutus Barber Beefcake back in the 80s. 58 00:02:37,083 --> 00:02:39,877 In our era, it was like rock star, 59 00:02:39,877 --> 00:02:41,712 like the Rolling Stones or something. 60 00:02:41,712 --> 00:02:43,756 That's one of the reasons I got in the business. 61 00:02:43,756 --> 00:02:46,509 [Laughing] 62 00:02:46,509 --> 00:02:49,053 Beefcake was a rock star, right along with 63 00:02:49,053 --> 00:02:51,639 everybody on the WWF roster. 64 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,477 People would recognize you no matter where you went. 65 00:02:55,477 --> 00:02:57,646 I'm B. Brian Blair and many of you know me as 66 00:02:57,646 --> 00:02:59,439 one half of 'The Killer Bees.' 67 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:01,650 And I had so many matches with Brutus 68 00:03:01,650 --> 00:03:04,778 the Barber Beefcake that I can't count them all. 69 00:03:04,778 --> 00:03:08,490 Beefcake is a muscular guy, basically... 70 00:03:08,490 --> 00:03:11,535 um... with a nice butt. 71 00:03:11,535 --> 00:03:13,412 Beefcake! Beefcake! 72 00:03:13,412 --> 00:03:15,330 Beefcake! Everybody, Beefcake! 73 00:03:15,330 --> 00:03:17,541 That's why they call me the Beefcake, 74 00:03:17,541 --> 00:03:20,043 'cause I had the beefcakes. 75 00:03:20,043 --> 00:03:22,045 He's holding his beefcakes. 76 00:03:22,045 --> 00:03:25,090 Definitely sizeable glutemus maximus. 77 00:03:25,090 --> 00:03:27,509 God gave me one hell of a body, 78 00:03:27,509 --> 00:03:30,846 I'm gonna show it off. I gotta say it, brothers, 79 00:03:30,846 --> 00:03:33,181 I was the best looking thing 80 00:03:33,181 --> 00:03:34,892 that ever walked through their doors, 81 00:03:34,892 --> 00:03:36,935 that they had on TV. 82 00:03:36,935 --> 00:03:39,396 Look at you, sex pistol over there. 83 00:03:39,396 --> 00:03:41,106 Shut up. 84 00:03:41,106 --> 00:03:42,566 Well, that's what my wife says. 85 00:03:42,566 --> 00:03:44,443 She goes, "You're the best looking wrestler. 86 00:03:44,443 --> 00:03:46,069 I don't care what anybody says." 87 00:03:46,069 --> 00:03:47,988 You know watching all of this stuff, 88 00:03:47,988 --> 00:03:50,949 like I full on bought it, all this stuff. 89 00:03:50,949 --> 00:03:53,577 Like I'm such a wrestling fan. 90 00:03:53,577 --> 00:03:56,413 Like this, this is not fake. 91 00:03:56,413 --> 00:04:00,959 I started watching wrestling on Sunday mornings. 92 00:04:00,959 --> 00:04:04,504 One morning, out comes this guy 93 00:04:04,504 --> 00:04:09,135 and I just... 94 00:04:09,135 --> 00:04:12,639 My eyes spun, like, "hubba hubba". 95 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:13,931 My name is Missy. 96 00:04:13,931 --> 00:04:16,517 I'm the wife of Brutus the Barber Beefcake. 97 00:04:16,517 --> 00:04:18,478 It was like tunnel vision. 98 00:04:18,478 --> 00:04:22,357 Like, I am in love with this friggin' guy. 99 00:04:22,357 --> 00:04:23,816 Who is he? 100 00:04:23,816 --> 00:04:26,027 The first time I met Missy 101 00:04:26,027 --> 00:04:29,030 in 1986, Boston Gardens. 102 00:04:29,030 --> 00:04:31,616 She snuck in the backstage area, 103 00:04:31,616 --> 00:04:33,701 and she come running over and yelling, 104 00:04:33,701 --> 00:04:36,162 "I love you! I love you!" 105 00:04:36,162 --> 00:04:39,874 I was like, a little taken back at that point going, 106 00:04:39,874 --> 00:04:43,169 "Oh, my God, ----, this girl's beautiful." 107 00:04:49,133 --> 00:04:51,719 Huge wrestling fan, internet dating. 108 00:04:51,719 --> 00:04:53,638 You know, you meet guys online and, 109 00:04:53,638 --> 00:04:55,556 "Oh, what do you like?" "Oh, I like wrestling." 110 00:04:55,556 --> 00:04:57,684 So I was talking to this one guy. 111 00:04:57,684 --> 00:04:59,936 I'm telling him, you know, my Brutus Beefcake story, 112 00:04:59,936 --> 00:05:03,356 and he says, "Oh, Beefcake lives in Winchester." 113 00:05:03,356 --> 00:05:06,109 I said, "Where? What? I'm in Quincy, hello!" 114 00:05:06,109 --> 00:05:11,155 So I texted him and I said, "I want you to know that 115 00:05:11,155 --> 00:05:15,869 I'm a huge Brutus Beefcake fan and it, it's been 116 00:05:15,869 --> 00:05:18,956 a fantasy of mine to sleep with you. 117 00:05:18,956 --> 00:05:20,916 And I just wanted to know if you thought that was 118 00:05:20,916 --> 00:05:23,877 possible." The phone- ring ring ring! 119 00:05:23,877 --> 00:05:25,963 [Clicking] Hello? Hello? 120 00:05:25,963 --> 00:05:29,508 Yeah, yeah, you know, can we meet? 121 00:05:29,508 --> 00:05:31,218 It was pretty ----ing exciting. 122 00:05:31,218 --> 00:05:33,679 But I wanted it just to be, like a one and done. 123 00:05:33,679 --> 00:05:35,347 Like, I didn't think, you know, 124 00:05:35,347 --> 00:05:38,434 anything was gonna happen from that. 125 00:05:38,434 --> 00:05:40,519 [Laughing] He kept calling. 126 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:43,647 When we started dating, he'd say, "I'm your friend. 127 00:05:43,647 --> 00:05:46,191 I'm, I'm your best friend." And I used to say, 128 00:05:46,191 --> 00:05:47,693 "I don't want a best friend. 129 00:05:47,693 --> 00:05:49,570 I just want somebody to love me." 130 00:05:49,570 --> 00:05:54,032 And then fast forward, I realized... 131 00:05:54,032 --> 00:05:56,910 a friend is the best thing that you can have. 132 00:05:56,910 --> 00:05:59,913 If Brutus called you a friend, it's huge. 133 00:05:59,913 --> 00:06:01,457 Huge. 134 00:06:01,457 --> 00:06:05,335 The base of all of his goodness comes from there. 135 00:06:05,335 --> 00:06:08,714 It's a friendship from his childhood in Tampa, Florida, 136 00:06:08,714 --> 00:06:11,550 that leads Ed Leslie into wrestling. 137 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:14,261 While Ed will become Brutus Beefcake, 138 00:06:14,261 --> 00:06:17,097 his childhood friend Terry Bollea will 139 00:06:17,097 --> 00:06:21,518 transform into the wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan. 140 00:06:21,518 --> 00:06:24,521 Me and Huckster, we grew up eight blocks apart. 141 00:06:24,521 --> 00:06:26,858 We were all in the same circles, same high schools. 142 00:06:26,858 --> 00:06:28,610 He was in a rock and roll band, 143 00:06:28,610 --> 00:06:30,653 playing bass guitar. You know, 144 00:06:30,653 --> 00:06:33,031 I'd see him and his buddies all at the beach. 145 00:06:33,031 --> 00:06:35,241 They called it 'Mad Beach.' 146 00:06:35,241 --> 00:06:37,786 I was just a young punk kid hanging around. 147 00:06:37,786 --> 00:06:40,705 I'm the kid that wouldn't quit, and I always came back, 148 00:06:40,705 --> 00:06:43,917 I always showed up. They couldn't get rid of me. 149 00:06:43,917 --> 00:06:46,419 One day, Hogan says, "Guys, I'm gonna try to 150 00:06:46,419 --> 00:06:48,254 break in the wrestling business." 151 00:06:48,254 --> 00:06:49,589 That was his deal. 152 00:06:49,589 --> 00:06:52,592 He was a rock and roller and wanted to be a wrestler. 153 00:06:52,592 --> 00:06:55,553 So the phone rings, "Hey kid. 154 00:06:55,553 --> 00:06:58,306 Wanna be a wrestler?" 155 00:06:58,306 --> 00:07:01,017 So we start working out twice a day, 156 00:07:01,017 --> 00:07:04,562 six days a week in our little homemade gym. 157 00:07:04,562 --> 00:07:07,524 And after like 12, 14 months, 158 00:07:07,524 --> 00:07:09,859 we were both monsters. 159 00:07:09,859 --> 00:07:12,612 Terry gets the opportunity to train professionally 160 00:07:12,612 --> 00:07:15,281 with the legendary Hiro Matsuda, 161 00:07:15,281 --> 00:07:18,535 and then shares what he learns with Ed. 162 00:07:18,535 --> 00:07:21,246 Terry was getting stretched in the dungeon and 163 00:07:21,246 --> 00:07:24,082 it was very, very difficult. 164 00:07:24,082 --> 00:07:27,627 You'd fight for your life and survive, 165 00:07:27,627 --> 00:07:30,588 or you'd run out without your clothes. 166 00:07:30,588 --> 00:07:33,716 Whereas beefcake was just basically tossed 167 00:07:33,716 --> 00:07:36,220 straight from the street to the ring. 168 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:40,099 He was very fortunate that he had a great friend 169 00:07:40,099 --> 00:07:43,519 like Hulk Hogan, who nurtured him and 170 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:45,521 did everything he could to put him in the ring 171 00:07:45,521 --> 00:07:48,482 with the right talent to get him to first base. 172 00:07:48,482 --> 00:07:50,568 Well, a lot of people don't know me because 173 00:07:50,568 --> 00:07:52,361 I'm relatively new to the business. 174 00:07:52,361 --> 00:07:56,031 I've just come into the scene, you know, recently. 175 00:07:56,031 --> 00:07:59,243 Terry helps Ed break into the industry by making him 176 00:07:59,243 --> 00:08:00,870 his tag team partner. 177 00:08:00,870 --> 00:08:03,497 Living together out of a van in Pensacola, 178 00:08:03,497 --> 00:08:05,457 the two are inseparable. 179 00:08:05,457 --> 00:08:07,960 Whatever Hulk was doing, Brutus was right there, 180 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,422 and Brutus was always just his ride or die. 181 00:08:11,422 --> 00:08:12,673 We were friends. 182 00:08:12,673 --> 00:08:16,051 We were a bonded, friends to the end. 183 00:08:16,051 --> 00:08:18,929 People would always say, "You must be brothers." 184 00:08:18,929 --> 00:08:21,932 And we finally said, "I think it's time just to say, 185 00:08:21,932 --> 00:08:23,851 'Okay, yeah, we're brothers'." 186 00:08:23,851 --> 00:08:26,562 And go with it. Our gimmick was, 187 00:08:26,562 --> 00:08:28,939 we were bigger and stronger and 188 00:08:28,939 --> 00:08:31,108 better looking than everybody. 189 00:08:31,108 --> 00:08:33,193 The Hulk and his brother, Eddie Boulder. 190 00:08:33,193 --> 00:08:35,321 That's what we did, 'The Boulder Brothers' and 191 00:08:35,321 --> 00:08:38,032 a bunch of different names where we were brothers. 192 00:08:38,032 --> 00:08:40,659 Dizzy Hogan, the brother of Hulk Hogan. 193 00:08:40,659 --> 00:08:42,620 And Terry Funk. 194 00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:43,996 He named me Dizzy, 195 00:08:43,996 --> 00:08:45,832 he's just like, "You're Dizzy." 196 00:08:45,832 --> 00:08:47,626 Making a lot of money and everything, you know? 197 00:08:50,462 --> 00:08:54,090 [Chuckles] Kinda like a... 198 00:08:54,090 --> 00:08:56,885 a male valley girl, if you will. 199 00:08:56,885 --> 00:08:58,595 Play with it a little bit, you know... 200 00:08:58,595 --> 00:09:01,473 count it once in a while. 201 00:09:01,473 --> 00:09:03,683 -Lot of fun. -Dizzy. Dizzy Hogan. 202 00:09:03,683 --> 00:09:06,394 While Terry was going off to stardom 203 00:09:06,394 --> 00:09:08,855 he always had Brutus right behind him. 204 00:09:08,855 --> 00:09:10,732 The incredible... 205 00:09:10,732 --> 00:09:12,692 After lighting up the territories, 206 00:09:12,692 --> 00:09:15,904 Hulk makes the jump to the WWF and soon becomes 207 00:09:15,904 --> 00:09:18,657 the face of Vince McMahon's empire. 208 00:09:18,657 --> 00:09:21,451 Hogan was over in WWF 209 00:09:21,451 --> 00:09:23,036 from the minute he got there. 210 00:09:23,036 --> 00:09:26,081 I mean... the immortal Hulk Hogan. 211 00:09:26,081 --> 00:09:28,833 I mean, he goes down in history probably having 212 00:09:28,833 --> 00:09:31,795 the biggest career in wrestling, ever. 213 00:09:31,795 --> 00:09:34,798 Struggling to gain traction as Dizzy Hogan, 214 00:09:34,798 --> 00:09:38,134 Ed gets the opportunity of a lifetime to step into a new 215 00:09:38,134 --> 00:09:41,805 gimmick conceived by Vince's wife, Linda. 216 00:09:41,805 --> 00:09:44,766 Linda has this Beefcake name in her head. 217 00:09:44,766 --> 00:09:47,811 Hulk, he says, "What about Brutus? 218 00:09:47,811 --> 00:09:49,562 Like Brutus in Popeye? 219 00:09:49,562 --> 00:09:51,523 What about Brutus Beefcake?" And I'm sitting there 220 00:09:51,523 --> 00:09:55,236 thinking to myself, "Oh my God. 221 00:09:55,236 --> 00:09:58,030 Here's my chance to wrestle in Madison Square Gardens, 222 00:09:58,030 --> 00:10:01,951 and my name is gonna be Brutus Beefcake." 223 00:10:01,951 --> 00:10:04,870 I couldn't even say it without giggling and 224 00:10:04,870 --> 00:10:06,205 laughing, and... 225 00:10:06,205 --> 00:10:07,873 I was gonna be Brutus Beefcake, 226 00:10:07,873 --> 00:10:09,542 the Chippendale. 227 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:13,004 So I came out with spandex, I had a bow tie with 228 00:10:13,004 --> 00:10:16,966 rhinestones, I dropped about 25 pounds, 229 00:10:16,966 --> 00:10:20,177 dyed my hair black and cut it real short, 230 00:10:20,177 --> 00:10:24,640 and walked in to Vince's office in this outfit, 231 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,393 and Vince nearly fell out of his chair and said, 232 00:10:27,393 --> 00:10:30,771 "Oh my God, how can this not make money?" 233 00:10:30,771 --> 00:10:33,774 Brutus Beefcake. 234 00:10:33,774 --> 00:10:36,652 Beefcake was a very colourful guy, 235 00:10:36,652 --> 00:10:38,070 but he was an average worker. 236 00:10:38,070 --> 00:10:40,364 What's he gonna do? Off the rope. Oh! 237 00:10:40,364 --> 00:10:43,534 When they put Brutus with Greg Valentine, 238 00:10:43,534 --> 00:10:45,536 who's one of the premier technical wrestlers 239 00:10:45,536 --> 00:10:47,455 ever in this business- 240 00:10:47,455 --> 00:10:50,124 solid, believable, hardcore- 241 00:10:50,124 --> 00:10:54,628 it just really helped Beefcake learn how to work. 242 00:10:54,628 --> 00:10:57,298 Oh, look at that move by Beefcake. 243 00:10:57,298 --> 00:11:02,386 Beefer, to his credit, adapted very, very well. 244 00:11:02,386 --> 00:11:06,058 He was really finally understanding 245 00:11:06,058 --> 00:11:07,976 the art of the business. 246 00:11:07,976 --> 00:11:10,145 He was green, but he was good. 247 00:11:10,145 --> 00:11:12,898 I could see the potential. 248 00:11:12,898 --> 00:11:14,608 I'm Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, 249 00:11:14,608 --> 00:11:16,610 WWE Hall of Famer. 250 00:11:16,610 --> 00:11:19,112 I was Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's 251 00:11:19,112 --> 00:11:20,697 tag team partner. 252 00:11:20,697 --> 00:11:26,161 Not only did we draw money, but we had a lot of fans 253 00:11:26,161 --> 00:11:29,122 that cheered the bad guys, the heels. 254 00:11:29,122 --> 00:11:32,250 And they, they loved us. 255 00:11:32,250 --> 00:11:34,252 Brutus was a chick magnet. 256 00:11:34,252 --> 00:11:36,588 I mean, I could get girls too, 257 00:11:36,588 --> 00:11:38,924 but we're talking about Brutus. 258 00:11:38,924 --> 00:11:40,717 Boston is our town, Hammer. 259 00:11:40,717 --> 00:11:42,594 He talks too much sometimes. 260 00:11:42,594 --> 00:11:44,596 -The Fabulous Moolah. -Look at that face. 261 00:11:44,596 --> 00:11:45,806 Look at the face on her! 262 00:11:45,806 --> 00:11:48,642 He gets on a whim, and I go, "Shut up, man." 263 00:11:48,642 --> 00:11:52,145 [Laughing] No but, we were a 264 00:11:52,145 --> 00:11:54,815 perfect combination back then. 265 00:11:54,815 --> 00:11:58,360 Match made in dream team heaven. 266 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,238 Our matches were, were incredible. 267 00:12:01,238 --> 00:12:03,990 The people went nuts over them. 268 00:12:03,990 --> 00:12:05,867 That was the point where we knew like... 269 00:12:05,867 --> 00:12:07,452 we made it, brother. 270 00:12:07,452 --> 00:12:09,246 Tag Team Champions. 271 00:12:09,246 --> 00:12:13,125 After almost 3 years of success as the Dream Team, 272 00:12:13,125 --> 00:12:16,546 the decision is made to split the pair and for Brutus to 273 00:12:16,546 --> 00:12:19,048 become a colourful new character. 274 00:12:19,048 --> 00:12:22,009 They hand me this white cosmetology jacket, 275 00:12:22,009 --> 00:12:24,095 and they give me a pair of scissors and say, 276 00:12:24,095 --> 00:12:26,055 "Now you're The Barber!" 277 00:12:26,055 --> 00:12:27,432 What, what, what do you mean... 278 00:12:27,432 --> 00:12:30,560 I'm The Barber? 279 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:32,478 Don't you think you maybe should 'a 280 00:12:32,478 --> 00:12:34,355 give me a little warning? 281 00:12:34,355 --> 00:12:37,650 First thing I do is go in the dressing room and 282 00:12:37,650 --> 00:12:40,570 just start breaking everything I could find. 283 00:12:40,570 --> 00:12:42,363 Finally they, somebody went and got, 284 00:12:42,363 --> 00:12:44,574 found Hulk, said, "You better go get, 285 00:12:44,574 --> 00:12:46,409 find Beefcake, 'cause he lost it. 286 00:12:46,409 --> 00:12:48,619 He's s tearing the place up." 287 00:12:48,619 --> 00:12:50,955 So he comes in, "What's going on?" 288 00:12:50,955 --> 00:12:52,415 And I said, "What's going on? 289 00:12:52,415 --> 00:12:54,709 This is what's going on. I quit! 290 00:12:54,709 --> 00:12:56,794 This is bullshit!" 291 00:12:56,794 --> 00:12:59,338 What does a barber do in wrestling? 292 00:12:59,338 --> 00:13:03,384 He says to me, "What if you use the sleeper hold 293 00:13:03,384 --> 00:13:06,137 and put your opponents asleep? 294 00:13:06,137 --> 00:13:07,805 You get the scissors and you 295 00:13:07,805 --> 00:13:11,142 cut off some of their hair." 296 00:13:11,142 --> 00:13:13,102 Look it, he's got a pair of scissors. 297 00:13:13,102 --> 00:13:14,645 The guy thinks he's a barber now. 298 00:13:14,645 --> 00:13:17,773 Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake he wants to be known as. 299 00:13:17,773 --> 00:13:18,941 [Laughing] 300 00:13:18,941 --> 00:13:21,235 I was struttin' all over the ring. 301 00:13:21,235 --> 00:13:23,487 We're gonna talk about struttin' and cuttin' here. 302 00:13:23,487 --> 00:13:24,948 And then cut. 303 00:13:24,948 --> 00:13:26,533 Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, 304 00:13:26,533 --> 00:13:28,619 but how you cut the hair. 305 00:13:28,619 --> 00:13:31,496 You could see that Eddie had matured, 306 00:13:31,496 --> 00:13:34,791 and he was taking strides that made Brutus Beefcake 307 00:13:34,791 --> 00:13:37,961 into one of the premiere WWF characters. 308 00:13:37,961 --> 00:13:41,215 What are you gonna do when The Barber and 309 00:13:41,215 --> 00:13:43,967 Hulkamania run wild on you? 310 00:13:43,967 --> 00:13:45,677 Definitely didn't hurt to be Hulk's friend, 311 00:13:45,677 --> 00:13:49,389 and definitely Hulkster helped Brutus out big time. 312 00:13:49,389 --> 00:13:51,725 Any time they mention Brutus Beefcake 313 00:13:51,725 --> 00:13:52,809 they always mention, "Oh, well, 314 00:13:52,809 --> 00:13:54,436 he's Hulk Hogan's best friend." 315 00:13:54,436 --> 00:13:56,688 It can help and it can hurt you because 316 00:13:56,688 --> 00:13:58,232 jealousy of the friendship. 317 00:13:58,232 --> 00:14:00,150 That's all, that's all it is... 318 00:14:00,150 --> 00:14:02,069 Jealousy. 319 00:14:02,069 --> 00:14:04,071 I'm Missy Hyatt the First Lady of wrestling. 320 00:14:04,071 --> 00:14:07,074 Or, I like to be called the Walking Riot, 321 00:14:07,074 --> 00:14:08,909 and I'm really good friends with 322 00:14:08,909 --> 00:14:11,161 Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. 323 00:14:11,161 --> 00:14:13,205 Whether he was Hogan's best friend, 324 00:14:13,205 --> 00:14:16,959 he wouldn't have been in WWE for as long as he was. 325 00:14:16,959 --> 00:14:18,710 Unless you draw money for Vince, 326 00:14:18,710 --> 00:14:20,379 you're not gonna be there. 327 00:14:20,379 --> 00:14:21,421 People could think whatever they want, 328 00:14:21,421 --> 00:14:22,965 it didn't matter, I didn't care. 329 00:14:22,965 --> 00:14:24,758 -And a Slingshot! -Oh! 330 00:14:24,758 --> 00:14:27,886 I was good at what I did. I was at the top of my game. 331 00:14:27,886 --> 00:14:29,346 It's all over! 332 00:14:29,346 --> 00:14:31,098 We had WrestleMania in March, 333 00:14:31,098 --> 00:14:33,976 beat Mr. Perfect, and then the next step 334 00:14:33,976 --> 00:14:36,980 was SummerSlam, take the belt, boom, 335 00:14:36,980 --> 00:14:40,066 and get to where I was supposed to be. 336 00:14:40,066 --> 00:14:44,237 But then Brutus was in 337 00:14:44,237 --> 00:14:47,907 a catastrophic accident. 338 00:14:47,907 --> 00:14:50,285 I can picture this like it was yesterday... 339 00:14:50,285 --> 00:14:52,036 It was living a nightmare. 340 00:14:52,036 --> 00:14:55,540 Nobody knew whether Brutus was gonna live 341 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:57,834 or whether Brutus was gonna die. 342 00:15:06,759 --> 00:15:08,261 Here we are. 343 00:15:08,261 --> 00:15:11,514 Holy cow, we're in Lutz, Florida, 344 00:15:11,514 --> 00:15:13,516 at the lake house, 345 00:15:13,516 --> 00:15:17,312 scene of the crime where Brutus- ha- 346 00:15:17,312 --> 00:15:19,605 nearly lost his life, man. 347 00:15:19,605 --> 00:15:23,067 This was a heck of a party house, guys. 348 00:15:23,067 --> 00:15:25,278 There was no other docks, there was not as 349 00:15:25,278 --> 00:15:27,488 many houses and stuff as there is. 350 00:15:27,488 --> 00:15:29,198 [Cheering] 351 00:15:29,198 --> 00:15:31,993 By 1990, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake is 352 00:15:31,993 --> 00:15:35,830 one of the most popular stars of the WWF. 353 00:15:35,830 --> 00:15:38,583 July 4th, and I had one day off. 354 00:15:38,583 --> 00:15:41,127 [Chuckling] So, I'm gonna party 355 00:15:41,127 --> 00:15:43,588 like it's the end of the world. 356 00:15:43,588 --> 00:15:45,257 We're in the boat, we're gonna have a band 357 00:15:45,257 --> 00:15:48,552 set up later on the outside in the back, and, 358 00:15:48,552 --> 00:15:50,429 and we're gonna party all night. 359 00:15:50,429 --> 00:15:52,848 Mike Hannis, who's a friend of Beefcake's, 360 00:15:52,848 --> 00:15:56,769 he had a really fast ski boat and he liked to 361 00:15:56,769 --> 00:16:00,189 take people parasailing around the lake. 362 00:16:00,189 --> 00:16:02,399 Everybody was having a great time. 363 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:05,653 We had just been parasailing for hours. 364 00:16:05,653 --> 00:16:09,114 Several people had had near catastrophes. 365 00:16:09,114 --> 00:16:11,992 So, we're actually thanking our lucky stars that nobody's 366 00:16:11,992 --> 00:16:14,495 hurt doing the parasailing today, 367 00:16:14,495 --> 00:16:16,955 and we're done. 368 00:16:16,955 --> 00:16:19,541 And then Brian Blair, The Killer Bee, 369 00:16:19,541 --> 00:16:22,169 and his friends, a couple of people, 370 00:16:22,169 --> 00:16:25,964 came roaring in and they wanted to parasail. 371 00:16:25,964 --> 00:16:28,842 I wasn't about to go up there because it didn't 372 00:16:28,842 --> 00:16:30,677 look like the safest thing in the world to me. 373 00:16:30,677 --> 00:16:32,721 But a friend of mine, Tracy, 374 00:16:32,721 --> 00:16:35,057 wanted to go up in the parasail. 375 00:16:35,057 --> 00:16:38,769 Mike, he's like, "No, no, we're, we're done." 376 00:16:38,769 --> 00:16:42,439 And they wouldn't relent. Mike finally just, 377 00:16:42,439 --> 00:16:46,151 he's pissed, he told us, "Alright, alright." 378 00:16:46,151 --> 00:16:49,154 But at that time, there's no wind to 379 00:16:49,154 --> 00:16:51,365 fluff the parachute up. 380 00:16:51,365 --> 00:16:55,537 Beefcake stood in the water above his waist. 381 00:16:55,537 --> 00:16:58,081 Myself and another guy named Paul was 382 00:16:58,081 --> 00:17:00,291 holding up the parasail. 383 00:17:00,291 --> 00:17:03,044 Eddie's responsibility as a rope man is to communicate 384 00:17:03,044 --> 00:17:06,089 with the person about to take off in the parasail, 385 00:17:06,089 --> 00:17:07,757 and he also has to communicate 386 00:17:07,757 --> 00:17:09,175 with the boat driver. 387 00:17:09,175 --> 00:17:12,512 So I'm out in the shallows here 388 00:17:12,512 --> 00:17:15,098 trying to get the people set up, 389 00:17:15,098 --> 00:17:17,016 up there on the grass. 390 00:17:17,016 --> 00:17:19,727 We got everybody ready to go. 391 00:17:19,727 --> 00:17:23,440 Mike just said, "---- it, I'm going." 392 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,942 And just took off. 393 00:17:25,942 --> 00:17:28,278 Eddie drops his hand 394 00:17:28,278 --> 00:17:31,990 and as he does, he turns in, 395 00:17:31,990 --> 00:17:36,494 and so he's right in Tracy's line of fire. 396 00:17:36,494 --> 00:17:39,289 Right in her flight path. 397 00:17:39,289 --> 00:17:41,541 She's coming right to the back of my head. 398 00:17:41,541 --> 00:17:44,085 It's happening so fast, nobody can even yell, 399 00:17:44,085 --> 00:17:47,589 "Look out! Move!" 400 00:17:47,589 --> 00:17:48,882 Anything. 401 00:17:48,882 --> 00:17:53,344 As she sees that she's not getting lift, 402 00:17:53,344 --> 00:17:57,724 she buckles her knees up to try to clear Eddie's face. 403 00:17:57,724 --> 00:18:02,312 And I turn around just in time to get her knees 404 00:18:02,312 --> 00:18:05,024 right in the face. Boom. 405 00:18:05,024 --> 00:18:08,319 It hits me so hard that it pulls me out of the water, 406 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:10,029 and I do a, what's called a 'gainer', 407 00:18:10,029 --> 00:18:12,198 where your feet go over your head first 408 00:18:12,198 --> 00:18:14,325 and then come back down. 409 00:18:14,325 --> 00:18:17,161 And by the grace of God, I wasn't knocked out. 410 00:18:17,161 --> 00:18:20,080 And I'm down, like, 411 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,000 trying to get my shit together. 412 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,462 Can't see a thing, can't breathe... 413 00:18:26,462 --> 00:18:29,006 and nobody has any clue that 414 00:18:29,006 --> 00:18:32,426 I've been mortally injured. 415 00:18:32,426 --> 00:18:36,555 I ran as quick as I could, grabbed him from the water. 416 00:18:36,555 --> 00:18:39,391 Everything was shattered from the nose, 417 00:18:39,391 --> 00:18:42,186 the cheekbones, his whole upper jaw 418 00:18:42,186 --> 00:18:46,816 was sitting on top of his bottom jaw. 419 00:18:46,816 --> 00:18:48,901 I force my hand in my mouth. 420 00:18:48,901 --> 00:18:52,905 I lift my palate up, saying, "My face is falling off!" 421 00:18:52,905 --> 00:18:54,240 [Mumbling] 422 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:55,574 He couldn't speak. He tried to speak, 423 00:18:55,574 --> 00:18:58,744 but it was only gurgles coming up from his throat. 424 00:18:58,744 --> 00:19:01,455 While we were waiting for the ambulance to drive, 425 00:19:01,455 --> 00:19:05,000 I just kept Eddie up and conscious. 426 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,504 Trying to keep him from falling asleep. 427 00:19:08,504 --> 00:19:11,840 I didn't know anybody could be hurt that bad 428 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,594 and still, and still be alive. 429 00:19:14,594 --> 00:19:16,429 They rolled me into the emergency room, 430 00:19:16,429 --> 00:19:19,099 and they take my blood pressure, realized it's like, 431 00:19:19,099 --> 00:19:21,726 200 over 100 or something. 432 00:19:21,726 --> 00:19:23,311 Next thing you know, they're yelling, 433 00:19:23,311 --> 00:19:26,314 "Code blue! Code red! Code purple!" 434 00:19:26,314 --> 00:19:29,609 And finally x-ray my head and realize 435 00:19:29,609 --> 00:19:31,820 that my face is gone, 436 00:19:31,820 --> 00:19:34,906 and they have no idea what to do. 437 00:19:34,906 --> 00:19:38,034 It's the 4th of July, and the phone rang. 438 00:19:38,034 --> 00:19:41,830 So the guy on the phone said, "It's Brutus Beefcake. 439 00:19:41,830 --> 00:19:44,416 He is severely injured, and they need your help 440 00:19:44,416 --> 00:19:47,294 immediately." I said, "Brutus, Beefcake? 441 00:19:47,294 --> 00:19:50,297 Never heard this name." And then my son yelled, 442 00:19:50,297 --> 00:19:54,884 "Dad, this is Hulk Hogan's partner!" 443 00:19:54,884 --> 00:19:57,512 My name is Mutaz Habal, 444 00:19:57,512 --> 00:20:00,223 and I am a plastic surgeon. 445 00:20:00,223 --> 00:20:01,683 By the time I arrived, 446 00:20:01,683 --> 00:20:04,561 I remember I asked because he was so big, 447 00:20:04,561 --> 00:20:07,564 "How can somebody smash him like this?" 448 00:20:07,564 --> 00:20:10,609 I said, "Well, Doc, please just ----ing kill me, 449 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:12,444 'cause I'm done. 450 00:20:12,444 --> 00:20:15,322 I can't take it another minute. 451 00:20:15,322 --> 00:20:18,450 The pain is unbearable." 452 00:20:18,450 --> 00:20:20,827 He was totally fractured. 453 00:20:20,827 --> 00:20:22,996 Of course, the first thing we want to determine 454 00:20:22,996 --> 00:20:25,082 is that he had a good airway. 455 00:20:25,082 --> 00:20:27,918 Because if a person cannot breathe well, 456 00:20:27,918 --> 00:20:31,297 or there is something obstructing the airway, 457 00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:33,090 of course they can pass. 458 00:20:33,090 --> 00:20:38,387 But I was more worried about that he may lose vision. 459 00:20:38,387 --> 00:20:41,140 Working over the course of 16 hours, 460 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:44,018 Dr. Habal and his team of specialists 461 00:20:44,018 --> 00:20:47,772 reconstruct Brutus' entire face. 462 00:20:47,772 --> 00:20:49,732 It was like building a house. 463 00:20:49,732 --> 00:20:52,109 And I really always like to build the house 464 00:20:52,109 --> 00:20:55,237 from the stable area to the unstable. 465 00:20:55,237 --> 00:20:57,323 A lot of his skull was stable, 466 00:20:57,323 --> 00:20:59,325 so I started from the top. 467 00:20:59,325 --> 00:21:02,328 They cut me from ear to ear, 468 00:21:02,328 --> 00:21:04,580 across the top of my head, 469 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:07,958 peel my face down 470 00:21:07,958 --> 00:21:10,378 and my scalp back, 471 00:21:10,378 --> 00:21:13,047 and then using strips of titanium 472 00:21:13,047 --> 00:21:16,217 he's gonna rebuild my skull. 473 00:21:16,217 --> 00:21:18,177 The most important thing in the face is 474 00:21:18,177 --> 00:21:21,097 where the eyes go, how far they are. 475 00:21:21,097 --> 00:21:23,140 Put the eyes in position, 476 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:25,685 put the nose where he is, and put the upper teeth, 477 00:21:25,685 --> 00:21:28,896 the lower teeth, and then we sew the eyelid together so 478 00:21:28,896 --> 00:21:33,025 the person would not be able to see for 24 hours at least. 479 00:21:33,025 --> 00:21:36,279 After the surgery, they took me to ICU to, 480 00:21:36,279 --> 00:21:38,990 in a drug induced coma, basically, 481 00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:43,245 for me to wait for a couple of days to see 482 00:21:43,245 --> 00:21:45,497 what happened if I kept on living. 483 00:21:45,497 --> 00:21:47,499 [Laughing] 484 00:21:47,499 --> 00:21:49,960 I can't see, I can't speak. 485 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,880 Everything I had worked 20 years 486 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,674 for was gone, 487 00:21:55,674 --> 00:21:58,301 and wasn't coming back. 488 00:22:06,101 --> 00:22:08,937 Following surgery to repair Brutus Beefcake's 489 00:22:08,937 --> 00:22:11,356 shattered face, he is put into 490 00:22:11,356 --> 00:22:13,734 a medically induced coma. 491 00:22:13,734 --> 00:22:16,111 With no guarantees for his survival, 492 00:22:16,111 --> 00:22:18,822 doctors contact the one person Brutus 493 00:22:18,822 --> 00:22:20,741 can depend on. 494 00:22:20,741 --> 00:22:24,453 They said, "We need somebody there to talk to him. 495 00:22:24,453 --> 00:22:27,330 Because if he, if he wakes up and he panics, 496 00:22:27,330 --> 00:22:30,167 we need to have a familiar voice." 497 00:22:30,167 --> 00:22:32,753 Both of my parents had died within two years. 498 00:22:32,753 --> 00:22:34,838 I was going through a horrible divorce. 499 00:22:34,838 --> 00:22:38,300 I had brothers and sisters and family, but... 500 00:22:38,300 --> 00:22:40,886 I mean, I've been gone for 15, 20 years 501 00:22:40,886 --> 00:22:42,637 on the road, so... 502 00:22:42,637 --> 00:22:46,851 the only person that I was really close to... 503 00:22:46,851 --> 00:22:49,812 was Hulk. 504 00:22:49,812 --> 00:22:52,023 Concerned about his best friend, 505 00:22:52,023 --> 00:22:55,401 Hulk Hogan leaves his pregnant wife in California 506 00:22:55,401 --> 00:22:58,821 to be at Brutus' bedside when he wakes up. 507 00:22:58,821 --> 00:23:00,990 They said, "Look, we bring him out of this 508 00:23:00,990 --> 00:23:03,034 drug induced coma, we have no idea 509 00:23:03,034 --> 00:23:05,787 what's gonna happen. Is he gonna freak out?" 510 00:23:05,787 --> 00:23:07,580 Hulk, he says, 511 00:23:07,580 --> 00:23:09,749 "Don't worry about it, Brutus. 512 00:23:09,749 --> 00:23:13,836 I'm gonna take you home to California. 513 00:23:13,836 --> 00:23:15,755 We're gonna get you better. 514 00:23:15,755 --> 00:23:19,008 I don't care what the doctors say, 515 00:23:19,008 --> 00:23:22,011 you're gonna live." 516 00:23:22,011 --> 00:23:24,514 The only luck thing about for him, 517 00:23:24,514 --> 00:23:28,017 is the impact was right in the middle of his face 518 00:23:28,017 --> 00:23:29,644 between the eyes. 519 00:23:29,644 --> 00:23:31,437 If it was on the right or on the left, 520 00:23:31,437 --> 00:23:34,315 he would have lost vision in one of those eyes. 521 00:23:34,315 --> 00:23:36,359 Surviving is a miracle. 522 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,321 To regain his vision is, is also a miracle. 523 00:23:40,321 --> 00:23:42,657 Terry was there, you know, talking to him. 524 00:23:42,657 --> 00:23:44,700 They're walking down the hallway and 525 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:47,286 Brutus' eyeball fell out. 526 00:23:47,286 --> 00:23:49,831 Like, boop! Popped out of the socket. 527 00:23:49,831 --> 00:23:52,875 And Hulk's looking at my eyeball popped out, he says, 528 00:23:52,875 --> 00:23:55,546 "Oh, my God, Doc, we gotta get him back." 529 00:23:55,546 --> 00:23:59,091 Eddie's recovery had to be extremely difficult 530 00:23:59,091 --> 00:24:01,969 because he had to learn to speak again. 531 00:24:01,969 --> 00:24:04,429 He ate liquid for so long because, 532 00:24:04,429 --> 00:24:06,431 think about it, you can't chew food. 533 00:24:06,431 --> 00:24:09,643 This is a gruelling, gruelling comeback. 534 00:24:09,643 --> 00:24:11,854 I know he had a lot of prayer warriors out there. 535 00:24:11,854 --> 00:24:14,273 He had a lot of people pulling for him. 536 00:24:14,273 --> 00:24:15,274 Sherri! 537 00:24:15,274 --> 00:24:16,650 Look at the way she's dressed. 538 00:24:16,650 --> 00:24:19,695 Sherri Martel. Sherri Martel and I were friends. 539 00:24:19,695 --> 00:24:21,780 ♪ 540 00:24:21,780 --> 00:24:24,074 So Sherri comes to see me, 541 00:24:24,074 --> 00:24:27,536 and the guys are like, "You can't react." 542 00:24:27,536 --> 00:24:29,329 They were trying to prepare her- [Laughing] 543 00:24:29,329 --> 00:24:31,790 "When you see him you can't react, because if you do, 544 00:24:31,790 --> 00:24:35,460 you might, you might totally freak him out." 545 00:24:35,460 --> 00:24:36,879 The door opens. 546 00:24:36,879 --> 00:24:39,298 Sherri has like this big stuffed animal and cards 547 00:24:39,298 --> 00:24:41,800 and stuff, takes one look at me and goes- 548 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,887 [Screaming] "Ah!" [Laughing] 549 00:24:44,887 --> 00:24:48,098 Like she just saw a ----ing ghost or something, 550 00:24:48,098 --> 00:24:51,894 like screams. First thing they do is like, grab her, 551 00:24:51,894 --> 00:24:55,230 throw her back out of the room like, "You... 552 00:24:55,230 --> 00:24:57,316 you tryin' to kill the poor guy." 553 00:24:57,316 --> 00:25:00,068 And she's out in the hallway screaming and crying, 554 00:25:00,068 --> 00:25:02,070 going, "Oh my God! Oh my God"! 555 00:25:02,070 --> 00:25:03,865 [Laughing] 556 00:25:03,865 --> 00:25:05,992 I was almost laughing, I was like, 557 00:25:05,992 --> 00:25:07,744 "That was the funniest shit ever. 558 00:25:07,744 --> 00:25:11,748 That was real ----in' funny shit." 559 00:25:11,748 --> 00:25:14,375 It set the tempo kind of for me, you know? 560 00:25:14,375 --> 00:25:17,378 It's like I can't feel sorry for myself. 561 00:25:17,378 --> 00:25:20,673 Sometimes you don't get the cards you want, 562 00:25:20,673 --> 00:25:22,717 but you gotta play 'em anyway. 563 00:25:22,717 --> 00:25:25,345 The only thing I had hoped for was to at least be 564 00:25:25,345 --> 00:25:27,305 able to recover so I could do something. 565 00:25:27,305 --> 00:25:28,723 You know, and nobody expected me to 566 00:25:28,723 --> 00:25:30,725 ever really come back to wrestling. 567 00:25:30,725 --> 00:25:32,185 [Exhaling sharply] I remember he, 568 00:25:32,185 --> 00:25:34,479 he pulled up at my house and 569 00:25:34,479 --> 00:25:36,981 I looked at him and I go, "Oh my God." 570 00:25:36,981 --> 00:25:39,984 I just felt so bad for him. 571 00:25:39,984 --> 00:25:42,779 As soon as I was able to get back in the gym 572 00:25:42,779 --> 00:25:44,489 and start working out, 573 00:25:44,489 --> 00:25:46,991 my body responded instantly. 574 00:25:46,991 --> 00:25:48,910 It was like magic. 575 00:25:48,910 --> 00:25:51,537 I'm with Hulk, we're in California, training, 576 00:25:51,537 --> 00:25:53,289 and getting better and getting better. 577 00:25:53,289 --> 00:25:55,917 The doc says, "You just, you can't wrestle." 578 00:25:55,917 --> 00:25:58,252 And I had no intention of wanting to get in, 579 00:25:58,252 --> 00:26:01,422 into the ring and die. 580 00:26:01,422 --> 00:26:03,466 With recovery costs mounting, 581 00:26:03,466 --> 00:26:06,678 Hulk ensures that Brutus doesn't go broke. 582 00:26:06,678 --> 00:26:09,305 Doing the movies... 583 00:26:09,305 --> 00:26:11,766 you know, I was looking for a new career. 584 00:26:11,766 --> 00:26:15,312 Hoping for something to come out of this. 585 00:26:15,312 --> 00:26:19,608 I wouldn't look behind me for a million bucks. 586 00:26:19,608 --> 00:26:21,944 I hate to say he was carrying Hogan's bag, 587 00:26:21,944 --> 00:26:23,445 that's not right. 588 00:26:23,445 --> 00:26:24,989 You know, first of all, 589 00:26:24,989 --> 00:26:26,657 you have a lot of jealousy here. 590 00:26:26,657 --> 00:26:28,867 A lot of, probably a lot of people glad he got his 591 00:26:28,867 --> 00:26:32,746 head knocked off, and that's bullshit. 592 00:26:32,746 --> 00:26:34,832 People look at him like, "Oh, Beefcake, 593 00:26:34,832 --> 00:26:37,084 all he does is carry Hogan's bag." Or, 594 00:26:37,084 --> 00:26:40,004 "He carries Hogan's drugs so if he gets caught 595 00:26:40,004 --> 00:26:42,381 it, you know, it'll go on to Brutus." 596 00:26:42,381 --> 00:26:44,341 He had his gimmicks 597 00:26:44,341 --> 00:26:48,012 in his bag and, you know, money. 598 00:26:48,012 --> 00:26:52,224 He trusted me with his money and everything else. 599 00:26:52,224 --> 00:26:53,934 Ladies and gentlemen! 600 00:26:53,934 --> 00:26:55,728 Eager to get back into wrestling, 601 00:26:55,728 --> 00:26:58,772 Vince gives Brutus his own regular interview segment 602 00:26:58,772 --> 00:27:00,399 called 'The Barbershop.' 603 00:27:00,399 --> 00:27:01,734 It's Barbershop time, Brian. 604 00:27:01,734 --> 00:27:02,943 This is what you've been waiting for. 605 00:27:02,943 --> 00:27:04,319 [Cheering] 606 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:05,738 He doesn't look different. 607 00:27:05,738 --> 00:27:08,907 You are the ones who's responsible for bringing 608 00:27:08,907 --> 00:27:13,370 Brutus "The Barber" back to the WWF! 609 00:27:13,370 --> 00:27:15,706 The Barbershop was fantastic. 610 00:27:15,706 --> 00:27:18,459 Welcome to The Barbershop, ladies and gentlemen. 611 00:27:18,459 --> 00:27:21,336 The thing you can't buy is heart! 612 00:27:21,336 --> 00:27:23,673 But the Snake is still standing. 613 00:27:23,673 --> 00:27:25,508 No! Oh my God! 614 00:27:25,508 --> 00:27:27,135 It could 'a went on and on and on... 615 00:27:27,135 --> 00:27:30,764 but The Barbershop was destroyed by Sid 616 00:27:30,764 --> 00:27:33,058 for WrestleMania eight. 617 00:27:33,058 --> 00:27:34,726 That's the way they do things. 618 00:27:34,726 --> 00:27:38,897 At WWE, they created it, they destroy it. 619 00:27:38,897 --> 00:27:42,609 Come on, Hogan! You're a coward! 620 00:27:42,609 --> 00:27:45,028 With The Barbershop having run its course, 621 00:27:45,028 --> 00:27:48,073 Brutus is taken off WWF television 622 00:27:48,073 --> 00:27:50,408 as Hulk takes a hiatus from wrestling 623 00:27:50,408 --> 00:27:52,660 due to the steroid scandal that 624 00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:54,621 engulfs the business. 625 00:27:54,621 --> 00:27:56,748 They were counting on me 626 00:27:56,748 --> 00:27:59,918 to deliver Hulk to them too, 627 00:27:59,918 --> 00:28:02,212 to be prosecuted, and Vince, too. 628 00:28:02,212 --> 00:28:05,090 They thought I was gonna be their golden goose. 629 00:28:05,090 --> 00:28:07,092 Didn't happen. 630 00:28:07,092 --> 00:28:09,552 I said, "No, no, no, none of this shit ever happened. 631 00:28:09,552 --> 00:28:12,055 I don't know what anybody's talking about." 632 00:28:12,055 --> 00:28:14,849 To help save his ass and 633 00:28:14,849 --> 00:28:17,393 Vince McMahon's ass too. 634 00:28:17,393 --> 00:28:21,314 Returning to the WWF in 1993, 635 00:28:21,314 --> 00:28:24,067 Hulk Hogan is reunited with Brutus Beefcake 636 00:28:24,067 --> 00:28:27,445 as his new tag team partner. 637 00:28:27,445 --> 00:28:30,907 Beefcake headed a match at WrestleMania tagging with 638 00:28:30,907 --> 00:28:35,454 Hogan against Ted DiBiase and IRS Mike Rotundo. 639 00:28:35,454 --> 00:28:37,790 It was another gift from Hogan. 640 00:28:37,790 --> 00:28:39,834 Big kick, Irish Whip. Far side. 641 00:28:39,834 --> 00:28:41,043 With the knee right to the face. 642 00:28:41,043 --> 00:28:46,132 The idea was, let me see how I feel in the ring. 643 00:28:46,132 --> 00:28:48,801 Do I feel like I can do this every day? 644 00:28:48,801 --> 00:28:51,345 'Cause it felt good. 645 00:28:51,345 --> 00:28:53,722 Brutus' comeback is short lived as 646 00:28:53,722 --> 00:28:56,267 he's soon dropped by the WWF and 647 00:28:56,267 --> 00:28:58,435 returns to the independent circuit. 648 00:28:58,435 --> 00:29:01,438 It's not until Hulk signs a massive contract and 649 00:29:01,438 --> 00:29:04,817 joined WCW that Brutus gets another opportunity 650 00:29:04,817 --> 00:29:07,319 to revive his struggling career. 651 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:09,029 He came with Hulk Hogan. 652 00:29:09,029 --> 00:29:12,700 He was what I refer to as the 'Hulk Hogan tax'. 653 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:14,994 Hulk didn't demand anything. 654 00:29:14,994 --> 00:29:16,996 But we had an understanding. 655 00:29:16,996 --> 00:29:19,415 [Laughing] 656 00:29:19,415 --> 00:29:20,666 That if he wanted something bad enough, 657 00:29:20,666 --> 00:29:23,502 I had to pay for it. [Laughing] 658 00:29:23,502 --> 00:29:26,297 I'm Eric Bischoff, and even though I'm here to talk about 659 00:29:26,297 --> 00:29:29,216 Brutus the ----ing Barber Beefcake, 660 00:29:29,216 --> 00:29:30,926 I'm happy to be here. 661 00:29:30,926 --> 00:29:33,679 Everybody in that locker room knew that the only reason 662 00:29:33,679 --> 00:29:36,265 Ed Leslie was in that locker room 663 00:29:36,265 --> 00:29:38,142 was because of Hulk Hogan. 664 00:29:45,192 --> 00:29:48,278 In 1994, Ed Leslie once again follows 665 00:29:48,278 --> 00:29:52,282 his friend Hulk Hogan, this time to WCW. 666 00:29:52,282 --> 00:29:55,744 With the Brutus Beefcake name owned by the WWF, 667 00:29:55,744 --> 00:29:59,956 Ed cycles through a number of different characters in WCW. 668 00:29:59,956 --> 00:30:05,003 Butcher! The man with no name! 669 00:30:05,003 --> 00:30:07,297 Zodiac! 670 00:30:07,297 --> 00:30:09,299 The Booty Man coming out here. 671 00:30:09,299 --> 00:30:12,052 I was able to become a character. 672 00:30:12,052 --> 00:30:16,598 I was able to do it with 4 or 5 different gimmicks. 673 00:30:16,598 --> 00:30:19,476 In my mind, that's an amazing feat. 674 00:30:19,476 --> 00:30:23,230 It's like being a, a good actor, like Mel Gibson. 675 00:30:23,230 --> 00:30:26,775 Brutus thinks he's as good as Mel Gibson as an actor? 676 00:30:26,775 --> 00:30:30,695 [Laughing] 677 00:30:30,695 --> 00:30:32,322 That made me laugh there. 678 00:30:32,322 --> 00:30:33,907 That's a good one. 679 00:30:33,907 --> 00:30:37,410 It's the Booty Man! 680 00:30:37,410 --> 00:30:38,995 I mean, all them other gimmicks 681 00:30:38,995 --> 00:30:40,497 didn't get over at all. 682 00:30:40,497 --> 00:30:43,541 Brutus pretty much conducted himself professionally 683 00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:47,045 while he was in WCW, for the most part. 684 00:30:47,045 --> 00:30:49,714 I think Brutus was there for the party. 685 00:30:49,714 --> 00:30:51,049 I'll be honest with you. 686 00:30:51,049 --> 00:30:53,719 Yeah, he was a partier. He was a drinker. 687 00:30:53,719 --> 00:30:55,471 And I've been on the back of his motorcycle 688 00:30:55,471 --> 00:30:57,390 when we've had more than a couple too many, 689 00:30:57,390 --> 00:30:59,267 but I trust him with my life. 690 00:30:59,267 --> 00:31:02,645 The day I got fired from WCW, I called him. 691 00:31:02,645 --> 00:31:05,815 He actually saved my life because 692 00:31:05,815 --> 00:31:08,776 I was getting ready to jump out the window 693 00:31:08,776 --> 00:31:10,987 and he talked me off the ledge. 694 00:31:10,987 --> 00:31:14,365 Brutus was a saviour. Brutus was a saviour. 695 00:31:14,365 --> 00:31:16,575 Why do you have to humiliate somebody and 696 00:31:16,575 --> 00:31:18,452 give them all these stupid gimmicks? 697 00:31:18,452 --> 00:31:20,955 Brutus was treated like shit at WCW. 698 00:31:20,955 --> 00:31:22,999 After the Booty Man and the Butcher and the 699 00:31:22,999 --> 00:31:26,294 Man with No Name, Eric Bischoff, basically saying, 700 00:31:26,294 --> 00:31:29,380 "We can't repackage Beefcake anymore." 701 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:33,592 Oh, okay, here's what I'm gonna do. 702 00:31:33,592 --> 00:31:35,720 I went home, I went to Florida. 703 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,596 I spent 2, 3 months 704 00:31:37,596 --> 00:31:40,224 growing my hair really long, 705 00:31:40,224 --> 00:31:44,270 dropping my body fat content to 5%. 706 00:31:44,270 --> 00:31:49,525 45 years old and shredded to the bone. 707 00:31:49,525 --> 00:31:53,279 He looked like... 708 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:56,866 a god, he looked like something 709 00:31:56,866 --> 00:31:59,744 from Grecian times. 710 00:31:59,744 --> 00:32:05,417 He was just sexy, sexy, sexy... sexy. 711 00:32:05,417 --> 00:32:08,003 I'm shvitzing over here. 712 00:32:08,003 --> 00:32:12,090 Flew to Atlanta, went to CNN Towers, 713 00:32:12,090 --> 00:32:15,427 home of WCW. Hulk says, 714 00:32:15,427 --> 00:32:20,849 "I gotta introduce you to my new disciple." 715 00:32:20,849 --> 00:32:23,352 And oohs and ahs. 716 00:32:23,352 --> 00:32:24,770 Who's this in the ring? 717 00:32:24,770 --> 00:32:28,023 And then he says, "Oh, did I mention that 718 00:32:28,023 --> 00:32:30,233 that's Brutus Beefcake?" 719 00:32:30,233 --> 00:32:33,987 So I stuck it right up all their asses, boom! 720 00:32:33,987 --> 00:32:36,990 Big hard bam right up the ass with that one. 721 00:32:36,990 --> 00:32:38,742 How about that? 722 00:32:38,742 --> 00:32:41,578 Despite his radical transformation, 723 00:32:41,578 --> 00:32:44,456 Brutus fizzles out of WCW, 724 00:32:44,456 --> 00:32:46,667 but bigger problems await. 725 00:32:46,667 --> 00:32:49,878 He had a money manager that stole all the money and 726 00:32:49,878 --> 00:32:51,671 went to, like, Barbados or something. 727 00:32:51,671 --> 00:32:53,632 Stole a lot of Hulk's too. 728 00:32:53,632 --> 00:32:55,300 You're a millionaire one day and the next day 729 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:56,927 you're selling your house. 730 00:32:56,927 --> 00:33:00,555 I poured everything I had 731 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:02,307 into this home 732 00:33:02,307 --> 00:33:06,269 where I planned on living my life out, and now... 733 00:33:06,269 --> 00:33:08,855 had to sell it. So now my, 734 00:33:08,855 --> 00:33:11,400 now ex-wife takes my daughter, 735 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,862 moves back to Boston where her parents live. 736 00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:17,448 Brutus makes the 737 00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:17,448 To provide for his family, 738 00:33:17,448 --> 00:33:19,909 difficult choice to move to Boston, 739 00:33:19,909 --> 00:33:22,036 taking a job as a toll collector 740 00:33:22,036 --> 00:33:25,415 for the Metro Boston Transit Authority. 741 00:33:25,415 --> 00:33:28,501 And it was brutal to have to live in Boston for 742 00:33:28,501 --> 00:33:33,756 12 years in that cold, miserable place. 743 00:33:33,756 --> 00:33:36,634 He was in a bad marriage living in an attic, 744 00:33:36,634 --> 00:33:40,555 worked nights with rats running across his feet. 745 00:33:40,555 --> 00:33:42,223 That was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in 746 00:33:42,223 --> 00:33:44,934 my life, but I was doing it for my daughter. 747 00:33:44,934 --> 00:33:47,311 This particular time, instead of Aspirin 748 00:33:47,311 --> 00:33:48,604 I used to have these... 749 00:33:48,604 --> 00:33:50,356 called BC Powder. 750 00:33:50,356 --> 00:33:51,524 I don't know if you've evernheard of it. 751 00:33:51,524 --> 00:33:53,443 You just dumped the powder in your mouth, 752 00:33:53,443 --> 00:33:56,779 and you absorb it real fast. One of my BC Powder 753 00:33:56,779 --> 00:34:00,741 little packets, fell out on the floor. 754 00:34:00,741 --> 00:34:04,454 I did my shift, packed up, left. 755 00:34:04,454 --> 00:34:06,038 Lady came in, 756 00:34:06,038 --> 00:34:08,166 saw this little, tiny thing on, down on the floor, 757 00:34:08,166 --> 00:34:09,375 picked it up... 758 00:34:09,375 --> 00:34:12,962 when she tried to open it, the powder just went poof. 759 00:34:12,962 --> 00:34:14,464 And she started screaming, 760 00:34:14,464 --> 00:34:15,882 "Anthrax! Anthrax"! 761 00:34:15,882 --> 00:34:17,383 And there was that big anthrax thing. 762 00:34:17,383 --> 00:34:19,719 It was like, you know, it was like COVID, you know? 763 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,390 And they shut the train station down. 764 00:34:25,726 --> 00:34:27,895 You want the truth or do you want me to lie? 765 00:34:30,314 --> 00:34:32,900 It wasn't anthrax. 766 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,736 It was cocaine. [Chuckling] 767 00:34:35,736 --> 00:34:37,362 If anybody falls on hard times, 768 00:34:37,362 --> 00:34:39,031 anybody who's got a problem with drugs and addiction, 769 00:34:39,031 --> 00:34:41,408 they make those kind of stupid mistakes. 770 00:34:41,408 --> 00:34:42,868 Unfortunately, this one scared the hell 771 00:34:42,868 --> 00:34:44,620 out of a lot of people. 772 00:34:44,620 --> 00:34:47,498 It's Aspirin in a little, like, a little packet. 773 00:34:51,627 --> 00:34:53,045 Yeah. Oh, 100%. 774 00:34:53,045 --> 00:34:55,130 But why wasn't he arrested? 775 00:34:55,130 --> 00:34:56,215 He wasn't arrested. 776 00:34:56,215 --> 00:34:57,966 It was a big embarrassment. 777 00:34:57,966 --> 00:35:00,260 They made him go to rehab. 778 00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:04,056 Eventually, when I went back for my review, 779 00:35:04,056 --> 00:35:06,433 they fired me. They let me go. 780 00:35:06,433 --> 00:35:11,522 Which I was extremely happy about. 781 00:35:11,522 --> 00:35:14,399 Out of a job and with his marriage ending, 782 00:35:14,399 --> 00:35:17,152 Brutus is forced to reckon with the toll wrestling 783 00:35:17,152 --> 00:35:20,906 has taken on his body and his life. 784 00:35:20,906 --> 00:35:25,369 When you're a wrestler on the road 350 days 785 00:35:25,369 --> 00:35:30,415 out of the year, your body is beat to shit. 786 00:35:30,415 --> 00:35:32,335 Just to get in the ring, 787 00:35:32,335 --> 00:35:34,879 nine out of ten guys 788 00:35:34,879 --> 00:35:37,799 had to take something for the pain. 789 00:35:37,799 --> 00:35:41,010 You take a pill, you have a little drink... 790 00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:43,304 it's very habit forming. 791 00:35:43,304 --> 00:35:46,808 I can't... do these pills 792 00:35:46,808 --> 00:35:49,060 and I can't do this anymore 'cause it's, 793 00:35:49,060 --> 00:35:51,312 it's, it's gonna take my life. 794 00:35:51,312 --> 00:35:54,357 And Missy took me in and gave me a home 795 00:35:54,357 --> 00:35:55,692 and a place to live. 796 00:35:55,692 --> 00:35:58,319 And she was there at a time 797 00:35:58,319 --> 00:36:00,363 that could've went either way. 798 00:36:00,363 --> 00:36:02,991 His friends, or, "friends", 799 00:36:02,991 --> 00:36:05,660 would give him pills and drag him around 800 00:36:05,660 --> 00:36:09,080 to bars and say, "We got Brutus Beefcake!" 801 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,416 Brutus is not a loser like that, 802 00:36:11,416 --> 00:36:15,336 but he had a habit. 803 00:36:15,336 --> 00:36:18,923 He had a ----ed up life, 804 00:36:18,923 --> 00:36:22,760 and he was numbing himself. 805 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,637 We have weeded out 806 00:36:24,637 --> 00:36:28,933 all of the assholes. 807 00:36:28,933 --> 00:36:31,144 All of that is gone. 808 00:36:37,275 --> 00:36:38,610 Use the force! 809 00:36:38,610 --> 00:36:39,986 I had never played with it though 'cause 810 00:36:39,986 --> 00:36:41,696 I'm too afraid I'm gonna break it. 811 00:36:41,696 --> 00:36:43,490 Watch... shoop! 812 00:36:43,490 --> 00:36:45,784 Missy Beefcake. Okay. 813 00:36:45,784 --> 00:36:47,661 I don't even know how he proposed to me. 814 00:36:47,661 --> 00:36:49,622 He would always say, "I want to marry you. 815 00:36:49,622 --> 00:36:50,706 You're the love of my life. 816 00:36:50,706 --> 00:36:54,585 Nobody's ever done the things for me that you've done." 817 00:36:54,585 --> 00:36:56,170 -Wow! -How exciting. 818 00:37:09,350 --> 00:37:11,769 Go ahead, Daddy. Floor it. 819 00:37:11,769 --> 00:37:14,229 Floor it, Daddy! Woo! 820 00:37:14,229 --> 00:37:17,941 [Fireworks popping & crackling] 821 00:37:17,941 --> 00:37:19,735 Happy 4th of July. 822 00:37:19,735 --> 00:37:21,820 [Fireworks popping & crackling] 823 00:37:21,820 --> 00:37:24,239 Cutie pie. Look how happy you are! 824 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,201 [Fireworks popping & crackling] 825 00:37:27,201 --> 00:37:29,203 She's an amazing woman. 826 00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:32,247 She's beautiful, she's smart, she's intelligent, 827 00:37:32,247 --> 00:37:34,083 she knows what she wants. 828 00:37:34,083 --> 00:37:35,709 And I love that about her. 829 00:37:35,709 --> 00:37:37,419 I'm so happy that he found someone, 830 00:37:37,419 --> 00:37:39,963 that just tickles me to death. 831 00:37:39,963 --> 00:37:43,509 Brutus returns to the wrestling business in 2008, 832 00:37:43,509 --> 00:37:46,387 this time with Missy by his side. 833 00:37:46,387 --> 00:37:48,889 We did the 'Hogan and Friends' thing. 834 00:37:48,889 --> 00:37:52,101 That was the first time that I met Hogan. 835 00:37:52,101 --> 00:37:54,896 But Brian Knobbs was right there to tell me, 836 00:37:54,896 --> 00:37:56,690 "You're not in the fold until Hogan 837 00:37:56,690 --> 00:37:59,109 says you're in the fold." 838 00:37:59,109 --> 00:38:02,821 I was working hard and wanting to get back to 839 00:38:02,821 --> 00:38:04,656 Florida all those, you know, those years I was there, 840 00:38:04,656 --> 00:38:06,157 I want to go back to Florida. 841 00:38:06,157 --> 00:38:08,410 We visited with Terry, 842 00:38:08,410 --> 00:38:11,871 and everything was great. 843 00:38:11,871 --> 00:38:14,082 We had a good time, we went out one night. 844 00:38:14,082 --> 00:38:16,626 Terry was singing my praises, telling Brutus how wonderful 845 00:38:16,626 --> 00:38:19,713 I was and how he was so happy for Brutus. 846 00:38:19,713 --> 00:38:23,049 And then we said goodnight, and then the next day 847 00:38:23,049 --> 00:38:24,384 we went over to Terry's house, 848 00:38:24,384 --> 00:38:28,388 and it was like someone flipped a switch, 849 00:38:28,388 --> 00:38:31,015 and he was really cold. 850 00:38:31,015 --> 00:38:33,226 And I remember thinking... 851 00:38:33,226 --> 00:38:36,271 something happened, something's changed. 852 00:38:36,271 --> 00:38:38,732 I don't know what set him off, what happened. 853 00:38:38,732 --> 00:38:40,358 Brutus Beefcake... 854 00:38:40,358 --> 00:38:42,527 him and I had a falling out. 855 00:38:42,527 --> 00:38:45,238 It's got a lot to do with the lady he's married to. 856 00:38:55,248 --> 00:38:58,168 Um... no comment. 857 00:38:58,168 --> 00:39:02,047 Hulk is a very great guy and a very good friend, 858 00:39:02,047 --> 00:39:05,509 and, you know, I can't see him, you know, 859 00:39:05,509 --> 00:39:08,345 being mad at ya unless you did something. 860 00:39:08,345 --> 00:39:11,098 I don't pry into people's business too much, but, 861 00:39:11,098 --> 00:39:13,267 you know, Terry said, I mean, "I had to write him off." 862 00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:14,518 His exact words. 863 00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:16,645 "I had to write Beefer off, and he's... 864 00:39:16,645 --> 00:39:20,816 too much." I think Beefcake took advantage of Terry. 865 00:39:20,816 --> 00:39:22,568 And, you know, you can only have that 866 00:39:22,568 --> 00:39:24,320 happen so many times. 867 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,906 You can forgive so much, and then you've got to move on. 868 00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,328 No. No, not, not in the beginning. 869 00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:37,041 Not until they realized that I was a take no shit, 870 00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:40,252 Brutus isn't going out working for $300, 871 00:39:40,252 --> 00:39:41,962 not happening. 872 00:39:41,962 --> 00:39:45,466 Then I became, like, the threat. 873 00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:47,426 "Oh, she's difficult." 874 00:39:47,426 --> 00:39:49,303 I feel bad for Missy 'cause she's been 875 00:39:49,303 --> 00:39:53,057 so misunderstood by so many people. 876 00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:55,434 I have witnessed the monster, 877 00:39:55,434 --> 00:39:58,103 that jealousy is so horrible, 878 00:39:58,103 --> 00:40:00,564 because she's so beautiful, she's so loving, 879 00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:05,528 she's so nice that people hate her guts. 880 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:09,365 It's hard to have a relationship with someone 881 00:40:09,365 --> 00:40:11,617 year after year, 365, 882 00:40:11,617 --> 00:40:13,745 you're partying, you're hanging... 883 00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:15,664 every day the phone rang. 884 00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:19,751 Two, three, four times. They, they were close. 885 00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,962 And I know that he misses him. 886 00:40:25,757 --> 00:40:28,260 They are... 887 00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:31,596 not talking. 888 00:40:38,603 --> 00:40:40,063 Alright, so we're doing a poster, 889 00:40:40,063 --> 00:40:42,607 you gotta put a fist up and make a mean look on 890 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:44,609 your face, 'cause you take a couple of pictures. 891 00:40:44,609 --> 00:40:48,071 Alright? Okay? Come on. 892 00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:49,990 -Awesome! -Alright cool. 893 00:40:49,990 --> 00:40:51,533 -There you go. -Hey, thanks so much. 894 00:40:51,533 --> 00:40:53,118 -You're welcome. -Appreciate ya. 895 00:40:53,118 --> 00:40:57,956 He is doing wonderful. 896 00:40:57,956 --> 00:41:00,876 People are always happy to see him. 897 00:41:00,876 --> 00:41:02,252 The fans, they come out, 898 00:41:02,252 --> 00:41:04,754 they love Brutus so much and 899 00:41:04,754 --> 00:41:08,717 Brutus makes everybody feel like he's known them 900 00:41:08,717 --> 00:41:10,886 for so long when he's telling his story, 901 00:41:10,886 --> 00:41:12,345 like he's known you forever. 902 00:41:12,345 --> 00:41:13,638 Yes? 903 00:41:13,638 --> 00:41:16,683 They want to shoot us together. 904 00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:20,020 -Hey. -[Laughing] 905 00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:22,356 He went through a horrible accident, 906 00:41:22,356 --> 00:41:25,526 and today he's back 100%. 907 00:41:25,526 --> 00:41:29,488 That's just a lesson to you in how strong Brutus is. 908 00:41:29,488 --> 00:41:31,032 So, God bless him. 909 00:41:31,032 --> 00:41:32,992 Valentine, Beefcake. 910 00:41:32,992 --> 00:41:36,579 He was elevated because of the company that he kept. 911 00:41:36,579 --> 00:41:38,372 But wrestling's all politics. 912 00:41:38,372 --> 00:41:40,207 You gotta have talent to stay there. 913 00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:42,293 And there's a lot of jealous people 914 00:41:42,293 --> 00:41:45,963 in the wrestling industry. I'm happy for every dime, 915 00:41:45,963 --> 00:41:50,134 every match that Brutus ever had. 916 00:41:50,134 --> 00:41:53,137 Despite years of strained relations, 917 00:41:53,137 --> 00:41:56,557 Hulk Hogan comes through for his friend one more time 918 00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:58,184 when he inducts Brutus into the 919 00:41:58,184 --> 00:42:01,687 WWE Hall of Fame in 2019. 920 00:42:01,687 --> 00:42:04,315 Please welcome the immortal, 921 00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:06,400 Hulk Hogan! 922 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,903 [Cheering] 923 00:42:08,903 --> 00:42:11,155 Brutus went through some really tough times. 924 00:42:11,155 --> 00:42:12,990 I was there when he had a terrible 925 00:42:12,990 --> 00:42:15,910 parasailing accident, but he came back, 926 00:42:15,910 --> 00:42:19,455 and he made Brutus Beefcake larger than life. 927 00:42:19,455 --> 00:42:20,581 [Applauding] 928 00:42:20,581 --> 00:42:22,416 -What you gonna do? -"What you gonna do?" 929 00:42:22,416 --> 00:42:23,918 ...when Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake 930 00:42:23,918 --> 00:42:26,295 has a haircut just for you? 931 00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:29,507 So please welcome Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake 932 00:42:29,507 --> 00:42:32,803 to the 2019 Hall of Fame, brother! 933 00:42:32,803 --> 00:42:35,722 [Cheering] 934 00:42:35,722 --> 00:42:37,432 They did you really good. 935 00:42:37,432 --> 00:42:40,686 That's the last time you ever saw Hulk Hogan. 936 00:42:40,686 --> 00:42:42,729 That's it. 937 00:42:42,729 --> 00:42:45,023 This is the last time you guys saw each other. 938 00:42:45,023 --> 00:42:51,405 ♪ 939 00:42:51,405 --> 00:42:52,906 Hulk and I were best friends and 940 00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:56,576 have been friends... for years. 941 00:42:56,576 --> 00:43:00,706 We could be friends again 942 00:43:00,706 --> 00:43:02,374 at the snap of a finger. 943 00:43:02,374 --> 00:43:04,960 How would I know that, a, the guy 944 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,337 in the front row heckling all the 945 00:43:07,337 --> 00:43:11,049 wrestlers at The Armory in Tampa 946 00:43:11,049 --> 00:43:14,136 would become my best friend? 947 00:43:14,136 --> 00:43:17,180 You all know him as Hulk Hogan. 948 00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:20,392 -[Applauding] -I love you, brother. 949 00:43:20,392 --> 00:43:23,520 Thanks for all the good times and 950 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,313 the good times to come. 951 00:43:25,897 --> 00:43:27,983 [Exhaling sharply] Yeah. 952 00:43:27,983 --> 00:43:30,068 That's what my ambition is, to, 953 00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:33,280 to hopefully be able to shake hands and, 954 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,490 and look him in the eye and say, you know, 955 00:43:35,490 --> 00:43:37,868 "Thanks buddy, for being my friend, and... 956 00:43:37,868 --> 00:43:41,873 and all that we've gone through in our lives and, 957 00:43:41,873 --> 00:43:45,418 you know, I, I love ya." Boom. 958 00:43:45,418 --> 00:43:48,504 But like I said before, you get dealt your cards 959 00:43:48,504 --> 00:43:50,631 you gotta play 'em. 960 00:43:50,631 --> 00:43:53,176 And I'm perfectly, 961 00:43:53,176 --> 00:43:57,305 super duper happy 962 00:43:57,305 --> 00:43:59,390 the way it turned out. 963 00:43:59,390 --> 00:44:02,143 That I got my Missy, 964 00:44:02,143 --> 00:44:04,062 my soulmate, 965 00:44:04,062 --> 00:44:07,732 to be able to spend my, you know, my life with.