Beloved pro wrestling manager and announcer and WWE Hall of Famer Bobby "The Brain" Hennan has passed away. He passed away on Sunday, September 17, 2017 at the age of 72 years old. The beloved manager who played a huge part of pro wrestling history in the 1970s-1990s with AWA, WWE and WCW in those decades as a manager for several big name wrestlers like Andre The Giant, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Henning, Rick Rude, Lex Luger and the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair to name a few. He also was color commentator for WWE on the 1980s and early 1990s and joined WCW in 1994 as a announcer.
During his time in WWE, he famously called matches for the company and famously appeared on the very first episode of WWE Monday Night Raw trying to get into the Manhattan Center to be apart of the first show in which WWE banned him from being in the building for that show. He managed to get in, when the show ended.
In WCW, Hennan almost ruined one of the most iconic moments in WCW history, when he kinda let us know that Hulk Hogan was turning heel that night when at Bash At The Beach 1996, Hulk Hogan showed up during a 2 on 3 handicap match between team of Sting, Lex Luger and "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. the team of "The Outsiders" Kevin Nash and Scott Hall and then turned on the babyface team of Luger, Sting and Savage and aligned with Hall and Nash who were the heel team to form the nWo, the New World Order. Hennan asked the question to the rest of the WCW announce team in which Hennan asked "but who's side is he on" as Hogan was arriving to the ring, it was the moment when Hogan hit his trademark leg drop on Savage that everyone realized that Hennan was right, Hogan was the third man that Hall and Nash had been teasing for the weeks building up to the Bash At the Beach main event. Hennan's line made the Hogan Heel turn and birth of the nWo into a very iconic moment in wrestling history.
In recent years, Hennan's health turned for the worse starting in 2002 when he was diagnosed with Throat Cancer and has battle health issues in recent years.
Hennan joined the WWE's Hall of Fame in 2004, as part of the WrestleMania XX weekend.
Hennan will be missed dearly by wrestling fans, and everyone that has been involved with the the scripted sports entertainment sport.
My thoughts and prayers and condolences goes out to the Hennan Family and everyone who knew "The Brain" well. godspeed Brain, you are now reunited with Gorilla Monsoon in heaven now.
http://www.wwe.com/article/bobby-heenan-passes-away00
During his time in WWE, he famously called matches for the company and famously appeared on the very first episode of WWE Monday Night Raw trying to get into the Manhattan Center to be apart of the first show in which WWE banned him from being in the building for that show. He managed to get in, when the show ended.
In WCW, Hennan almost ruined one of the most iconic moments in WCW history, when he kinda let us know that Hulk Hogan was turning heel that night when at Bash At The Beach 1996, Hulk Hogan showed up during a 2 on 3 handicap match between team of Sting, Lex Luger and "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. the team of "The Outsiders" Kevin Nash and Scott Hall and then turned on the babyface team of Luger, Sting and Savage and aligned with Hall and Nash who were the heel team to form the nWo, the New World Order. Hennan asked the question to the rest of the WCW announce team in which Hennan asked "but who's side is he on" as Hogan was arriving to the ring, it was the moment when Hogan hit his trademark leg drop on Savage that everyone realized that Hennan was right, Hogan was the third man that Hall and Nash had been teasing for the weeks building up to the Bash At the Beach main event. Hennan's line made the Hogan Heel turn and birth of the nWo into a very iconic moment in wrestling history.
In recent years, Hennan's health turned for the worse starting in 2002 when he was diagnosed with Throat Cancer and has battle health issues in recent years.
Hennan joined the WWE's Hall of Fame in 2004, as part of the WrestleMania XX weekend.
Hennan will be missed dearly by wrestling fans, and everyone that has been involved with the the scripted sports entertainment sport.
My thoughts and prayers and condolences goes out to the Hennan Family and everyone who knew "The Brain" well. godspeed Brain, you are now reunited with Gorilla Monsoon in heaven now.
http://www.wwe.com/article/bobby-heenan-passes-away00
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