"Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan talks smack

This footage is from Dick the Bruiser's old Indianapolis based WWA promotion circa the 1970's.

Sam Menacker is discussing an upcoming card in which he will be coming out of retirement to team with Dick the Bruiser to face Bobby Heenan's tag team, Jimmy & Johnny Valiant. Menacker is supposed to interview the Valiant's but they refuse to appear, so Bobby Heenan does the talking for his team with "Krusher" Stan Kowalski acting as his bodyguard.

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[cpmg1978]

man, I could watch Heenan promos for days.

[ProbertFire]

There were few better workers than Heenan and mike skills?? Wow...he was second to NOBODY. Heenan was to pro wrestling as George Washington is to the US $ bill.

[wwahc1964]

@elc1960 The Valiants left in May of 1974 for New York,dropping the WWA belts to Wilbur Snyder and Pepper Gomez on the way out.

[wwahc1964]

@elc1960 Bruno was here for 6 months,and would have been here longer term had he not decided to take the WWWF title back.

[wwahc1964]

@elc1960 Actually,during this time,Stan was working full time on Bruiser's circuit.

[fjccommish]

@tallrat I used to stop by Bruiser's house and ask if he needed some weeds pulled. He would reply "Someone already done it." I never did get the bike I was trying to save to buy. So you were the guy who cost me that bicycle!

[MrCarl220]

I remember Menacker as an announcer briefly for Bruno's promotion in '82, International Championship Wrestling I believe the name.

[wtf66611]

Mr. Heenan is irreplacable. What a talent.

[JeffTheFutureJaros]

Man, he would've never been the same as "Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan, "The Brain" fit him so well, there will never be another.

[tallrat]

Back in 1966 I lived 3 houses from Bruiser. Every once in a while he would see me and say I need help with my yard. I'd pick a handful of weeds out of his garden in the front yard and he would hand me a $20 bill! I was 6 yrs old. Before I'd leave he'd say make a muscle. He would say, I'm gonna be nice to you because your gonna be a tough guy when you grow up, lol.

[capucchan8]

wow this was so long ago, I like the wrestling from this era much better than now though

[elc1960]

@jerzeefranky3475 Stan Kowalski was a wrestler in many different promotions during the '60s, including the old WWWF, where he worked as "Krippler Karl Kovacs". He was a manager in the AWA under the name Stan ("The Big K") Kowalski in the '70s, and managed Ivan Koloff, among others. By the time of this promo, he was pretty much only a part-time wrestler. His role in the time frame you mentioned was as a sort of wrestling "gossip reporter" who was supposedly real influential behind the scenes.