The Brooklyn Brawler was recently a guest on Prime Time Wrestling with Sean Mooney. During the podcast, Brawler told a story about Vince McMahon calling him and asking for a big favor.
Here is the story from Brawler (quotes below via Wrestling INC):
‘”How ya doing pal it’s Vince.'”
“I go, ‘yeah Vince whatever you need.'”
“He goes, ‘I need you to take care of this.'”
“And I said, ‘well what do you mean?'”
“He goes, ‘I need you to fly to Calgary and wrestle Bret Hart in the main event.’ He was the world champion at the time. He goes, ‘as Doink [the Clown].’ That’s what he told me, I never had paint on my face I never did the Doink character or nothing.”
“I said, ‘Vince I have no problem wrestling Bret I’ve wrestled him before, but it’s the paint job.'”
Vince laughed and said that he was going to have to fly to Stamford to be taught how to do the paint. He also had to fly to Cleveland and pick up the Doink costume before heading to Canada to wrestle Bret:
“This is all in one day. fly to Stamford go to the studio get the little lesson, give me a picture, give me all the paints, then fly to Cleveland, go to baggage claim, get the hand-off of the suit, go back onto the plane, get into Calgary, you gain three hours in Calgary — that’s what made this possible because you got the hour difference, the time difference.”
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