TIMELINE Wrestling | 1989 | Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake (WWF) & Jim Cornette (WCW)

[@lurchlogan]

Beefer: "Yeah, the guy from Poison. Great guy, childhood best friend, he was the best man at my wedding. Anyway, what was his name again"??

[@virkon3208]

Brother Brut is about as sharp as a basketball.

[@Screencappedhats]

He's got CTE and suffered a severe brain injury. What's your excuse?

[@quietdignityandgrace]

"I've slept since then so it's hard to remember" I am sooo stealing that line.

[@henrikschmidt3964]

So much knowledge imparted by Cornette on this one. Beefcake is so full of it. No, they didn't boo Warrior in Toronto and no, heel Brutus Beefcake was never 'the hottest thing going'.

[@mikthemik69]

Can't you separate these so we can just get Cornette's episode without having to fast forward through Beefcake?

[@latex0r]

What do you mean, this is entertainment

[@seanbonella]

​@@latex0rhalf is

[@aarondrake1855]

Lol, I've been fwd beefer also. He seems like he on pills.

[@Screencappedhats]

He's got CTE and a sustained a major brain injury so he's not too sharp. What's your excuse?​@@aarondrake1855

[@alberts1985]

He’s not entertaining

[@itisijeeemus4036]

This is the most fascinating blend of two people telling the story of a year. Couldn’t be further apart in remembering actual details. Three months later : Beefcake has grown on me. When you consider his head injury this is probably the best he could do. Lots of stuttering and stammering but it’s not bad.

[@taekwondotime]

All the Brutus haters in the comments are so fascinating and predictable.

[@randallflagg6271]

​@@taekwondotime...as are the Brutus dickriders

[@TPJH850]

@@taekwondotime Not a Beefcake stan 😭

[@stephenjones1488]

​@@taekwondotimeikph*,m

[@seanbonella]

Beefcake does not have to be here

[@michaelcollins2367]

3:31:55 "Nobody handed me nothin'." Hogan should be offended by that. It is ungratefulness.

[@davidmurphy3214]

I can listen to Jim Cornett all day long talking about wrestling! Such a historian! And the shoot interviews with the Honky Tonk Man are the best!

[@marshalberger4250]

Super white hot and Brutus beefcake should never be put in the same sentence other than something like this explaining it.

[@Censored4UViaGoogle]

Brutus is easily the most delusional wrestler of all time. “Super red white hot” “Never been done before!” I’ve heard him talking about how green the bulldogs were and he had to carry them and school them. Lmao

[@DirtyDadDingus]

Learned from the best brother

[@damonclarke3741]

He was the legit shits. 😆

[@jaredgarrison333]

He thought he was more likely over than warrior, that says it all.

[@steveg2251]

The Bulldogs had wrestled in the UK and Canada before ever meeting Brutus. I doubt Brutus could've beaten Catweazle or Sid Cooper convincingly.

[@boscopappas234]

The only thing Brutus has ever carried is the jewelry he stole from Hulk Hogan’s house.

[@jasonkraatz9574]

Brutus seems like a guy that’s fun to party with, but you can tell his stories are far fetched. I am still salty about the fact that Beefcake never got to win the IC title from Honky Tonk Man, but Warrior being the one to do it worked out really good too.

[@luciano-km7mq]

He was seriously injured that required surgery on his face. But Vince should made another effort to put the belt on him. In fact, Jake the snake was suppose to win the belt also. Unfortunately, he was frequently in rehab. Honky Tonk man was never suppose to hold the belt that long. It just turned out that way because Jake couldn't stay sober and beefcake's horrific beach accident. I still believe Vince should've called beefcake in as a surprise guess to cut his hair in the "battle of the billionaires" between Bobby Lashley and Umaga.

[@NecDK]

@@luciano-km7mq beefcake's accident happened way later - 2 years almost. He was injured but not the facial one.

[@drock6287]

Interviewing Brother Bruti is like trying to heard cats

[@johnjacobs6753]

Why would you ever clip these two in and out from eachother?

[@trevorbyrne4668]

Beefcake insisted it be edited this way, so people would have to listen to his delusional ramblings while waiting to get to the Cornette sections.

[@TheIconReturns]

Jim Cornette is the man!

[@danielburger1775]

Ask Batista about that...

[@abcsin6526]

@@danielburger1775 ask Batista about what!? He clearly predicted Batista wrestling career!!!

[@danielburger1775]

@@abcsin6526 Cornette gets off watching other men have sex with his(Cornette's) wife, while Cornette sits watching and masturbating. Cornette wanted Batista to have sex with Mrs C, while Jim watched and choked the chicken. Batista said there was no way he was gonna be part of something like that. And Cornette has hated Batista ever since...

[@jonbaird8835]

​@@danielburger1775 Gets SMASHED over, beats 2 and 3 guys at a time, put him in the ring with both the Undertaker and Kane and has him no sell their signatures. "I learned nothing in OVW" F&@% you too batista!!!

[@Vercingetorix.Rising]

The best Brutus story is how he fell asleep working as a security guard on the subway in Boston and a coworker found his bag of coke and called the police thinking it was anthrax and the whole subway system got shut down. 2002ish

[@boscopappas234]

Yep! It was during the post 9-11 scare when someone was mailing anthrax in letters all over the country. I don’t think they ever found who did it either. Maybe it was Brutus.

[@christopherwilliams7905]

Must have been some weak coke if Brutus was asleep

[@bb-gc2tx]

if he was working as security guard as early as 2002 he must of been awful with his money. he was making really good money between 1985-2000

[@ShadowAngel-lt8nw]

@@bb-gc2tx have been, of been doesn't exist. Why is that so difficult? Also, 80% of the wrestlers were bad with their money, thinking they would just make it for all eternity and thus could party hard. It's no surprise.

[@zamplify]

@@bb-gc2tx wrestlers money makes absolutely no sense to me. I understand how ric flair blew all his money but these guys all bought houses with cash and made money hand over fist for years and years. How do you have no plan.

[@erichillston]

As a kid I loved Brutus but as an adult gotta admit his character was rough. A lot of these characters were bad no wonder my parents thought it was dumb.

[@MortonT1958]

The Beefer certainly killed a lot of brain cells back in the 80’s. Too many head shots along with too much alcohol and drugs.

[@ButWhatIfItIs]

It makes sense that there is two in one, its a look through the two biggest promotions at the time. Just wish there was someone better to cover the WWF's side of things.

[@paullindstrom7635]

It's baloney when Brutus says his "Beefcake" character was so over. They had to put Valentine, a great worker, in a tag team with him to actually have the match. The only reason he ever got jobs in 'rasslin at all was he was Hogan's buddy.

[@wademorgan8464]

Wholeheartedly. Wholeheartedly. WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Gets me every time!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@nichhodge8503]

38:34 How do you take someone’s feet “off” and reattach them especially in the 70’s-80’s??? In the mid 80’s they had to amputate Kerry Von Erich’s foot because it was messed up and they’re gonna cut off both Butch’s feet and successfully reattach both of them!?

[@MrRobKS]

Pat Patterson’s Partner Louie Did not hang himself. He had a heart attack. What the heck is Brutus Beefcake thinking

[@jeremybayne5895]

Other people have said in interviews Louie hung himself

[@Rjensen2]

​@@jeremybayne5895Well, he didn't.

[@nichhodge8503]

I’ve heard he committed suicide by hanging several times going back to the late 90’s

[@countof3everybodyOD]

I never saw anything in The Horsemen -Ed Leslie aka booty man 😂😂

[@jaredgarrison333]

Beefcake is an absolute clown. I find it hard to believe a word that comes out of his mouth. He thought he was more over than warrior? Seriously? I’m not denying one bit beefcake was over, he was. You watch survivor series 89 and the crowd gets loud when he comes out. But he was not more over than warrior.

[@countof3everybodyOD]

He wasn’t more over than Koko

[@chadbryson8842]

As a 10 year old watching WWF in 1989 the three most over babyfaces were Hogan, Warrior, and Jake.

[@jaredgarrison333]

@@chadbryson8842 agreed

[@jaredgarrison333]

@@earthisflat-qv9sm lol

[@fuscinula]

Apparently, WArrior was booed (as a face) in many venues in the late 80s, especially in his matches vs André. So, technically, in those instances, Brutus was indeed more over.

[@ljavwa3459]

Premieres in 29 days, huh? I'll be here in 28.

[@russellcampbell3500]

Haha classic

[@thekornreeper]

We made it

[@nichhodge8503]

4:29:57 even if the cables break on an elevator there is a safety system which stops the elevator from falling and it’s been in since elevators were first invented

[@markgabrich4788]

On one hand you’ve got a wrestling historian giving factual recollections and sometimes including handwritten evidence while being humble as can be. On the other side you’ve got maybe the most famous tag along in history, acting like he was on top during the time in question, obviously making up answers as he goes along and still putting himself over in between nods. You could give yourself whiplash going between these extremes!😆

[@taekwondotime]

All the Brutus haters in the comments are so fascinating and predictable.

[@datacipher]

Whoaaa… lol. This cult of Corney zombie has really drunk the kool aid. Neither of these two guys are reliable - let the lies flow brother!

[@Rjensen2]

In Beefcake's defense, he was on top, working in main events with Honkey. They didn't draw well, but he was used on top.

[@mikeyyls2044]

Ok a new avgn video and this on the same day. We have a new winner for best day ever!

[@nichhodge8503]

I’ve heard Cornette say “if he was a walking through a men’s locker room then he’ll be whistling Stranger In Paradise” (a Tony Bennett song) and have never got the reference. So I’ve looked through Apple Music seen it’s a Tony Bennett song so no wonder I never knew as I was born in 1981 and have heard of Tony Bennett he would be someone who my grandparents would’ve listened to, not even my parents (who are 74 & 71) listened to Tony Bennett as he’s before their time too! Anyway I’ve listened to the song (Apple Music puts up the words on my iPhone 15) and I can start to understand the reference more now knowing the words, whereas before I was like “I’ve heard Cornette say it so many times but I don’t know what he means”. But now I know and you have to listen to the song to get it.

[@HombreGermany]

The editing of this leaves a lot to be desired, to be honest

[@thomasredmond5793]

yeah they should of just done the brutus beefcake in its entirety first and then after do the jim cornette or vice-versa

[@HombreGermany]

@@thomasredmond5793 I don't even mind the jumping back and forth. But several answers have been cut off in the middle of the sentence.

[@trevorbyrne4668]

@@thomasredmond5793 Yeah, that would've made it easier to skip past Beefcake's demented personal fable.

[@ShadowAngel-lt8nw]

@@thomasredmond5793 should have

[@karlepaul6632]

You hear Corny and know what he says is what happened. You listen to Brutus and....well.... I liked him as a kid (that barber gimmick was definitely over) BUT ...oof...

[@pbsimmons2303]

Beefcake was brutal to watch

[@rgwebb5165]

Ed is correct. He and Greg Valentine were complete opposites. Greg was a good worker with no charisma. Ed had charisma, although I never got it, but no one has ever considered him a worker. So glad he recovered from his accident. Amazing that he did. Corny is the best historian, hands down.

[@robv4936]

You stated that perfectly

[@cl-vision5029]

Anyone know what bar was called in Rochester

[@boscopappas234]

Brutus is delusional, but that story about his coke being confused for anthrax is funny as hell.

[@jaycuthbert245]

At this point Jim's cough is literally a trademark sound lol

[@Vinnie2nuts]

I love beefcake talking about "he WAS on the close edge of death like I WAS", while he is clearly yeeked out of his mind here.

[@TownieGirl1974]

So basically half of this will be complete bullshit while the other half will be the actual truth. Got it.

[@danielburger1775]

Yup. Cornette is very liberal when it comes to the facts.

[@ButWhatIfItIs]

​@@danielburger1775You think Hogan is an honest person and you're trolling any comments praising Cornette. Speaks a lot about your integrity tbh.

[@danielburger1775]

@@ButWhatIfItIs The fact you said that says a lot more about you.

[@horgh_japan]

Both men have been known to lie... for different reasons... Brutus is deadset on putting himself and Hogan over at any cost - deflecting criticism and making up grandiose and unbelievable tall tales (minus Hogan's natural charisma and gift of gab). Cornette is deadset on protecting anyone who made him money/likes personally/is a direct blood relative of the latter two and degrading anyone he ever had an argument with/feels makes a foil for his online character. Yet, if Corny is neutral on the people involved, he can be a reliable historian with an excessively long memory and vast knowledge of wrestling's past (with the obligatory embellishments here and there for the sake of making a better story) . And Brutus? Well... Brutus can't counted on to remember what he had for dinner last night save for the blow he had for dessert.

[@liverpooloflife8731]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nichhodge8503]

1:40:32 they told Brutus Beefcake that you couldn’t cut Ted DiBiase’s hair but he could cut Virgil’s hair! ✂️ 💈

[@theangryleftist]

How can I become a member of this channel? For some reason I don’t see the option

[@Rjensen2]

Gotta pay, it's a subscription.

[@nichhodge8503]

1:42:30 It’s not Ted DiBiase got the Million Dollar Man gimmick and Vince McMahon wanted him to live the character and keep up the Kayfabe on the gimmick like it was 1969 not 89 where Vince McMahon had already said that wrestling is entertainment not a sport. Also Ted’s dad was a wrestler and died in the ring of a heart attack

[@DrewKane]

How dare Brutus talk shit about the Rougeau brothers? They would wrestle circles around him, any day of the week.

[@fuscinula]

Pretty much the whole roster could, besides Warrior.

[@Rjensen2]

In his defense, everybody hated those guys back then.

[@zaius316]

How much did Bruti smoke before he did this?

[@horgh_japan]

Not enough. Never enough.

[@adamsBASSCOVERS]

2:53:23

[@richardclark7224]

Love me some Jim cornet my man

[@shaolin1derpalm]

If you really loved him you would spell his name right .. :P

[@ShutdownWellspanMedical]

What mania 6 was Beefcake watching like hogan and warrior or not I don’t remember any booing during that match

[@BGRPiccu]

They wanted to take his feet off and reattach them?!?!?! He truly is Hulk Hogan's brother.

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Is beefcake drunk? Or is it due to the head injury?

[@joshszczech7926]

Cornette has so much detail. Beefcake just says "I dont know it was Pat Patterson ".

[@Mr.Murphy2]

4:44:49

[@randylynch4330]

Brutus was over but jesus christ does he have an overinflated sense of self lmaooo

[@drock6287]

You add a little bit of Blue heat to that Red White hot heat, you got a Real American, brother!

[@nichhodge8503]

2:42:13 did the surgeons need 100ft of titanium wire (a 100ft does sound excessive) because Brutus the “WHITE HOT” Barber Beefcake’s head is so big? Because according to him it went Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Brutus then Macho Man Randy Savage is in the list of most over wrestlers in the WWF (probably the world too in his mind). Yeah the doctors were right when they said Brutus has memory loss and brain damage (perfect person to pick to recall for a Timeline around 30yrs ago)

[@brucemichaelgrossman4913]

I don’t know why you guys combine the shoots like this. It’s difficult to watch. Just upload both.

[@horgh_japan]

Dreamer took them both... we can too... wait...

[@shaolin1derpalm]

Every time... Every... Time

[@injekt5628]

I could listen to Corney all day. I appreciate the Beefcake timeline but whoevers idea to splice these and other videos together, please stop. I get it, two videos for the price of one...no more please. It's a brutal watch.

[@MrAhhh33]

The juxtaposition of Cornette and Brutii is hilarious

[@johnlancaster4229]

A pissed off Dr. Death Steve Williams, stomping at you with anger in his eyes and a wooden chair fully cocked behind his head ready to hit you with it sounds like a horrifying sight and experience, lol

[@jayb-clay2724]

If i had my choice between Tony on commentary or Beefcake on my roster.... well sorry Brother Bruti or whoever you are this week. Tony doesnt get the props he should simply because you had one of the best commentary teams in history. Tony and Bobby together were pretty darn good as well

[@ericcapron1719]

Like this stuff.... behind the lines kinda ßtuff...its a great listen

[@MiningForPies]

Ted being judged as a worker by beefcake. That’s like asking a three year old to judge a Michelangelo or Caravaggio.

[@cl-vision5029]

Hey that old crappy building is right down the street from me, by the way it's still standing 😂

[@JeffSayYes]

What's Brutus on?

[@Rjensen2]

Delusion Pills.

[@NickM...]

And how much charlie has Ed Leslie had?! 😅 he sounds absolutely battered.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

No Ed, they didn't want to be you. Nobody ever wanted to be you. Good grief, mate! Corny is good as always, but Edward H. Leslie is like your drunk uncle at the family barbecue, blathering endlessly about his jungle adventures in the special forces, even though all he ever did was guard a warehouse filled with cement bags.

[@sithari518]

Sean, how baked was Beefer here??

[@mfm4205]

according to book sean wrote years ago, very. it's an early morning shoot, pretty sure brutus was on no sleep (and 100 percent on something). according to sean, buff bagwell was the most messed up they ever shot (1997 wcw timeline, so far gone they scrapped it, brought in nash later to do it), beefcake was the most messed up of anyone they were able to get something out of (sounds like as bad as beefcake looks here, he was in much worse shape condition about an hour before they started. wrap your head around that bit for a second).

[@sithari518]

@@mfm4205 yeah, the Bagwell shoot is legendary. He ripped Sean off pretty bad, then later once he got clean he big timed him, saying he had his own podcast and also someone else was doing a documentary on him at the time, I think. So he denied Sean even though he owed Sean not only money but time and production costs for the useless garbage shoot he did that was so bad they couldn't even use it! What a carny asshole.

[@fuscinula]

@@mfm4205 What about Jamie Dundee or Missy Hyatt? Those were pretty bad too.

[@healingchurchpotluck5352]

Release the cornette only cut

[@KCVault]

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[@jandafin]

Beefcake added nothing to this. He barely remembers 1989 so he just makes things up with outlandish stories.

[@joshuacagle8159]

This is great for the WCW part but I can't listen to Beefcake talk for more than a couple seconds. One, he sounds like he's completely making everything up. Two, he can't stop mentioning Hulk. I don't agree with what alot of Cornette says these days but his knowledge of history and him dropping information is great and he comes off as being as honest as possible.

[@Kenny-Blankenship]

1:31:30

[@rustykuntz94]

I really don’t like these formats with the back & forth. Doesn’t flow well but on their on there’s nothing better than KC shoots

[@dus1009]

Brutus Beefcake was a terrible wrestler. He was perfect for the WWF. He fit right in to that circus

[@liverpooloflife8731]

@dus1109. He certainly was...

[@baldwin930]

Beefcake is as delusional as Hogan. Dude you weren't that over face facts. And if vince had the horsemen in the 80's we all would be saying brutus and hulk who. Hey Brutus come go parasailing with me😅

[@alexello1189]

2:09:43 Sean’s reaction to hearing Sherri was a prostitute is priceless

[@_sabathia_5929]

Actually if you think about it, wcw could have turned ultimate warrior heel and kept him away from the mic. This could have been there equivalent to the undertaker. But… he probably wouldn’t have went for it and they had tunnel vision hogan vs warrior II

[@Rjensen2]

😂😂😂

[@dachronicalalittlebitofeve6630]

Cmon then admit it, who here was actually one of the masses that went to see the express, Jim is certainly a character but im not from the US and it's hard to imagine anyone specifically paying to see the express wrestle...

[@makavelli005]

02:08:50 He made Sherri Martel's career huh? Gotta love the delusion.

[@nickmorris9311]

Sean I love you but do you cook your Ribeye well done and put ketchup on it?? Crowbaring someone else's timeline into a Cornette episode should be grounds for execution.

[@Mekrabb]

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake is the best part of this video by far.

[@stephenjones1488]

Said no one, ever.

[@boscopappas234]

Which one of the Young Bucks are you?

[@trevorbyrne4668]

Is that a quote from Brutus taken from the video? Sounds like it. He's a wretched loon.

[@twiftree2532]

What’s funny about the contract negotiations around 2hr mark. If Jim would’ve just said take the 50 grand you are giving me “I didn’t ask for” and give 25k to each of them, reducing my pay down to 100. They probably would’ve gotten their 150k a piece lol. So loyalty to a point would be more correct. Jim wasn’t going to give up 50 grand a year to give to his pals.

[@ZatcheryB]

Brutus looks like The Rizzler here

[@vinceraven1501]

For all the flack Ed Leslie gets, he epitomizes what the entertainment side of wrasslin was at the time. Charismatic, Uber popular, not the best in ring worker, but, could make it look good when needed. Would've at least liked to have seen him have TV & US Title reigns in WCW. He survived a horrific injury.. Cornette is a legit legend, nuff said.

[@ShutdownWellspanMedical]

Beefcake was as over as some people like to pretend I can easily recall shows where he was bottom of the card as the barber and crowds were dead then went nuts for the killer bees those shows were in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania where I frequented in the mid to late 80s the best was when he forced fans to slap his hands walking down the aisle in Allentown Pa he was grabbing the women’s wrists and smacked his own hand with theirs

[@namemcnamerton4249]

Anyone else notice that the meng story got repeated.

[@DaRealBenRichards]

02:10:00

[@BGRPiccu]

I'm surprised Beefcake didn't nod off during his video.

[@darthsmoke76]

I grew up watching wrestling in the 80s and I don't think anyone but the barber thinks he was ever the hottest thing since sliced bread

[@alexello1189]

46:46 wrong! the answer was steroids brother brutti try again.

[@PsyOpChampion]

Met Brutus in person as a kid the spring or summer after Eddie Guerrero died. Total fucking prick to the guy infront of me in line. He was charging $40 for an autograph so I just bought an Eddie Guerrero shirt and went to go talk to Shawn Stasiak.

[@chriswarfield7520]

I wonder who and how old l the youngest person to make it to a large company booking committee was.

[@codynorris2512]

Shibata's doctor was the same one that took Luke's feet off and reattached them.

[@tommycale1505]

Brutus is not that bright ! He had to be someone’s friend. 😂

[@jamesfraser1622]

1:03:30 🤣

[@seanbonella]

Really hate there's two in one

[@KCVault]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZioZ5aem7KNrqc

[@seanbonella]

​@@KCVaultI'm not paying Sean

[@kevinkelly1529]

Sean Oliver is the best and this stuff. I would love to see him replace Brian Last on the Cornette Experience.

[@geekspeakmadechic4003]

Brutus was my favorite character of that era. He was white hot. And nobody did that gimmick since sliced white bread Barnes. Now he was the greatest of all time

[@alberts1985]

You alone

[@davecroker9301]

When was Beefcake ever white red hot a household name

[@3Overhaus]

Ed Leslie hasn't been clean since the 70s. He's a mess. This is sad to watch.

[@machoman3828]

I LOVED BRUTUS THE BARBER BEEFCAKE as a kid and so did you people. You guys saying he WASNT on fire and over are the delusional ones.

[@countof3everybodyOD]

He was popular for a short while, he wasn’t ON FIRE

[@Shelver92]

lol@4:33:31

[@jamiekmett8847]

Beefcake is such a tool..

[@chrisricciardi3812]

Yep, only Hogan is a bigger liar

[@danielburger1775]

​@@chrisricciardi3812How is he a liar?

[@marcbasil]

@@chrisricciardi3812what’re you talking about..?

[@marcbasil]

Beefcake..? You mean this kornet guy?

[@mitt8360]

Pete Austin from Boston