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The DVD begins with highlights of Heenan’s career and some quick fantastic one liners.  The Brain’s part in the WrestleMania III main event is shown.  And we finally open the DVD.  Heenan has been called the greatest manager of all time, and over the next hour it will be hard to disagree.

Bobby was raised by his mother in Chicago and he looks like an adorable pain in the ass little gangster.  Bobby’s family moved to Indianapolis after the death of his aunt and Heenan took many jobs to support his family.  One of those jobs involved working at the Colisseum and Bobby worked many events there, eventually falling into the world of wrestling.  The Brain’s first charge were the Blackjacks.  Even in his first management gig, the other wrestlers already saw the potential in Heenan.  Bobby next managed Ray Stevens and Nick Bockwinkel.  Because of the heat Bobby caused this tag team held the AWA tag team titles for 3 years.  With great wrestlers in the ring and The Brain on the outside, no one could compete.

January 25, 1975 should have been Heenan’s last day on Earth.  A gunman fired at the manager, and luckily for The Brain he missed.  However five fans were wounded.  No one causes that kind of reaction now.  There are few things as fun as a crowd who take wrestling a little too seriously.  Ricky Steamboat talks about the appeal of having Heenan wrestle occasional matches.  These would be sell out cards as every fan wanted to see Bobby finally get put in his place.  Classic footage of the original Weasel outfit is shown.  There could be no greater joy for those fans than seeing the Brain finally get put in his place.  Heenan, always the showman, is   more than willing to make himself look the fool for the greater good of the sport.

WWF came knocking and Nick Bockwinkel himself gave Bobby his blessing to leave AWA.  Heenan’s first charge in WWF was his former AWA buddy, Big John Studd.  This was the beginning of the Heenan family, some of the greatest wrestlers ever, united by the leadership of the Brain.  Heenan played the chicken shit better than anyone else.  He also had a hand in many a title change in WWF and the history of the Rock n Wrestling era would be much different without him.

Bobby was in Studd’s corner at the first WrestleMania as part of the legendary $15,000 Bodyslam  Challenge.  In true Weasel fashion, Heenan runs off with what’s left of the money after Andre the Giant won the duffel bag containing the cash.  Even bigger than the biggest bodyslam match ever, was the historic main event of WrestleMania III.  Orchestrated by the Brain, Heenan convinced Andre to turn on his friend and challenge for the World Heavyweight title.  To show just how big Bobby Heenan was at this time, he appeared with three different wrestlers in three classic matches on this evening.

A history of “weasel” chants and jokes in WWF are shown.  While he may claim to  hate the name, every individual weasel chant equals one dollar in his pocket.  That led to a fortune of weasel dollars.  Heenan’s two most successful charges in the Heenan family, Mr Perfect and Ravishing Rick Rude, are profiled.  Two amazing wrestlers, and two men who looked like world champions while holding the secondary belt.

The cartoon era of WWF that Heenan was a  part of is ridiculous and fantastic.  Classic clips of Tuesday Night Titans, the WBF, and for some reason Heenan on the set of a western, are shown.  Heenan on Halloween dressed as The Genius belongs in a comedy hall of fame.  The fact that there are decades of footage from these shows and that there isn’t an outlet for it is a shame.  Gorilla Monsoon and the Brain are one of the greatest tag teams in all of wrestling history.  Prime Time Wrestling, the Bobby Heenan show, Jameson and the Roselli sisters come out of the WWE vault and into the hearts of all wrestling fans.

Bobby’s switch from manager to color commentator for WWF is shown, and even with his face off camera, Heenan continued to steal the show on any that he called.  As WWF evolved from Hulkamania into the initial Raw era, Bobby brought entertainment to every match even if the match had no right for it.  The Brain was the greatest heel commentator, always supporting the bad guys, and always defending their actions.

In 1993, Heenan left WWF for a career in Hollywood.   One of Raw’s earliest memorable moments takes place when Gorilla Monsoon removes Bobby from Raw and throws him out of the arena.   Heenan’s possessions are in a bag that looks very similar to the bag holding the money at WrestleMania 2.  While intending to try his hand in Hollywood, WCW offered Bobby too much money and too great a schedule to pass over.  While WCW’s schedule may have been good for his family, it was WCW and Bobby had to deal with the lack of logic as much as anyone else.  However, when you’re The Brain, stupidity hurts that much harder.

Heenan is diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999.  The voice of a generation of wrestling may lose that voice.  The Brain fought back and its a miracle that he still walks the Earth today.  Heenan’s recovery was pinnacled by his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Bobby Heenan is one of those rare people who would be successful in any field he chose.  Luckily for any wrestling fan over the last 40 years, he chose wrestling.  Any moment on camera or on headset is a moment in which he shined.