💯 I heard rumblings or rumors of commentary that he was too ambitious or egotistical behind the scenes. Basically saying that he asked for what he got. I think that's dead wrong. I've never seen him as anything other than a thoughtful, intelligent man that was trying very hard to succeed for his family

Would be 76yo.maybe still wrestling 😔😔😔😔

Me too! I was 19-years-old when I first heard of Brody’s shocking murder. I seen him the year before and he was an awesome sight to see. I am chilled hearing him talking about the aging process now that I have surpassed him at 55. What’s horrible is that Brody still had a future with a potential Hogan run and subsequently the Monday night wars. And there’s the true crime, the May have beens.

And I'm 37 2 years after your comment, watching the same interview. Weird. 37 seems so old when you're young until you reach 37 and realize it just isn't long enough on earth. My younger brother died in a car wreck 5 years ago at the age of 30. His own dad died the same way 20 years before at the age of 31 (we had the same mom, different dads).. so it could always be worse. Also Bruiser still has many fans to this day and a lot of the wrestlers we grew up watching were inspired by Bruiser Brody. We're certainly staring down the barrel of middle age and before you know it we will be old men. It's crazy how you go from being the guy that everybody calls to see what's going on that weekend to settling down and one day you realize you take off a week from work just to sit around the house and do nothing. What's weird is you don't really feel any different than that 19 to 25 year old kid, but everyone else just perceives you differently. I talked to an elderly woman once that said that and I didn't understand what she was trying to say, but now I'm starting to get it. Sorry for the rambling. 😂😂

​@@JoshuaTraffanstedt so what are you saying that his death wasn't as important as your Brother and Dad . Maybe not to you it wasn't . But to his wife and son it was more important and more meaningful then your Brother or Dad Death seeing as they didn't know your dad or brother

Brody was awesome.

Not just well spoken but actually intelligent and that's why bookers/promoters hated him. He was smart enough to know his value and protect his gimmick. You couldn't cheat him on payoffs.

​@@jimbrown5091promoters hated him bc he would no show

​@@white6delta First from what others said he only did that when promoters would try and Screw him. 2 ND you don't know the man well enough to know why he would do that.

he was bruiser brody at t imes, very volatile in the dressing room

😂​@@micheleblomont9147 yeah cause you knew the man right Mikey . You traveled and Broke Bread with him that you Know Frank so well

We didn't loose him, he was murdered, he was stolen from us by Satan and his agents who Will give account for it at the appointed time.

@@BloodBoughtMinistries1 calm down there buddy

Frickin Invader I stole from us a great talent

@@BloodBoughtMinistries1 racist.

​@@BloodBoughtMinistries1 Satan isn't real. God isn't real. They're man made.

my thoughts exactly

He wrestled till he was 42. He couldn't do much more

​@@michaelhauser6440 The hell he couldn't as he could have been a Part Timer and had a mind to be a Good back stage Agent or something

its as eerie as that fucking redskins game with alex smith

So intelligent and powerful

@@kennethkeene433 he is my role model

Now everyone needs to get in

He need's to be in a fake non existing HOF ?.

fathomflaw wwe hof isnt even a thing. where is it located? you get a ring and your name announced at wrestlemania. who gives a damn about it until HHH one day builds a REAL hof

fathomflaw Dame straight if no Brody we wouldn't have had Mick foley or cactus Jack in wwe

Antony Marjeram Agreed. If I'm not mistaken, I think I heard Undertaker and Vader were inspired by him one way or another as well.

Yes. Well said

Same here a guy who would be so interesting and would be a great friend! i watched this once a year since it was on Utube!

Here Here on that note about his later life. He was taken from us FAR too soon.

Very articulate man. So sad he died so young.

Hes a Texan thats how they say it i could be wrong though

Hector Rodriguez he was a Yankie I believe

@@Hugh_Morris let me check real quick he was born in Pennsylvania but later moved to Texas musta adopted the jargin when he moved down there

@@aztecwrrior1997. Actually grew up in Michigan.

Steve, I also grew up in Houston and Houston wrestling and had the pleasure to see bruiser about 6 times live in 1982 at the Sam Houston Coliseum and he always got the biggest pop of the night because he made it look real. He made a believer out of you.

yep , The SAM Houston Colosium was in an uproar!!! the guy was a bad ass!!

A lot of wrestlers sound completely different when they're talking normally and not over the top.

I thought the same thing when I heard R.W.HAWK use his real voice for the first time.

R.I.P L.O.D.

King Kong Bruiser Brody was and still is my favorite wrestling persona of all time ! Rest In Pease.

Yo Hannibal I just watch the match between you an Al snow,,it's the best match I've seen in years thank you,,an Al...p.s. I watched Brody at Kiel 2 times against flair,,,the 1 match went 45 minutes Brody would of been ne of the greats,,,he could move extremely well for a man of his size

Captivated for it's entirety. Livid thinking about his death after.

Still true

It feels almost like when Taker finally did interviews

Sorry to be offtopic but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me.

+Stephen Bianchi the guy was a piece of shit PERIOD, went to puerto rico got smart and got jacked up, that happens to assholes

bruiser was/is the man!

just spitballing, but probably because the man who ordered and paid for his death (along with accompanying acquittal) is himself now a WWE hall of famer. inducting brody would take admitting this and dealing with it appropriately. as long as primo/epico are there, their dad/uncle cannot be removed.

Thats the rumor ! Whether its true or not we will never know ! Its said another guy took the fall for Colon .

Iron Sheik does it too!

Wrestlers today are way to soft and would lose real fights. I damn near gave up on wrestling when wrestlers complained about Sexy Star injuring Rosemary. Things like that happened occasionally during the 60s thru 00s.

According to the Dark Side of the Ring episode on him, he was owed $25,000 when he got stabbed.

He had purchased a share of the promotion and wanted a say in it's direction. That was where his money went. It was also why they killed him.

Me too

Every wrestling fan should

me too

So do I and a lot of other people bro!

You didn't know him.

This is not 1983. The interviewer mentions the UWF and world class in trouble. That was 1987

@@tomh1593 Thanks for pointing that out. I was basing the date off his age that he gave. At 16:06 He said "that's he's 37 today". Bruiser Brody lied about his age. He said he was 4 years younger. He was born in 1946, not 1950. He died a year after this at age 42.

Yes. Channel 6 out of Bluefield. The young man conducting it was the son of a station sportscaster talking to Brody prior to a show Brody was working in the area.

If you watch Arn Anderson on the Four Horsemen DVD, he's kayfabing throughout his interviews.

+Ricky Lucas who invented that word kayfabe ? That's such a weird word

+Arthur Dean The etymology I'm not sure about (anyone?), but it originated in the carnivals Brody mentions here. Roddy Piper says it was used the same as "Hey Rube", which is basically an alarm of trouble, or possible trouble in the carnival, from a local.

+Arthur Dean I think the word had some derivation in pig latin for fake,.

+CHP I've always speculated kayfabe was a poor attempt at pig latin for fabricate. Kay= cate, fabe= fabri.

+jimbo2346 for sure, Brody could have been a major force in the business had he survived. he got what vince was doing and knew how it could benefit everyone if you hustle it in the right direction. several people have said this of him

+jimbo2346 Brody was on top at the time. It's easy to not complain when you're on top making a lot of money.

Ken Hernandez 83/84. He said he was 37 in the interview. He was born in 46

its really scary to listen to him say why wrestling was healthier than ever back then...the reasons he gives 100% apply and reflect to today too...WOW

@@stevengelling5616 its 87.. he talks a about uwf failing. They didn't start till 86

Travis McDonald I was thinking the same.

he didnt like dusty rhodes

Good. That fatass was ridiculous.

I remember hearing that Verne Gagne tried to pay the Iron Sheik to injure hogan

JFK vibes

LB 2.0. Well Said Friend.

LB 2.0. It was 83 or 84

He does make me think of Frank...!😂👍

@@evanabbott2737 Zappa probably didn't even weight but 105. And half of that was just his nose.

@@elvisparker4691 it was a kangaroo court

Well what the hell was Tony Atlas and Dutch Mantel supposed to do kill invader and Carlos and spend the rest of there lives in Prison. These people had wives and Kids like Brody

Rumer is he wanted to do his last run in the WWF to work the #2 face and then finish on top against Hulk, then retire in America

He was murdered in 1988 at 42 years old. He mentioned that he is 37 during the interview so this must be 1983 - 1984.

1983

Not until the steroid trial.

As a kid (I was 8 in 1987) and I had no idea. I knew McMahon as a ringside commentator or interviewer; and a good one, too. As a kid, I thought Jack Tunney ran WWF. Vince Jr owing the company was unknown to me.

I was scratching my head about that.

Niki Stone Was just about to ask when it's from. Thanks.

Interesting to hear an interview with a clearly highly intelligent yet troubled wrestler who would meet an horrific demise only 5 years later. It's also fascinating to hear an insight into what was the beginning of the WWE's dominance of the sport. By the end of the decade it had effectively killed off the NWA and swallowed up all the other significant territory based wrestling organisations thanks to cable and the rise of Wrestlmania. It's also amazing to think the population of America was 235 million in 1983 and cable TV was only a few years old.

He mentions booking World Class, which didn't happen until way after '83.

@@hello11197 I think it was '86 as he stated in '71 and said he'd been in the business for 15 years.

@@hello11197 Plus UWF is mentioned. Had this been recorded in 1983,the promotion would've still been referred to as Mid South. This had to be at least 1986 or 1987.

it's a tough balance because you gotta keep guys like Cena, Lesnar, Orton and Jericho looking strong so that guys like Bray Wyatt, American Alpha and Finn Balor can become stars. having a guy like Finn Balor go over a top guy like Seth Rollins is huge for wrestling because now you have a new legit main event star

Wcw created stars people who never watched wcw only think hogan hall and Nash when it comes to wcw but wcw created sting, diamond Dallas Paige, rey mysterio , Goldberg, big papa pump Scott Steiner, Booker T and so many others. those guys were nobodies in 80s but we're build and grown in 90s so they did build stars now look at wwe when they bought wcw and got the contracts to a lot of younger talent they buried almost 98% of them wcw at least didn't make them all like losers and nobodies

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The interviewer sounds more like Dave Meltzer