| Jerry Brisco |
| Jerry Brisco Height: 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) Weight: 209 lb (95 kg) Real name: Floyd Gerald ("Jerry") Brisco Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Pro debut: 1969 Finishing move: Figure four leglock Other aliases: Gerald Brisco, Lord O'Beid Career highlights: NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Champion (w/Thunderbolt Patterson), NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion, NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Champion, NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion (3), NWA Florida Tag Team Champion (8) (w/Jack Brisco), NWA Florida TV Champion, NWA Florida United States Tag Team Champion (5) (w/Jack Brisco), NWA Georgia Tag Team Champion (5), NWA North American Tag Team Champion (2) (w/Jack Brisco), NWA Southeast Heavyweight Champion, NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, NWA World Tag Team Champion (3) (w/Jack Brisco), WWC Junior Heavyweight Champion, WWC North American Tag Team Champion (w/Jack Brisco), WWE Hardcore Champion (2) Trained by: Jack Brisco Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, the legendary Jack Brisco, into sport wrestling, and was eventually awarded an athletics scholarship to Oklahoma State after winning two AAU tournaments. During the spring break of 1968, Brisco was in Missouri with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injured tag team partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contracted hepatitis and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and become a full-time professional wrestler. Brisco was trained by his brother and debuted in 1969 as his tag team partner, using the name Gerald Brisco. The Brisco Brothers were a highly successful tag team, amassing over twenty tag team championships over the course of thirteen years. They arrived in Florida in 1970 (with Brisco becoming Jerry Brisco) and dominated the singles and tag divisions for several years thereafter. Brisco would amass a number of singles championships throughout the 1970s, and on June 20, 1981 he defeated Les Thornton for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. The Briscos acquired a controlling interest (52%) in Georgia Championship Wrestling, and in 1984 they sold this share to Vince McMahon, enabling him to increase his dominance of the professional wrestling world. As a result, Gerald was given a lifelong job with Vince's World Wrestling Federation. He retired soon after and began working backstage as a Road agent and booker. Following the 1997 Montreal Screwjob Brisco capitalised on his notoriety by becoming an onscreen "stooge" of Vince McMahon along with Pat Patterson. The duo portrayed a pair of bumbling comic heels and joined The Corporation and the McMahon-Helmsley Faction. They lampooned Hulk Hogan (then working for World Championship Wrestling, the nemesis of the WWF) by mimicking his trademark gestures and using "Real American", his old entrance theme. On the May 18, 2000 episode of Smackdown! Brisco won his first WWF Championship when he pinned a sleeping Crash Holly to win the perpetually contested Hardcore Championship. Crash recovered the title on June 12, 2000 but Brisco was intent on recovering the title. He pursued Crash around New York City, but ran afoul of John Shaft, who had agreed to protect Crash. Brisco eventually regained the title on June 19, 2000 with the aid of Pat Patterson in the midst of a match between Crash and his "cousin", Hardcore Holly. As Patterson and Brisco celebrated Brisco's victory, Patterson poured champagne in Brisco's eyes then broke a second bottle over his head. He then pinned the unconscious Brisco to win the Hardcore Championship. Patterson hid from Brisco in drag in the women's locker room, and, after Brisco pursued him into the locker room, Vince McMahon booked them in a Hardcore Evening Gown Match at King of the Ring on June 25, 2000. In the course of the match, Crash Holly interfered and pinned Patterson, regaining the title. Gerald Brisco remains an important WWE employee. He also owns a car garage with his brothers Jack and Bill, known as the Brisco Body Shop. On July 15, 2005, Brisco was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. |
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