Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All
by Bob Heenan, Steve Anderson
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Author: Bob Heenan, Steve AndersonForeword: Hulk Hogan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 1572436689
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Triumph Books
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Book Review: Great stories but not enough of them!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were a wrestling fan during the 70s and 80s, Bobby "The Brain" was a character you loved to hate because he was the smug jerk that helped his villains beat your favorite wrestlers.
Reading the book, you'll find that, as in most cases, the bad guy was actually one of the nicer guys. Bobby has a great sense of humor and the majority of the tales he tells are hilarious and will leave you laughing, especially if you know the wrestlers he is talking about. The stories about Andre The Giant are interesting and eye opening when you find out who the man really was and how he felt about people.
The book skips back and forth among timelines but with some of the names you can figure out about what time span he is talking about. Most of the tales are about his A-W-A days but he also discusses W-C-W and what a cluster mess that was thanks to people who didn't know what they were doing.
The book is worth the purchase whether or not you were a big Bobby Heenan fan and due to only 190 or so pages is a quick read. I would have loved to have had more stories and hopefully he will do other books of nothing but behind the scene stories...
Summary of Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All
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!Memoirs Books
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