 Brisco in 2014 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Floyd Gerald Brisco (1946-09-19)September 19, 1946 (age 79) |
Spouse | Barbara Brisco |
| Children | 2, includingWes Brisco |
| Family | Jack Brisco (brother) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Gerald Brisco Jerry Brisco Oklahoma Chickasaw |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1] |
| Billed weight | 209 lb (95 kg; 14.9 st)[2] |
| Billed from | Blackwell, Oklahoma[1] |
| Trained by | Jack Brisco |
| Debut | 1967[2] |
| Retired | 2000[2] |
Floyd Gerald "Jerry"Brisco (born September 19, 1946) is an American retiredprofessional wrestler. Brisco is best known for his time in the wrestling promotionWWE, where he was a backstage producer, and, during the 1990s, an on-screen character, working alongsidePat Patterson as the "stooges" for the Mr. McMahon character (portrayed by former WWE CEO and ChairmanVince McMahon). He was most recently a WWEtalent scout where he focused on exclusively recruitingamateur wrestlers into the company.
Debuting in 1969, Brisco wrestled for multipleNational Wrestling Alliance (NWA)territories throughout the 1970s and early-1980s, in particularChampionship Wrestling from Florida andMid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, winning dozens ofchampionships. Throughout his career, he teamed with his elder brotherJack as The Brisco Brothers. After retiring in 1985, Brisco moved into a backstage role with theWorld Wrestling Federation (now WWE). He had a late career resurgence between 1997 and 2000 alongside fellow veteran wrestlerPat Patterson as the onscreen "stooge" of WWE chairmanVince McMahon. Both Briscos were inducted into theWWE Hall of Fame in2008.
Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, Jack Brisco, intoamateur wrestling, and was eventually awarded an athletic scholarship toOklahoma State after winning twoAAU tournaments and only losing two high school matches, placing second in Oklahoma States in his only two years of high school wrestling due to broken leg in football. He was a starter on the OSU freshman team winning several matches and tournaments. During thespring break of 1968, Brisco was inMissouri with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injuredtag team partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contractedhepatitis and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and become a full-time professional wrestler.
Brisco was trained by his brother and debuted in 1967 as histag team partner, using the nameGerald Brisco. The Brisco Brothers were a highly successful team, amassing over twenty tag team championships over the course of thirteen years. They arrived inFlorida in 1970 (with Brisco becomingJerry Brisco) and dominated the singles and tag divisions for several years thereafter. It was also in the late 1970s that the Brisco's discoveredTerry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, who they introduced toHiro Matsuda for training. Jerry Brisco would amass a number of singles championships throughout the 1970s, including becoming the first holder ofMid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship.[3] On June 20, 1981, he defeatedLes Thornton for theNWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
In 1983, while teaming in theMid-Atlantic territory, the brothers turnedheel against the team ofRicky Steamboat andJay Youngblood, theNWA World Tag Team Champions.[4] The two teams traded the belts back and forth until the feud culminated at the firstStarrcade, with Steamboat and Youngblood regaining the championship. The brothers would hold the title one last time in 1984, ultimately losing to the team ofWahoo McDaniel andMark Youngblood. They would leave the Mid-Atlantic area shortly after.
The Briscos held minority interests inGeorgia Championship Wrestling. In 1984, dissatisfied with the direction of the company and smaller than expecteddividends, they convinced equally disgruntled majorityshareholder Paul Jones to give themproxy voting of his shares.[5] The three men andJim Barnettsold their shares toVince McMahon, enabling him to increase his dominance of the professional wrestling world.[6]
The brothers entered theWorld Wrestling Federation in the fall of 1984, once again assuming their familiar role asfan favorites. The Briscos unsuccessfully challenged the North-South Connection,Adrian Adonis andDick Murdoch, for theWWF World Tag Team Championship. Both men would retire from the ring in early 1985. After retiring, Brisco began working backstage as aroad agent and talent scout for McMahon.
Following the 1997Montreal Screwjob, Brisco capitalized on his notoriety by becoming an onscreen "stooge" of Vince McMahon along with Pat Patterson. The duo portrayed a pair of bumbling comicheels and joinedThe Corporation and the McMahon-Helmsley Faction. They lampoonedHulk Hogan (then working forWorld Championship Wrestling, the rival of WWF) by mimicking his trademark gestures and using "Real American", his oldentrance theme.
On the May 18, 2000 episode ofSmackDown! Brisco won his first WWF championship when he pinned a sleepingCrash Holly to win the perpetually contestedHardcore Championship. Crash regained the title on June 12 but Brisco was intent on regaining. He pursued Holly aroundNew York City but ran afoul ofJohn Shaft, who had agreed to protect Holly. Brisco eventually regained the title the following week with the aid ofPat Patterson in the midst of a match between Crash and his cousin,Hardcore Holly.
As Patterson and Brisco celebrated the victory, Patterson pouredchampagne in Brisco's eyes then broke a second bottle over his head. He then pinned the (kayfabe)unconscious Brisco to win the Hardcore Championship. Patterson hid from Brisco indrag in the women's locker room, and, after Brisco pursued him into the locker room, Vince McMahon booked them in aHardcoreEvening Gown Match at theKing of the Ring. In the course of the match, Holly interfered and pinned Patterson, regaining the title once again.
On July 15, 2005, Brisco was inducted into theGeorge Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. He appeared atWrestleMania 23 in a party scene and also on the July 23, 2007 edition ofRAW. On March 29, 2008, Brisco and his brother were inducted into theWWE Hall of Fame the night beforeWrestleMania XXIV inOrlando, Florida. In June 2009, Brisco suffered three strokes.[7] Four months later, it was announced that Brisco would not be returning to his position as a road agent in WWE.[8] In March 2010, Jerry Brisco did return to the WWE as atalent scout and recruiter for NXT. According toJim Ross, on October 19, 2011, Brisco suffered another stroke, a minor one.[9] During theRaw Reunion episode on July 22, 2019, Brisco pinnedPat Patterson off-screen backstage to win theWWE 24/7 Championship. He became the third person to win both the WWE Hardcore Championship and the WWE 24/7 Championship. He would soon after lose the title toKelly Kelly. He was furloughed, along with many other WWE employees, on April 15, 2020, and was officially released on September 10.[10][11]
Brisco is married, he and his wife Barbara have two sons namedWesley (born 1983) who is also a professional wrestler, known asWes Brisco, a formerFCW Tag Team Champion and Joseph who is a grad student at USF Tampa.[12] Brisco also co-owned abody shop with his brother Bill, and longtime partner Travis Allred, known as the Brisco Brothers Body Shop. Jack Brisco was also a partner in the business before his death in 2010. The Briscos were inducted into theChickasaw Nation Hall Of Fame in June 2016. On August 11, 2018, Brisco was inducted into the NWHOF Florida Chapter as “Outstanding American.”
Brisco appears as a manager alongside Pat Patterson inWWE 2K16.[13]
After leaving WWE, Brisco began hosting apodcast series withJohn Layfield.[14]
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