The Talking Brain

Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All by Bobby Heenan and Steve Anderson

In my continuing effort to read each and every one of the old school wrestling 'autobiographies' I picked up this book yesterday and finished it up today. It's a bit of a mixture of Piper's ramblings with Blassie's history.

You don't get a lot of Bobby's history outside the ring in this book, beyond a little bit of info on his family and battle with cancer. What you do get is quite a few anecdotes about guys he wrestled and managed over the years including the Bruiser, sheik and Hogan. He talks at length about his days in the AWA and the WWF and rips into the lack of organization in WCW and in particular Tony Schiavone.

This also stands as the third wrestler book [along with Hogan and Blassie] that tells the story of the Verne Gagne offering the Iron Sheik $100,000 to cripple Hogan in the ring and come back to the AWA with the WWF title.

This is a pretty good book if you like Bobby, and does a good job of telling the story in the voice of the Brain. Not exactly dense reading, but good for an afternoon.