Bobby Heenan on Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant - Wrestlemania 3
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- Bobby Heenan discusses the historic night he managed Andre the Giant vs Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3. Stream the Full Shoot Interview 📺 TitleMatchNetwo...
The late-great Bobby "The Brain" Heenan talks about his favorite match while working in the World Wrestling Federation. Bobby adds that Wrestlemania 3 was the biggest and best position during his entire tenure in the WWF.
The year was 1987 when Vince McMahon packed 90,000+ fans inside the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. Main event on the card was Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant with Bobby Heenan as the manager.
Heenan adds that it was Andre's idea to lose clean to Hulk, dispelling rumors that the Giant was considering not doing the job for Hogan.
This interview was originally produced by RF Video Inc in 2002. Licensed for distribution on Title Match Network.
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RIP to the best manager of all-time Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
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When we lost The Brain, we lost a walking, talking encyclopedia on the wrestling business. RIP Bobby. Thanks for sharing your amazing talent with the world.
Same thing with Cornette. They're both walking wrestling encyclopedias.
Amen 🙏 amazing man with talent that is almost unimaginable
It's just a shame WWF disowned him in his last few years when he was extremely sick. Same with no one attending Mean Genes funeral. WWE was an abhorrent company long before the allegations against Vince. Shame. R.I.P Bobby.
And Howard Finkell too. Man was the statistician for WWF history.
@@tyvulpintaur2732 I forgot Howard. It's horrible really, I know DDP was at Genes funeral. Roddy really looked out for Bobby in his last years. Must've been so sad for whatever Family and friends these Legends had left. Shame!.
Imagine Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan doing a podcast.... that would be INCREDIBLE!
WILL YOU STOP?!
OH WOULD YOU STOP! - tags out to Jesse The Body Ventura.
Brain vs Body - This will be a happening!
They'd have one of the longest lines at the fan conventions too
I imagine it would be a lot like primetime wrestling.
Add Gene Okerlund, Lord Alfred Hayes & Howard Finkel... My childhood with special guest Sean Mooney...
These Brain videos have been the best ones coming up in my recommendations lately.
Big time.
We’ll spoken guy that understood the business and was great at what he did.
Totally agree with that!
Agreed. They kinda just popped up outta nowhere lol
Ditto
When a man dies, a library burns. Think about how many volumes were gone when we lost Bobby "The Brain. RIP
Very true. Thousands of stories we we'll never get to hear.
With the Brain, we lost entire libraries worth of knowledge and stories, not just volumes
I was at the lead up to wrestlemania 3 Brendan byrne arena in nj. They were doing television tapings for wrestling superstars. They did 3 pipers pits. And i was probably 20 feet away from the set. When Andre ripped hogans shirt and challenged him to a match at wrestlemania. 👋. Childhood memory ill never forget 🤼
That’s Awesome!
God, imagine what a joy it would have been to be able to sit down with Bobby Heenan and talk with him about wrestling. I could listen to Heenan for days and days.
@xjuggernaughtxx - If you understood the business and Bobby could see that, you could likely have a great conversation with him
So could I! He certainly kept ya entertained, that's for sure!
Heenan was the greatest wrestling personality that ever lived. No one will ever top him.
Paul Hayman is good
Jim Cornette gets mentioned a lot, but he has said repeatedly that he doesn't even come close to Bobby Heenan.
Come on??
@@legionarybooks13There is a gap between me to 3rd but 10 times the gap from me to 1st and that will always be Bobby. He was that good. - Jim Cornette.
@@legionarybooks13 don't care what Cornette says. He's the GOAT, Heenan is second, and it's not particularly close IMO.
Saw the match live in 1987 at a friend's house. Those were the only 2 names I knew in wrestling. I'll never forget.
I was 8 years old first PPV I ever saw
Man I would give anything to hear some modern day shoot interviews with the Brain, an absolute legend R.I.P.
The Brain would have the most interesting wrestling podcast today.
I met bobby in Ovw Rip
Wrestling shoot interviews on Spotify
This was an amazing interview. So glad you were able to get Bobby Heenan. This is gold.
Bobby Heenan was the best wrestling manager and the best talker in the business no other wrestling managers could hold a candle to him.
Yes he is and was
The closest one to him, in comparison, is Mr. Tennis Racket himself -Jim Cornette!
@@ronaldshank7589 right Jim cornette could talk rattle off fast.
And no one ever will
Bobby was a legend in managing and commentary
What a legend.... Glad these clips are now here for us to see. The Brain is sorely missed.
Even with no internet and social media everyone and their grandma knew who Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant was even if they didn't watch wrestling. WrestleMania III had an insane build up that no wrestling match in history ever had or ever will have.
Wrestlemania 3 will always be the greatest Wrestlemania of all time with the main event of Andre w Heenan vs Hulk Hogan will always be the greatest, most important wrestling match in the history of the business.
It doesn't matter what modern day Marks say.
It doesn't matter what Meltzer the clown says.
It doesn't matter that there were no endless superkicks or "this is awesome".
Wrestlemania 3 is the very foundation of modern-day professional wrestling sports entertainment.
Andre the Giant is hands down the greatest professional wrestler of all time.
The two greatest Main Eventers of all time, with the greatest manager ever, with the greatest announce team ever, at the greatest wrestling stadium show of all time.
The magnitude & impact of that moment reverberates forever.
1000000000000000000%
@@1980TriumphWhat was the main event of Wrestlemania 33? What was the main event of Wrestlemania 23? Nobody knows without looking up, but everyone knows what the main event of Wrestlemania 3 was off the top of their head and it’s been 37 years. That says all you need to know about the impact of that event.
@@mrchopsticks3 Preach brother, the marks whine about Randy and Steamboat but all you need to do is watch the crowd reactions and there is no comparison. Hogan and Andre is the pinnacle of greatness that is professional wrestling.
@@1980TriumphWrestlemania 3 was actually reported in the mainstream press. Almost no other WWF event other than maybe WM1 can claim that.
Truth.
Another memorable moment from my childhood. The 1980's was a blast. Thanks for posting these videos.
Andre the Giant was the greatest. He knew the end was near and he wanted to go out on top. Hogan was the top of the WWF at the greatest match of all the Wrestlemania events. Of course you would have to have the greatest manager of all time, "Booby the Brain Heenan". Those were the days when rasslin was an art and great show. R.I.P. Andre the Giant and the brain, Bobby Heenan.
He has kindness in his eyes and spirit. Bobby the brain had a big heart as well.
I'm glad someone mentioned this because I was thinking the same. Genuinely kind man. You can tell in his eyes and feel his good nature.
Sweet guy like Jack Benny...nothing like their personas.
He just nailed it here at the 1:31 mark "We should've smartened up the producers of the show. Instead we smartened up the fans"
What did he mean by that exactly?
@@danski6694 In other words protect the business from the fans. Keep Kayfabe. He said we should have smartened up the producers instead which would have protected the business and been more efficient.
@@michaelpalermo354 got it. Thought it was something like that. Thanks
Regardless- very hard to do with the dawn of the internet
There's a moment during the Hogan/Andre match where Hogan is knocked down and Andre's standing in the corner, taking a breather, and you can hear Heenan yelling at Andre from ringside, "Are you all right?" Knowing what I know now about how much pain Andre was in, I'm convinced that moment had nothing to do with kayfabe, that Heenan was asking Andre honestly.
Sure he was. Imagine just carrying that frame around every day.
I'm so glad you show these he's such a nice guy
Thank you for posting these clips. Great stuff from a really special time. I haven’t followed the business in many years but I grew up watching it and I was young enough at that time that I didn’t know the business was a work.
I love these interviews. It shows the genius he really was. Nothing like his persona on screen. Intelligent, loyal, knowledgeable of the behind the scenes RIP Bobby🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇
My friend and I were at that show and we laugh every time we watch the videos at seeing ourselves as crazy teenagers back in those days at The Silverdome. Bobby The Brain was the greatest manager ever.
I can listen to Heenan talk wrestling all day long.
Bobby Heenan is the most brilliant person in the entire wrestling industry. Nobody will ever be able to live up to his standards. Amazing person, a legend in wrestling and just as a human in general. Class act for sure. Nobody will ever live up to what he’s done, ever.
Love that I got to see all of his career.
Hated this man so much as a kid.
But man how I grew to absolutely love and admire The Brain. He is so missed, truly one of a kind, best manager ever. Him and Monsoon on the announce team was gold.
RIP Bobby.
Wrestlemania 3 will forever be in the top 5 Wrestlemania’s of all time period. 3 was the mania that said we don’t need Mr T, MTV, Ali, or NFL players, we just need invested storylines, a build up, and make the wrestlers bigger than life. Hogan vs Andre packed the Silverdome…. Savage vs Steamboat tore it down…..What a time to be a 7 year old kid. 🤟
Well, that was an entertaining 3 minutes! Great! Thanks for the awesome channel.
RIP Weasel, you were the gold standard of wrestling managers.
You ham 'n egger you! 😂
Bobby is one of the greatest in the biz .
I recall Hogan talking about this on Andre’s HBO Documentary that came out a few years back. He said he had written the whole match down and showed it to Andre, Andre just kinda looked at it real quick and said “OK”. Hulk asked him multiple times leading up to Mania if everything was good, and Andre would just say: “Don’t Worry about it!” Lol!!!
Hulk honestly wasn’t sure if Andre would put him over, even during the match itself. It wasn’t until Andre called for him to slam him and yell Leg Drop once he was on the mat, that Hulk knew he was going over.
Personally, I think Andre was testing Hulk the whole time to see how he would act and compose himself. Andre liked Hulk, and knew that Hulk was the guy to take the WWF to mainstream and ultimately change the Business as a whole. His back was pretty much gone at that point in his career, and he knew he was pretty much done as a full time in ring talent.
Andre was always an attraction and will always be the Cornerstone of Pro Wrestling in my opinion. Without Andre, the business would never have taking off the way it did, And I honestly don’t think Hulkamania wouldn’t have blown up the way it did either.
Uh.. Hulkamania was super huge way before WM3. Kudos to Andre for 'doing the job' abd 'passing the torch' but Hogan was already a world superstar well befire Wm3. I Mean Heenan actually acknowledges that in this clip. Andre knew this was likely his last big run, and he jumped at the chance to do a program wuth the biggest star. Thetes a reason why Vince rehired Hogan after his dipshit father had fired him over a movie.
I'm glad Bobby cleared up all the rumors since the match about Andre' not wanting to do it, etc. and it turns out was Andre's idea all along. Go out on your back and with a huge paycheck!
Years ago we lived not far from his ranch in North Carolina. Several people told me that if you didn't approach him and you gave him the chance to approach you he was very nice. Quite a few people also told me that he liked small children. There was a dinner that he would frequent and he would always talk to the locals.
I can see that his whole life he was stared at and approached makes sense in his down time he wouldn't want that
I was there Pontiac silver dome so far up in the seats could hardly see anyone in the ring
Liked small children? Baked or fried?
Did they have a special chair or bench for him to sit on at the restaurant?
Yes they did. It was over in a corner kind of away from everyone. The place.kind of looked.like.a dive but had good food.
I could listen to Bobby all day long
I could listen to the brain all day long
He got another shot in on the Red Rooster. LOL.
Andre was a complete professional.
I miss the old days of WWF - My grandparents and I had countless hours of bonding over it
I don't give a rotten rat queef about wrestling, but I can sit here listening to this guy for hours.
Truly, one of the all time great s. So wise, always considered the boys & business getting over. Greatest bump man in wrestling.
One of the best wrestling minds ever. So happy these are up
I love listening to BH talk about the business ❤️
This is probably the most accurate anyone involved in that angle has been about Andre.
All that 'worrying' Andre wouldn't do the finish is Hogan bs. Others have repeated it because it makes Andre look strong still, even though he lost that match. Andre was about business. Big business!
No way Andre was a mark for himself like that.
To be fair to Hogan, none of the other folks that discuss this match, including Heenan, were actually in the ring with Andre on that night. Andre was not known for doing jobs, but he was known for his irritable nature and for being rough on guys he didn't like (such as Randy Savage). And Hogan knew Andre could beat him AND make him look foolish if he had wanted, effectively killing Hulkamania right there (or at least seriously diminishing it).
If I were Hogan, I would have been worried too.
@@Myrridan19From.all the Andre stories told none of them even hinted he was anti Hogan hence why clearly had no issue working with him. I'm a huge Hogan fan but this clearly him just over hyping more drama. Lol
@Myrridan19 he may have disliked Hogan but he was enough of a businesmàn to know that it's not about Hogan it's about the business. He understood you're on the way out you gotta do the job. This wasn't a Bret Hart Shawn Michaels thing
Poor Terry Taylor 🐔lol
lol
He made Greg and Verne Gagne look like exciting wrestlers.
I loved the way the Red Rooster kept turning to Bobby during his matches to ask him if he's doing alright. Hilariously beyond words!
@@mackermaldrill2656 Little touches like this help make an angle great. They played this "I can make any man a champion" angle well.
Another thing I liked about it is more general. It was obvious how it was going to end up from the start: Taylor was eventually going to fail, Heenan was going to blame him, and a feud would pick up between Taylor and Heenan, through Heenan's next "protege". We just got to sit back and watch it unfold as things once again fall apart for the incessantly arrogant Heenan.
@@greense65We got the Brooklyn Brawler out of that storyline!
I've heard Vince claim that it was his idea, and he had to talk Andre into doing it.
back in the day hogan vs andre was insane
As the Crusher would say "Pop goes the weasel!" lol
Slamming 500 lb + Andre was #Awesome
There never will be another.
Why they call Bobby the Brain. Thanks, Bobby, for showing us the real you.
Yes Wrestlemania 3 i go back and watch for hogan vs andre just a great time for wrestling. Nowadays theres too much talking and promos and not enough matches on the weekly shows that is become kinda a snoozefest
Rest in peace ! Great stories he tells !
Imagine which one of Vinces toys was named "Andre"?!!
Love Heenan...it's always a little sad to see people who did so much for the business who are no longer around...and knowing that THAT style of the business is gone forever...
Didn’t Meltzer give it 1 star? We still talk about this match almost 40 years later.
because Meltzer hated everything that was relating to Hogan and WWF
Mark said Gorilla Monsoon wasn't a good commentator
From a wrestling ability standpoint it ranks low. But as a wrestling spectacle, clash of titans, high drama, it is epic and unequaled.
Hogan-Andre transcends star ratings. Any rating would diminish the match. Meltzer is just a hack and a tool who speculates based on what he sees on TV and presents it like inside info. Nobody should pay him even the slightest attention.
@@chrisreidy439that's literally what wrestling is about. Lol
I would love to hear about The Slap he gave Ander at W.M. 6
After They lost The Tag Teams Champion.
Wrestlemania is as old as me it started in 1984
In myths, Giants hate people. For the same reason. People suck.
It is sad that Andre The Giant was miserable in his later years. I was so young in the 1980s and would have been devastated if I met Andre and he told me to buzz off.
The Brain is the 🐐manager and colour commentator.
As a fan, I have only had one disappointment. On three separate occasions, Hulk was on the bill to perform, and at those times, it was announced that Hogan would not be appearing. I sometimes wonder if it was a ruse, just sell tickets.
Greatest match ever (in terms of scope).
Greatest card ever.
Greatest scientific match ever (Savage-Steamboat).
Heenan and Gorilla made me a wrestling fan.
Still to me at least its the biggest WrestleMania main event of all time
In Real Life no one can beat Andre The Giant
Before I get personal with someone asking about hands and feet I require 6-10 30 racks of beer minimum. But, I would like to have 1 beer pitcher just to kick back and chat with the man.
I wish Andre and I were drinking buddies.
No, you don’t 💀💀💀
Mr.Heenan was such a national teasure to wrestling and pop culture-we'll miss you always Brain!
These were the days ...agree?
Bobby gave repeat for Ander .
Big guy.
Great guy
Time machine!!! 1973 movie starring Bruce Lee and having Evel Knivel ( motorcycle racing Lee wins he’s the star of the movie ) than goes to the fortress and meets Chuck Norris- than Jelio Gracie and finally…Andre the Giant! Greatest fight movie ever titled…..ENTER THE DRAGON GAME OF DEATH! And at the very end Lee be broken bruised n hurting…..
I was hoping to get to see Andre at a house show when I was 10 and he was part of the Machines. Unfortunately it was just the other 2 guys who showed up. I don't even remember now who they fought or if they won lol.
What year were you 10 and what city did you see the match in?
I saw Andre and Haku vs. Demolition right before Wrestlemania 6 at a house show in Madison Wisconsin in 1990. Andre was a tag champ at the time..
@@konnanelbarbaro It sounds like he's around my age if he would have been 10 around 1985 or 86 which was when the Machines were a thing.
@@konnanelbarbaroIt was in Albany, NY. It must have been summer or fall of 1986 because it was an outdoor event and Andre was soon to turn heel.
@@LittleBigKid707bYeah I turned 10 in July of '85, so I was probably 11 by the time I went to that event in '86.
I believe Andre probably told Hogan he might not do a job, as a rib.
heenan was so annoying that he was great 🤣
Imagine thinking The Brain couldn’t hold up his end?
I always hate when Hogan and now here the Brain say that this was Andres last big PPV. Andre did WM 4-5-6 after this. He was not on his last leg here at WM 3. Last leg he retired soon after and
3 more WM is not soon after.
It's not that difficult to understand
@@RG-lr4pk he was main event in WM 4 AND 6 so WM 3 was not close to his last big payday
I asked Boss…😢❤️☝️
The Best ❤
When Andre lost and on their way to the dressing room people were throwing batteries at them! Such disrespectful behavior!
What's been lost in all this is that Andre had always been an invincible "Monster Face" for decades. THAT'S why this was money. Promoter keep bringing in gigantic Monster Heels, who lose heat when theyre defeated. Take Omos, who's still young make him a long term Monster Face, THEN turn him. Giant monster heels have become passe, no one cares.
Very real...but sad.
#RIPBobbyHeenan
I have to say at the end for andre he couldnt beat his meat never mind hulk hogan now when he was younger thats a diff story but at wm3 he could barely move
He says…Andre n Hogan…..Andre n Hogan. Andre at 21….beat anyone
Wrestlemania sucks nowadays dragging it out for 2 days just to suck more money out of people is disgusting. The talent just isn’t there like it was is the 80’s. The product is oversaturated now with 3 hours on Mondays 2 hours on Fridays. Back in the day they used to build feuds it was better when you had 4 PPVs a year rather than one a month now.
andre had just had back surgery. so he was really hanging on his last legs.
Andre seems like an irritable person since people were either amazed by his size or looked at him as a freak. 😢
He's also French
They're a lil moody
Andre also lived in incredible pain and with the inconvenience of being a true giant.
@@TheSophisticatedSavage isn't that racist lol?
Rene Goulet wasn't moody lol.
@@kenterminateddq5311Rene Goulet was French canadian, a little different.
Nothing wrong with getting tired of always being in the public eye and drawing attention. Andre didn't always react that way toward the public. Plus people had some very disgusting and insulting things to say about him when they saw him. My complaint about Andre was in how he dealt with some of his fellow wrestlers. Disliking some of them for silly selfish reasons because of gimmick or hygiene stuff. Steroids was a big thing back then and I heard he dispised wrestlers who took them. Of course, apparently the fact Hogan did steroids didn't bother him since he did the job for him at mania 3. If it is money you want then fine. But don't use your size to hurt or bully others because you are drunk or boozed up don't feel well, or they step over the top rope to enter the ring, or wear baby oil, or any number of other reasons. Guys were serious about their matches and just didn't show up, drink crown royal, play cards, and go out for their match when it was time. Andre could do that, Randy Savage planned out his matches and spots in advance in many cases and was serious about all aspects, matches/spots, appearance, interviews, outfits, catch phrases, all aspects of his character. Andre just showed up, went over guys, collected money, moved on.
“Big business” AKA money. He didn’t care about wrestlers or people, just money and how much money he could skim.
Weasel!!!!!!!!!!!
What does a wrestler manager even do
Boy he didn't care for terry Taylor. Well corny said he was a POS too. So I guess I don't like terry Taylor either
Nobody compared to Andre, not even the Red fukin Rooster. Terry was actually not that bad of a wrestler. In 1992, this dude was doing sitout gutwrench powerbombs. Nobody else did that stuff.
Wish Andre woukd have had the pituitary tumor removed.
Oh! The best was something he was involved in? Shocker
WM5 would be Andre last PPV
Andre should of won that match
*should HAVE.
@@MarioCarnello wash up 🚿