Bobby The Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All

Following the amazing growth of wrestling from its early days, Heenan tells all in this outrageous collection of never-before-heard stories and behind-the-scenes action. Full color.

Was wrestling vis wild and crazy at its start as it is today? Try wilder and crazier See where it all began and how it became the sport it is today Starting in 1965 as a hay hoy for Dick "the Bruiser" and the tag team the AsMssins, Bobby "the Brain" Heenan worked and talked his way into the ring. Some of Bobby's early tag team matches, pairing with Baron Von Raschke, were against Teddy the hear. No, not a guy named Teddy, hut a real bear Wrestling as "the Weasel," in a costume, Bobby would "wake" in the ring from a sleeper hold, stare at his paws, see his tail, and start chasing it running in circles and hegin fighting anew. He did that until one day, while he lay unconscious in the ring, some spectator ripped off his tail and stole it. Bobby "the Brain" (or perhaps you knew him as "Pretty Boy" or "the Weasel") Heenan's wrestling career spans 38 years from the early AWA and NWA to today's WCW and WWF. Heenan wrestled, managed, commentated, and promoted matches. Bobby the Brain tells all the stories, names all the names, and doesn't care who gets mad about it. He talks about his long-running feud with Hulk 1 lognn; Andre "the Giant" (7' 6" and 550 pounds) hearing "last call" in a bar and ordering 40 mani-nis that he drank until 4 A.M.; and he reveals all about Vince McMahon of the WWF. For the wrestling fan it definitely is "no-holds-barred" in a hook you can't put down, at leasr for a count of three