Bobby "The Brain" Heenan RIP

Lithium93_

The greatest manager/commentator has passed at 73.

https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/909544054941036544

The news of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan's passing today gutted me.

I loved our time together.

No one ever did it better than the Wease.

PTH2009

Another one of the greats gone

Rip

Heard he was in a bad way for a while

Itssoeasy

Ah **** it. The brian and gorilla are now reunited at the commentary table in the sky.

crasy dash

Sad to hear loved watching the Brain and Gorilla growing up.

Have been watching a lot of his work the last month or so what a guy could listen to him all day.

Lithium93_

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/909549502255603713

Bobby Heenan just passed away a few hours ago. He was the best ever at what he did.

RobbingBandit

Damn loved him so much growing up, especially his time with Mr Perfect, very sad to hear this.

Mr.Nice Guy

Very sad to hear this. RIP to one of the greatest commentators of all time and THE greatest manager of all time.

Itssoeasy

He was an amazing manager with nick bockwinkel and his commentary call at the 1992 royal rumble will go down in history as one of the best in history. It certainly wasn't fair to flair.

Rock Lesnar

Grew up watching the Brain, the ''one of the greats'' line gets bandied around all to often for my liking but not this time, he is genuinely one of the greatest, managing, commentating, or his comedic sketches, he was just brilliant

PTH2009

Was it him that started crying when Hogan won the title on his WCW Debut ???

KKkitty

One of the greatest commentators of all time. His pain is over but he will never be forgotten. R.I.P. Bobby

Rock Lesnar

I remember the Gimic battle royal at WM17, he was great on commentary with mean gene that night, i think when the shiek walked out, he said by the time he makes it to the ring, it'll be wrestlemania 38, ha

Itssoeasy

The prime time wrestling on the network just shows how good he was. How gorilla monsoon kept it together I'll never know. Booby heenan was gold on a mic.

His hall of fame speech in 2004 where he said the WWF and it was bleeped out and then went on to talk about WWF wildlife with a weasel sitting next to a gorilla doing commentary was just gold.

paconnors

The greatest of "Heal" Managers of all time!!! R.I.P. Weasel

Bret Hart

"Jannetty tried to dive through the window to escape!" RIP "The Brain".

greasepalm

thanks for the memory. RIP

Losty Dublin

How good was Heenan?

-When they wanted a man who had the brains to turn Andre heed and to get up th main event for the sports biggest ever card, Wrestlemania 3.
-When they needed a man who could take the IC belt off of Ultimate Warrior.
-When they needed a man who could outtalk Ric Flair and get him super over.
-Hell, when they needed to get a cockerel over or to feud with a wrestlers imaginary mother but only one many could do it.

That man was The Brain. The man who managed like a wrestler and wrestled like a manager. But asides from a manager but he was the most fun commentator to ever work on TV, a broadcast journalist as he would claim to be.

Rest in peace, Ham n Eggers...

chopperbyrne

Simply the best commentator and manager ever.

Omackeral

Itssoeasy wrote: »

He was an amazing manager with nick bockwinkel and his commentary call at the 1992 royal rumble will go down in history as one of the best in history. It certainly wasn't fair to flair.

Second only to when he called out that coward Marty Janetty for jumping through the barbershop window.

Omackeral

I find the HOF inductions to be emotional at the best of times. Especially when people are talking about their fallen brothers and sisters. When Heenan simply said "I was Monsoon was here" I nearly lost it.

Angron

I was really saddened to hear about Heenan's death. Great manager and commentator.

Bounty Hunter

You could not script a guy to be, or feed a guys to sound like Bobby Heenan. Through his natural wit he made a show better be that on commentary or as a manager. He is both the best color commentator and manager there has been imo. He had a terrible battle with cancer so his passing is not a surprise but still his is a name i didn't want to hear. RIP Bobby

ShagNastii

An absolute legend. So many awesome one-liners with his commentary.

One of the funniest that I always remember is from his HOF speech is when he goes to excuses his voice (post throat cancer). He lined it up all humble with everyone knowing exactly what he was going to say.

BH: "Please forgive my voice, I had.........*long pause*....a really wedgie backstage".


It's always beautiful when you see a talent having their "moment" with a HOF induction. I think nobody was more proud or had more fun than Bobby. He had a blast and looked/felt 50 foot tall.

sky88

only seeing this now im devastated loved the brain

razorblunt

The Marty Jannety comment infuriated me as a kid watching it.
I'd completely blocked that out until reading tributes today and I properly lol'd.

What a genius.

RIP.

JP Liz V1

RIP

chopperbyrne

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bobby_Heenan

gerrybbadd

What a guy. He's pain free at last. I never understood how anyone could like Bobby as a kid, but as I grew older, I began to understand. "The Brain" was a great name, truly accurate. How he came up with his one liners so quickly, I'll never know.

He was an awesome manager as well as commentator. I'm really looking forward to the inevitable Heenan collection that WWE will add to the Network.

RIP Weasel

bot43

How I hated Heenan as a kid. He was basically the devil. This was compounded for me when he introduced the newest members of The Heenan Family - The Islanders. I was gutted. They were such nice guys. But he brain washed them. How could they? How could he?

I assumed as a kid he was just a nasty jerk because he was a nasty jerk on tv. And I hated him for it.

Only as I became "smart" did I realise the guys utter genius as a manager and personality.

By all accounts he was a gent in real life so he will be missed. He had a long and painful battle so in that sense it is probably a relief that the suffering is over.

RIP to The Weasel.

CastorTroy

Great entertainer, no matter what he did. Huge loss.

Is there anyone on today's roster that may have worked with him that we could see a tribute from? One thing WWE does well is tribute packages. It'll be similar to his HOF package but it'll be well done.

leggo

Late notice but we're live tweeting the Rumble 92 match (just the match from the Network timestamp) as a tribute at @HashtagLowBlows from 9pm if anyone wants to join in the nostalgia.

AllGunsBlazing

Well there goes another piece of my childhood. Bobby Heenan was easily Hulk Hogan's true arch nemesis when I was a kid. Orndorff, Studd, Bundy, Andre - he threw everthing at Hulk to get that WWF title. The man could talk for days and was never afraid to take a bump in the line of duty.

I'm sure Jim Cornette will have some great anecdotes about The Brain and will be keeping an eye out for them on YouTube in the coming days and weeks.


RIP.

Angron

chopperbyrne wrote: »

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bobby_Heenan

Been reading this throughout the morning, the man really had some great lines and wit.

Liam McPoyle

The greatest manager ever seen and for my money, the greatest colour commentator ever seen.

Often times his jibes with Gorilla were more entertaining than the matches they called.

He was the perfect foil for the straight man.

Sad news indeed.

sham69

Only seeing this now, so sad.
He was the best thing about the wrestling when I watched it as a kid.
Managed all the good wrestlers rick rude , Adrian Adonis (his fight with brutus beefcake was amazing), andre , bundy and my favourite "the king" Harley Race.
Rest In Peace Bobby.

Venom

Very sad news

Watching The brain as a kid was always pure joy. He could sell the outlandish with ease, have you hating him the next moment and then laughing your ass off at his antics moments later.

Best in the business and a true legend.

RIP Bobby.

Itssoeasy

leggo wrote: »

Late notice but we're live tweeting the Rumble 92 match (just the match from the Network timestamp) as a tribute at @HashtagLowBlows from 9pm if anyone wants to join in the nostalgia.

I read them a few hours after the fact last night. Very funny stuff. The old it's a kilt not a skirt call is still brilliant.

chopperbyrne

[On Nitro after Gorilla Monsoon passed away]
"You know the Pearly Gates in heaven? It's now gonna be called the Gorilla Position."

wezzopalooza

Just gonna drop this here- Bobby at his best putting the Hart family on blast!! :D:D:D:D:D:D