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>> Hello.

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This is a dream come true.

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>> Pat Patterson lived out
his dream

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in sports entertainment
for more than 60 years.

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It was here in Montreal, Quebec

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where Pat began
his unlikely journey

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to become a pioneer,

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a visionary,

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and Hall of Fame legend.

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>> I started wrestling 1957,
'58,

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not knowing
where I was going to go,

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but nothing
was going to stop me.

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>> Pat Patterson.

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[music]

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>> I look back, my God,
I went through all that.

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For years,
being gay was chasing me.

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You know what I mean?

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It was always on your shoulder
that you're gay.

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You can't be free.

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I didn't know a word of English.

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I didn't have hardly any money,
but I was having fun.

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I was doing what I like.

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>> You're looking right now
on your television screen

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at the best wrestler
in the world today.

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>> Vince was seven days a week.

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You cannot imagine
how big it was starting to get.

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>> WWE Hall of Famer,
Pat Patterson.

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[crowd cheers]

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>> I had a dream.

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I made it.

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[music]

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>> We're going
to my old neighborhood,

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Montreal,
where I was born and raised.

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The neighborhood
of Montreal where the rich live.

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[music]

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>> I was born in 1941
in Montreal, Canada

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and my name was Pierre Clermont.

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I was part of a big family.

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We had five boys and four girls.

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With my mom and dad,
it makes it 11.

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We were a very,

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very poor family.

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You see where the balcony
is up there with a chair?

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Well,

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that's it.

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Today,
they probably have hot water.

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They probably have a shower,
but we didn't have it.

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That's where we were raised.

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11 of us, we lived
in a two-bedroom apartment.

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When I mean two-bedroom,
it was two bedrooms

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and a kitchen,

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no living room.

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There was one toilet.

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No bathtub and no shower

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and no running hot water,

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so we were outside all the time.

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About three, four blocks
from here,

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there was a public pool,
indoor public pool.

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My mom would give us a piece
of soap with a towel,

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go to the pool,
and take a shower.

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My mother always told me,

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"Bring back the little piece
of soap."

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We would go to that pool
every two weeks.

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That's the only way
we could wash.

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This is where I spent
all my morning when I was a kid.

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I'd come to the mass
and I was the altar boy

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and I loved it.

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I was a star.

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The priest was
and maybe I was the second star.

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I don't know, but I was part
of the arrangement.

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I wanted to be in front
of the audience.

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That started here.

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I found out being an altar boy
with the priest

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that I was somebody,

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so that gave me the feeling

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that I want to be in front
of people.

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It's a little place here
on Ontario Street

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where they had wrestling twice
a week.

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I didn't know nothing
about wrestling.

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My mother was buying some bread
and with the bread came a ticket

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to go see the wrestling matches.

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Well, I went and I fell in love
with wrestling.

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I hated the heels.

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Oh my God.

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After a while,
I started to like the heels.

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You know what I mean?

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I had to walk probably five,
six miles to get there.

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I don't even have money
to get in,

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but I never missed a show.

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I got smart because I used
to watch a wrestler arriving.

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There was a parking lot
across the street

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and there are wrestlers,
Buddy Rogers, Killer Kowalski.

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Oh my God.

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I'm looking at all these stars.

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I come to Kowalski and I says,
"Me carry your bag."

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He gave me a dirty look
and scared the hell out of me.

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He said,
"All right, take the bag."

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I took the bag
and I walked in with him.

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I'm in the building.

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I watched the whole show.

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I tell you
how much I wanted to see this.

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I got a job

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selling hot dogs

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through the audience
going up the stairs,

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"Hot dog, hot dog.

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French fries."

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I had a little basket.

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You know what?

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The boss used to give me hell

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because he says,

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"What the hell are you doing?

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You're not selling hot dogs?"
I says, "They're not buying."

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I was sitting down watching
the matches.

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[chuckles]

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Anyways,
I was still going to school.

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There's a kid in school.

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His father was a promoter.

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I says, "Oh, this is my in,"

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so I became friends with him.

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He was my age, 15, 16 years old.

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I said, "There's a place
where we can train."

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There was a guy
that was a trainer.

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For weeks and weeks and weeks,
he would come and train with me.

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One day,

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I'm at this small arena
and I said to the promoter,

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"Me and your son,
we've been training."

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I said, "You should book us."

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He said, "What?

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You little bastard.

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Don't you ever take my son
to the ring."

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I said, "Please give us
a chance, please."

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"Well, I'll think about it."

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Really rude.

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He booked us into a little town
outside of Montreal,

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first match,

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"God damn,
you did pretty good, kid."

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After that,
I was booked everywhere.

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I quit school

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and I was just wrestling,
making $5, $7.

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I'm dreaming now.

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I'm thinking

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if I'm going to make

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a career,

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I'm not going to make it here.

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I got to go to United States.

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>> At age 16,

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Pat's dream
of a pro-wrestling career

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was well-known to his family,

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but they didn't know everything.

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>> No one knew I was gay.

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I was just a young guy,

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but I know I was not attracted
by girls.

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No way.

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The first time I did something
with a guy,

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it felt good to be caressed,
to be hold and squeezed.

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You know what I mean?

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It felt good to me.

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Anyway, I was so excited.

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I wake up my mom and dad
at one o'clock in the morning.

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I want to tell them
the good news

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that I'm in love.

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My mother said,
"Well, I'm happy for that.

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You didn't have to wake us up."

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I said, "No."

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I said,
"I'm in love with a guy."

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"Jesus Christ."

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My dad went crazy.

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He says, "We're not going
to have no queer in this house.

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You're going to have to get out
of here."

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My mother said,
"Well, you can't do that."

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My mother was crying.

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I said,
"No, no, don't worry about it.

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I'll leave.

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Don't worry.

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I'll leave."

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I left.

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I was 16 years old

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and he told me, "Don't come
and knock on the door."

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I didn't.

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I found a big suitcase
in the garbage,

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tied it up with a rope,

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and I took a Greyhound bus.

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My sister gave me $20.

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I went to Boston.

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>> This arena,

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I've wrestled there a few times.

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At the end of that building,
there was an office there.

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That's where the wrestling
promoter,

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his name was Tony Santos.

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When I came to Boston,
I didn't know a word of English.

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I didn't have hardly any money,

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but I was having fun.

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I was doing what I like.

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When I was wrestling
in Montreal,

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I was lucky to make $5, $7.

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My first night, I wrestled
in front of a big crowd.

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The wrestling promoter
gives me a check for $50.

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I said, "Oh my God.

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$50 for one match?

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My God, I can't believe it."

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I can't be a wrestler

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in the United State of America

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by the name of Pierre Clermont.

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Give me a break.

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Can you imagine?

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Madison Square Garden, "Ladies
and gentlemen, Pierre Clermont."

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I liked the first name Pat.

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I went home.

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I took a dictionary

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and I went to the back page
with the proper names,

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then I closed my eyes

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and I opened the dictionary

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and the first name
I saw was Patterson.

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I said, "Pat Patterson is born."

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This is where I lived in Boston.

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This place looks great,
but it was a dump.

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I mean a real dump, alcoholics,
and drunks who live in debt.

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It was unbelievable,
but we had so much fun.

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We're all together.

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A bunch of young guys
my age are wrestlers.

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We all lived in this apartment,
$10 a week.

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My English, it was hard,
but I would pick up this

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and pick up a word there

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and a phrase there
and I get along.

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I'm going to tell you something,
I was happy.

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I had a lot of fun here.

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[music]

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>> I was here about a year
and a half probably,

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maybe a little less.

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This is where I met
my friend Louie.

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My friend that was living here,
he knew all his friends

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in the gay bar
and he introduced me to this guy

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and this guy and I see Louie,
"Oh my God."

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When the night is over,
I tell my friend,

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"Who was that guy, Louie?

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I wanted to meet Louie
one on one."

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He says, "Well, I'll call."

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I had no money and Louis arrived
in a brand new 1962 Buick.

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He picks me up,
we go have a drink,

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"Holy [-]."

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That started with Louie.

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I was in love with Louie.

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There's no question.

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That happened to both of us,

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but there was a time
when I had to leave.

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I got a letter

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from "Mad Dog" Vachon.

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He saw me when I was wrestling
in Montreal.

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He said to me, he said,

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"You're booked in Portland,
Oregon."

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Portland? I don't even know
where Portland, Oregon is.

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I borrowed money from Louie.

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I said,
"Louie, I'm going to Oregon.

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One day maybe,
I'll pay you back."

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I left.

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I left Louie and that was it.

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I'm in Oregon,
but a month later,

261
00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:37,430
I miss Louie so much.

262
00:11:38,098 --> 00:11:39,399
Louise quit his job,

263
00:11:39,666 --> 00:11:40,633
left his family,

264
00:11:40,967 --> 00:11:43,336
left everybody,
and met me in Oregon.

265
00:11:45,105 --> 00:11:46,006
We had a good time.

266
00:11:46,239 --> 00:11:48,108
Louie and I enjoyed Portland,
Oregon.

267
00:11:48,141 --> 00:11:49,609
It's a beautiful, little city,

268
00:11:51,177 --> 00:11:53,313
but there was a bunch of guys,
wrestlers.

269
00:11:53,346 --> 00:11:56,016
They kept saying, "Pat,
you got to go to San Francisco.

270
00:11:56,416 --> 00:11:57,984
Roy Shire would like your work."

271
00:11:59,652 --> 00:12:00,653
San Francisco,

272
00:12:01,855 --> 00:12:03,156
that's where I made my name.

273
00:12:03,189 --> 00:12:08,395
[music]

274
00:12:08,428 --> 00:12:09,396
>> This,

275
00:12:09,629 --> 00:12:10,864
very close to my heart

276
00:12:10,897 --> 00:12:12,966
because if you're in the main
event

277
00:12:13,366 --> 00:12:15,068
at the Cow Palace
in San Francisco,

278
00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:16,069
you're a star.

279
00:12:18,471 --> 00:12:19,639
It's a funny thing.

280
00:12:21,508 --> 00:12:23,810
I called Roy Shire
to get a starting date

281
00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:26,846
and Roy Shire says to me,
he says,

282
00:12:28,615 --> 00:12:30,083
"I heard stories about you."

283
00:12:30,984 --> 00:12:31,951
I said,

284
00:12:32,552 --> 00:12:33,520
"Yes?

285
00:12:33,853 --> 00:12:34,821
What is it?"

286
00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:36,222
"Well,

287
00:12:36,489 --> 00:12:37,757
I heard you're different."

288
00:12:38,358 --> 00:12:40,727
I said, "I hope I'm different
than anybody else."

289
00:12:41,461 --> 00:12:42,862
I know what he's getting at.

290
00:12:42,896 --> 00:12:44,931
I said, "What do you mean?"
He said, "You know what I mean."

291
00:12:44,964 --> 00:12:46,099
I said, "No, I don't."

292
00:12:46,633 --> 00:12:48,134
"Well, I heard you're a queer."

293
00:12:50,437 --> 00:12:51,705
I said, "Yes."

294
00:12:52,405 --> 00:12:53,540
He says, "You dumb [-].

295
00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:54,741
You admit it?"

296
00:12:55,842 --> 00:12:57,844
I said, "Hey, I want to work
for you.

297
00:12:57,877 --> 00:12:58,712
Don't worry about it.

298
00:12:58,945 --> 00:13:00,180
I won't embarrass you."

299
00:13:00,213 --> 00:13:01,781
"Yes, but I--"
that kind of [-].

300
00:13:01,815 --> 00:13:03,616
I said,
"Okay, don't worry about it."

301
00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:06,820
I was there 15 years.

302
00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:10,724
>> From San Francisco,
California,

303
00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:14,060
weighing in at 247 pounds,

304
00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:16,396
Ray "The Crippler" Stevens,

305
00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:18,765
and his partner

306
00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:21,067
also from San Francisco,

307
00:13:21,701 --> 00:13:24,771
weighing in at 243 pounds,

308
00:13:25,205 --> 00:13:26,706
Pat Patterson.

309
00:13:29,242 --> 00:13:30,977
>> Pat Patterson
and Ray Stevens,

310
00:13:31,511 --> 00:13:33,980
when they were a tag team
in San Francisco

311
00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,116
and they were working
with Roy Shire,

312
00:13:36,783 --> 00:13:38,518
not only did they have heat,

313
00:13:38,551 --> 00:13:41,388
but Patterson and Stevens
took it to another level.

314
00:13:42,722 --> 00:13:46,192
>> Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens
dominated the Bay Area tag team

315
00:13:46,226 --> 00:13:48,161
division throughout the 1960s.

316
00:13:48,728 --> 00:13:50,463
As he grew into a single star,

317
00:13:50,730 --> 00:13:52,899
Pat would
become a major box office draw

318
00:13:52,932 --> 00:13:53,900
at the Cow Palace.

319
00:13:55,735 --> 00:13:56,803
>> A lot of souvenirs here.

320
00:13:56,836 --> 00:13:58,271
I'll tell you what,
I got my ass kicked

321
00:13:58,304 --> 00:13:59,272
many times here.

322
00:13:59,773 --> 00:14:00,840
Not by the wrestlers,

323
00:14:02,042 --> 00:14:02,942
by the fans.

324
00:14:03,043 --> 00:14:04,210
[laughs]

325
00:14:04,644 --> 00:14:06,880
[cheers]

326
00:14:06,913 --> 00:14:09,582
>> Well, obviously,
we've got a pier-six brawl

327
00:14:09,616 --> 00:14:12,285
erupting out of this match
between Kevin Sullivan

328
00:14:12,318 --> 00:14:13,286
and Pat Patterson.

329
00:14:15,588 --> 00:14:17,424
>> I always wanted
to be a villain.

330
00:14:17,757 --> 00:14:19,559
>> I know you're trying
to making a reputation

331
00:14:19,592 --> 00:14:22,128
for yourself, but when you step
in the ring with Stevens

332
00:14:22,162 --> 00:14:24,431
and Patterson, the stacks
are against the fire.

333
00:14:25,065 --> 00:14:27,634
>> If the heel is good,
the match is good.

334
00:14:28,068 --> 00:14:29,235
If the heel is no good,

335
00:14:29,836 --> 00:14:31,137
the match sucked.

336
00:14:31,171 --> 00:14:33,306
It takes a bad guy
to make a good guy.

337
00:14:33,340 --> 00:14:35,842
>> I'll guarantee you,
I'll put that figure-four leg

338
00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,244
lock on you and break
the skinny leg of yours.

339
00:14:38,978 --> 00:14:40,547
>> Now, they're coming at again.

340
00:14:41,247 --> 00:14:43,116
Look, Patterson and Stevens.

341
00:14:43,750 --> 00:14:45,418
Now,
they're going after everybody.

342
00:14:46,286 --> 00:14:47,454
>> Now, look at this building.

343
00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:48,488
It's huge, right?

344
00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:51,224
The ring is right
in the middle here

345
00:14:51,257 --> 00:14:54,394
and you got a long way
to get back to the locker room.

346
00:14:54,427 --> 00:14:55,795
The curtains are back there.

347
00:14:56,096 --> 00:14:56,629
Man,

348
00:14:56,963 --> 00:14:57,931
many times,

349
00:14:59,165 --> 00:15:01,034
I didn't think I was going
to make it.

350
00:15:01,501 --> 00:15:05,171
>> Pat told me this story
at least 100 times.

351
00:15:05,739 --> 00:15:08,041
He and "High Chief"
Peter Maivia,

352
00:15:08,041 --> 00:15:10,043
they were working
in the Cow Palace

353
00:15:10,043 --> 00:15:11,444
in San Francisco at the time.

354
00:15:11,945 --> 00:15:12,712
>> In that night,

355
00:15:12,946 --> 00:15:15,048
I beat the hell out
of Peter Maivia

356
00:15:15,682 --> 00:15:17,150
and he was bleeding like a pig.

357
00:15:18,051 --> 00:15:20,053
>> If you know anything
about the Bay in California,

358
00:15:20,086 --> 00:15:22,222
there's a heavy Polynesian
community there.

359
00:15:23,423 --> 00:15:26,059
>> At ringside,
it's full of Samoans.

360
00:15:27,327 --> 00:15:30,063
Think guys like Afa and Sika,
I had about 10,

361
00:15:30,063 --> 00:15:31,197
12 of them at ringside.

362
00:15:31,531 --> 00:15:32,465
They're looking at me.

363
00:15:32,499 --> 00:15:33,733
They're waiting for me
to get out of there

364
00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:35,101
and they're going to kill me.

365
00:15:35,335 --> 00:15:37,771
>> At this point, my dad
and uncle had not broken

366
00:15:37,804 --> 00:15:38,838
into the business.

367
00:15:38,872 --> 00:15:41,241
They came from the stands
and came flying on Pat

368
00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:43,643
and started to really try
to beat him up.

369
00:15:44,244 --> 00:15:46,479
Peter Maivia dove
over the top rope,

370
00:15:47,514 --> 00:15:48,748
"Let me have him.

371
00:15:48,782 --> 00:15:49,649
Get out of here.

372
00:15:49,683 --> 00:15:50,450
Let me have him,"

373
00:15:50,483 --> 00:15:51,484
and he threw me back
in the ring.

374
00:15:51,518 --> 00:15:52,485
He saved my life.

375
00:15:53,653 --> 00:15:55,221
>> That's just how good Pat was.

376
00:15:55,488 --> 00:15:58,091
He was really just well
before his time

377
00:15:59,592 --> 00:16:02,462
and just able to garner
so much heat as a bad guy.

378
00:16:04,898 --> 00:16:07,033
>> It took us forever
to get out of the ring.

379
00:16:07,067 --> 00:16:08,635
We tried about four, five times.

380
00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:12,806
Cops were pushing everybody
and I was, "Bang, bang, bang."

381
00:16:13,306 --> 00:16:15,241
I got backstage there
and I fell flat

382
00:16:15,275 --> 00:16:16,376
on my stomach and I was,

383
00:16:16,409 --> 00:16:18,411
"God damn,
I can't believe I made it."

384
00:16:18,745 --> 00:16:20,113
I thought
I was going to die.

385
00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,349
That's a moment
I'll never forget.

386
00:16:23,583 --> 00:16:24,918
[music]

387
00:16:25,151 --> 00:16:30,156
>> How could a guy stay fresh
in that territory 15 years?

388
00:16:30,190 --> 00:16:31,157
That's unheard of.

389
00:16:32,058 --> 00:16:34,494
Pat would reinvent himself.

390
00:16:36,930 --> 00:16:37,530
>> I survived.

391
00:16:38,631 --> 00:16:41,534
I was a heel for many years,
then I turned babyface.

392
00:16:41,568 --> 00:16:42,769
I became very popular.

393
00:16:43,970 --> 00:16:44,671
It was fun.

394
00:16:45,505 --> 00:16:48,074
>> From San Francisco,
California,

395
00:16:48,608 --> 00:16:53,413
a popular ring favorite,
Pat Patterson.

396
00:16:53,446 --> 00:16:55,448
[fans cheering]

397
00:16:55,682 --> 00:16:57,250
>> I thought I grew up
by myself.

398
00:16:57,650 --> 00:17:01,121
My family was never around me
because I was never in Montreal.

399
00:17:01,721 --> 00:17:03,390
All alone doing this and not

400
00:17:04,024 --> 00:17:05,358
to be part of the family.

401
00:17:05,392 --> 00:17:06,726
That bothered me.

402
00:17:07,060 --> 00:17:08,561
No one in my family

403
00:17:09,596 --> 00:17:11,064
could share my fame.

404
00:17:12,766 --> 00:17:15,568
All these years that I was gone,
my dad told me,

405
00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:16,703
"If you go,

406
00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:18,638
don't come knocking
on the door."

407
00:17:19,939 --> 00:17:21,141
Many years later,

408
00:17:21,941 --> 00:17:25,578
I'm in San Francisco here
and I'm the number one guy.

409
00:17:26,713 --> 00:17:28,114
I invited my mom and dad

410
00:17:29,082 --> 00:17:30,383
to fly to San Francisco.

411
00:17:31,351 --> 00:17:32,919
I go pick them up
at the airport.

412
00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:34,387
My mother

413
00:17:34,921 --> 00:17:37,057
sits in the car
and she starts crying.

414
00:17:37,457 --> 00:17:39,325
I said,
"Mom, what's the matter?"

415
00:17:39,893 --> 00:17:42,195
She says,
"I never sat in a Cadillac."

416
00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:43,229
They never had a car.

417
00:17:44,164 --> 00:17:45,465
I brought my mom and dad

418
00:17:45,498 --> 00:17:47,334
to the Cow Palace
in San Francisco.

419
00:17:47,367 --> 00:17:50,070
I got a seat for them and Louie
was taken care of them.

420
00:17:51,071 --> 00:17:53,273
My mom
and dad never see me wrestle.

421
00:17:53,306 --> 00:17:56,409
[fans chanting]

422
00:17:56,643 --> 00:17:58,745
> Here I come in the ring,
Pat Patterson.

423
00:17:58,778 --> 00:18:00,180
I got the championship belt.

424
00:18:00,213 --> 00:18:01,648
People were all over me.

425
00:18:01,681 --> 00:18:02,682
They loved me.

426
00:18:03,383 --> 00:18:05,418
My mom was freaking out.

427
00:18:05,785 --> 00:18:07,687
My dad, tears in his eyes.

428
00:18:08,088 --> 00:18:10,190
They could not believe
that their son

429
00:18:10,523 --> 00:18:11,725
had become a big star.

430
00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:14,427
When my dad went back home,

431
00:18:15,128 --> 00:18:16,296
it was a different tune.

432
00:18:16,329 --> 00:18:17,931
He told all my brothers
and sister,

433
00:18:18,031 --> 00:18:20,133
"You should see your brother,
what he is."

434
00:18:20,867 --> 00:18:21,835
Yes.

435
00:18:23,703 --> 00:18:26,740
>> After years of separation,
the support that Pat received

436
00:18:26,773 --> 00:18:27,474
from his parents

437
00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:29,342
finally mirrored the ac ceptance

438
00:18:29,376 --> 00:18:31,745
he had already earned
in his professional career.

439
00:18:33,380 --> 00:18:36,216
>> Pat was never open
about his homosexuality,

440
00:18:36,583 --> 00:18:38,385
but it was no secret.

441
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,088
Even when I was first hearing
of Pat Patterson,

442
00:18:43,189 --> 00:18:45,658
there was always the rumor,
"You know, Pat is gay."

443
00:18:48,194 --> 00:18:51,264
Pat was such a great performer
and set a great person,

444
00:18:51,798 --> 00:18:53,867
you didn't care
what his personal life was.

445
00:18:54,601 --> 00:18:56,302
Pat had so much respect.

446
00:18:56,336 --> 00:18:58,905
You really didn't want to say
anything to offend him

447
00:18:58,938 --> 00:19:02,142
or do anything
or just insinuating anything

448
00:19:02,175 --> 00:19:03,910
because of the respect level.

449
00:19:05,111 --> 00:19:05,712
>> One time,

450
00:19:06,513 --> 00:19:07,781
a couple of guys
in the front row,

451
00:19:08,248 --> 00:19:09,149
they stand up and they said,

452
00:19:09,382 --> 00:19:12,118
"Hey, Stevens, [-] you."

453
00:19:13,553 --> 00:19:15,021
Ray whispered in my ear.

454
00:19:15,055 --> 00:19:17,057
He said,
"My God, if they only knew."

455
00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:19,359
[laughs]

456
00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:21,027
On top of that,

457
00:19:22,896 --> 00:19:24,030
the referee was gay

458
00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:26,166
and the ring announcer was gay.

459
00:19:26,466 --> 00:19:27,534
Can you imagine that?

460
00:19:27,567 --> 00:19:30,437
[laughs]

461
00:19:30,470 --> 00:19:31,738
Unbelievable.

462
00:19:32,539 --> 00:19:34,607
>> You know, gentlemen,
if you did happen to pick up

463
00:19:34,641 --> 00:19:37,744
the world tag team championships
here in your hometown,

464
00:19:37,777 --> 00:19:39,446
it would be the coup
of the decade.

465
00:19:39,679 --> 00:19:40,747
>> Well,
I'm going to tell you what,

466
00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:42,849
there's a lot of nice-looking
ladies up there.

467
00:19:42,882 --> 00:19:44,918
If we win, we're going to go
throw a big party.

468
00:19:44,951 --> 00:19:46,886
That is if you want
to come with me, Pat.

469
00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:47,754
>> All right.

470
00:19:47,787 --> 00:19:49,322
>> There's no questions
about it, Ray.

471
00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:50,824
There's a lot
of friends out there

472
00:19:50,857 --> 00:19:53,093
and I'm looking forward to it
and believe me--

473
00:19:53,126 --> 00:19:54,828
>> You're in the locker room,
boys,

474
00:19:55,662 --> 00:19:58,198
and they tell you stories
of what they did last night,

475
00:19:58,231 --> 00:19:59,866
"I didn't have one broad.

476
00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:01,134
I had two broads."

477
00:20:01,434 --> 00:20:03,103
I did this, I did that,
I did that.

478
00:20:03,370 --> 00:20:05,071
You hear all these stories,
okay?

479
00:20:05,605 --> 00:20:07,474
Can I say what I did last night?

480
00:20:07,807 --> 00:20:08,775
No.

481
00:20:11,711 --> 00:20:13,179
It's not because I was hiding.

482
00:20:14,481 --> 00:20:16,549
I couldn't be me.

483
00:20:17,584 --> 00:20:18,818
>> We love Pat Patterson.

484
00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:20,620
Pat Patterson
is one of the boys,

485
00:20:20,653 --> 00:20:22,655
but we didn't talk
about stuff like that.

486
00:20:22,689 --> 00:20:23,423
There wasn't something.

487
00:20:23,456 --> 00:20:24,290
He just went around.

488
00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:26,026
Those guys would stay
in the closet

489
00:20:26,292 --> 00:20:27,427
as long as you could

490
00:20:27,727 --> 00:20:28,928
because of ignorance

491
00:20:29,329 --> 00:20:30,797
and misunderstandings

492
00:20:31,364 --> 00:20:33,900
because you know the whole world
was different then.

493
00:20:38,038 --> 00:20:39,673
>> It was called
that San Francisco

494
00:20:39,706 --> 00:20:41,441
was a gay city,
anything else.

495
00:20:41,841 --> 00:20:43,943
The sad part
about the whole thing is that

496
00:20:43,977 --> 00:20:45,145
Louie can go to any bar.

497
00:20:45,178 --> 00:20:46,146
Nobody knows Louie.

498
00:20:46,713 --> 00:20:48,682
I can't go to a gay bar
in San Francisco.

499
00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:51,384
It's going to be in the paper.

500
00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:53,119
Paranoid.

501
00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:54,587
You know what I'm saying?

502
00:20:54,621 --> 00:20:56,656
"Pat Patterson was seen
in a gay bar.

503
00:20:56,690 --> 00:20:57,657
It was awful."

504
00:21:00,493 --> 00:21:01,528
For years,

505
00:21:02,062 --> 00:21:03,596
being gay was chasing me.

506
00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:04,631
You know what I mean?

507
00:21:06,933 --> 00:21:08,068
The business

508
00:21:08,835 --> 00:21:09,803
was chasing me.

509
00:21:11,237 --> 00:21:11,738
It was weird.

510
00:21:12,205 --> 00:21:13,173
It was always

511
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,642
on your shoulder
that you're gay.

512
00:21:15,675 --> 00:21:17,077
You can't be free

513
00:21:17,477 --> 00:21:20,480
when you try to become a star
or a big personality.

514
00:21:21,081 --> 00:21:22,082
It sucks.

515
00:21:23,183 --> 00:21:25,251
>> As Pat's personal life
continued to weigh on him,

516
00:21:25,285 --> 00:21:28,521
professionally, he was about
to reach his ultimate goal.

517
00:21:32,659 --> 00:21:36,096
The 38-year-old superstar tried
his skills in a new territory.

518
00:21:36,496 --> 00:21:37,697
New York City.

519
00:21:39,132 --> 00:21:42,235
>>Pat Patterson was big out
in the San Francisco area,

520
00:21:42,736 --> 00:21:47,941
but MSG was the show palace
of the world.

521
00:21:51,277 --> 00:21:53,246
>> Vince Sr., he told me,
"You're going to work.

522
00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:54,714
You're going to be in the main
event everywhere.

523
00:21:54,748 --> 00:21:55,482
You're going to make some money.

524
00:21:55,715 --> 00:21:56,916
Don't worry about it."

525
00:21:56,950 --> 00:21:58,485
I said, "Yes, I appreciate

526
00:21:58,885 --> 00:22:00,120
the fact that I'm here.

527
00:22:00,153 --> 00:22:02,889
I want to thank you, but I got
to tell you something about me."

528
00:22:03,590 --> 00:22:06,126
He says, "I know everything
about you and I don't give it

529
00:22:06,159 --> 00:22:06,593
a [-],"

530
00:22:07,227 --> 00:22:08,194
so I'm in.

531
00:22:09,829 --> 00:22:11,064
First match I have

532
00:22:11,464 --> 00:22:13,566
with Bob Backlund,
I tear the house down.

533
00:22:15,068 --> 00:22:15,602
I did.

534
00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:16,803
>> Oh, my.

535
00:22:17,937 --> 00:22:20,306
>> When I came backstage,
Vince McMahon, Sr.

536
00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:21,675
would then grab me
and he hugged me.

537
00:22:21,708 --> 00:22:24,411
He said, "Pat,
that was so exciting.

538
00:22:24,444 --> 00:22:25,078
Thank you.

539
00:22:25,111 --> 00:22:25,612
Thank you.

540
00:22:25,645 --> 00:22:26,613
Thank you."

541
00:22:27,347 --> 00:22:28,615
That's a payoff for me.

542
00:22:28,648 --> 00:22:32,485
>> I met Pat when he came
in for my dad

543
00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:34,320
back in the old territory days.

544
00:22:34,554 --> 00:22:36,723
Pat was an extraordinary
performer.

545
00:22:39,626 --> 00:22:41,661
Pat can make whoever
he was working with

546
00:22:41,695 --> 00:22:43,430
like $1 million.

547
00:22:43,863 --> 00:22:45,432
>> He's the only man
in the world

548
00:22:45,999 --> 00:22:47,500
that's ever wrestled a champion

549
00:22:48,101 --> 00:22:50,503
in Madison Square Garden
four times in a row.

550
00:22:51,137 --> 00:22:54,140
You have to have a lot of talent
to be able to go into somebody

551
00:22:54,174 --> 00:22:56,876
and make them each different
and make it a reason so people

552
00:22:56,910 --> 00:22:58,912
would want to come back
to watch the same match.

553
00:22:58,945 --> 00:23:07,654
[audience cheers]

554
00:23:07,687 --> 00:23:09,656
>> Backlund successfully
defending

555
00:23:09,689 --> 00:23:11,257
the World Wrestling --

556
00:23:11,291 --> 00:23:13,560
title against one
of the toughest men

557
00:23:13,593 --> 00:23:14,561
he's ever faced.

558
00:23:15,829 --> 00:23:16,796
>> A few months later,

559
00:23:16,830 --> 00:23:18,798
I became the first
Intercontinental Champion.

560
00:23:20,066 --> 00:23:23,269
>> The Intercontinental
Heavyweight Champion,

561
00:23:23,570 --> 00:23:25,705
Pat Patterson.

562
00:23:26,673 --> 00:23:29,876
>> You're looking right now
on your television screen

563
00:23:30,210 --> 00:23:32,946
at one of the best wrestlers
in the world today,

564
00:23:33,246 --> 00:23:34,347
Pat Patterson,

565
00:23:34,614 --> 00:23:37,183
the new Intercontinental
Champion.

566
00:23:37,450 --> 00:23:39,619
>> Being the first
Intercontinental Champion,

567
00:23:40,086 --> 00:23:41,087
what an honor.

568
00:23:41,721 --> 00:23:44,124
>> Pat set the blueprint on how

569
00:23:44,491 --> 00:23:47,527
an Intercontinental Champion
should perform.

570
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,929
You had to be the guy
that put in the time.

571
00:23:49,963 --> 00:23:50,964
You had to be the guy

572
00:23:50,997 --> 00:23:52,832
that had the best match
of the evening.

573
00:23:52,866 --> 00:23:54,934
You had to be
a Pat Patterson-type.

574
00:23:54,968 --> 00:23:57,103
That's the best compliment
I can give Pat.

575
00:23:57,103 --> 00:23:59,239
>> Even the great competitors
have their problems

576
00:23:59,272 --> 00:24:00,273
with Pat Patterson.

577
00:24:00,306 --> 00:24:08,515
[music]

578
00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,817
>> Pat had some vicious matches.

579
00:24:11,351 --> 00:24:13,119
That one with Slaughter
was brutal.

580
00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:17,057
>> The Alley Fight had no rules
and there was no referee.

581
00:24:17,357 --> 00:24:18,925
>> No holds barred.

582
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:20,427
Anything goes in this one.

583
00:24:22,896 --> 00:24:27,067
>> That was the genesis
of hardcore street fights.

584
00:24:28,635 --> 00:24:30,303
>> We had nothing laid out.

585
00:24:31,204 --> 00:24:32,706
I didn't even see Pat that day.

586
00:24:33,807 --> 00:24:36,710
It was every man for himself.

587
00:24:37,110 --> 00:24:40,080
>> One of the most,
if not the most grueling match

588
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,415
in professional
wrestling history.

589
00:24:43,483 --> 00:24:45,652
>> Pat Patterson,
Sgt. Slaughter,

590
00:24:45,685 --> 00:24:46,986
Garden street fight.

591
00:24:47,954 --> 00:24:49,356
That's Pat to a teeth.

592
00:24:50,757 --> 00:24:53,259
Still have his night,
but he elevates the heel.

593
00:24:53,293 --> 00:24:58,098
[fans cheering]

594
00:24:58,098 --> 00:25:00,500
>> Slaughter wants
to get right back into it.

595
00:25:01,101 --> 00:25:03,303
>> I had a hell
of a battle with Sgt. Slaughter

596
00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:04,637
at Madison Square Garden.

597
00:25:05,038 --> 00:25:06,639
It was a masterpiece.

598
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,842
>> The audience throwing
in a towel.

599
00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:10,343
[bell rings]

600
00:25:10,377 --> 00:25:13,113
>> The winner of Alley Fight,

601
00:25:13,146 --> 00:25:15,415
Pat Patterson.

602
00:25:16,116 --> 00:25:18,184
>> The fans were going crazy.

603
00:25:18,418 --> 00:25:21,855
>> This place goes absolutely
raucous.

604
00:25:23,356 --> 00:25:24,824
[bell rings]

605
00:25:25,158 --> 00:25:28,762
>> I never dreamed
of wrestling in a main event

606
00:25:28,795 --> 00:25:30,063
at Madison Square Garden.

607
00:25:31,064 --> 00:25:32,065
Never.

608
00:25:33,066 --> 00:25:34,067
To make it

609
00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:36,970
in New York and wrestling
in the main event

610
00:25:37,270 --> 00:25:38,238
every night,

611
00:25:38,772 --> 00:25:40,073
that's an accomplishment.

612
00:25:40,073 --> 00:25:41,241
I'm very proud of that.

613
00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:42,676
Very.

614
00:25:43,576 --> 00:25:45,078
>> In 1979,

615
00:25:45,278 --> 00:25:47,947
Pat was shining in the Madison
Square Garden spotlight.

616
00:25:48,815 --> 00:25:49,549
The following year,

617
00:25:50,417 --> 00:25:51,618
he began moonlighting
as an announcer

618
00:25:51,851 --> 00:25:54,454
alongside WWE's
soon-to-be chairman,

619
00:25:54,854 --> 00:25:56,156
Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

620
00:26:00,326 --> 00:26:02,362
>> Ladies and gentlemen,
we would like to ask

621
00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:04,197
a few questions
to André the Giant.

622
00:26:04,230 --> 00:26:06,533
André, this is not something
I usually do

623
00:26:06,566 --> 00:26:09,035
interviewing wrestlers,
but I will do my best.

624
00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:12,772
First of all, congratulations
again for a good match

625
00:26:12,806 --> 00:26:13,640
and a good win.

626
00:26:13,673 --> 00:26:15,375
>> Congratulations to you.

627
00:26:16,409 --> 00:26:17,210
You got a new job.

628
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:17,677
Thank you.

629
00:26:18,378 --> 00:26:19,546
>> Thank you very much, André.

630
00:26:20,046 --> 00:26:22,415
>> Vince asked me
if I wanted to do the commentary

631
00:26:22,449 --> 00:26:23,516
with him, do the color.

632
00:26:23,550 --> 00:26:25,819
>> This is Vince McMahon along
with wrestling great

633
00:26:25,852 --> 00:26:27,554
Pat Patterson here at ringside.

634
00:26:27,587 --> 00:26:29,055
>> That Vince used to kill me

635
00:26:29,322 --> 00:26:30,290
because, again,

636
00:26:31,358 --> 00:26:33,360
my English wasn't that good
and he would laugh.

637
00:26:33,393 --> 00:26:35,295
This week, we'll find out
if the Samoans

638
00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:37,330
are going to be able to win
first of all.

639
00:26:37,364 --> 00:26:39,232
If they do,
if it's going to be a lucky win

640
00:26:39,265 --> 00:26:41,234
or a definitive win.

641
00:26:42,569 --> 00:26:44,571
>> He was hard
to understand sometimes.

642
00:26:45,138 --> 00:26:46,906
He would leave the S off
of things.

643
00:26:47,140 --> 00:26:48,308
>> They look like champion.

644
00:26:48,341 --> 00:26:49,676
They wrestle like champion.

645
00:26:49,909 --> 00:26:51,211
The only thing
they don't have, the belt.

646
00:26:51,244 --> 00:26:52,078
They're still great.

647
00:26:52,112 --> 00:26:53,813
They still give you plenty
of action.

648
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,749
>> "The crowd
is going to go crazy.

649
00:26:55,782 --> 00:26:57,517
They're going to go
banana tonight."

650
00:26:58,518 --> 00:26:59,486
>> Oh boy.

651
00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:02,022
>> I think it's going to fire
back on him.

652
00:27:02,322 --> 00:27:03,623
"Backfire," I should say.

653
00:27:04,391 --> 00:27:05,358
>> We'll be back.

654
00:27:06,026 --> 00:27:08,028
>> It was difficult for Pat,
but Pat,

655
00:27:09,162 --> 00:27:11,031
he would do anything you
ask him to do

656
00:27:11,064 --> 00:27:12,532
and give it everything he had.

657
00:27:15,735 --> 00:27:19,239
>> I didn't decide to stop
wrestling or stop commentary.

658
00:27:20,173 --> 00:27:22,609
Vince wanted me in the office.

659
00:27:24,377 --> 00:27:25,912
I was on the road and

660
00:27:26,613 --> 00:27:28,348
I realized talking to Vince,

661
00:27:28,381 --> 00:27:30,216
I said, "It seems to me now,

662
00:27:30,250 --> 00:27:32,552
you're getting behind
with the bookings

663
00:27:32,585 --> 00:27:33,219
and all of that."

664
00:27:33,253 --> 00:27:34,087
You know what he said to me?

665
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:35,789
He said, "What do you think?

666
00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:37,157
I'm all alone
for crying out loud.

667
00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:38,491
What do you want from me?"

668
00:27:38,525 --> 00:27:39,092
I says,

669
00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:40,694
"I'm going to say something.

670
00:27:40,727 --> 00:27:41,961
I don't know
how you're going to take that."

671
00:27:42,062 --> 00:27:44,064
I had no idea how to say it.

672
00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:46,066
>> "Hey, Vince,
if you need help,

673
00:27:47,067 --> 00:27:48,268
I'd be happy to help you out.

674
00:27:48,301 --> 00:27:49,336
I'm off this weekend.

675
00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:52,072
If you need some help,
just let me know."

676
00:27:52,639 --> 00:27:53,306
>> "Damn.

677
00:27:53,340 --> 00:27:54,674
No one has ever offered me that.

678
00:27:55,809 --> 00:27:57,644
Get your ass
in the office tomorrow.

679
00:27:58,545 --> 00:27:58,945
Bye."

680
00:27:59,779 --> 00:28:01,681
>> I worked with Pat
that Saturday.

681
00:28:02,482 --> 00:28:06,252
I asked him to come back
the next day and Pat never left.

682
00:28:06,486 --> 00:28:09,289
[music]

683
00:28:09,322 --> 00:28:10,724
>> He says, "From now on,

684
00:28:11,858 --> 00:28:13,393
you're working in the office

685
00:28:13,426 --> 00:28:15,762
and you're going to be
a senior vice president."

686
00:28:18,832 --> 00:28:20,300
I said, "What does that mean?"

687
00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:24,871
He said, "Pat, it's a big title
in the corporate world."

688
00:28:25,105 --> 00:28:27,307
I didn't even know
what a corporate world was.

689
00:28:27,774 --> 00:28:29,876
That's how I ended up
right in the office.

690
00:28:31,911 --> 00:28:34,247
>> Pat Patterson
was the second guy in charge.

691
00:28:36,416 --> 00:28:37,650
Now, we call it creative.

692
00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:39,052
It was him and Vince.

693
00:28:39,285 --> 00:28:40,320
They wrote the shows.

694
00:28:41,121 --> 00:28:42,956
>> They created

695
00:28:43,223 --> 00:28:44,924
all the storylines
for television.

696
00:28:44,958 --> 00:28:45,692
They created

697
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:48,261
all of the live events
and they worked

698
00:28:48,294 --> 00:28:50,730
with all the talent
and the producers.

699
00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:53,566
>> One time,
we had four live events

700
00:28:53,967 --> 00:28:54,467
per night

701
00:28:55,402 --> 00:28:58,972
and there's no television,
so we were busy.

702
00:28:59,339 --> 00:29:00,874
>> Vince was seven days a week.

703
00:29:02,008 --> 00:29:02,509
That's simple.

704
00:29:02,742 --> 00:29:03,677
Seven days a week.

705
00:29:03,710 --> 00:29:04,344
He was in the office.

706
00:29:05,445 --> 00:29:07,047
Saturday and Sunday,
we'd go to his house and work.

707
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,615
It was funny
when there was a holiday

708
00:29:08,648 --> 00:29:09,749
like Labor Day weekend.

709
00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:12,852
He says, "Damn,
nobody answers in the office.

710
00:29:12,886 --> 00:29:15,422
What's the matter?" I said,
"Vince, it's a holiday."

711
00:29:15,455 --> 00:29:16,423
He hates holidays.

712
00:29:16,923 --> 00:29:18,324
"I hate holidays."

713
00:29:20,326 --> 00:29:22,195
>> Vince had a book.

714
00:29:23,163 --> 00:29:24,564
It was literally a book.

715
00:29:26,266 --> 00:29:28,168
Pat would sit across from Vince

716
00:29:28,635 --> 00:29:29,669
and it would be

717
00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:31,438
March 8th

718
00:29:32,272 --> 00:29:34,774
and it'd be like,
"Where are we going?"

719
00:29:34,808 --> 00:29:35,775
"To SummerSlam."

720
00:29:39,646 --> 00:29:44,484
"This is what we got planned."
It was just Pat and Vince.

721
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:48,822
>> From that very first day,
Pat came in the office.

722
00:29:49,322 --> 00:29:50,090
He made it start

723
00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:52,559
to flow like
a more efficient machine.

724
00:29:53,126 --> 00:29:55,829
>> Pat was super instrumental

725
00:29:56,563 --> 00:29:58,365
and us becoming the big monster

726
00:29:58,398 --> 00:30:00,266
that we did as far
as in entertainment.

727
00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:03,636
He was there at the inception
of the Rock 'n' Wrestling

728
00:30:03,870 --> 00:30:05,238
with the Cyndi Lauper thing.

729
00:30:05,739 --> 00:30:08,041
Pat was there
for the first WrestleMania.

730
00:30:08,975 --> 00:30:13,013
>> Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to WrestleMania.

731
00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:17,117
>> Creatively, he was awesome.

732
00:30:17,517 --> 00:30:19,652
He would come up with things
I'd never think about.

733
00:30:19,686 --> 00:30:22,188
It got adversity,
but we were a great team.

734
00:30:23,556 --> 00:30:26,459
>> Vince trusts
Pat more than anybody.

735
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,762
>> The absurdity of having
a match

736
00:30:28,795 --> 00:30:30,163
of this nature is out there.

737
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,169
>> Right, but some of them,
we do have to finish.

738
00:30:36,403 --> 00:30:38,571
>> When you're a man as powerful
as Vince, you can be surrounded

739
00:30:38,605 --> 00:30:40,440
by guys,
"Great idea, great idea."

740
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,175
Sometimes Vince would say stuff.

741
00:30:42,208 --> 00:30:44,544
I mean, I would be in the room
in a meeting and Vince would go,

742
00:30:44,577 --> 00:30:46,112
"How about if he does that?"
and Pat would go,

743
00:30:46,146 --> 00:30:48,014
"No, no, no.

744
00:30:48,048 --> 00:30:49,749
That's a horrible idea."

745
00:30:50,684 --> 00:30:53,219
No one talked to Vince
like that,

746
00:30:53,253 --> 00:30:54,888
but he wasn't being
disrespectful.

747
00:30:55,188 --> 00:30:56,289
He was doing his job.

748
00:30:56,556 --> 00:30:58,491
He was there
because of his expertise.

749
00:30:59,492 --> 00:31:02,095
>> Pat looked at it as,
"I'm sitting in the crowd.

750
00:31:02,729 --> 00:31:03,963
What do I want to see

751
00:31:04,831 --> 00:31:06,900
and what's going to make
this exciting?

752
00:31:06,933 --> 00:31:09,135
What's going to make
this different?"

753
00:31:09,602 --> 00:31:12,238
>> Pat was just like
on the burnout program.

754
00:31:12,272 --> 00:31:14,074
He was just running and going

755
00:31:14,074 --> 00:31:16,876
from TV
to TV continually thinking,

756
00:31:16,910 --> 00:31:19,245
the characters, gimmicks,
shows, angles.

757
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,082
>> From that point on,
he had his fingerprints

758
00:31:22,082 --> 00:31:23,583
all over the WWE

759
00:31:23,983 --> 00:31:26,252
and he made a huge difference
with our product.

760
00:31:27,387 --> 00:31:27,887
>> Vince

761
00:31:28,988 --> 00:31:32,559
and I were constantly thinking
about the business.

762
00:31:32,959 --> 00:31:36,363
You cannot imagine
how big it was starting to get.

763
00:31:36,963 --> 00:31:39,165
When it was a success,
it felt good.

764
00:31:39,199 --> 00:31:40,100
You know what I mean?

765
00:31:40,133 --> 00:31:42,535
I always wanted to come up
with something

766
00:31:42,569 --> 00:31:43,770
that's never been done.

767
00:31:43,803 --> 00:31:53,780
[music]

768
00:31:54,514 --> 00:31:57,684
>> I do this
because I love to be creative.

769
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:00,253
That's my life.

770
00:32:02,956 --> 00:32:04,557
>> We just can't wait to go,
"Three, two, one,"

771
00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:05,792
and cheer whoever comes out.

772
00:32:05,825 --> 00:32:06,359
>> That's it.

773
00:32:06,393 --> 00:32:07,260
>> Just the countdown.

774
00:32:07,293 --> 00:32:08,228
That's what we're looking
forward to.

775
00:32:08,261 --> 00:32:08,895
>> Oh, I see.

776
00:32:08,928 --> 00:32:09,362
Okay.

777
00:32:10,063 --> 00:32:11,264
>> Who's going to win tonight?

778
00:32:12,098 --> 00:32:12,599
>> Win what?

779
00:32:13,199 --> 00:32:14,467
>> The Royal Rumble.

780
00:32:14,501 --> 00:32:15,268
>> You are.
>> You are.

781
00:32:15,301 --> 00:32:16,102
[laughter]

782
00:32:16,136 --> 00:32:17,704
>> I'm surprised
you're not entering.

783
00:32:18,371 --> 00:32:19,372
>> I love the Rumble,

784
00:32:20,106 --> 00:32:21,941
but you know
how it came about, right?

785
00:32:24,411 --> 00:32:25,378
>> Here we go.

786
00:32:25,645 --> 00:32:27,313
Every man for himself in there.

787
00:32:27,347 --> 00:32:28,314
[bell rings]

788
00:32:28,748 --> 00:32:29,416
>> Battle Royal.

789
00:32:29,716 --> 00:32:31,451
You put 20 guys in the ring,

790
00:32:31,484 --> 00:32:32,719
the bell rings,
and you go at it.

791
00:32:32,752 --> 00:32:34,988
The last one standing,
the winner.

792
00:32:35,622 --> 00:32:36,790
Then I started thinking,

793
00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:38,291
"What if we send

794
00:32:39,459 --> 00:32:40,427
two guys,

795
00:32:40,694 --> 00:32:42,562
they go at it
and two minutes later,

796
00:32:42,996 --> 00:32:45,098
here comes another one?"
Vince says,

797
00:32:45,365 --> 00:32:46,399
"I don't think it's going
to work."

798
00:32:46,433 --> 00:32:48,168
I said,
"Vince, it's going to work."

799
00:32:48,902 --> 00:32:50,637
We had a meeting
with Dick Ebersol.

800
00:32:50,937 --> 00:32:52,906
We had a special
for USA Network.

801
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,407
Vince says,

802
00:32:54,674 --> 00:32:56,676
"Why don't you tell him
your stupid idea?"

803
00:32:57,944 --> 00:32:59,846
I look at Vince, I said,
"First of all,

804
00:32:59,879 --> 00:33:01,214
it's not a stupid idea."

805
00:33:02,048 --> 00:33:03,216
Dick Ebersol went crazy.

806
00:33:06,052 --> 00:33:06,920
>> Dick Ebersol said,

807
00:33:07,153 --> 00:33:08,121
"This is great."

808
00:33:08,421 --> 00:33:09,389
It was a,

809
00:33:10,190 --> 00:33:11,157
"Okay, Pat,

810
00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:12,058
maybe.

811
00:33:12,092 --> 00:33:12,959
Let's see how this works."

812
00:33:13,059 --> 00:33:14,060
>> Welcome, everyone.

813
00:33:14,094 --> 00:33:16,763
I guess
this is the Royal Rumble.

814
00:33:16,796 --> 00:33:20,600
>> Royal Rumble, probably one
of our greatest events aside

815
00:33:20,633 --> 00:33:21,634
from WrestleMania.

816
00:33:22,869 --> 00:33:25,071
Everybody had their doubts,
and then we had the first one

817
00:33:25,105 --> 00:33:26,840
and, of course,
Pat was in charge

818
00:33:26,873 --> 00:33:28,074
of putting it together.

819
00:33:28,074 --> 00:33:31,144
He worked months on this thing
because it was his child.

820
00:33:31,578 --> 00:33:33,380
>> Santana will be going
for a ride.

821
00:33:33,413 --> 00:33:34,581
He dropped off.

822
00:33:34,614 --> 00:33:39,085
>> The Royal Rumble in '88
did the highest cable network

823
00:33:39,085 --> 00:33:40,687
number in history
at the time,

824
00:33:41,121 --> 00:33:43,156
so then it became,

825
00:33:43,423 --> 00:33:44,891
"We got something here,
folks."

826
00:33:45,625 --> 00:33:48,495
>> "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
is the winner

827
00:33:48,528 --> 00:33:49,696
of the Royal Rumble.

828
00:33:50,430 --> 00:33:52,899
>> The first one
was a huge success

829
00:33:52,932 --> 00:33:55,001
and, needless to say,
they continued.

830
00:33:55,602 --> 00:33:57,937
>> He didn't exactly know
what he did.

831
00:33:57,971 --> 00:33:59,105
[chuckles]

832
00:33:59,105 --> 00:34:01,341
He was coming up with that until
I used it the next year

833
00:34:01,708 --> 00:34:03,777
and then, of course,
every subsequent year.

834
00:34:05,679 --> 00:34:09,949
>> Welcome to the Road
to WrestleMania.

835
00:34:17,057 --> 00:34:20,360
>> Not one empty seat
in front of us.

836
00:34:20,660 --> 00:34:21,594
>> Oh,

837
00:34:22,862 --> 00:34:24,064
Kofi's still in it.

838
00:34:24,497 --> 00:34:26,232
His feet have not touched
the floor.

839
00:34:31,071 --> 00:34:33,773
>> Now,
the Rumble is going so big.

840
00:34:34,407 --> 00:34:35,975
Everybody loves
the Royal Rumble.

841
00:34:36,276 --> 00:34:37,210
Everybody.

842
00:34:37,243 --> 00:34:39,079
The boys do, the fans,
and everybody loves

843
00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:40,080
the Royal Rumble.

844
00:34:40,847 --> 00:34:41,681
>> I'm so proud.

845
00:34:41,715 --> 00:34:42,349
I'm in heaven.

846
00:34:42,816 --> 00:34:43,783
I am in heaven.

847
00:34:44,851 --> 00:34:47,253
It's my job
and I work and I do it.

848
00:34:48,254 --> 00:34:49,289
When you see that

849
00:34:49,923 --> 00:34:51,157
you were a big part of it,

850
00:34:51,191 --> 00:34:53,960
it's like being
in heaven really.

851
00:34:53,993 --> 00:34:55,295
Beautiful.

852
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,102
>> With the 1988 Royal Rumble,

853
00:35:02,502 --> 00:35:06,206
Pat created one of WWE's
most celebrated annual events.

854
00:35:09,476 --> 00:35:10,076
>> Additionally,

855
00:35:11,244 --> 00:35:13,246
Pat's unique eye for talent
was changing the business.

856
00:35:14,047 --> 00:35:17,484
>> Without Pat Patterson,
there's certainly no me here.

857
00:35:17,817 --> 00:35:20,053
I sure as heck don't get
my break without him

858
00:35:20,286 --> 00:35:22,856
and to not acknowledge
that would be criminal.

859
00:35:22,889 --> 00:35:24,924
He made me better creatively.

860
00:35:25,291 --> 00:35:28,294
He challenged me in ways

861
00:35:28,795 --> 00:35:31,398
that I didn't even know
that he was challenging me in.

862
00:35:32,799 --> 00:35:34,200
>> We wouldn't be talking
right now

863
00:35:34,234 --> 00:35:35,735
if it wasn't for Pat Patterson.

864
00:35:36,469 --> 00:35:37,771
All I could say is,
and I could speak

865
00:35:37,804 --> 00:35:39,172
for probably a lot of wrestlers,

866
00:35:39,205 --> 00:35:41,641
Pat was a huge part
of all of our success.

867
00:35:42,809 --> 00:35:45,612
>> Pat really loved the talent
that could work in the ring

868
00:35:45,945 --> 00:35:48,715
and that could tell stories
once that bell rang.

869
00:35:49,249 --> 00:35:52,819
>> It was something
that Pat really believed in

870
00:35:53,353 --> 00:35:55,088
and that sometimes
nobody else saw.

871
00:35:56,456 --> 00:35:58,191
>> We were talking
about WrestleMania

872
00:35:58,224 --> 00:35:59,192
and Shawn Michael

873
00:35:59,225 --> 00:36:00,193
and Bret Hart.

874
00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:01,294
I said, "Vince,

875
00:36:01,561 --> 00:36:03,396
those kids will tear
the house down

876
00:36:04,030 --> 00:36:05,532
in the Iron Man match."

877
00:36:06,833 --> 00:36:09,803
>> Welcome, everyone,
to WrestleMania.

878
00:36:10,870 --> 00:36:12,439
>> Oh, man,
I was so excited.

879
00:36:15,942 --> 00:36:18,345
>> The whole storyline,
we did that match,

880
00:36:18,578 --> 00:36:20,080
was all a credit to Pat.

881
00:36:20,513 --> 00:36:21,414
>> He's coming.

882
00:36:21,448 --> 00:36:22,582
Sharpshooter.

883
00:36:22,615 --> 00:36:23,883
Sharpshooter again.

884
00:36:24,918 --> 00:36:26,052
>> It was his idea.

885
00:36:26,052 --> 00:36:28,321
He insisted to Vince
that we have an Iron Man match.

886
00:36:28,621 --> 00:36:30,523
Of course, Shawn
and I have always been grateful

887
00:36:30,557 --> 00:36:32,826
for it because it was our finest
hour for sure.

888
00:36:33,126 --> 00:36:34,194
>> One,

889
00:36:34,227 --> 00:36:34,894
two,

890
00:36:35,261 --> 00:36:36,229
three.

891
00:36:36,463 --> 00:36:38,231
>> Man, I was pushing
for these guys.

892
00:36:38,264 --> 00:36:39,199
I love them.

893
00:36:39,232 --> 00:36:40,500
They entertain me.

894
00:36:40,533 --> 00:36:41,735
I'm a wrestler.

895
00:36:41,768 --> 00:36:43,103
If they entertained me,

896
00:36:43,503 --> 00:36:45,071
that's big, I'm telling you.

897
00:36:46,873 --> 00:36:49,609
>> To him, it was always
about the work in the ring

898
00:36:49,642 --> 00:36:50,844
because before that,

899
00:36:51,211 --> 00:36:53,680
a guy like Shawn Michaels
and a guy like Bret Hart,

900
00:36:54,347 --> 00:36:56,082
they aren't seen
as world champions.

901
00:36:56,116 --> 00:36:59,085
It took somebody
to have the foresight

902
00:36:59,352 --> 00:37:02,622
to see where the industry
would eventually go.

903
00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:03,189
>> Take your time.

904
00:37:03,223 --> 00:37:04,891
Grab him and "boom."

905
00:37:06,693 --> 00:37:09,462
>> He was one of the greatest
minds behind the scenes

906
00:37:09,496 --> 00:37:10,463
in the business.

907
00:37:11,398 --> 00:37:13,733
He had a total master
understanding

908
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:15,702
of wrestling psychology

909
00:37:15,735 --> 00:37:17,704
and how to apply it
and when to apply it.

910
00:37:19,172 --> 00:37:21,274
>> From here,
you can really force yourself.

911
00:37:22,042 --> 00:37:24,144
>> Vince knew how much I loved
the business

912
00:37:26,046 --> 00:37:28,882
and he felt that I could help
a lot of guys along the way.

913
00:37:30,884 --> 00:37:33,053
To me, all I did,

914
00:37:33,053 --> 00:37:35,422
and I loved it,
is to help the talent

915
00:37:35,455 --> 00:37:36,656
about their character.

916
00:37:36,690 --> 00:37:39,092
>> The next picture they see
is you guys argue

917
00:37:39,125 --> 00:37:41,161
with the referee,
then you go right back.

918
00:37:41,194 --> 00:37:43,096
Ooh, that makes you
a no-good bastard.

919
00:37:44,164 --> 00:37:46,066
>> How do I build up
the match tonight?

920
00:37:46,366 --> 00:37:49,235
Try to teach them how to put
a match together on their own.

921
00:37:49,569 --> 00:37:51,338
>> You guys have a tendency
to go fast.

922
00:37:51,371 --> 00:37:53,340
You go fast,
you're going to miss the punch,

923
00:37:53,373 --> 00:37:55,075
you're going to look like [-].

924
00:37:55,075 --> 00:37:55,942
Just take your time.

925
00:37:55,975 --> 00:37:57,644
>> Pat never looked at it
as a job.

926
00:37:57,677 --> 00:37:59,612
I think for him,
it's a form of art.

927
00:37:59,646 --> 00:38:00,246
It's a painting

928
00:38:01,448 --> 00:38:03,616
and he just happens to be one
of the best painters ever.

929
00:38:07,387 --> 00:38:08,021
>> Whoa.

930
00:38:08,054 --> 00:38:09,022
Good job.

931
00:38:09,422 --> 00:38:10,123
>> You grabbed it.

932
00:38:10,156 --> 00:38:10,757
>> I grabbed it.

933
00:38:10,790 --> 00:38:12,125
>> Okay, that's all right.

934
00:38:12,158 --> 00:38:13,226
Next time, try not to.

935
00:38:15,228 --> 00:38:17,063
>> He could be very hands-on
with you,

936
00:38:17,297 --> 00:38:18,865
but he still gave you
the freedom

937
00:38:19,165 --> 00:38:21,034
and let you learn
on your own too,

938
00:38:22,635 --> 00:38:24,037
and then after, you know,

939
00:38:24,037 --> 00:38:25,538
"Pat,
what'd you think about that?"

940
00:38:25,572 --> 00:38:26,906
"Oh, that was great."

941
00:38:27,774 --> 00:38:30,176
If you got "Oh, that was great"
from Pat,

942
00:38:30,210 --> 00:38:32,045
then you know you did
something right.

943
00:38:40,453 --> 00:38:42,255
>> You guys know Pat
wasn't going to take a fall.

944
00:38:42,288 --> 00:38:44,190
[laughter]

945
00:38:44,224 --> 00:38:45,191
>> What a memory.

946
00:38:45,692 --> 00:38:47,060
>> In 1996,

947
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,597
WWE recognized
Pat's vast accomplishments

948
00:38:50,630 --> 00:38:52,866
by inducting him
into the Hall of Fame.

949
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,869
>> After 38 years
in the wrestling business

950
00:38:56,803 --> 00:38:57,771
and ending up

951
00:38:58,204 --> 00:38:59,305
with the Hall of Fame,

952
00:39:02,709 --> 00:39:03,677
well,

953
00:39:05,712 --> 00:39:07,113
this is, without a doubt,

954
00:39:07,147 --> 00:39:08,415
the best moment of my life

955
00:39:10,717 --> 00:39:12,252
and to the guy sitting next
to me

956
00:39:12,285 --> 00:39:13,887
that I really would like
to thank.

957
00:39:15,288 --> 00:39:16,656
I thought I liked wrestling.

958
00:39:18,658 --> 00:39:19,626
Vince,

959
00:39:20,827 --> 00:39:23,229
I want to thank you
for what you've done for me.

960
00:39:23,263 --> 00:39:26,099
I want to thank you
for having faith in me.

961
00:39:26,633 --> 00:39:27,600
We worked

962
00:39:28,735 --> 00:39:30,537
for many hours together
and I loved every minute of it.

963
00:39:31,638 --> 00:39:32,572
I'm not done.

964
00:39:32,605 --> 00:39:34,541
I'm going to keep going
with you, Vince.

965
00:39:34,808 --> 00:39:35,809
Most of all,

966
00:39:36,543 --> 00:39:38,044
thank you for being my friend.

967
00:39:39,112 --> 00:39:40,080
I love you.

968
00:39:45,685 --> 00:39:46,820
Before I go,

969
00:39:48,388 --> 00:39:50,056
this is the first time
I'll do this,

970
00:39:50,056 --> 00:39:53,760
but I'd like to share this award

971
00:39:53,793 --> 00:39:54,761
with someone

972
00:39:56,796 --> 00:39:58,465
and I'm glad that he's here
tonight

973
00:39:59,766 --> 00:40:01,634
to see me receive
this award.

974
00:40:02,769 --> 00:40:06,139
This guy's been a friend
of mine for many, many years.

975
00:40:06,740 --> 00:40:07,707
He's been a friend.

976
00:40:08,775 --> 00:40:09,843
He's been a companion.

977
00:40:10,777 --> 00:40:11,811
He's been a father.

978
00:40:11,845 --> 00:40:12,846
He's been a brother,

979
00:40:13,613 --> 00:40:15,749
and by God, sometimes
he's been a mother.

980
00:40:18,318 --> 00:40:19,419
Yes, he has,

981
00:40:20,220 --> 00:40:21,888
but I want to share this award

982
00:40:22,489 --> 00:40:23,857
to my dear friend,

983
00:40:24,224 --> 00:40:25,458
Louie Dondero.

984
00:40:29,195 --> 00:40:30,363
>> Thank you very much.

985
00:40:30,397 --> 00:40:37,037
[applause]

986
00:40:41,341 --> 00:40:42,375
>> I was in Pittsburg.

987
00:40:42,409 --> 00:40:43,476
We had a pay-per-view.

988
00:40:43,843 --> 00:40:48,014
He flew from Florida
to Boston to be with his family.

989
00:40:49,049 --> 00:40:50,216
I get a phone call.

990
00:40:50,250 --> 00:40:52,419
Louie just dropped dead
of a heart attack.

991
00:40:53,887 --> 00:40:54,554
Wow,

992
00:40:54,854 --> 00:40:56,556
that really hurt me,

993
00:40:57,323 --> 00:40:58,958
that the two person that I love

994
00:41:00,126 --> 00:41:01,094
so much.

995
00:41:02,529 --> 00:41:03,496
It was tough.

996
00:41:04,197 --> 00:41:05,732
This guy did everything for me.

997
00:41:07,434 --> 00:41:09,402
Without Louie,
I don't think I'd be here.

998
00:41:12,439 --> 00:41:14,140
>> I think Pat was a little lost

999
00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:18,845
for a good while
after the passing of Louie.

1000
00:41:25,652 --> 00:41:26,886
>> Louie was a great guy.

1001
00:41:27,187 --> 00:41:28,588
Got along with everybody.

1002
00:41:29,222 --> 00:41:30,523
Friendly with everybody

1003
00:41:30,557 --> 00:41:32,525
and would do anything
in the world.

1004
00:41:33,093 --> 00:41:34,294
It affected all of us.

1005
00:41:35,829 --> 00:41:36,830
>> At the funeral,

1006
00:41:37,931 --> 00:41:42,102
even the police came up
to a member of the family

1007
00:41:42,402 --> 00:41:44,104
and says, "Who's that gentleman?

1008
00:41:44,337 --> 00:41:45,638
He must have been famous.

1009
00:41:46,106 --> 00:41:48,842
We've never had a funeral
like this with so many people."

1010
00:41:49,175 --> 00:41:50,343
It was unbelievable.

1011
00:41:53,213 --> 00:41:54,647
We were together 40 years.

1012
00:41:58,785 --> 00:41:59,819
[chuckles]

1013
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,688
You're trying to make me
cry now.

1014
00:42:01,721 --> 00:42:03,356
[laughs]

1015
00:42:04,357 --> 00:42:05,325
No,

1016
00:42:05,725 --> 00:42:07,060
I've done that enough.

1017
00:42:07,694 --> 00:42:08,661
Oh, yes.

1018
00:42:12,232 --> 00:42:15,902
>> After the passing,
Pat's not doing a whole lot

1019
00:42:15,935 --> 00:42:18,171
and Pat wanted to come,
"I'll come to TV

1020
00:42:18,204 --> 00:42:19,172
and I'll help out."

1021
00:42:19,506 --> 00:42:20,907
>> He held Vince hostage.

1022
00:42:21,508 --> 00:42:22,676
>> Held McMahon hostage?

1023
00:42:22,909 --> 00:42:23,677
>> Yes, he did.

1024
00:42:23,710 --> 00:42:25,111
>> Stone Cold held
McMahon hostage?

1025
00:42:25,145 --> 00:42:25,412
>> Yes, he did.

1026
00:42:26,379 --> 00:42:27,080
>> Pat, Pat, don't say
anything like that.

1027
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,081
Don't be a stooge.

1028
00:42:28,081 --> 00:42:29,149
Come on, let's--

1029
00:42:29,182 --> 00:42:31,084
>> Whoa, whoa, whoa,
who's calling who a stooge here?

1030
00:42:31,084 --> 00:42:33,520
>> Pat Patterson
and I were a bit of stooges.

1031
00:42:33,553 --> 00:42:36,089
>> You both look ridiculous.

1032
00:42:36,322 --> 00:42:40,126
>> Mr. McMahon was a character
behind the scenes,

1033
00:42:40,493 --> 00:42:41,961
which was put in front
of the camera,

1034
00:42:41,995 --> 00:42:44,230
and then you start looking
at the people

1035
00:42:44,264 --> 00:42:46,332
around Mr. McMahon.

1036
00:42:46,366 --> 00:42:48,001
There would be great
characters too.

1037
00:42:48,101 --> 00:42:50,236
You had Pat Patterson
and Gerry Brisco.

1038
00:42:50,837 --> 00:42:52,372
>> Would you please
straighten that out?

1039
00:42:52,405 --> 00:42:53,406
>> I will, I will.

1040
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:54,541
You're heavy, you know.

1041
00:42:55,208 --> 00:42:56,409
>> It was so much fun.

1042
00:42:56,443 --> 00:42:58,244
It was so much fun
to working off

1043
00:42:58,278 --> 00:42:59,879
with Pat and Gerry Brisco.

1044
00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:02,549
>> You know
I'm Vince McMahon's favorite.

1045
00:43:03,216 --> 00:43:04,951
>> What's with the stooges
bickering

1046
00:43:05,051 --> 00:43:06,152
with each other so much?

1047
00:43:06,186 --> 00:43:07,487
[indistinct] bickering.

1048
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,088
Come on--

1049
00:43:08,121 --> 00:43:09,356
Wait a minute.

1050
00:43:09,389 --> 00:43:12,726
Chyna has defeated Mr. McMahon
in the arm-wrestling contest.

1051
00:43:12,759 --> 00:43:15,695
>> Stooges, stooges, stooges.

1052
00:43:16,062 --> 00:43:18,198
>> Many times, I had no idea
what I was going to say or do,

1053
00:43:18,231 --> 00:43:19,199
[laughs]

1054
00:43:19,799 --> 00:43:21,067
but they were pros.

1055
00:43:21,101 --> 00:43:22,235
They knew how to react.

1056
00:43:22,602 --> 00:43:23,937
>> It's a huge building.

1057
00:43:23,970 --> 00:43:26,272
>> You can't find
the boiler room?

1058
00:43:26,306 --> 00:43:28,108
>> I looked everywhere.

1059
00:43:28,141 --> 00:43:29,843
>> You couldn't find your ass.

1060
00:43:30,744 --> 00:43:32,412
>> We'd like you
to have a little--

1061
00:43:36,282 --> 00:43:38,284
>> Pat would always
add the comedy.

1062
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:40,954
>> Pat Patterson,

1063
00:43:42,088 --> 00:43:44,424
one of the most respected,
one of the best in-ring

1064
00:43:44,457 --> 00:43:46,626
technicians
and minds in this industry.

1065
00:43:46,893 --> 00:43:48,728
He understands
that this is entertainment.

1066
00:43:48,762 --> 00:43:53,433
[fans cheering]

1067
00:43:53,466 --> 00:43:54,434
>> Being the stooge,

1068
00:43:55,702 --> 00:43:59,806
it was fun,
but sometime inside me,

1069
00:43:59,839 --> 00:44:01,374
"Why the hell am I doing this?

1070
00:44:02,509 --> 00:44:03,410
I'm a wrestler.

1071
00:44:03,443 --> 00:44:04,110
Come on."

1072
00:44:04,144 --> 00:44:05,345
You know what I'm saying?

1073
00:44:06,046 --> 00:44:07,681
But it worked.

1074
00:44:08,214 --> 00:44:10,850
>> The greatest champion
of them all.

1075
00:44:10,884 --> 00:44:12,752
>> Pat, you burned my eyes.

1076
00:44:12,786 --> 00:44:14,387
>> What do you mean
I burned your eyes?

1077
00:44:14,421 --> 00:44:16,056
You think I burned your eyes?

1078
00:44:16,056 --> 00:44:17,323
Well, stay down.

1079
00:44:17,357 --> 00:44:18,324
>> Good God.

1080
00:44:19,459 --> 00:44:21,928
Patterson covered Brisco.

1081
00:44:23,163 --> 00:44:24,397
I'll be damned.

1082
00:44:24,698 --> 00:44:26,766
>> Raise my hand, raise my hand.

1083
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:27,667
I'm the champion.

1084
00:44:27,701 --> 00:44:28,702
Let's get out of here.

1085
00:44:28,735 --> 00:44:29,869
Let's get out of here.

1086
00:44:29,903 --> 00:44:35,842
[applause]

1087
00:44:35,875 --> 00:44:37,944
>> After 46 years
in the business,

1088
00:44:38,445 --> 00:44:41,381
Pat announced his retirement
in 2004.

1089
00:44:41,414 --> 00:44:44,751
[applause]

1090
00:44:44,784 --> 00:44:47,153
>> I was really,
really burned out.

1091
00:44:48,455 --> 00:44:51,257
Vince had a lot of new guys
working for him and all that,

1092
00:44:51,291 --> 00:44:52,258
which was fine.

1093
00:44:52,592 --> 00:44:55,528
We had different ideas

1094
00:44:55,562 --> 00:44:57,797
and different people instead
of me and Vince

1095
00:44:57,831 --> 00:44:58,932
together all the time.

1096
00:44:59,866 --> 00:45:03,169
I was happy that he did that
and I didn't fit in there.

1097
00:45:03,203 --> 00:45:04,671
I just wanted them to be them.

1098
00:45:05,305 --> 00:45:06,639
You know what I'm saying?

1099
00:45:06,673 --> 00:45:08,108
>> Stop hugging me, damn it.

1100
00:45:08,942 --> 00:45:10,076
>> It hurt so much.

1101
00:45:10,377 --> 00:45:11,511
>> I'll never forget

1102
00:45:12,145 --> 00:45:13,880
what you have done for me.

1103
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,316
It's a debt I'll never be
able to repay.

1104
00:45:16,616 --> 00:45:18,451
Aboos, I love you.

1105
00:45:18,685 --> 00:45:27,761
[fans cheering]

1106
00:45:31,865 --> 00:45:33,867
>> I left the thing
that I liked the most

1107
00:45:34,868 --> 00:45:36,770
and I didn't know
what I was going to do

1108
00:45:37,070 --> 00:45:38,071
the rest of my life.

1109
00:45:38,104 --> 00:45:39,072
I have no idea.

1110
00:45:40,674 --> 00:45:41,675
>> We got speed.

1111
00:45:42,342 --> 00:45:43,309
>> Here we go.

1112
00:45:43,677 --> 00:45:44,644
Go ahead, Pat.

1113
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,849
>> They asked me if I wanted
to be in the Legends' House.

1114
00:45:51,284 --> 00:45:53,086
I did not want to do that.

1115
00:45:53,753 --> 00:45:55,522
>> There's no [-] way
I'm going to do that.

1116
00:45:55,555 --> 00:45:58,892
>> That Vince McMahon,
he has a way to con somebody.

1117
00:45:58,925 --> 00:45:59,426
Believe me.

1118
00:46:00,260 --> 00:46:01,695
>> These boots are made
for walking,

1119
00:46:01,728 --> 00:46:02,929
so walk out of here now.

1120
00:46:03,029 --> 00:46:05,065
>> We had a great time
at the Legends' House together.

1121
00:46:05,098 --> 00:46:06,599
We spent 13 weeks together.

1122
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:08,335
What was so special about Pat

1123
00:46:08,935 --> 00:46:10,904
was he was always honest
with you.

1124
00:46:10,937 --> 00:46:11,905
>> Here's to me

1125
00:46:12,672 --> 00:46:13,606
and here's to you.

1126
00:46:14,407 --> 00:46:16,142
If by any chance you disagree,

1127
00:46:16,643 --> 00:46:18,578
here's to me, [-] you.

1128
00:46:22,615 --> 00:46:24,050
>> I don't think
I could ever have made it

1129
00:46:24,050 --> 00:46:26,052
to the Legends' House

1130
00:46:27,053 --> 00:46:28,822
without having Pat Patterson
there.

1131
00:46:29,656 --> 00:46:31,658
Play cards, BS with each other.

1132
00:46:32,425 --> 00:46:34,427
This guy loved to live life.

1133
00:46:38,064 --> 00:46:39,432
He loved to have a cocktail.

1134
00:46:40,066 --> 00:46:43,136
>> I know you all are drunk
a little bit, but that's okay.

1135
00:46:43,169 --> 00:46:44,304
I'll take good care of you.

1136
00:46:44,337 --> 00:46:44,904
You know that.

1137
00:46:45,572 --> 00:46:46,806
Don't worry about you, okay?

1138
00:46:47,941 --> 00:46:50,910
>> He loved to have a good meal
and he certainly enjoyed

1139
00:46:50,944 --> 00:46:52,078
the people around him.

1140
00:46:52,879 --> 00:46:54,547
Otherwise,
they weren't around him.

1141
00:46:57,384 --> 00:47:02,255
>> What was the biggest moment
that you remember of your life?

1142
00:47:04,691 --> 00:47:08,294
>> As the days and the weeks
went on in Legends' House,

1143
00:47:08,795 --> 00:47:11,031
I think Pat
became more comfortable.

1144
00:47:11,364 --> 00:47:12,599
>> It was our last dinner

1145
00:47:13,266 --> 00:47:16,403
and I was trying to figure out
a way to open up.

1146
00:47:18,071 --> 00:47:18,938
>> Sitting here tonight,

1147
00:47:19,205 --> 00:47:21,207
I want to say something
that I would never

1148
00:47:21,241 --> 00:47:22,575
want to say publicly.

1149
00:47:23,209 --> 00:47:24,711
Being here with you guys,

1150
00:47:26,646 --> 00:47:28,748
for once in my life,
I'm going to be me now.

1151
00:47:29,649 --> 00:47:31,818
Something told me
that I have got to open up.

1152
00:47:32,485 --> 00:47:34,554
I've got to do it someday
so I can be me.

1153
00:47:35,355 --> 00:47:38,892
I survived
all of these being gay.

1154
00:47:42,595 --> 00:47:44,597
>> Of course, I cried,
let it all go.

1155
00:47:45,932 --> 00:47:47,067
It was very emotional.

1156
00:47:48,401 --> 00:47:50,370
>> It seemed like it gave him
permission

1157
00:47:50,770 --> 00:47:53,306
to himself to go on and, man,
"Live my life

1158
00:47:53,907 --> 00:47:54,874
and be me."

1159
00:47:55,608 --> 00:47:58,912
>> I am gay and I [-] survived.

1160
00:47:59,512 --> 00:48:00,613
I don't want to cry.

1161
00:48:00,647 --> 00:48:01,681
I want to celebrate.

1162
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:02,449
You understand?

1163
00:48:02,482 --> 00:48:03,516
I want to celebrate.

1164
00:48:03,817 --> 00:48:05,018
Thanks to you guys

1165
00:48:05,819 --> 00:48:07,921
because of you,
I'm able to say it

1166
00:48:09,322 --> 00:48:11,358
and I'm [-]
going to drink to that.

1167
00:48:12,058 --> 00:48:13,026
Thank you.

1168
00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:15,795
>> The guys all cried for me.

1169
00:48:15,829 --> 00:48:17,864
We all held each other
and everything else.

1170
00:48:17,897 --> 00:48:19,199
You get to a certain age,

1171
00:48:19,566 --> 00:48:20,867
"I had enough of this [-]."

1172
00:48:21,368 --> 00:48:23,603
There was a moment
that I needed to do.

1173
00:48:23,636 --> 00:48:29,743
[murmuring]

1174
00:48:30,477 --> 00:48:31,644
>> Even though you knew,

1175
00:48:32,812 --> 00:48:33,780
it matter.

1176
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,248
Now, I say it.

1177
00:48:35,782 --> 00:48:36,750
I'm free.

1178
00:48:39,552 --> 00:48:40,954
>> The people who knew him,

1179
00:48:41,354 --> 00:48:42,389
"Now, I came out,"

1180
00:48:42,922 --> 00:48:44,491
and everyone would say,
"Okay,

1181
00:48:45,191 --> 00:48:47,827
but we already knew that, Pat."

1182
00:48:48,728 --> 00:48:50,230
You'd be able to come out,

1183
00:48:50,263 --> 00:48:53,066
whether it has to be this weight
lifted off your shoulder.

1184
00:48:53,733 --> 00:48:54,934
It was how he felt,

1185
00:48:54,968 --> 00:48:55,935
"I did this for me."

1186
00:48:57,804 --> 00:48:59,572
>> Pat Patterson's homosexuality

1187
00:48:59,606 --> 00:49:02,008
was a worse-kept secret
in wrestling business.

1188
00:49:02,475 --> 00:49:06,112
As the secret got out,
Pat didn't hide it.

1189
00:49:06,346 --> 00:49:08,248
Pat was proud of who he was.

1190
00:49:09,716 --> 00:49:11,685
>> His bravery,
it runs off of him.

1191
00:49:11,718 --> 00:49:12,519
It was contagious.

1192
00:49:12,552 --> 00:49:14,621
It's inspiring because myself

1193
00:49:14,921 --> 00:49:15,855
being gay

1194
00:49:15,889 --> 00:49:17,857
and knowing
that I wasn't alone

1195
00:49:18,758 --> 00:49:19,726
when I did it,

1196
00:49:20,026 --> 00:49:22,796
it made the conversation

1197
00:49:23,163 --> 00:49:24,297
that much easier.

1198
00:49:25,432 --> 00:49:28,468
>> Just like I said earlier,
being gay was chasing me

1199
00:49:29,069 --> 00:49:31,504
and you always hope
that one day,

1200
00:49:31,538 --> 00:49:32,739
that thing is going to go away.

1201
00:49:32,772 --> 00:49:33,807
You know what I mean?

1202
00:49:34,741 --> 00:49:35,809
For me now, it is.

1203
00:49:37,043 --> 00:49:38,545
It's a great feeling.

1204
00:49:38,578 --> 00:49:45,051
[music]

1205
00:49:45,051 --> 00:49:47,220
>> Pat got out of the business.

1206
00:49:47,253 --> 00:49:48,421
He never really retired.

1207
00:49:48,955 --> 00:49:53,093
I told Pat, "You come to work
whenever you want to,"

1208
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:54,961
and that's what Pat did.

1209
00:49:56,062 --> 00:49:57,897
>> Pat was someone
with knowledge

1210
00:49:58,131 --> 00:49:59,699
of the business
who have been there

1211
00:49:59,733 --> 00:50:01,401
and done that,
that watched the program

1212
00:50:01,434 --> 00:50:02,035
at home

1213
00:50:02,936 --> 00:50:05,572
and had very strong opinions
about it.

1214
00:50:06,339 --> 00:50:07,674
>> He would see me
and he would be like,

1215
00:50:07,707 --> 00:50:09,175
"I saw you last week.

1216
00:50:09,209 --> 00:50:10,343
That was terrible,"

1217
00:50:10,610 --> 00:50:11,578
and I go, "Damn it,"

1218
00:50:12,278 --> 00:50:14,514
and then we would sit down
and hash it out.

1219
00:50:15,415 --> 00:50:18,518
He wanted the best possible
wrestling show there was.

1220
00:50:19,552 --> 00:50:20,720
>> You can't quit the business.

1221
00:50:20,754 --> 00:50:21,654
What am I going to do?

1222
00:50:21,688 --> 00:50:22,922
I love this business.

1223
00:50:22,956 --> 00:50:26,960
I love to help the young guys
and I just like to be around.

1224
00:50:26,993 --> 00:50:29,796
It's a beautiful business
to be in.

1225
00:50:30,663 --> 00:50:32,265
>> Everybody always
looked forward to Pat

1226
00:50:32,298 --> 00:50:33,433
coming back around.

1227
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:37,504
He always had something
that he could teach you

1228
00:50:37,537 --> 00:50:40,607
or adjust what you were doing
to make it even better.

1229
00:50:42,509 --> 00:50:45,178
>> With the veteran minds
around here, there is always

1230
00:50:45,745 --> 00:50:47,013
a certain way of thinking.

1231
00:50:48,114 --> 00:50:50,016
Pat Patterson
doesn't think like that.

1232
00:50:50,050 --> 00:50:52,285
I think that's what makes
his ideas unique.

1233
00:50:52,585 --> 00:50:54,888
You always have to take
into account his opinion

1234
00:50:54,921 --> 00:50:56,156
or value his feedback

1235
00:50:56,523 --> 00:50:58,258
almost more
than everyone else's.

1236
00:50:58,291 --> 00:51:01,661
>> He was always
a really good motivator

1237
00:51:01,695 --> 00:51:03,229
because he was always
in a good mood.

1238
00:51:03,263 --> 00:51:04,664
He was always joking around.

1239
00:51:04,698 --> 00:51:05,932
He was always laughing.

1240
00:51:06,166 --> 00:51:07,634
>> Are you growing up or what?

1241
00:51:09,069 --> 00:51:10,337
>> I'm wearing dress shoes.

1242
00:51:11,071 --> 00:51:11,638
>> I know.

1243
00:51:11,671 --> 00:51:13,106
You put high heels or what?

1244
00:51:13,540 --> 00:51:14,607
>> I said,
"I'm going to get it all.

1245
00:51:14,641 --> 00:51:16,242
I'm going to get
every single drop

1246
00:51:16,276 --> 00:51:17,243
of your creativity.

1247
00:51:18,311 --> 00:51:20,080
Everything you have,
Pat, I'm going get it all."

1248
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:21,281
>> Vince won't let me go.

1249
00:51:21,514 --> 00:51:22,215
He knows that.

1250
00:51:22,515 --> 00:51:23,316
He knows that

1251
00:51:23,616 --> 00:51:24,851
that's good for me.

1252
00:51:28,355 --> 00:51:30,390
>> Pat was one of those people
that you knew

1253
00:51:30,423 --> 00:51:31,791
he was enjoying himself.

1254
00:51:32,092 --> 00:51:34,861
Pat just seemed
like he was joyful all the time.

1255
00:51:36,863 --> 00:51:39,099
>> I have an image in my mind
and it's just

1256
00:51:39,099 --> 00:51:40,967
him being happy watching
wrestling.

1257
00:51:41,267 --> 00:51:42,335
He always loved

1258
00:51:43,470 --> 00:51:44,437
watching wrestling.

1259
00:51:46,606 --> 00:51:50,944
>> Before the show starts,
I go and hide in the crowd.

1260
00:51:52,345 --> 00:51:54,347
I want to feel that moment.

1261
00:51:55,415 --> 00:51:56,549
Man, I got goosebump.

1262
00:51:56,583 --> 00:51:57,784
I got tears in my eyes.

1263
00:51:57,817 --> 00:51:58,985
I go crazy.

1264
00:51:59,219 --> 00:52:01,588
[cheering]

1265
00:52:01,621 --> 00:52:05,058
>> I will always love
wrestling fans.

1266
00:52:05,625 --> 00:52:07,560
I cannot thank them enough.

1267
00:52:09,062 --> 00:52:09,729
They love

1268
00:52:10,130 --> 00:52:11,064
what I love

1269
00:52:14,934 --> 00:52:15,902
and I love them all.

1270
00:52:19,472 --> 00:52:21,741
>> On December 2nd, 2020,

1271
00:52:22,642 --> 00:52:24,110
Pat Patterson passed away.

1272
00:52:25,211 --> 00:52:26,880
He was 79 years old.

1273
00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:30,517
>> When was the last time
you spoke to him?

1274
00:52:30,884 --> 00:52:32,185
>> Wow.

1275
00:52:32,652 --> 00:52:34,421
I guess about a week
before he passed

1276
00:52:35,555 --> 00:52:37,090
and that was the first time

1277
00:52:38,358 --> 00:52:39,325
that

1278
00:52:42,195 --> 00:52:44,497
he ever said like--

1279
00:52:46,099 --> 00:52:47,467
He said, "I may not be here

1280
00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:48,468
too much longer."

1281
00:52:49,235 --> 00:52:55,408
[music]

1282
00:52:55,442 --> 00:52:56,443
>> Never,

1283
00:52:56,943 --> 00:52:57,911
never

1284
00:52:58,578 --> 00:53:00,213
did he ever say
anything like that.

1285
00:53:02,515 --> 00:53:03,483
I think Pat knew.

1286
00:53:04,050 --> 00:53:05,051
I think Pat knew.

1287
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:06,553
>> This past week,

1288
00:53:06,786 --> 00:53:07,954
we lost a beloved member

1289
00:53:08,321 --> 00:53:09,856
of our WWE family,

1290
00:53:10,657 --> 00:53:11,624
Hall of Famer

1291
00:53:12,125 --> 00:53:13,126
Pat Patterson.

1292
00:53:14,361 --> 00:53:15,495
Tonight, we pay tribute

1293
00:53:16,062 --> 00:53:16,963
to a man

1294
00:53:17,430 --> 00:53:18,765
who touched our hearts

1295
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:20,867
and inspired everyone

1296
00:53:21,368 --> 00:53:22,435
through his incredible

1297
00:53:22,736 --> 00:53:23,703
mind,

1298
00:53:24,070 --> 00:53:24,971
body,

1299
00:53:25,205 --> 00:53:26,172
and spirit.

1300
00:53:26,906 --> 00:53:31,611
[bell rings]

1301
00:53:32,078 --> 00:53:34,381
>> For the business,
there's a huge hole there

1302
00:53:34,414 --> 00:53:37,083
because there was nobody
like Pat Patterson.

1303
00:53:39,486 --> 00:53:41,454
>> Pat knew how to connect
with everyone,

1304
00:53:42,589 --> 00:53:44,691
anyone that he socialized with,

1305
00:53:44,724 --> 00:53:46,292
anyone that he was
interacting with.

1306
00:53:46,326 --> 00:53:48,595
Somehow everybody's
got a Pat story.

1307
00:53:51,498 --> 00:53:53,366
>> He had a real joie de vivre,

1308
00:53:53,900 --> 00:53:58,204
which is a French term
for a lust and a love for life.

1309
00:53:59,773 --> 00:54:03,043
>> Pat was so kind
and helpful to me

1310
00:54:03,076 --> 00:54:06,079
from the moment
I set foot in WWE.

1311
00:54:06,813 --> 00:54:08,481
He just really loved trying
to help

1312
00:54:09,649 --> 00:54:11,751
this generation
and trying to help

1313
00:54:11,785 --> 00:54:13,486
this industry any way he could.

1314
00:54:14,721 --> 00:54:17,090
>> Everybody feels
this connection to Pat

1315
00:54:17,624 --> 00:54:21,561
and that's without us being
a part of his generation.

1316
00:54:21,928 --> 00:54:23,196
That just goes to show

1317
00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:25,498
what a special human being
he was.

1318
00:54:27,434 --> 00:54:31,071
>> I love you and I thank you
for having faith

1319
00:54:31,104 --> 00:54:33,540
and making that call
on this punk kid and saying,

1320
00:54:33,573 --> 00:54:35,742
"Hey, you want to take
a look at this kid

1321
00:54:35,775 --> 00:54:37,711
and you want to take
a look at him now."

1322
00:54:38,745 --> 00:54:39,879
You did it your way.

1323
00:54:40,747 --> 00:54:41,715
Cheers.

1324
00:54:49,723 --> 00:54:51,424
>> If you had this giant
tombstone,

1325
00:54:52,859 --> 00:54:54,127
you could not write

1326
00:54:54,761 --> 00:54:56,296
everything that would make you

1327
00:54:57,163 --> 00:54:58,131
know Pat

1328
00:54:58,398 --> 00:54:59,733
and feel his goodness.

1329
00:55:00,333 --> 00:55:00,934
>> Vince,

1330
00:55:01,334 --> 00:55:02,268
in one word,

1331
00:55:02,869 --> 00:55:03,737
"Aboos."

1332
00:55:03,770 --> 00:55:05,472
[applause]

1333
00:55:05,505 --> 00:55:06,940
>> Everyone
had their own opinion

1334
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,274
and their own love for Pat.

1335
00:55:09,042 --> 00:55:11,077
[music]

1336
00:55:11,311 --> 00:55:13,113
>> We'll never quit talking
about Pat.

1337
00:55:13,146 --> 00:55:14,848
We'll never quit laughing
about Pat.

1338
00:55:14,881 --> 00:55:16,683
He will be here forever.

1339
00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:22,322
>> Pat came
to the United States of America

1340
00:55:22,355 --> 00:55:24,657
from Montreal
without knowing the language

1341
00:55:25,525 --> 00:55:28,395
and traveled the world
as a major star

1342
00:55:28,428 --> 00:55:32,365
and be an executive
in a billion-dollar company.

1343
00:55:33,566 --> 00:55:34,968
Pat Patterson was a genius.

1344
00:55:36,202 --> 00:55:37,937
>> He had an aura of goodness.

1345
00:55:38,204 --> 00:55:40,373
When you met him, you knew that.

1346
00:55:41,074 --> 00:55:41,608
I learned

1347
00:55:42,676 --> 00:55:44,778
so much from Pat in ways
I really can't articulate.

1348
00:55:45,478 --> 00:55:47,714
Pat helped us
to get everything going.

1349
00:55:47,747 --> 00:55:50,784
It was going before,
but Pat gave us another level.

1350
00:55:52,452 --> 00:55:55,088
>> His biggest contribution
to the business along

1351
00:55:55,121 --> 00:55:56,322
with a great body of work

1352
00:55:56,790 --> 00:55:58,358
was all of the knowledge

1353
00:55:58,692 --> 00:56:00,860
that he passed
to all of the superstars

1354
00:56:00,894 --> 00:56:02,495
who came through those doors,

1355
00:56:02,529 --> 00:56:03,797
myself included.

1356
00:56:04,731 --> 00:56:06,633
>> When I first started
in this business,

1357
00:56:06,666 --> 00:56:09,069
Pat Patterson went
so far out of his way

1358
00:56:09,102 --> 00:56:11,838
to help me,
so I'll forever be grateful.

1359
00:56:12,505 --> 00:56:14,074
>> These are real fans, man.

1360
00:56:14,107 --> 00:56:14,841
I love it.

1361
00:56:15,175 --> 00:56:16,209
>> A couple of guys

1362
00:56:16,242 --> 00:56:18,712
owe their careers
to Pat Patterson.

1363
00:56:18,745 --> 00:56:19,713
I'm one of them.

1364
00:56:20,113 --> 00:56:22,048
None
of it would have been possible

1365
00:56:22,048 --> 00:56:23,049
if it wasn't for Pat.

1366
00:56:23,850 --> 00:56:26,086
>> Pat Patterson.

1367
00:56:26,653 --> 00:56:29,422
>> Boy, listen to the ovation
Pat Patterson got.

1368
00:56:30,190 --> 00:56:31,725
>> Everything that you look at

1369
00:56:32,125 --> 00:56:33,293
in the WWE,

1370
00:56:33,727 --> 00:56:37,063
I guarantee Pat Patterson
had a hand in.

1371
00:56:37,330 --> 00:56:38,264
>> All right, Pat.

1372
00:56:38,298 --> 00:56:39,432
Go get them, brother.

1373
00:56:39,466 --> 00:56:40,834
>> Merci beaucoup, Montreal.

1374
00:56:40,867 --> 00:56:41,835
I love you.

1375
00:56:42,068 --> 00:56:43,303
I love you.

1376
00:56:43,336 --> 00:56:45,638
I love you.

1377
00:56:45,672 --> 00:56:55,648
[fans chanting]