Downtown Bruno/Harvey Whippleman wrote a book

[Bix]

http://www.1wrestlinglegends.com/crowbarpr...runo/index.html

 

From the excepts, this actually looks really good. He's still with WWE, so I guess that being backstage food gopher doesn't lock you into merchandising with them.

[JHawk]

Scott Teal was selling this at the Cauliflower Alley Club reunion and said he didn't want to publish it because he's not interested in anything post-1982, but the book was too good not to publish.

 

Too bad I'd already bought about eight books that I'm behind on.

[Loss]

1982 seems a random year to choose.

[JHawk]

1982 seems a random year to choose.

That's supposedly when he started losing interest.

 

Maybe he meant 1984, which would have made more sense.

[sek69]

It cracks me up to this day that Bruno's mom was my Sunday School teacher. Even funnier is that they look alike so it was like Harvina was teaching me about Jesus.

[Bix]

Started reading it. There are some good stories but its greatest value may lay in the fact that it's an absolutely fascinating look into the mind of a WWE lifer.

 

For example:

 

After mentioning an injury in 1987 he goes off on how Rhyno is a pussy who couldn't have done anything dangerous enough to suffer a broken neck in WWE so he must've gotten it in ECW and Heyman got Vince to sign him to pay for surgery. Seriously. It's like an inadvertant companion piece to Ring of Hell.

[goodhelmet]

I had to pick this up just to hear some late 80s Memphis stories.

[Tim Evans]

I'm kinda surprised his book is not named "Mama always says, It be that way sometimes." I guess I think this because I"ve been watching a lot of Memphis lately and he always says that.

[Bix]

I finished the book on Thursday night. It's not a must-have, but it's an entertaining read that's different from other wrestling books (and strangely, there are a lot of timeline issues, especially for a Scott Teal book, I guess because it's post-'82 material). At times I feel really bad for him, as he's constantly in terrible pain due to a badly injured neck that he refuses to get surgery for due to his belief that he suffered the bulk of the damage taking pre-WWF apron to floor bumps and thinks that he'd be a pussy stealing from Vince McMahon if he got him to pay for it. On the other side of the coin, he's really annoying and frustrating at times, generally with his shameless WWE ass-kissing and his fixation on almost every homosexual that he worked with (as well as Jonathan Boyd's atheism). If he comes across someone in the business that's gay or bisexual, he mentions it while feverishly noting that he's not gay, wrestling is a business for manly men so it's weird that it has so many "sissies," he's offended that nobody ever hit on him after being warned that all of the gays would attack him, and then mysteriously drops it when he gets to the WWF and comes across Pat Patterson and Steve Lombardi. It would be conspicuous in any case, but given the rumors about Lauer & Lombardi (which from my own sources I believe to be true), it's even moreso and comes across as a self-loathing homosexual frantic in his attempts to act straight.

[tigerpride]

but given the rumors about Lauer & Lombardi (which from my own sources I believe to be true)

Just curious what this is referring to

[Bix]

but given the rumors about Lauer & Lombardi (which from my own sources I believe to be true)

Just curious what this is referring to

 

It's come up online in the past that they may be a couple.