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Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake

Brutus Beefcake

Height: 6’4”
Weight: 273 lbs.
Real name: Edward Harrison Leslie Jr.
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Pro debut: 1977
Finishing move: Barber's Chair (Sleeper hold), Stunner, Heiny (High Knee)
Favorite quote: "The only two tools I need are these fists right here, baby!"
Other aliases: "Dizzy" Ed Hogan (NWA), "Dizzy" Ed Boulder (AWA, NWA), "Dizzy" Golden, the Clipmaster, Brudi (WCW), The Butcher (WCW), The Man With No Name (WCW), Zodiac (WCW), The Booty Man (WCW), Brute Force (i-Generation), The Disciple (WCW)
Career highlights: SAW Tag Team Champion, WWWA Heavyweight Champion, WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Greg Valentine), NWA Southeastern Tag Team Champion (2) (w/ Ken Lucas)
Trained by: Hulk Hogan, Ivan Koloff

Edward Leslie began his career at the side of Hulk Hogan in the 1976-77 time frame. At the time, the two were billed as brothers, alternately Terry and Ed Boulder, or Hulk and Dizzy Hogan. Because of this, for many years, it was a part of pro wrestling lore that Hogan and Leslie actually were brothers, but there is no real family relation between the men.

Leslie wrestled briefly in Bill Watts' Mid-South territory and also wrestled sporadically between 1980 and '82 in the WWF before he became known as Brutus Beefcake. According to a shoot interview conducted in 2000, his first match was with Ron Slinker against Ox Baker and Eric the Red.

Leslie entered the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a heel under the ring name Brutus Beefcake in late 1984 with manager "Luscious" Johnny Valiant. He teamed with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and won the Tag Team Championship. They held the titles for eight months, losing to the British Bulldogs at WrestleMania 2.

The team would break up at WrestleMania III Despite a win over the Rougeau Brothers (Raymond and Jacques Rougeau) at the Pay Per View, the team had a (kayfabe) falling-out when Beefcake was left in the ring while Valentine and Valiant left with Dino Bravo. The team had left Beefcake after accidentally cutting his hair following a match. This provided the impetus for Beefcake to turn from heel to face. And later that night, he acquired the nickname "The Barber" after Rowdy Roddy Piper's match against Adrian Adonis. Adonis lost the match, and it was stipulated he would have to cut his hair. Beefcake entered the ring and began to clip away at Adonis' blonde locks.

Thereafter, he started bringing garden shears with him to the ring (with the handles taped to resemble barber poles). He would cut off the hair of his opponents (after knocking them out with a sleeper hold) using scissors or an electric razor. He would follow a successful sleeper hold with a strut around the ring, "snipping" his fingers like a scissors to indicate what was about to happen. Hewould throw handfuls of hair into the air to the delight of the crowd.

In 1990 near-fatal parasailing accident put him out of action. He was helping his parasailer friend prepare for takeoff when the driver of the boat mistakenly took a cue to take off, sending the would-be-parasailer's knees directly into Leslie's face. His face had to be surgically repaired with metal plates and screws, putting his WWF career on hiatus for nearly two years. It also gave him an infamous nickname among "smart" wrestling fans in later years: The Man With No Face. He began making appearances again in late 1991/early 1992 in his interview segment called "The Barber Shop." His accident was never directly referred to on TV but was alluded to in his "Barber Shop" interview segments by other wrestlers.

To facilitate his return to wrestling, he was put in a mask and randomly attacked heels by running in on their matches. He would hit the heel a few times, headbutt him, and escape. He never wrestled a match in this persona and was never given a name.

His injury was used in angle in early 1993, when Leslie's come-back match ended in him being attacked by Money Inc., who (kayfabe) tried to reaggravate his facial injuries. This resulted in manager Jimmy Hart turning face and Hulk Hogan returning to the WWF, forming a tag team with Leslie (a real-life good friend). The Mega-Maniacs, as they were called, squared off against Money Inc. at Wrestlemania IX with Leslie wearing a special protective face mask, supposedly constructed by NASA. Hogan and Leslie got their revenge but lost via disqualification. Shortly afterwards he dropped out of the picture, resurfacing a year later alongside of Hogan in WCW.

Since the name Brutus Beefcake was trademarked by the WWF, WCW was forced to give Leslie a different ring name. At first, he was only referred to as Brother Bruti (pronounced: brew-tie), making short appearances with WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan, who had just arrived in WCW. At Halloween Havoc, following Hogan's cage match victory over Ric Flair, Brutus was revealed as the mystery assailant who attacked Hogan just before his title defense against Flair at Clash Of The Champions XXVIII. Leslie was billed as The Butcher. The feud between these two culminated at Starrcade 1994 and was then abruptly dropped as fan interest was simply not there.

After this, Leslie reappeared in a series of different gimmicks and ring names, first as the supposedly amnesic Man with No Name. He would go on to be part of Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom as The Zodiac, a character with black and white face paint who would only say, "Yes, no, yes, no!"

In 1996, Leslie feuded with Diamond Dallas Page, this time as The Booty Man. He was accompanied by Page's ex-valet (and real-life wife) Kimberly Page, whom he referred to as his "Booty Babe." His gimmick was simply that of a man who would shake his (supposedly) bare buttocks on the way to the ring. This too did not last long. When the nWo started, Booty Man attempted to join and promptly received a beatdown from Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan.

Leslie's last WCW gimmick was the bodyguard of Hollywood Hogan, The Disciple who would help Hogan illegally in many matches. He was almost unrecognizable at first with a full beard, dark sunglasses and nWo-styled biker attire. He was later "kidnapped" by Warrior during Warrior's brief WCW run and feud with Hogan and was the only other member (along with Warrior) of the One Warrior Nation.

Leslie is largely retired now and was last in the news for causing an anthrax scare at one of Boston's MBTA stations, Downtown Crossing, where he was working at the time. It turned out that he had cocaine instead of anthrax. He promptly checked into a drug rehabilitation facility after admitting that the cocaine found at the station was his. As a result, no charges were filed against him.[1]

Brutus apparently has been offering haircuts for $20.00 at appearances he makes.

Brutus is currently working for a supply company in Massachusetts. He still wrestles occasionally. He has become a Christian. Now he is a part of the Christian wrestling group "World Impact Wrestling". He has started a wrestling school: Beefcake Wrestling He also now lives with his wife, Barbara.