Gerald Brisco

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Gerald Brisco
Brisco in 2014
Birth nameFloyd Gerald Brisco
Born (1946-09-19) September 19, 1946 (age 77)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.[1]
Spouse(s)Barbara Brisco
Children2, including Wes Brisco
FamilyJack Brisco (brother)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Gerald Brisco
Jerry Brisco
Oklahoma Chickasaw
Billed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2]
Billed weight209 lb (95 kg; 14.9 st)[1]
Billed fromBlackwell, Oklahoma[2]
Trained byJack Brisco
Debut1967[1]
Retired2000[1]

Floyd Gerald "Jerry" Brisco (born September 19, 1946) is an American retired

Pat Patterson as the "stooges" for the Mr. McMahon character (portrayed by former WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon). He was most recently a WWE talent scout where he focused on exclusively recruiting amateur wrestlers
into the company.

Debuting in 1969, Brisco wrestled for multiple

2008
.

Amateur wrestling career

Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, Jack Brisco, into

Oklahoma State after winning two AAU 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 the spring break of 1968, Brisco was in Missouri with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injured tag team partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contracted hepatitis
and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and become a full-time professional wrestler.

Professional wrestling career

The Brisco Brothers (1967–1984)

Brisco in 1979

Brisco was trained by his brother and debuted in 1967 as his tag team partner, using the name Gerald Brisco. The Brisco Brothers were a highly successful team, amassing over twenty tag team championships over the course of thirteen years. They arrived in Florida in 1970 (with Brisco becoming Jerry Brisco) and dominated the singles and tag divisions for several years thereafter. It was also in the late 1970s that the Brisco's discovered Terry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, who they introduced to Hiro Matsuda for training. Jerry Brisco would amass a number of singles championships throughout the 1970s, including becoming the first holder of Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship.[3] On June 20, 1981, he defeated Les Thornton for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Gerald (right) and Jack (left) Brisco, circa 1983

In 1983, while teaming in the

Starrcade, with Steamboat and Youngblood regaining the championship. The brothers would hold the title one last time in 1984, ultimately losing to the team of Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood
. They would leave the Mid-Atlantic area shortly after.

The Briscos held minority interests in Georgia Championship Wrestling. In 1984, dissatisfied with the direction of the company and smaller than expected dividends, they convinced equally disgruntled majority shareholder Paul Jones to give them proxy voting of his shares.[5] The three men and Jim Barnett sold their shares to Vince McMahon, enabling him to increase his dominance of the professional wrestling world.[6]

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE (1984–2020)

WrestleMania Axxess
.

The brothers entered the

road agent
and talent scout for McMahon.

Following the 1997

heels and joined The Corporation and the McMahon-Helmsley Faction. They lampooned Hulk Hogan (then working for World Championship Wrestling, the rival of WWF) by mimicking his trademark gestures and using "Real American", his old entrance theme
.

drag at King of the Ring

On the May 18, 2000 episode of

Hardcore Holly
.

As Patterson and Brisco celebrated the victory, Patterson poured

King 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 the

Pat Patterson off-screen backstage to win the WWE 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 to Kelly Kelly. He was furloughed, along with many other WWE employees, on April 15, 2020, and was officially released on September 10.[10][11]

Personal life

Brisco is married, he and his wife Barbara have two sons named

FCW Tag Team Champion and Joseph who is a grad student at USF Tampa.[12] Brisco also co-owned a body 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 the Chickasaw Nation
Hall Of Fame in June 2016. On August 11, 2018, Brisco was inducted into the NWHOF Florida Chapter as “Outstanding American.”

Other media

Brisco appears as a manager alongside Pat Patterson in WWE2K16.[13]

After leaving WWE, Brisco began hosting a podcast series with John Layfield.[14]

Championships and accomplishments

Brisco (right) with his brother Jack being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008.
Gerald (right) and Jack (left) as NWA World Tag Team Champions, circa 1983
  1. ^ While almost always defended in the Southeastern Championship Wrestling promotion, Brisco won the championship while working on a card hosted by Georgia Championship Wrestling via a working relationship between the two promotions.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gerald Brisco". Cagematch.net. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Gerald Brisco". WWE. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  3. ^ Dick Bourne. "Jerry Brisco: First Ever Mid-Atlantic Champion". midatlanticgateway.com.
  4. ^ Mike Mooneyham. "Ageless Ricky Steamboat good guy inside and outside the wrestling ring". postandcourier.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  5. ^ "Black Saturday: The unbelievable story of the original invasion". wwe.com.
  6. ISBN 978-1-101-60974-3
    .
  7. ^ J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q. "Jerry Brisco Calls J.R......An Update". jrsbarbq.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  8. ^ "Blogger: Aanmelden". Rasslinriotnews.blogspot.com. 25 November 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
  9. ^ "Jim Ross on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  10. ^ "Exclusive Details On Packet WWE Sent To Furloughed Employees, Tentative Furlough End Date". Wrestling Inc. April 16, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "Shocking departure from WWE". PW Insider.
  12. ^ "Wes Brisco". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  13. ^ "Gerald Brisco | WWE 2K16 | Roster". The SmackDown Hotel.
  14. ^ "JBL And Gerald Brisco Announce New "Road Stories" Series, Brisco Launches New Mailbag Podcast". Wrestling Inc. 13 October 2020.
  15. ^ Johnson, Steve (April 5, 2015). "Many years of hard work pay off for Dennis Brent with CAC's historian award". Slam Wrestling. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  16. ^ Hoops, Brian (January 16, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/16): Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton win WCW Tag Team Titles". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.

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