Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake recently returned to WWE programming for the first time in over two decades on the Edge & Christian show. Even thirty years after signing with WWE, he remembers getting the thrill of the huge crowds
Brutus had a nice run in the WWF capturing championships and even main eventing WrestleMania IX, but when speaking to the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling Podcast, Beefcake said that wasn't the most exciting part of his WWF experience.
" I loved being the heel Brutus Beefcake and although being a baby face is great and everyone loves you, I’ll tell you I had more fun being a heel and getting to wrestle (Hulk) Hogan in the sold out arenas and having people screaming at me and wanting to kill me and that is how you know you are doing the right thing in the ring," Brutus said. "There was no doubt that it was great. We were doing mega business everywhere and sellouts every night. When you have your run with the champion it was always sold out and all the guys that he wrestled they were selling out with whether it was King Kong Bundy, Paul Orndorff, Big John Studd and I just got thrown in the mix with a lot of big and really experienced wrestlers. It was a great time for me but also a good learning experience and gave me more knowledge so that when the time was right and they decided to switch me to babyface. Which is funny because they didn't even tell me they were going to do that. All of a sudden it was one day they sat me down and said you are going to be "the barber" and my first question was what is the barber? There is no such thing as a barber in wrestling. I did some fast footwork and kind of had to recreate myself and thank god that it worked because it made me bigger than ever," said the former Disciple.
After finishing up with the WWF and heading to WCW several years, Brutus was untouched by WWE. All that ended earlier this year, when Brutus got the call to appear on the Edge & Christian Show. Accoridng to Beefcake, he'll be back sooner than later.
“It was great and we (Edge and Christian) had a ball. We worked on a Friday and I had flown in on a Thursday and we worked for a couple of hours and knocked it out fast. Afterwards, I got to tour the facility and went around the building and got to see some old friends there that I hadn't seen in close to 25 years. You definitely haven't seen the end of me there. I just did a where are they now segment that won't be out for a little while but they came down here and filmed me at my home and I filmed stuff at Raw at a Raw show they did down in Tampa (and they had a really big house) and there is going to be a lot coming in the future and they've got some plans for Brutus. They sought me out. One of the main reasons why is because of the toy companies and the people who want the legends and the older guys and all of the superstars of wrestling from the past. There are not too many of us left and that is the one big problem, there are so few guys and real main eventers that even have anything to do with the business or are still involved," Brutus said.
You can hear the full interview at this link. Thanks to Chad & John for the transcript.
