10 WEIRDEST Wrestler/Manager Combinations

[@SomeOfTheJuice]

Rest in Peace, Moody. Turns out, he was totally correct on LA Knight: Big things were in his future.

[@LordScrambles1]

He wasn't going to back a chump.

[@CrowYaeger]

@@LordScrambles1 Matt Borne and The Executioner would like a word with you

[@benpezzot8805]

Moody would be so proud of him I am sure he smiling in heaven

[@SaintGBar22]

Big things…stupid catch phrases and a big loss to Roman reigns up coming

[@ahmadceasar5484]

​@@SaintGBar22dummy yeah

[@Nacho_Fan_Sandy_Ravage]

In a parallel universe LA Knight is a no-selling zombie and Undertaker's making the whole arena shout 'YEAH!'

[@Animeking77763]

I’ll pay to see that

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Parts Unknown Mark: "Say 'YEAH' if you like to sleep with your sister..."

[@jaycerrito3142]

Or LA Knight is a kayfabe nephew or some other demonic relative of the Undertaker and Kane somewhere in the multiverse

[@EvaFull]

Eli Drake (L.A. Knight) & Percy Pringle III was definitely a gem pairing during that era of NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. I remember this being the era when he was 1st on my radar. Between NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood & PPW (Paragon Pro Wrestling) he was easily in my Top 5 Favorites from both promotions at that time. Really wish more of his PPW run was available to watch on KZbin.

[@madbrowniac7871]

Good Grief the same guy as Percy Pringle or Paul Bearer Managed Jack Hart (aka Barry Horowitz), Rick Rude, pre WWE "Stunning" Steve Austin, The Undertaker, AND L.A. Knight! Additionally he was present the night in TNA in the ring when Tony Schiavone delivered his infamous Promo on Mike Tenay. Miss You much Mr. Moody!🤔🎤🤼‍♂️🤼‍♀️B.W.

[@daltonpinell6251]

Paul and LA? Ohhhhhhhhhh YEAH!

[@claymathewselevator8121]

RVD was probably so stoned he’d didn’t even realize Ricardo was next to him 😂

[@joshhale9355]

That is actually a really sweet way to end this video. Moody was correct about Ricker, now LA Knight (YEAH); if anyone could pick a star, it was him. RIP William “Paul Bearer” Moody.

[@JagerLange]

Every time I think of William Moody outside his Paul Bearer work I'm immediately reminded of his kid proposing with Moody's HoF ring.

[@joshhale9355]

Please don’t remind anyone of that

[@CrowYaeger]

I mean even if he did, the ring ended up on eBay in 2015

[@ernestcruz6316]

To be truthful, Sunny did not "guide" three teams to championships. She guided The Bodydonnas, then when they lost the titles she dumped them and began managing the team that beat them, then when they lost she dumped them too and managed the team that beat them as well.

[@dgthe3]

Reminds me of a manager gimick that I thought up a couple years ago: when the manager is at ringside for their client, the client never loses. Gin up various reasons for them to not get to the ring. Beaten up back stage. Miss their flight. Locked in a shark cage. Doesn't matter, you're only going to be using maybe one of these per month. And then, once their guy has the title for a while -the manager betrays their client & they keep up their own personal winning streak.

[@adm712]

Slick being the manager for Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik seemed to be a strange pairing.

[@gabepollock1641]

That one, if memory serves, was caused by Freddie Blassie selling off the contracts of some of his managerial clients. So it had a storyline explanation even though it was a very weird combo.

[@andrewberenson5717]

I think Sunny managing LOD is a stranger combination than Sunny managing Farooq.

[@BabyMaharaja0]

she actually fit well with LOD

[@Jasonbfv]

I'll give two examples that seemed odd on paper, but clicked really well -- Jimmy Hart with Terry Funk and Mr. Fuji with Don Muraco

[@stevenpagnani7005]

Bill Alfonso used to be a referee in WCW in the early 90's

[@JonathanFournier]

I remember being invested and hopeful in the Piper/O'Haire pairing at the time. I liked both and thought the team-up could've been fruitful if handled well. Unfortunately, they got stuck with some bad booking (i.e. being henchmen in the Mr America storyline for too long). Was a shame.

[@ABIT-cb1qh]

LA Knight managed by Paul Bearer was an huge endorsement.

[@deadwafflez9685]

I know Adam did it at the end but a promo of Knight yelling "YEAH" and Bearer throwing in "OOOOOOH YES" would be TV gold.

[@stosh5082]

If we're talking about Cornette, how about the time in the old Smoky Mountain Wrestling days when he managed The Rock 'n Roll Express?

[@DinnersOnSaturday]

I hated Jimmy Hart with Money Inc. Hart was a legendary manager and Dibiase and IRS were amazing heel characters. But their personalities just didn't mesh. Furthermore, Money Inc didn't need a manager. Dibiase and IRS were talented enough on the mic that they didn't need a mouthpiece.

[@z0m813]

I did as well even as a kid seeing it, I thought it was a weird pairing I remember hit fit will with every other tag team he managed but Money Inc. I even didn't mind him with the nasty boys lol.

[@SheriffOutlaw]

If this didn't make the list then honorable mention, the Red Rooster and Bobby Heenan 😂 tf was that about 😅

[@hydrooxy84]

So this is what you get for 5 bucks a month nah I'm good

[@jaysondoak6184]

The Piper and O'Haire combo just did not work. It's too bad O'Haire's timing in the ring didn't work either, because that guy had such an IT Factor about him.

[@Jwjmcc]

Vince signing Ron Simmons and giving him that gimmick is criminal

[@hgb0005]

11:30 holy shit brian cage used to look almost like a normal person?!?!?!?

[@mayerbasic7004]

Sean O'Haire and Father James Mitchell would have been wicked together. Too bad McMahon never cared for Mitchell.

[@patrickdepew4976]

Tell me you're jealous of Cornette without telling me you're jealous of Cornette.

[@jimbo_1312]

Tell me you've got a boner for Cornette without telling me you've got a boner for Cornette

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Cornette big mouth who has all you marks still fooled

[@nobodywantsthethimble]

My wife is related to Oliver Humperdinck. He was my father in Law’s cousin and though I never got to meet Sir Oliver before he passed, my FiL says he was a really fun fellah. Apparently because of this managerial stint, somewhere there’s a picture of my wife as a child being held by Bam Bam….

[@elosobratto3802]

great video, however, you missed to include Authors of Pain with Drake Maverick lol

[@CorrineFerguson]

Rip to the greatest manager ever in my opinion: william moody/paul bearer/percy pringle❤

[@MrParker-ux2mh]

00:07:24 aaaaaaaand that’s where you lost me. Smh

[@jessesinclair3642]

Cornette is King

[@biancablayze1453]

O'Hare would have been perfect for the Ministry of Darkness.

[@PTrep2727]

Sean O'Hare had it all but could not put it all together. Sad ending. RIP

[@templeos2954]

"smattering of boos" Cena was getting crazy bad boos and it was hilarious how hard they tried to make angle get booed by the fans

[@GFrisco]

Honorable mention: Teddy Long & Undertaker (when his character was Mean Mark) though that was in WCW I think

[@FranklinGoodwin-rb7td]

Unecessary cheap Cornette dig lol. I don't agree with all of his views but he's right more than he's wrong. He also knows more about wrestling than pretty much all of his detractors

[@dgthe3]

His detractors don't need to know anything, just repeat what Uncle Dave says

[@budgibson185]

Cornette is the best thing in wrestling... I immediately question you if you don’t like Corny

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Make Darren Young Great Again

[@jeffreysharp9925]

He had a pretty good build to the NJPW Strong Championship last year. He is a good wrestler. Just never found his way in WWE.

[@TheMuldoonFella]

​@@jeffreysharp9925tbf you could say that for 80% of released WWE wrestlers

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Teddy Long managed Mean Mark pre-Undertaker, but imagine if it was during!

[@nicktaylor2657]

Where to Teddy? 😊

[@Electricsleepimages]

Questioning whether Darren Young was ever great does a disservice to the performer. Fred Rosser has had a run in NJPW that shows how incredible of a wrestler he truly is, and how WWE really missed out on him.

[@mynameisjeff830]

Ron Simmons looked like Ram Man from He-Man 😂😂😂

[@charleswhit150]

10:40 I remember that episode of the brother loves show, and when brother love asked for pallbearer’s name I didn’t put together Paul Bearer..like the name gold dust it took me to watch a few matches to see dust was dustin rhodes

[@OptimusProvost]

Make Darren Young Great Again was such a weird gimmick 😂

[@joeywrestling9536]

Untold glory and by that I mean there was no glory 😂😂

[@CondonErebus]

Hell yeah! My buddy Mike wrestled LAknight and posted the video on tiktok!

[@dano_the_collector8421]

I got one. Heenan managing the Missing Link

[@stevegallo8483]

Heenan and Brooklyn Brawler.

[@Freddie1980]

I remember when Ricardo Rodriguez got suspended for taking sliming pills lol.

[@JMDowns9]

Cornette isn't ever wrong.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

In his own mind

[@teresaravenshaw5477]

I'm now trying to imagine Paul Bearer managing Ric Flair and the Horsemen.

[@mikenayers5981]

Rick Rude and DX. Not that his character couldn’t work in the group. The way he was talking in ECW could’ve worked, but putting anyone in DX with a suit and tie, then having them play the straight man falls flat.

[@owenpeterson]

Not to mention he hated Shawn Michaels, and was good friends with Bret Hart.

[@Robby43932]

Sable and A-Train Chyna and Kane

[@SpaceLizard1049]

The first combo i thought about was Johnny V and Demolition. Mr Fuji was a much better fit.

[@OptimusProvost]

I want WWE to bring back the Devil’s Advocate gimmick! Could’ve worked so well!

[@YelWhiPurBla]

Would work so well for Joe Gacy

[@willurbanovitch3020]

Kurt Angle was only cheered in the Cena feud out of spite. Same thing happened during Cenas feud with hhh

[@leagueleaders]

You think Corny listens to this? Press X for Doubt.

[@LordScrambles1]

They've been mentioned by Brian on the show and Corny didn't act like they're nobody. There's that. But I think you're right.

[@jordan89124]

They had a wrestling promotion he was booked on, of course he knows them@@LordScrambles1

[@UnexpectedDanger]

Who cares about Corny

[@pooldead7712]

@UnexpectedDanger You have made a post about cornette. You clearly care enough about him, lol. If you didn't care, you wouldn't write about him or acknowledge him, lol.

[@dylanogg347]

Kurt Angle was so beloved by fans, that they still cheered him after claiming to not be a big fan of "the black people" (despite all evidence to the contrary), and wishing he could go back in time and make Jesus tap out.

[@JamesPeers-y3n]

"Ginger Wizard" and "technicolor ring coats" did make me laugh out loud! Just saying....

[@Nitemerican]

Sean Ohares devils advocate gimmick is underrated

[@dgthe3]

There were a handful of gimmicks around that time that WWE seemed to drop very quickly.

[@kumodohaizi7234]

Melina and mark henry,maryse and ted jr,kabuki warriors and paige,brian Kendrick and Ezekiel,jericho and hugh,rico and 3 min warning

[@thechosen481]

Zeb Colter (a.k.a Dutch Mantell) was strange because he started criticizing Alberto's nationality at first then suddenly began following and managing him. Interestingly enough, Bob Backlund promised to make Darren Young great again. Sadly, he was never that great anyway.

[@jerrylloyd1973]

My ? Is that your talking about managers of late 90's, what do say about the 70's,80's and early 90's? Like the grand wizard, Freddy blassy. Arnold Schoen and last captain Lou albado. That manage some of the great. That I grew up with from the mid-seventies.

[@youngboss87]

This la knight and moody story made me tear 😢

[@Chris-ev5ok]

I liked Darren Young & Bob Backlund. They had good chemistry.

[@wolvie667]

I thought it was weird that WWE at his Debut have Undertaker managed by Brother Love

[@jimmywest1526]

Jim Cornette really makes everyone mad by pointing out how bad their favorite Indy darlings are haha. I still trust his opinion more, sorry.

[@TimTE01]

Had to slip in a dig at Cornette because he tries to fix AEW. Classy.

[@wolvie667]

BTW Ricardo Rodriguez still wrestles. He is now in MLW

[@gfear24]

Darren Young (Fred Rosser) in NJPW Strong is actually really damn good.

[@SteeleZack]

The Faarooq and Sunny combo might've worked in SMW. if they were booked as heels (fan reaction encouraged) as a wrestler and manager combo that is more or less portrayed as an interracial couple would've drawn instant heat (possibly too much lol) with little effort.

[@wizzerwiser2056]

The Faarooq character and ring attire is what ruined him. I'm sure Sunny as his manager in WWF would've worked if he didn't have the stupid head gear on him.

[@jopiaspieder1184]

The Undertaker and Brother Love was a great duo I liked them

[@lilpoetat]

Thanks 🎉

[@michaelwall3393]

Here are some wrestlers and wrestling tag teams or groups that spoke well enough in and out of the square to promote themselves or generate fan interest and excitement and engagement and no need for any managers. 1. 4 Horsemen of all versions 2. Harlem Heat 3. Masters of The Power Bomb 4. Money Inc 5. LOD WCW version 6. LOD WWE version 7. Rock N Roll Express both WCW and WWE versions 8. Fabulous Free Birds 9. The American Patriots (as long as Hacksaw Jim Dugan is quiet the rest spoke eloquently enough lol 😂) 10. Hulk Hogan 11. Ric Flair 12. Dean Malenko 13. The Hart Foundation 14. Brett Hart 15. Owen Hart 16. Booker T 17. Paul Orndorff 18. Stevie Ray 19. Ron Simmons 20. Too Cold Scorpio 21. Fire & Ice because Teddy Long managing too many tag teams at the same time as was Rob Parker and no need really. 23. Rob Van Damme didn’t need a manager 24. Psychosis needed no manager 25. Ray Mysterio after losing his mask. These are just some examples from what I know of or saw in late 80s and growing up in 90s and early 2000s. Some I saw briefly and not much but still made no sense to have a manager or two ringside coaches or speakers. It just made no sense. I realize some wrestling teams and wrestlers are before my time but aware of their existence due to in the 1990s Turner Networks would replay old wrestling footage of NWA/AWA/WCCW/Smokey Mountain Wrestling/St. Louis Wrestling along with older WCW matches and not just show clips of recent PPV events either like WWE or WWF at the time was notorious for and still stunk because would be disingenuous as opposed to WCW and Turner Sports. WWE in its attempt to make wrestling more inclusive and entertaining and appealing and accessible actually has somehow ruined a great entertaining show and eventually in 20-30 years there may be no wrestling, at least non Olympic wrestling or staged wrestling or choreography wrestling on television or streaming platforms or whatever.

[@johnczarniecki4874]

Mantaur is so bad he would have made this list with whatever manager you paired him with

[@geeshep4836]

What About Chris Jericho And Stephanie Mcmahon, AJ Styles And That Mason Plumtree Guy Or What About Raven And Cassidy Reilly.

[@ChrisS-v4f]

Ron Simmons just 👀 pissed off wearing that ridiculous 80s gladiator costume that they absolutely stoled from a bad low budget 1980s movie set.

[@WooRidersDg]

YEAH buddy 😀💯

[@rjjohnson2]

In contrast Brother Love and Undertaker were bad because Paul Bearer was such a perfect fit. Plus the benefit of hindsight. But an evil evangelist and a dead man does connect. I just don’t think Brother Love was ever supposed to be a manager.

[@j.b.gruberiiiesq6582]

I legit forgot del Rio and coulter

[@ABIT-cb1qh]

Darren Young looked like John Cena without beard.

[@Sunprism]

Stacy Keibler and The Dudley Boyz always struck me as odd

[@yourtube1424]

Imagine Jim Cornette managing Black Taurus!

[@Daniel-b9i3b]

I got one tops em all. Paige managing sane and osuka ❤

[@christopherballero866]

Kurt Angle is not a fan of the blacks. I now want Taker & LA Knight to be together on a podcast talking about Paul Bearer/Moody

[@nicholashurst780]

I would love a 40 minute rant from Corny about Mantaur and the general glut of shitty New Generation gimmicks

[@DuckAvenger]

kind of makes me sad its been a decade since hes been gone kind of like dale earnheart the sport wasnt the same without him

[@Jasonbfv]

How about when Teddy Long managed Jim Powers in 1996 Wcw

[@lebutzki]

Personally, I would have put Paige and The Kabuki Warriors on this list. That one never made sense

[@Goawaykidyoubotherme]

Sable...Marc Mero....he was an afterthought in 30 seconds

[@hugrad95]

Humperdink and Bigelow worked together in Florida before the wwe

[@mjdf122]

There are people who manage and others who are managed

[@wolvie667]

I actuelly think the Sultan Character wasn't that bad if they would have worked if WWE Have let him talk

[@stevegallo8483]

Bam Bam Bigelow and Sir Oliver Humperdink worked together before Bam Bam went to WWF, so it made sense for Humperdink to manage him in WWF. What about the combination of Bobby Heenan and the Brooklyn Brawler. That's definitely and odd couple.

[@gabepollock1641]

Heenan and the Brawler is only weird out of context. Brawler debuted and was managed by Heenan as a hired gun to take out the Red Rooster, who Heenan had brought in but split from when the Rooster turned face.

[@stevegallo8483]

@@gabepollock1641 It's an odd couple pairing, because as Heenan put it, he only managed "winners" and Brawler was glorified enhancement talent (aka a jobber).

[@grahamwebb1367]

bob baukland and darren young must be on here i feel as i click play

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@kesschristopher]

Honky Tonk Man and Billy Gunn/Rockabilly

[@claymathewselevator8121]

The world’s strongest shoulder to cry on 😊

[@williamsmith666]

Terri Runnels and New Jack later on in life...

[@RRNumber4]

Goataholic🐐

[@dizzle1119]

As if Jim Cornette would waste 40 seconds talkin' about you guys, let alone 40 mins.

[@marionlayton929]

Faarooq * (2 A's; you're welcome.)

[@mspacely6521]

Percy Pringle rules

[@goatboy420]

What’s with the hate for Cornette?

[@ruckussful]

"a rambling, expletive filled, 40 min video of your own" - aka all Jim Cornette's videos.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

It's true