Bad News Brown Full Shoot Interview (2006)

James Guttman and the late Bad News Brown speak in an interview originally published on World Wrestling Insanity. Including talk of: How he became "Bad News"
The Promise Vince McMahon broke
Comparing Vince Sr. to Vince Jr.
His accomplishments in the world of Judo
Transtioning from Judo to pro wrestling
The promo that got him in trouble
How No Holds Barred played a part in his WWF debut
His undefeated streak
#WrestleMania VI
How Roddy Piper was a "complete bigot"
Today's wrestling product
The storyline his wife hated
How she went off on him about it
How Bret Hart was a "primadonna and crybaby"
Bret Hart's problem
What he said about Shawn Michaels
How it's a problem with lots of babyfaces
The WWF Stars Bad News liked hanging out with
The high mortality rate in wrestling
Why he never went to #WCW
The person who didn't want him there
Why his #LJN Action Figure Didn't Come Out
Being recognized by fans in public
Young wrestlers who do too many highspots
Working With Dynamite Kid in Canada
Why WWF dropped the ball on Bad News vs. Dynamite
...and much more!
#WWE #Wrestling #ShootInterviews

[@WaldoBagelTopper]

One thing I loved about BNB is that he always admitted in his interviews and was open about the fact that he only did it for the money. A guy who just understood the basics of just doing a job and getting paid. There’s no shame in that and BNB was a master at playing the villain. Truly an underrated guy with tons of great stories. May he rest in eternal peace.

[@michaelwilliams7400]

Love your take. Bad News is one of my favorite guys to watch/listen to being interviewed.

[@peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472]

God bless him. I NEVER knew that he was an Olympic athlete nor did I know that he studied Judo. R.I.P. champ.

[@kentojon3561]

Awesome interview..RIP Bad News.

[@wafe107]

Bad News Browns was super underrated & an underutilized brain of the business. Wish I saw him more on shoot interviews #RIP

[@mauricegodfrey6408]

I like bad news he seems like he was straight up stand up guy ànd real cool and down to earth .

[@markbraverman9622]

Bad news should have been champion

[@macdaddy1149]

Great shoot interview! Bad News was a great heel. I was a kid when he was in the WWF. He was one of my favorites. It’s a rare thing to find wrestlers that are 100% real and honest. That’s what’s great about him. He doesn’t embellish like 99% of wrestlers do ( like Hogan & Flair). He doesn’t lie like most wrestlers do (like Hogan & Flair). He’s no bullshit just straight forward truth. I respect that and now I’m trying to find more shoots with him. From what I’ve seen and heard from his other shoots is he is completely consistent with what he says.

[@bodhi8297]

Always loved the ghetto blaster, underrated move

[@jojovaldez2766]

Yeah..the ghetto blaster was an awesome finishing move BNB used that move on Bret Hitman Hart during the final moments of the WWF WRESTLEMANIA Battle Royal just before he tossed Bret out

[@mikedarrow3809]

RIP. Bad News should have been champ.

[@jamesburns248]

Bad News comes across really well. Good interview.

[@Trouble316]

What a back handed compliment

[@Mykamania]

The Ghetto Blaster was a great move, shocked no one uses it today.

[@markbowman6655]

Bad News Brown would have been a great heel champion in NY.

[@markstaffieri5732]

Bad News was very articulate in this interview. Highly entertaining interview. No question that he deserved to be WWF Champion. What a mistake on the part of WCW not to hire him. Had he been able to work with Dynamite Kid in WWF, it would have made for 5-star quality matches.

[@bodhi8297]

I don’t know about WWF champ but he was good. There were greats a lot more deserving than Brown that never got to be WWF champ. Piper, Jake Roberts, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, Tito Santana, Ted Dibease, Dusty

[@joc8092]

I saw the matches he had with Dynamite in Stampede Wrestling in Calgary. Best wrestling ever. Although I was a teenager and knew wrestling was staged, it was hard to tell when they wrestled in Stampede Wrestling. When Bad News wrestled and trash talked in the WWF, you could tell so much that it was fake

[@michaelwilliams7400]

I think by this time, his knees were too bad. Other than that, I think Bad News being the first black champion would have been good for the sport. He would have been a good ambassador regardless of his color. I was a fan and have become more of one with every interview.

[@isaaccoage]

Rest easy grandpa 🤎

[@kennethreedy5258]

My favorite aspect of BNB was that he (his character, not necessarily the man himself) didn't even try to hide his hatred for everyone else ... heel or face.

[@mrjeremyleblanc]

Bam Bam, Mike Awesome, Bad News, Sheri Martel then the Benoits all within 7 months. That had to be brutal on Chris and Nancy to see people who helped them come up in the business pass so unexpectedly in such a short gap of time

[@unbreakableremid1541]

Damn, I didn't realize that...messed up

[@hamishburnett]

Sad that he died least than a year after this interview

[@tommytaylor4139]

Bad News was The Don,one tough dude,no nonsense,and legit tough.

[@Noway673]

Bad News tells it like it is.i respect Allen as a real man.

[@nycinstyle]

The guy was legit a full contact judo type of world champ in organizations, and a medalist in olympics. Full contact judo. The Jake the Snake, being afraid of a snake, etc, by that time he was on Arsenio Hall, etc, everybody knew it was comedy. A show. I think most all people knew it is just a show and realized Bad News would easily beat the crap out of most all of them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXLYYmiXgdaLlZY

[@royce1041]

Stone cold stolen his gimmick

[@terrywilliams3484]

I been tellin folks that for years too.. from the black trunks, boots ,wristbands, attitude and bald head... i guess the stunning steve austin with the blonde hair gimmick wasn't bout shit so he thought of be one of the realest in the game.

[@michaelpaiva9924]

Exactly, except bad news couldn't do the double middle fingers. So Stone Cold is basically the new millennium Bad News Brown , but they added the middle fingers and the beer ( for the sponsors " that disgusting sewer water they call Budweiser

[@roibaptiste3648]

@Royce Wingo i agree 100%.

[@box5bastard277]

Austin's character is just like hogans. Am amalgamation of a few others. Austin is mainly bad news brown and the sandman. While hogan was billy Graham, austin idol, and jimmy valiant yell

[@liveclassictunes]

I would have loved to interview this legend... talk about his WWWF days and his great heel and face Stampede days. This interviewer is a young guy who should have studied more before interviewing him.

[@HiVlogImDad]

Studied what? Bad News actually told me he loved the interview and asked if I would send him a copy of my book after it was over.

[@michaelwilliams7400]

@@HiVlogImDad you did a good job. I enjoyed your interview. However, it is pretty obvious that you weren't as familiar with his career as a lot of his fans. Maybe you could have prepared more? Anyhow, take it as constructive criticism, not as an insult. Take care and good luck!

[@battlestarmarc]

Bad news was a great heel and talked like clubber lang.

[@itsterrific]

He was a heck of a judo player, but in the ring, he was good on offense, and a great character, but he was bad at the give and take needed to have great matches.

[@sleazyfellow]

Yeah he talks about Bret taking himself too seriously. If you notice the majority of bad news matches end in DQ. He never wanted to bump or be taken off his feet because he was known as "the judo guy". Makes no sense. His character wasn't Kurt angle, he didn't reference his past accomplishments ever, at least in WWF.

[@mikedeck8381]

He was in his mid 40's during his WWF run and his knees were bad. Jake Roberts mentioned this in a shoot interview. That's why he didn't want to be taken off his feet.

[@michaelwilliams7400]

@@sleazyfellow He had really bad knees by the time we got to see his matches. He stayed on his feet because it was difficult for him to get up. I found him to be a really good heel. Comparing anyone's ground game to Kurt's isn't really fair. You can be a good home run hitter without being babe ruth.

[@mro4111]

First time I went to stampede wrestling like 3rd row seats 83' main event was bad news vs dynamite kid in a street fight... wrestling back then I thought was the best.... now a days yeah they might be better athletes but it's just so fake looking..

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Bad News had a problem with the Hart family in general . Tbh ...Bad News everything to the Harts because he worked in Florida with not much fanfare and no other promotion really had any interest in him .Japan and Stampede were his mainstays .

[@ZEUSDAZ]

I personally think the WWF/E belt lost It's meaning the moment Vince put it on Bret and Shawn,...and we knew what those 2 spoilt brats were gonna get up to, just didn't want to take orders from the boss and refuse to drop it when they're told,...on their terms, it was total BS.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Sorry , but putting on Bret saved it after them putting it on Ultimate Warrior . No one took it seriously after he held it till Bret won people over , knowing how to work different styles . He saved it again after Diesel .

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@40 Phil P I will never believe that Montreal was not a work .

[@michaelpaiva9924]

Are u an idiot,, Bret ans Shawn ( who i don't even but respect his ability) are up there as top 10 all time modern WWE World Champions like The Rock , Stone Cold , Brock ,Booker T, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan a few others . HHH is NOT one of the greatest Champions cus when your married to the bosses daughter and now part owner and u have complete creative control and u make yourself win the belt 100 times to me that takes away all your credentials and prestige. Flair won the championship 14 times and in NWA Duaty Rhodes was the booker

[@samanthabowers2622]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Sorry but WWF went on a downward spiral after Hogan dropped the title to Taker. Brett steadied the ship but look at the crowd at his and HBKs iron man match, it's dead. Technically great but no atmosphere whatsoever. WCW with Hogan never would have got as big as it did if Brett saved them lets keep it real:p

[@Noway673]

I started watching the WWF in 1986 because of Pipers Pit and then watched WCW 2000 and I stopped watching WWE after Rick Flair retirement in 2010 and tried to watch WWE with Brock Lesnar and the other wrestler was just wasn't cutting it with me and it looked too fake and too much soap operas.So I stopped altogether and went back to watch the reruns of WCW and the classics of the 70's and 80's and 90's matches.

[@theresawebb1968]

Bad news Allen was a real wrestler more than Hogan Hogan got the attention because of skin.

[@almightyone1181]

17:22 sighs

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Vince is a queen who hated wrestling and its fans . Thats why he destroyed wrestling using wrestlers to do it . He is always doing everything he could to get out of wrestling again using wrestlers ....ICO-Pro , WBF , XFL , Movies and the wrestlers fund it all .... he sucks at business ....he kills everything he touches since he ran wrestling out of business to sell his PT Barnum style hokey traveling circus .

[@superdavelane4]

I remember the interview he did with Tony atlas and hogan.. he seemed way too into how atlas looked... shit was kinda suspect.

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@@superdavelane4 He adopted both kids

[@superdavelane4]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 he rocked with Patterson for decades, and swept their gay accusations under the rug. I could totally see fruit in him. I'm sure Steph and Shane are his though

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@@superdavelane4 They aren't

[@fatalsniper3413]

@superdave you are right those are definitely Vince's kids.

[@wa2k99]

So by his logic, the undertaker had a problem because he stayed in character for so many years?

[@lukewba2621]

Not outside work he’s different

[@agreen3127]

Taker did...there's an interview where he Saud he had a problem.until he met his wife and she got him to separate from Mark the man vs Taker the character

[@phillipconner1213]

Overrated but never used properly

[@mikemoore7939]

This guy thinks everyone is racist

[@DavidMuhammad72]

You would have to if you walked a mile in his moccasins.

[@mikemoore7939]

@@DavidMuhammad72 I can afford better shoes.

[@lawrencestimpson6669]

Badnews was the best