Black Bart - When I Went to WWF in 1990 & Why I Was Used as a Jobber

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

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[@InternetSearchBibleErrors]

Get black Bart back on show 😮 put him in wwe hall of fame

[@tommysmith4797]

Bart grew up in the business. His dad was George"Two Ton" Harris. Wrestled in 60s and 70s in Jim Crockett Promotions. Was wrestler then manager. Could really draw heat, Bart could as well. This man knows wrestling and does great interviews. Wish would do one on his dad,Johnny Weaver,George Becker and other wrestlers from the day. I'm sure Bart has great stories from his dad and probably saw some when was a kid. Really enjoying these...yall keep up the good work

[@marylawrence213]

I love Black Bart ! When he won the Southern Heavyweight Tittle from Sam Houston I was happy , even though he was a heel . When him and J.J was going around the NWA with the wanted poster he had me.

[@kieranmowatt1952]

Black Bart was very underrated he was great on the mic and was great in the ring his matches with benoit in Japan where great

[@FengtasticCAE]

I can't really jump up in the air and do a leg drop but one day my computer chair slid out from under me real fast and as I fell I did a legdrop and I was like I just did a Black Bart legdrop :)

[@bobbyswain7049]

Ol Bart is a great interview

[@box5bastard277]

His Rf shoot is one of my personal favorites yell

[@briancorbin5542]

Black Bart haves some cool hand gestures when he speaks.

[@Scorch1028]

The reason that Black Bart never got a push in the WWE is because Vince McMahon put so much emphasis on his wrestlers’ bodies and aesthetic appeal. No matter how well Black Bart could cut a promo, Vince would never allow him to move up in the company.

[@Ralph-nt4jx]

So why did Kamala n one man gang get runs with Hogan? Cuz they looked worse body wise then bart did

[@lanceltn8979]

I can remember when I was 7 or 8 years old going with my granddad to shoe Black Barts horse Ole Smokey a couple of times down in Texas. I didn't know it was him until after the last time I got to go that it was him. I just remember a big dude with a cowboy hat and duster that held the horse's reins, which is something I always did when I went with my granddad. Blew my mind to find out it was him.

[@dad7275]

I like his shoot interviews.

[@KidsLearnHTML]

Wow, them old WWF rings were no joke!

[@williamschutz4982]

Wood and steel. Might as well been made out of concrete.

[@Aaron-by3ke]

Black Bart signed with the WWF at the same time "Pistol" Pez Whatley and "Playboy" Buddy Rose came in and all three men plus Bob Bradley seemingly were on TV every week jobbing. Eventually Vince dumped all his high priced jobbers except for Iron Mike Sharpe and Barry Horowitz, who got a push in 1995. Lee Peak is a legend when it came to bumping. His match with The Ultimate Warrior is a great showcase of his ability to take massive bumps yet land safely.

[@Shyann0516]

He seems like a good man. Don't know much about him but he is a gem

[@srvfan454]

Bart has some really great behind the scenes stories. I love this guy!

[@trentaccid2177]

But are they true no there not

[@pmtheone2009]

I like this mans personality. ♦️

[@paleocat6354]

Vince's father wouldn't allow Vince to be a wreslter so he hates anyone that made it in other territories. Bart deserved better

[@jaquesteddyruxpin932]

Vince McMahon was 18 years old in 1963, his father couldn't tell him what to do anymore, he could have wrestled anytime he wanted to after that and his father couldn't have really done anything about it, the fact of the matter is Vince CHOSE not to be a wrestler, he regrets his choice and now takes it out on his wrestlers

[@CarlosSanchez-bg4wf]

You were my dude back in the early 80's stay bless

[@slow71971]

Mr.Wrestling II was jobbed for the short time he was there too!

[@mkl62]

He was signed as an emergency replacement for Hillbilly Jim after his leg injury.

[@zt1053]

He should have gone in 87 and teamed up with Ron Bass again.

[@billywilliams8753]

Seems like a lot of the believable NWA wrestlers got passed over for the cartoonish wrestlers there.

[@RealArtfulDodger]

"He (Vince) would not let me get over, and I was over". Poor Bart, bless his heart. Nice guy but as always his memory of how things were versus reality are usually different.

[@brookkklan75]

SHOWWWW MOREEEE BARTTTT!!!!!!!

[@therealfrisco3859]

Guys were over 450. Maaan guys today are hardly pushing 150 lol

[@Felix-rv5qm]

The attendance has dropped the same ratio as the weights.

[@therealfrisco3859]

@@Felix-rv5qm LOL

[@lucag.lisickza425]

450 is not obesity?

[@AcesnEights698]

Now the average fan in attendance is 450.

[@MrBargill]

Theme is ... if you are not an original WWE talent .. you will be a Jobber .... even if you were the Intergalactic Inner Space Undisputed Champion of infinity of galaxies!

[@jameshannon7162]

Looks like Kris Statlander is out.

[@HypnoManNation]

@@jameshannon7162 LOL

[@brianpendergast2894]

Beef cakes!!! Lol Bart's too funny!!

[@ceaflacca1590]

Bart is the realest and should have held a major title in WWF back in the 90s.

[@steeltownbrown52]

Over guys like Ultimate Warrior and Mr. Perfect?

[@chriscawthorn1873]

See now thats just silly

[@matthew-dv8gv]

If Bart ever held a major title it's gonna have to be in the late 1980's with Ron Bass as the Tag Team Champions.

[@JruGordon]

Maybe a short IC run or short tag title run with Ron Bass

[@matthew-dv8gv]

Black Bart Return to the WWF in January, 1997, in a match against Big Country, which he lost....

[@6strprodigy]

Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger.

[@mdhotstuff]

I had to wear that gay ass pin when I worked for AMC movie theaters

[@onealheard7622]

USMC love Black Bart he that Dude

[@josephnicolino8529]

Vince made jobbers out of guys far more talented than Bart.

[@kennyneally3662]

dirty white boy was 1 of them and that guy was awesome when he was in smokey mountain wrestling

[@lexbeltran1354]

The Road Warriors come to mind

[@donniebrookeQ17]

Alot of the jobbers have to be better workers because it's tougher to make someone look good than to look good yourself...trust me

[@ericarcieri3836]

Bart could of been a top heel in wwf or maybe a great tag team with the right guy if not Ron bass

[@steeltownbrown52]

Yeah, maybe he could have.

[@horselightning]

Glad Fritz chewed him out. Hitting Kevin with branding iron . That was just plain wrong.

[@Jim-Tuner]

He was badly used in the WWE. He was often in the first or second match on house shows doing jobs for guys the company wasn't pushing anymore. He did lots of jobs for Koko B. Ware, Hillbilly Jim, Tito Santana, Jim Brunzell and so on. Toward the end, they had him work with younger guys they intended to push like Shane Douglas and Dustin Rhodes. Sometimes though they had him do jobs that made no sense. He was jobbed out to Brady Boone at one point. They also brought in Buddy Rose in just about the same circumstances at that same time and used him in about the same way. Buddy Rose was jobbing to Koko B. Ware on a regular basis too. Lanny Poffo (genius) was also in the rotation losing to Koko B. Ware in opening matches for most of the year. I would call him an "opening match guy" rather than a jobber. He was hired to fill out cards when they still were running often three shows a night.

[@box5bastard277]

What's your problem with Koko? Yell

[@KoolKumasi]

Hey they all got paid money good money to job!!

[@steeltownbrown52]

Tito was the only one that was still being utilized off and on.

[@steeltownbrown52]

@@box5bastard277 Birdman didn't have a whole lot of big programs, and he had probably had the biggest losing streak for supercards.

[@mkl62]

The wrestlers who were the first match out on house shows were called "curtain jerkers."

[@hezamachine]

I've heard of Alan Martin, but anyone know who Lee Pete is?

[@Hellhound6661000]

Lee "Peak" - long time enhancement talent.

[@The495marauder]

The first few seconds of the video I thought he was paralyzed

[@shaynewest8757]

"Best interview in the business" guy can barely string 3 words together.

[@williamschutz4982]

The days of the "Cowboy" wrestler gimmick are long gone. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

[@shadowdio9512]

Gone but not forgotten. The new generation may now look at the cowboys in wrestling as corny or possibly even racist. You know how sensitive people are these days

[@saveus228]

Hangman?

[@williamschutz4982]

@@saveus228 Not what I consider a cowboy charter, more like a modern country singer character.

[@Felix-rv5qm]

Chad Thomas does a helluva job

[@zt1053]

The thing is even by late 1985 he was basically a jobber in the NWA.

[@mikioni]

Very nice

[@jameskelly5672]

You were a jobber when you got to WWF, nothing personal

[@CujoKelly]

What was his finisher in WWF

[@grantamdal-barela8756]

I am glad I am small at 365 LBS

[@joedale1696]

"Bart youre the best interview in the business" who told him that? Himself??

[@kingsports1113]

LMAO 😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO

[@joedavis8980]

Joe Dale. Man u hating all thru these comments. Who are u fam?

[@pauleswitalski8187]

No house show cards had 12-14 matches. More than likely, a tv taping. Was WWF still running A, B, and C house shows in 1990?

[@Jim-Tuner]

Yes. There were still A, B and C shows in 1990. Here is a sample: A-Show WWF @ Atlanta, GA - Omni - January 20, 1990 Jimmy Snuka pinned the Honkytonk Man Brutus Beefcake pinned Rick Martel with a roll up after Martel attempted to use the ring ropes for leverage Tugboat pinned the Brooklyn Brawler Roddy Piper defeated Rick Rude via disqualification Jim Neidhart defeated the Genius via count-out The Powers of Pain defeated Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan pinned Mr. Perfect at around the 12-minute mark B-Show WWF @ Philadelphia, PA - Spectrum - January 20, 1990 Earthquake defeated Mark Young The Red Rooster pinned Conquistador #1 Bret Hart defeated Bad News Brown via disqualification Greg Valentine pinned Ronnie Garvin WWF Tag Team Champions Andre the Giant & Haku defeated Demolition via count-out Randy Savage pinned Jim Duggan WWF IC Champion the Ultimate Warrior pinned Dino Bravo C-Show WWF @ Baton Rouge, LA - Riverside Centroplex - January 20, 1990 Koko B. Ware pinned Barry Horowitz Hercules defeated Al Perez The Bushwhackers defeated Nikolai Volkoff & Boris Zhukov Tito Santana pinned Akeem (sub. for Barry Windham) Dusty Rhodes pinned the Big Bossman in a ball & chain match Jake Roberts pinned Ted Dibiase with an inside cradle

[@jonathanturbide2232]

There's no way Bart was going to get a push in WWF when their roster was already packed with guys that were far more talented and more marketable than him. Did he get a push anywhere after he lost the WCCW title to Kevin in 86? No, even NWA/WCW used him as enhancement talent so why would things have been different in WWF? He was hired to put other guys over, and there's no shame in that.

[@daveborder7751]

He is delusional, he was bought in to be a name job guy like Mike Sharpe or Barry Horowitz. He also made up bs about seeing Vince go onto a WWF ring crew bus & then came out ages later doing up his trousers implying he was a pedo. No idea what he is talking about with the Bass thing-if he means Barry Windham-he was in WCW at that time & didn't appear in WWF until the summer & no way were Demolition dropping the belts to Bart & Barry or Blackjack.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

@@daveborder7751 Yep, it's obvious he just doesn't want to admit he was hired to be a jobber. I thought he would have been proud of it, since jobbers are a very important part of the business. Disappointing, he should be honest with himself instead of lying like that.

[@MrJdemetsky]

@@jonathanturbide2232 The guy is full of crap! I heard a shoot of his on In Your Head and I couldnt even finish listening cause all the lies annoyed me. Bad lies too. Dusty wanted to make him the Undertaker??!! Dusty wasn't even in the office.He could have been a little more than a flat out jobber like he was like Ron Bass was, but it would not have lasted and he would have gotten jobbed out anyway. I will say though, guys like him, Tim Horner, Mike Sharpe, etc made a decent living doing tv jobs and losing ten minute house show matches.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

He also talks about how WWF offered him a tryout around the same time they signed his partner Ron Bass a few years earlier. Not sure about winning the titles but I could see them using Bass & Bart especially between 87-89 when they had a stacked tag team division with Bulldogs, Hart Foundation, Demolition, Powers of Pain, Bolsheviks, Rockets, Young Stallions, Fabulous Rougeau's etc. By the time 1990 came around Bass was long gone & WWF used Bart as enhancement talent.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

@@TitleMatchWrestling Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out. My comment was specifically about his 1990 run, but yeah I can see him being hired as a team to replace the Funks in 87 shortly after his WCCW title run. Possible, I admit.

[@TheVampirePredator]

He talks about this like it was the rock bottom of his career. Does he not remember what happened to him when he went to WCW afterwards?!

[@donniebrookeQ17]

Bart screwed his sciatic nerve

[@dantegood2195]

Lmao. Bruh was a frequently jobbing low mid-card guy in minor, bush league territories. He’s trying to say he thought he’d get a push in the WWF?? 😂

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Early in his career he was but between 1986-1989 Bart was WCCW Heavyweight Champion & CWA Champion in USWA. His partner Ron Bass got a decent push around 1988 in WWF so it isn't too far fetched.

[@joedale1696]

@@TitleMatchWrestling uswa was a joke and so was Bart when held the belt for world class, everyone who had a say in that decision even regret it.

[@dantegood2195]

Title Match Wrestling - Those title runs are a bit out context. Everyone got the belt in CWA, and Texas was going down the shitter. Fair enough with the response, but Bart was fat and old by the time he got to wwf. He wasn’t gettin no damn push. Ron bass at least was in alright shape, and a solid promo

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

@@dantegood2195 True, both good points. I think if he had gone in with Bass in 88 they may have pushed them ok as a Texas outlaw team like The Blackjacks or The Funks. Appreciate your reply man.

[@dantegood2195]

Title Match Wrestling - Same bruh. 🙏🏾

[@kennyneally3662]

hulk hogan made the most money cause he was vinces top guy

[@kingsports1113]

Vince machon Jr must didn't like Bart taking all his dad time from him

[@thayc3262]

I think this cat lives near me. Is he still alive?

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Yes sir Bart is still alive & well. We're dropping new episodes all this week.

[@Bungalowtv]

With all due respect they were not gonna put the strap on Black Bart in WWE they still had Hogan..cool stories but he’s putting 20lbs on his story and I get it but cmon man! Lbvs

[@corystevens4440]

Love these shoots. But to be real black bart was always a jobber.....sometimes jobber to the stars. But always a jobber

[@calebjanus2000]

I mean he made it but to be honest you gotta have the look and the look he had is a jobber/heel look.

[@mcwhorter141mcwhorter8]

Bart was absolutely not making top money or getting over.

[@masterfulsky]

he probably meant in comparison to what he made outside wwf

[@kevinburnes3216]

Is that tobacco stains on the corners of his mouth. He is still dipping, lol!

[@andypistole8363]

Yeah it sure is!! That ole boy done it! And it's a DAD GUM THANG !! But even more than that it's a DAD BURN THANG ....and that's when you know its serious !!!

[@hisroyalhighness8566]

This dude thinks he was bigger than he actually was

[@mfrost228]

They already had Outlaw Ron Bass, no need to push Black Bart, just make him a jobber.

[@zt1053]

Bass was gone by the time Bart got there. They should have both gone in 87 and teamed up again

[@kwmusic4560]

Vince brought in Dick Slater to be a jobber, and Slater was far more talented than Bart. He should be thankful for the paycheck.

[@gregorylevi1826]

He was, didn't you hear him say The WWF paid him well

[@FoutstoChandler]

Rip Oliver Pez Whatley and even Al Perez did nothing up there.

[@chriscawthorn1873]

Just another bitter, old, almost broke wrestler who didn't have the "it" factor it took to make it in the WWF blame Vince all you want but Bart just wasn't good enough period. Good guy but not good enough.

[@SmilingSynic]

Who in the hell is/was "Lee Pete"? Think Bart's pulling some of his recollections and memories from his rear end. No credibility shoot here, folks.