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Post by Champ on Aug 14, 2008 21:15:15 GMT -5
-- WWE Hall of Famer Bobby "The Brain" Heenan is not doing too well health wise these days as his health is said to be deterioratingþ, according to a report on WrestlingEpicenter.com, a site that has interviewed a number of wrestling stars over the past few years.
The WWE Hall of Famer's health is so bad that one source told the website that he does not believe Heenan will make it another month. The source said Heenan is now having trouble remembering the people around him. Heenan has been in a Tampa, Florida area hospital since December.
He was originally hospitalized due to reconstructive surgery on his jaw, after the first surgery was unsuccessful. Heenan was placed in a medically induced coma and was slowly brought out. In late January, Bobby Heenan was brought out, but was unable to speak. He was also in line for some more surgeries to reconstruct his facial features.
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Post by Naitch on Aug 15, 2008 7:50:14 GMT -5
FUCK.
Thats all I got. I love Weasel so much.
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Post by Champ on Aug 15, 2008 12:21:18 GMT -5
He was so great as a color commentator. It was almost like he was Gorilla Monsoon's son and he was always getting yelled at for constantly misbehaving and bashing the faces.
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 15, 2008 13:10:32 GMT -5
I think commentators and managers can be grossly under appreciated at times and they get people interested as much as the wrestlers do a lot of the times. When wrestling took of in the 80's I think Heenan was a major part of the fuel keeping that rocket rising.
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Post by Naitch on Aug 15, 2008 17:12:18 GMT -5
Heenan and Hogan and Savage and Roberts and Warrior and Andre were probably the biggest on screen reasons for it going so far. I mean, seriously, in hindsight its impossible to hate Hennan because he is so much fun.
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Post by Champ on Aug 15, 2008 21:15:23 GMT -5
When I was around 9 and my sister was 8 we used to look forward to the Monday night show(I forget what it was called back then before Raw came out) and Heenan and Gorilla hosted it and they showed house show matches from MSG. Then Roddy Piper was hosting it with Gorilla for a while and then Heenan came back and my sister and I were so excited that Heenan was back. He was the only heel I marked out for when I was a kid and heels weren't supposed to be marked out for.
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Post by KOAG on Aug 17, 2008 9:05:19 GMT -5
Wasn't that Prime Time Wrestling?
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Post by Champ on Aug 17, 2008 12:49:48 GMT -5
YES! Thank you. That's been driving me crazy for the past 2 days now because I couldn't remember
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Post by Naitch on Aug 18, 2008 0:43:50 GMT -5
I loved Heenan's commentary and I always wished that Monsoon would lay off him.
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 18, 2008 11:55:18 GMT -5
Supposedly Heenan and Monsoon were great friends outside of wrestling and the two of them loved commentating together. They were like a laid back principle (Monsoon) and the school idiot (Heenan) just chewing the fat and joking around while watching wrestling.
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Post by Champ on Aug 18, 2008 14:05:39 GMT -5
Their chemistry was so top notch. The only chemistry that came close to them was Ventura and McMahon
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Post by Champ on Aug 18, 2008 19:53:41 GMT -5
Ross on Bobby "The Brain" Heenan:I heard that Bobby Heenan was doing better and is going thru speech therapy and watching plenty of baseball on TV. I love Bobby like a brother and he is one of my all time favorite people. I have never seen any one in the biz w/ so much all around talent as Bobby which includes wrestling, managing, and broadcasting. "The Brain" is one of a kind."
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Post by Naitch on Aug 19, 2008 8:09:31 GMT -5
Allright hes doing better!
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Post by Champ on Aug 19, 2008 19:28:33 GMT -5
Yeah that's great news!
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