Swimming with Piranhas by Howard T. Brody

Author:Howard T. Brody
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2012-01-27T08:08:30+00:00

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SWIMMING WITH PIRANHAS

through the crowd and even had a

band playing between matches and

during intermission in a makeshift

graveyard, complete with tombstones

that carried the names of some of our

rival promoters.

The show itself even had a

Halloween slant to it, as the main

events were Jake “The Snake”

Roberts taking on Brutus Beefcake

and Kevin Sullivan versus Cactus Jack

(Mick Foley). We also booked a gim-

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mick match called Monsters in a Steel

Cage, which pitted Lucifer (Wiley

personal

Sacks) and Lord Humongous (Mark

’s

Benedict) against the Vampire

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Warrior (Dave Heath) and, for the

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first time ever in the U.S., Leather

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Face (Mike Kirshner), complete with

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his working chain saw. Never had I

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seen fans scared as much as they were

The former Corporal Kirshner and future Gangrel don when Kirshner came out with that

their Leather Face and Vampire Warrior gimmicks for chain saw going at full force. I had

Monsters in a Steel Cage

seen Abdullah the Butcher, the Sheik

and George “The Animal” Steele all

scare off a crowd, but nothing compared with this.

Once the show started it went off without a hitch, but it wasn’t smooth sailing up to show time. About a week before the card Jake informed me he wouldn’t be flying down for the show. He admitted to having reoccurring drug issues and didn’t trust himself to be away from his wife, Cheryl, even for a few days. He asked if he could cash in the plane ticket I had sent to him and use the money for gasoline to drive down from Atlanta instead. I agreed and told him to bring the gas receipts with him so I would know how much extra to pay him for the difference between the two.

Headache number two was the call I got the morning of the show, from Ed Leslie (Beefcake). Ed had agreed to a $700 payoff. However, that was before he did this big angle on wcw television: he turned on longtime friend Hulk Hogan and went from being referred to as Brother Bruti to being known as the Butcher. Ed told me that he wanted a thousand dollars or he wouldn’t show up. Normally I

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