The Brooklyn Brawler Discusses Getting Knocked Out by the Ultimate Warrior, His First Thoughts On The Rock, Being in Hulk Hogan’s Entourage, More

– The Brooklyn Brawler recently appeared on Talk is Jericho (transcript via WrestlingInc), here are the highlights…

On Becoming Part of Hulk Hogan’s Entourage: “Do you know what the funniest thing about being an enhancement guy was? I was doing TV every single month in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania, and I was, like, working with [Paul] Orndorff. And then, like, an hour later, I would work with [Iron] Sheik. An hour later, I would work with [Roddy] Piper. And then, all of a sudden, Hogan comes into the territory. Hogan takes a liking to me and tells Vince [McMahon] he wants me with him everywhere. Yeah, so I traveled with Hogan for two years. I stood in his house. All of a sudden, from a job guy, doing jobs for all these guys, I’m on Learjets [and] limousines. We’re going to The Love Boat. We’re doing this, we do that. I said, ‘oh my God!’ I was getting heat!”

On Working With The Ultimate Warrior: “Warrior was green, very green, in the beginning. He was very green in the beginning and he knocked me out twice. He knocked me out. I said, ‘give me a simple headlock’ and he gave me an elbow to the head, to the temple. But he wasn’t coming along. I mean, he was never the greatest worker, but he was a great draw. He would blow up just running to the ring. As soon as he got to the ring, he’d be out of breath. The office told me, ‘we’re going to tell Warrior that you’re going over to test his attitude’. Now, I liked him so much, I took him to the side and I said, ‘Warrior, they’re testing your attitude. Just say ‘yes’.’ That’s a secret between me and Dana [Warrior]. I promised Dana I would never say anything. Dana, it’s out!”

On Working With The Rock: “When I first looked at him, I said, ‘oh, he’s a jock.’ You know what I mean? ‘He’s a football player. I don’t think he’s going to make it.’ This and that. So it was planned that I’d have his first match, so I said, ‘can you do this? Can you do that? Can you do this? Can you do that?’ He says, ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.’ But then, in his book, he writes, ‘I went in the corner and I took a napkin and wrote every little spot he said down.’ Double leapfrogs and all this. He hit every single thing on the money. And then, he gets a contract. And then, we go out to dinner and then he’s telling me, ‘I’m not happy’. I said, ‘shut your mouth!’ He didn’t like the [dollar] figure and the figure was a good figure. I said, ‘how could you not be happy? You have seven dollars to your name.'”

On How Ricky Steamboat Helped Him: “This is what happened. I was getting squashed. No one there would give me [anything]. They wouldn’t give me [anything]. Ricky Steamboat comes in. Ricky Steamboat and I have a competitive match. He starts selling for me like I was experienced, but I was experienced by then. So I remember, I go back to the dressing room and Tito [Santana] comes up to me. He goes, ‘how did it feel?’ I’m like, ‘how did it feel?’ And then, after Ricky Steamboat did that, all of the boys starting giving me more. Do you know what I mean? He broke a barrier.”