Evel Knievel's Story Really Is Heartbreaking

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Evel Knievel was a larger-than-life daredevil and stunt performer, who defied death in numerous reckless feats, and paid the price through pain. Knievel set a new world record for most bones broken in a single human body, and he went on to live another several decades after the record was set! By the end of his life, Knievel was racked with constant pain from injuries to his spine and elsewhere. But Knievel himself wasn't the only person who suffered from his unconventional impulses. Knievel's wife bore the brunt of her husband's reckless substance abuse and abusive tendencies, and his four children witnessed much of this and endured traumas all their own. This is the tragic real-life story of Evel Knievel.
#EvelKnievel #Daredevil #stuntman
Abandoned by his parents | 0:00
High School troublemaker | 1:14
Aimless Knievel | 2:14
Crooked Knievel | 3:18
Disastrous hockey career | 4:25
Fame came at a price | 5:31
Snake River Canyon | 6:58
Tarnished hero | 8:07
Marital strife | 9:01
Sad decline | 10:12
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@GrungeHQ 2 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace Evel Knievel.

@NellieKAdaba 2 жыл бұрын

😔🕊

@busybody1474 Жыл бұрын

Rest in pieces worthless piece of crap😢

@ifor20got 2 жыл бұрын

EVEL IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE MY HERO. I Have so many fond memories of my Evel Bicycle and the scars to prove it still to this day.

@DaveSCameron 2 жыл бұрын

We mimicked his stunts on our BMXs like demons in Birkenhead Park ❤️🙏😊

@threeballedtomcat9380 2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveSCameron Yeah, Evel has a way of making us all a little too brave......

@Johnny2Bags47 Жыл бұрын

Same... The Man The Myth The Legend

@stevestarr9769 Жыл бұрын

@@Johnny2Bags47 Emphasis on myth.

@Johnny2Bags47 Жыл бұрын

@@stevestarr9769 🎯

@DaveSCameron 2 жыл бұрын

WE ADORED THIS FELLA AS A KID IN 1970S ENGLAND, I HAD HIS DOLL/BIKE/WIND-UP MECHANISM AND LOVED IT. #HEROES

@bobcosmic 2 жыл бұрын

I was four years old in 1972 and I was crazy about Evel Knievel. One evening I struggled and took my tricycle to the stairs and attempted to ride down the stairs alas I ended up straight in hospital with a broken arm . Evel Knievel will never be forgotten !

@DaveSCameron 2 жыл бұрын

Me too yes 🙏

@ifor20got 2 жыл бұрын

My first broken arm was a failed physics stunt where I found I can't float down to the ground from my 2nd story bedroom window with a umbrella like The Penguin.... lmao.

@bobcosmic 2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveSCameron I guess I was very impressionable at a young age, hell yeah I sure was at four years old ! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

@DaveSCameron 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobcosmic Life seemed infinite didn't it my friend 🙏 😉

@bobcosmic 2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveSCameron It sure did. I was always reminded by my parents that I never walked the line they’d say to each other Johnny Cash walked the line but our son walks the knife edge . 😂😭😭😭😂

@Harborman253 Жыл бұрын

He did not break 433 bones. He said it was closer to 35. His son confirmed it and said it was about 35-40.

@jimmycranier3668 9 ай бұрын

If your talking about Ceasars crash , yes about 35 To 40 but in a career/lifetime Guiness has it at 433 bone fractures. As he holds this one record which may never be broken by anybody.

@Tiffany.1970 8 ай бұрын

The ceasers palace jump was all wrong ..... When I look at the jump level Knievel landed just short of the landing ramp .... When he landed the back of the bike kicked Robert off the back of the bike 🚲 plus the speed of the bike was off ie not enough speed other's tried the same jump but failed badly but evel will forever be remembered as the last of the gladiators.... Rest in peace evel Knievel...Robert Craig Knievel ✨👍

@jimmycranier3668 8 ай бұрын

@@Tiffany.1970 not only that , consider the fact that he never used a speedometer , he just used instinct but tragically wrong many times but always on a heavy Harley. I met him once and he was hardcore but true to his word and that is what caused him to commit on even the most dangerous jumps.

@scottsamuels599 2 жыл бұрын

This guy sounds like he never heard of Evel until someone gave him this script to read.

@TinCupChalice40 2 жыл бұрын

Chances are he never did. But we don’t know what buttons to push to play video games today..THANK GOD..lol We are the last generation that actually went outside knocked our buddies front door and went out for the whole day until it got dark and nobody knew where we were or what we were doing.

@Mac70957 2 жыл бұрын

He was a customer of mine at a fancy resort. He spent his days hustling rich golfers.

@lostinspace699 Жыл бұрын

Did he ride the Harley on the gulf course,,,,,,,,,,,,

@Joy-TheLazyCatLady 2 жыл бұрын

We didn't have the internet back then so, you know, he got away with more than he would now. I'm disappointed to learn that he treated his wife so badly. He was a hero back when I was a child. I can't respect a person who harms others when they can avoid it. Anyway, he aged very poorly. He looked much older than 69 there at the end.

@mercoid Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t exactly call his life “tragic”. He had early life hardship and died of illness as most of us will. Suffering he experienced in between was of his own doing and he said himself, “I don’t regret a damn thing.”

@renger0806 Жыл бұрын

what an awful guy

@angelopetrozzi44 Жыл бұрын

Evel Knievel The original balls of steel💪 RIP Evel 🙏

@MichiganQuadTrailsTales Жыл бұрын

One of My Favorite CHRISTmas Presents was Evel Knievel's Wind Up Stunt Cycle.

@TinCupChalice40 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with him as my hero. At 60 years old now I still call him my hero. With the shocks they have on bikes today makes his jumps seem rather mundane for Dare Devils these days but he didn’t have those shocks back then he felt every landing, he did it the hard way. We tried to copy him and we never gave it a second thought that we weren’t doing it with helmets or leathers all we had was our banana seat and our sissy bars.

@hman2912 Жыл бұрын

How far were you jumping at the time? Bet it wasn't over the grand canyon 😝🤣

@TinCupChalice40 Жыл бұрын

@@hman2912 …na, just ramp to ramp sometimes the lessor smart of us would lay down in the middle of the ramps. Lol. We had a great time.

@kellenpatton7001 2 жыл бұрын

My Grandpa worked with him on his Harleys when he was 19 said sickest guy ever

@lostinspace699 Жыл бұрын

What was your grandpa sick from ...

@deebee9751 2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing him as a kid at Ascott Raceway in Carson jump over some buses. The crowd went crazy.

@deebee9751 2 жыл бұрын

The only craziest Insane Inhuman Elephant balls Evil who can jump with a Harley with no suspension and no pads and just helmet that no one can match up these days. He just didnt care or was scared of pain which made him a legend forever and embracing God at the end makes him a true patriot and Superman on this planet. Rest In Peace Evel. We all still miss you to this day. 3/2 22.

@lorimiller4301 2 жыл бұрын

The 70s were the coolest decade ever. We had the best of everything.

@deebee9751 2 жыл бұрын

Well said . I kind of wish the 70s lasted 40 more years like it was when we were teens. It was the best era ever.

@johnwagner4559 2 жыл бұрын

The 70s deffinitly belonged to evil!! Good memories! Ill never forget the snake River jump! Frickin timeless. I think some toy company came out with a model or diecast of that X2 rocket....Kinda makes you feel sorry for the kids today...they don't really have any role model to look up to like we did back then...

@bdidbwvolume2.230 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, if only kids had more whitebeating alcoholic role models...

@bdidbwvolume2.230 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, if only kids had more whitebeating alcoholic role models...

@Greg-zr2pf 8 ай бұрын

I agree. We had Muhammad Ali, oj Simpson ( although he turned bad later,) John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.great times. I also claim we had real music compared to today's music.

@johnwagner4559 8 ай бұрын

@@Greg-zr2pf NO QUESTION

@JJW77 2 жыл бұрын

I love your well presented channel, for its not ruin with commercials.

@brianwalsh1401 Жыл бұрын

Yeah he was big when I was a kid and I thought he was pretty cool/crazy with his stunts and his motorcycle gear. However, I'm a lot older now and while I can appreciate what he did in his career as a stunt motorcyclist I have to separate that from his abusive treatment of his wives and kids. I think being a sociopath definitely helped him do his jumps, because most seem to lack that fear the rest of us have, but most sociopaths are abusers in relationships. Plus the schemes to defraud and I would say he was a sociopath. It all makes sense now as well as the addictions.

@tonidarcy9577 2 жыл бұрын

From another hometown Butte girl!! He was a big ass^*":...

@brianwalsh1401 Жыл бұрын

He was probably a sociopath which is why he could do those jumps but also beat his wives and kids. Narcissists and sociopaths make up 10-15% of the population. No shortage of these types around. Most domestic abusers fall into this category.

@sims717 2 жыл бұрын

I had all the toys,in the early 70's.wish I kept them.

@dystopian.. Жыл бұрын

His heart is pretty much the only thing he didn’t break

@floridaboiwoody 2 жыл бұрын

Evel was a legend in his own time. Quickest way to start a fight with me is say something disparaging about Evel Knievel. You have to respect a man so driven and fearless.

@stevestarr9769 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd never criticize a man who beat his wife.....

@bdidbwvolume2.230 Жыл бұрын

He's a wife beater dude. That's no kinda man.

@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын

@@bdidbwvolume2.230 and today we have the same criminals but the criminals today are not seen as a hero

@bdidbwvolume2.230 Жыл бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 Exactly. Nor should they be.

@borntoclimb7116 Жыл бұрын

@@bdidbwvolume2.230 but the society is hypocrite, famous violence persons are "good" and normalos are bad

@cd4886 2 жыл бұрын

how can it be a heartbreaking story he had good life !

@deebee9751 2 жыл бұрын

I think he might of meant the end when he got a transfusion which had hepatitis C which declined his life after wards but I agree with you. He had a fantastic life no matter what. Evel was Evel one of a kind bro.

@lorimiller4301 2 жыл бұрын

It was heartbreaking to hear how he treated his wife.

@lostinspace699 Жыл бұрын

@@lorimiller4301 NO ...

@bobbyjohnson2162 2 жыл бұрын

HE WAS A LEGEND WE STAYED UP TO WATCH HIS STUNTS 😀

@johnwilkerson2195 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching Evel back in the 70s and very early 80s

@Johnny2Bags47 Жыл бұрын

He wasn't jumping in the 80s

@Johnny2Bags47 Жыл бұрын

Actually I dont think he even jumped in 76

@nolimits300 Жыл бұрын

My knee destroying me every time i watch this man Rip legend

@roberthatfull3816 2 жыл бұрын

It was my dad evel kenivil the fonz where the role models of the 70s for me 🤘

@jamesmathews9180 2 жыл бұрын

From what I've heard about evel he broken over a 100 bones in his body

@MrLoobu 2 жыл бұрын

So half of them

@stevestarr9769 2 жыл бұрын

No. He had fractures of ~35 bones in his body (some bones fractured a couple of times) but NOWHERE near 100 bones in his body. A lot of his story was made up BS.

@danielelliott3659 2 жыл бұрын

Evil was an icon when I was a kid

@mht525 Жыл бұрын

Insane to try and jump a Harley Davidson.

@tamaradudley9103 2 жыл бұрын

My Dad grew up with Robert...Bobby.

@DaveSCameron 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly some of us never do. 🙏

@OrionOlamPiksie 4 ай бұрын

Baseball bat, yikes! 😳 😬 😱

@jamesdouglas7345 2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense that evil liked to jump huge spaces as Butte is a gigantic hole. You drive down to get to Butte. Super cool city built in a huge crater. Got my first ticket at 15 wanting to drive my scooter on a rather narrow sea wall. Foolish for sure. Children do stupid things like that when they're trying to emulate a perceived "hero."

@poppabear1443 Жыл бұрын

They must not of hered about jeff jeff was there as a kid and he had a jump over two chopper we went in jump them . From jeff meadows he was a good dad for me

@purpleaki7135 2 жыл бұрын

I liked it so much more when wee didn't see the presenters face and just heard his voice.

@lorimiller4301 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Isn't that strange ?

@OttoByOgraffey Жыл бұрын

RIP to Robbie Knievel.

@twistedtrails8128 Ай бұрын

@10:13. didnt he know that the pinky and forefinger is the sign the the devil? i wager he is not in a good place right now and not resting in peace...

@poppabear1443 Жыл бұрын

It was 68 when it didn't work untill then it did I move on in 68

@orionedwards9261 2 жыл бұрын

So beating your wife makes you evil ¿

@Donax695 2 жыл бұрын

That was just a tip of an iceberg, there is bunch of other shitty stuff he did on a top of that... People like legends, people like to have heroes and as they say, sometimes it is better to not meet your heroes, I remember reading Top Gear magazine, Richard Hammond met him not that long before his death, just to make an interview with him, he were his hero as well, and based on the quite polished and vanila article he was not quite happy with the who the actual guy was.

@7wolfman78 3 ай бұрын

He wanted to be a legend and he became one. What's tragic about that ?

@zpaparrow6087 Жыл бұрын

Only thing I took away from this is he’s a woman beater

@jerrykolosinsky4615 Жыл бұрын

I watched him jump 16 stegmair beer trucks wilks barre pa in 1967 and got his autograph on a 20 dollar bill after the jumped he cleared all of them i remeber it like yesterday what a memory

@u.s.n.retired1995 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Evel was indeed EVIL!! He was a trailblazer but, beating women... NEVER COOL!

@stevestarr9769 2 жыл бұрын

He was a hero to 12 year-old boys for 30 minutes on Saturday afternoons on Wide World of Sports, and a pretty lousy person the rest of the time.

@TinCupChalice40 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevestarr9769 it didn’t matter he was still our hero we lived in the days where people mind their own damn business we’d be better off if it were like that today

@stevestarr9769 2 жыл бұрын

@@TinCupChalice40 Hey, if you're emotionally stuck at 12 years old, good for you. As for people "minding their own business"...so the fact that Evel was abusive to his wife and kids and treated basically everyone in his life like shit should never have been mentioned? Again---if you're permanently stuck at being 12 years old, congrats. ADULTS can look at Robert Craig Knievel and call it like it was.

@lostinspace699 Жыл бұрын

You should never hit a woman only if she really really needs it ...

@brianwalsh1401 Жыл бұрын

@@TinCupChalice40 Yeah, back when men could beat their woman and children with out people butting their nose into it. Ah, the good old days! Just to let everyone know, I'm joking.

@malcolmbuchanan5778 Жыл бұрын

Best of the best

@Tiffany.1970 Жыл бұрын

Robert Craig Knievel a true showman and a man of courage who lived life to the full ..😎🤩😍👍👍👍

@ebogar42 2 жыл бұрын

What late 40 year olds can't raise kids?

@johnbasiglone1219 Жыл бұрын

My wife and I did and we were very successful raising our three great children. And we were middleclass parents without personal assistants or live-in nannies, maids or house keepers. Every one of our children was planned to the month and we did not have one child until we were 32 years of age. And hopefully my sons follow suit. To me, having children later in life kept us young and kept our wheels in motion, Having children later never slowed us down.

@an2x453 Жыл бұрын

He was cool until I heard “ He married a 17 year old” like damn bro was a straight pedo

@kevinreffitt9635 2 жыл бұрын

What can I say? What a draw, what a show, and his timing for the ascent of his career was impeccable. A few short appearances on Wide World of Sports and who knew? ABC was certainly the first to find out by audience response. In the later years of his life, I thought it was soooo ironic to read a newspaper article of where he was pleading for a liver transplant. I guess the idea of death was a jump too far for Evel.

@chrisdrippe 2 жыл бұрын

His name was pronounced ,"evel" .. he didn't want to be called evil... Wiki....

@stevestarr9769 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, seems no one ever looks at the man behind the white leathers. He was NOT a nice person, or a good father, and he was a lousy husband. The two facts that are incorrect in the video are 1) he was never in a 29 day coma after his crash at Caesars's Palace (it was a made up story by Evel and Jay Sarno), and 2) he didn't break ANYWHERE near 500 bones. He broke ~35 bones in his body, with multiple fractures on some of those bones over the years. And he always claimed that he was "in the hospital for over three years" of his career....if you go back and looks at the dates of all of his jumps, this is total BS. There was a LOT of BS in the Evel Knievel story.

@dand3975 Жыл бұрын

The book Evel on tour was factual, just not the facts with the EK Spin & Spin. That is why the author had his arms broken and EK received a 6 month jail sentence. I am a EK fan but facts need to be separated from legend.

@diphenhydramine4605 2 жыл бұрын

wee

@poppabear1443 Жыл бұрын

Abc my know but this guy telling want he knows not me abc my have old copy if it i was sorry to here he pass away they fixed him as mush as they had just did not fix a last , live to ride ride to live!

@user-zx2et9lf8y Жыл бұрын

9:03 17?

@philipamankwa579 7 ай бұрын

Thank God he found Jesus at the end of his life

@samuelsun3560 15 күн бұрын

its a shocker on how many people came to Christ after Robert's baptism that earns a respect in my book

@franksessions4346 2 жыл бұрын

Do you know who the F I am Classic

@Promises101 Жыл бұрын

232

@paulwohlfahrt8073 Жыл бұрын

@Harborman253 Жыл бұрын

he was not in a coma for weeks after the Caesar's Palace jump. Total BS.

@johnlaing9124 2 жыл бұрын

You neglected to mention his conversion to Jesus Christ towards the end of his life. This was a major turning point for the man and you should have mentioned it.

@samuelsun3560 15 күн бұрын

Grunge isnt an evangelical nor a Christian KZfaq channel.. but for those who know they know most media dont really mention the private religious life its the same here man

@JesusKathrynMiller Жыл бұрын

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@busybody1474 Жыл бұрын

Nothing heartbreaking here, maybe some neckbreaking.. he was a lowlife loser and deserved all the pain he went through 😢

@gz9520 8 ай бұрын

You forgot to add that he was a awful womanizer as well. And let not forget how he beat a reporter with a baseball bat. The guy was an asshole.

@gz9520 8 ай бұрын

Oh yah and he was a drunk as well.

@samuelsun3560 15 күн бұрын

he went through a radical life changing event that promptly change his life and he saved many lives through his baptism in his church... so in life he was maybe a lowlife loser but his later years he went on with Christ close to 500 to 800 people got saved on that day