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Gerald Brisco

Overview

Floyd Gerald ("Jerry") Brisco (born January 24, 1950) is an American retired professional wrestler, now working as a Producer for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for the RAW Brand.

In the course of his career, Brisco wrestled for several National Wrestling Alliance member promotions and won dozens of championships. Although in the course of his career he was largely overshadowed by his elder brother, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jack Brisco, he, along with Pat Patterson, achieved a degree of fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the onscreen "stooge" of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

Career

Amateur career
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.
Professional career
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 appeared at Wrestlemania 23 in a party scene, and also on the July 23rd edition of Monday Night RAW. 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.

In wrestling

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...In the early days of that angle, Shane offered support for his father in cameo roles, but he did not become an enforcer like Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson. Later, in the summer, Shane was a color commentator on WWE HEAT for a short amount of time with Jim Cornette...

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...*Georgia Championship Wrestling :*NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Bob Backlund (1), Jack Brisco (2), Ole Anderson (1), and Rocky Johnson (1)...

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...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...

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...Austin managed to retain the title despite McMahon acting as the referee and his "Corporate Stooges" Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson as timekeeper and ring announcer respectively....

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...At WrestleMania 23, she appeared along with Slick, The Fabulous Moolah, Ricky Steamboat, Jimmy Hart, Irwin R. Schyster, Dusty Rhodes, Sgt. Slaughter, Gene Okerlund and Gerald Brisco dancing backstage with Eugene, Cryme Tyme, Kelly Kelly, Layla El, and Brooke Adams. Mae made another appearance at the 2007 Draft Lottery on June 11 2007...

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...Although in the course of his career he was largely overshadowed by his elder brother, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jack Brisco, he, along with Pat Patterson, achieved a degree of fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the onscreen "stooge" of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

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...When Vince McMahon turned heel in 1998, Slaughter, along with Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, became the on-screen lackeys of McMahon; running errands for him and dishing out punishment to McMahon's rivals, namely "Stone Cold" Steve Austin...

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...At the time, she made accusations about Scott Levy (Raven), claiming he had verbally abused her. WWF road agent Gerald Brisco and Executive Vice President of Talent Relations Jim Ross claimed, however, that these allegations were not true...