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00:30One of the most infamous wrestlers of all time, Abdullah the Butcher, left a legacy of violence
00:40and bloodshed wherever he went, from Puerto Rico, to Japan, and across North America.
00:46It's Abdullah! Think about what he's experiencing. He's getting cooked!
00:52You can't think of a heel that was bigger than Abdullah. You can't.
01:00He made money everywhere he went.
01:02But the more money we made, the more danger we had to face.
01:05Even though Abdullah was playing a character, inside, that was him.
01:10He would have people with slingshots hitting him and throwing things at him
01:13because they think he's a damn guy.
01:16Fans at ringside, when he got too close, I mean, they were running.
01:20Notorious for blurring the line between reality and fiction,
01:34Abdullah remained a mystery even to those closest to him.
01:37See, you all know the wrestler. You don't know the person.
01:42He's a hero all the time. He's a very good person.
01:46In a gruesome but successful career spanning seven decades,
01:51Abdullah's thirst for blood made him infamous, but also led to his downfall.
01:55He cost me my WWE career. That was a fact.
01:58The Hep C caused me not to have my WWE contract.
02:02You're a piece of shit, and I hope that when you die,
02:07you die a really slow and painful death.
02:21Acting like he finds the taste of the blood pleasurable.
02:25Abdullah the Butcher would come into a regional wrestling territory
02:28and just set business on fire.
02:30Blood everywhere!
02:32The difference between Abdullah and everyone else
02:35is when anyone else came into the territory,
02:38fans were rooting for their favorite to win.
02:41When Abdullah came in, they were rooting for their favorite to survive.
02:45Whoa, what a vicious chuckle!
02:47He's getting ready to carve up a steak dirty.
02:49Hello, I'm Mick Foley, sometimes known as the hardcore legend,
02:53and I have been involved with professional wrestling since 1985.
02:57I knew of the legend of Abdullah, because in those days,
03:01you learned about people outside of your geographic area largely by the magazines.
03:07And the magazines painted this amazing portrait of this unstoppable monster.
03:12I was so intrigued by Abdullah the Butcher that the first thing I did when I got to college as a freshman
03:19was I put a black-and-white photo of him on the wall
03:22and began to tell the entire dormitory that he was my father.
03:25When you have those Taekwondo karate pants and you see him with a fork with all those gigantic cuts
03:36and he opens those big eyes and you see him on promos eating liver and the blood of the liver coming out,
03:45that's Abdullah the Butcher and he was unstoppable.
03:50My name is Hugo Zabinovich, I'm from Guayaquil, Ecuador,
03:53and I've been in this passionate industry for close to 50 years,
03:59and I will do it again, love Lucha Libre.
04:02No one was safe.
04:05Here he comes again, he hits Brock Kovic.
04:07Not the referee, not the owner of the company.
04:10He will put fear into your body, into your brain, your soul.
04:16What's happening in here?
04:25Can you explain to everybody what you're watching?
04:28Yeah, eating the raw meat, chicken, uh-huh.
04:35And he could even take a phone book and tear it in half.
04:41My name's Josephine Heron Shreve, Abdullah the Butcher is my brother.
04:53Windsor at that time, when I was growing up, I always say that's old school.
05:01And it was like we was raised in a two bedroom house, wartime house, there was eight of us.
05:07Two or three of us slept in a bed together.
05:12I had my own room because I slept in the bathtub.
05:17I had a cushion to put in there.
05:19My father and I have to go to the bathroom.
05:21They'd piss in a can.
05:23My mother had to come in the wardrobe, she'd knock on the door,
05:25and I'd get out of the tub and let her in.
05:27But I don't think my mother wanted to piss in a can.
05:30Okay, that's the way it was.
05:32My name is Ralph Shreve.
05:35I am Larry Paul Shreve's brother as Abdullah the Butcher.
05:42I call him Larry.
05:45That's his name to me.
05:48Abdullah the Butcher is his money name, his wrestling name.
05:53If you ever interview him, you just look at his damn head.
05:58Do you ever interview him?
05:59Oh, there you go then.
06:01I guess you, he tells the truth, but I'll tell you one thing.
06:04There I think you should be better off talking to him a longer distance.
06:09Yo, that D.
06:10Yeet!
06:11You have your ass jump up in one minute.
06:14And you scared to death.
06:16He's a good actor.
06:17Oh yeah, we just got a...
06:35I wanted to take it off and say, oh, I got my head off, let me take my head off.
06:40Looking good.
06:41There he is.
06:42Yes, there he is.
06:45Oh, it really is you.
06:49My name is Larry Shreve.
06:51My name, my other wrestling name is Abdul the Butcher.
06:55I'm from Cartoon Sudan.
06:57But now, since I'm pretty near out, I'm from Cartoon Sudan, Windsor, Ontario.
07:06Your parents had to take care of a lot of kids, like, was it challenging?
07:10I worked hard.
07:11My mother worked hard.
07:12My dad worked hard.
07:13Yeah.
07:21When I see my mother on the floor, scrubbing floors, you know, at a funeral home, I said
07:28to myself, holy shit, my mother works hard.
07:31But I never knew that she was on her hands and knees until I went there.
07:36I didn't want to learn how to read or write because I was only worrying about my mother
07:43and father.
07:45I wanted to make money.
07:47I used to buy candy, three for a penny, go to school, and, uh, you want to buy some candy?
07:56Right?
07:58I'd sell it for maybe a penny a piece or whatever.
08:01Where the kids owed me money, and I said, when are you going to pay me my money?
08:07So maybe he got scared like I was going to do something, right?
08:12So, he wouldn't go to school.
08:15Maybe his mother came and says, my kid is scared to come to school.
08:19And, uh, that was it.
08:20Then I said, I got to get out of here and try to make some, you know, money where I don't
08:25have a problem.
08:26And that's what I done.
08:28So, Larry only finished the second grade?
08:31He only finished the grade second.
08:32I was a year smarter than him, and I'm not really that smart myself.
08:36But I'm saying, we done a lot.
08:38He done, Larry, he went to people's houses knocking on their door and asking for old clothes
08:42and all that.
08:43And he had a second hand store with all kinds of old clothes, and he had a store.
08:48He shined shoes for years, then he got a janitorial service, a business.
08:55He had people cutting grass and all that.
08:58He had a truck where he went around moving stuff out of people's basements and all that.
09:03He was a worker.
09:04Let's just say he was always a hustler.
09:07He'd been in the karate and all that.
09:10He had a karate place where, like senior citizens, he trained them to learn how to defend yourself.
09:17That's right in Windsor.
09:18You had about eight or nine old ladies in their 60s and 70s.
09:21And he had it where they could defend themselves.
09:23There's old people in that.
09:25I was down at the Windsor Arena, and I was doing karate and stuff like that.
09:29And the manager of the place, he said, hey, you should be a wrestler.
09:34I said, I don't want to do that crap.
09:38He said, you can make some money.
09:40I said, oh, okay.
09:42Abdullah crosses the river to Detroit, where he meets the original Sheik,
09:46one of the innovators of hardcore wrestling.
09:49Wait a minute.
09:50The Sheik has got that fire.
09:51Come with that despicable act of fighting.
09:54Abdullah playing an Arabic wrestler, they only had one at that time.
09:59And that was, they called him the Sheik.
10:01And not the Aaron Sheik.
10:03The Sheik out of Detroit.
10:05He used to do all that stuff.
10:07You know, cut you with your forehead, walk around crazy.
10:10Pulled out that fireball.
10:12Hi.
10:13This is Mr. USA, WWE Hall of Famer, Tony Atlas.
10:15Grew up watching at the Sheik.
10:16He imitating the Sheik.
10:17Out of his camel clutch or anything about me.
10:18Wait a minute.
10:19Wait a minute.
10:20That's my spark.
10:21Corner post.
10:22Oh, this is a great match.
10:23This is wall.
10:24This is wall.
10:25This is wall.
10:26I told my dad.
10:27I said, Dad, I'm wrestling at Cobo Hall.
10:29My dad says, those are some dangerous people over there.
10:31My dad used to see me with cuts on my head.
10:33He told my mother, tell him that you better get out of that shit.
10:35I said, Dad, listen.
10:36Smack me.
10:37He said, for what?
10:38I said, just smack me.
11:01Hablando de este truco de la trade, Abdullah atraviesa el mundo
11:27para compartir el estilo de suerte.
11:32En el trabajo de Puerto Rico,
11:35encuentro Carlos Colón y su derecho, Hugo Cevinovic.
11:37I started working with Carlos,
11:39y me dijeron que no es grande, pero no es grande.
11:42Y me dijeron que quiero hacer un manager.
11:44Y me dijeron que, por ejemplo,
11:46estamos llevando a Puerto Rico
11:47un monstruo.
11:48Y me dijeron que me dijeron que me dijeron
11:51y me dijeron que me dijeron que me dijeron.
11:53Y me dijeron que me dijeron que me dijeron.
11:55Managinglo,
11:57fue un cazón, cazón, cazón,
12:00de ganar un living.
12:01Todos están estando cazón aquí.
12:03En 1983,
12:05él estaba ya gastando gigantesco dinero
12:07en las Islas de Caribe y Puerto Rico.
12:09La gente se llenó el estadio.
12:12El Tula va a hacer el promotor Carlos Colón
12:15se ve bien.
12:16Pero al mismo tiempo,
12:19se destruiría.
12:20El Tula va a hacer el miedo de estar involucrado en este juego.
12:23El Tula va a hacer en Puerto Rico
12:25por un par de meses.
12:26El Tula va a hacer en Japón por un par de meses.
12:27Y luego,
12:28luego,
12:29he regresó a los Estados Unidos.
12:30Y fue un gran draw.
12:34Yo,
12:35he,
12:36he,
12:37he,
12:38he,
12:39he,
12:40he,
12:41he,
12:42he,
12:43he,
12:44he,
12:45he,
12:46he,
12:47he,
12:48he,
12:49he,
13:11y.
13:12Así que no quiero conocerlos, ¿entendrán?
13:15Estaba aquí scrubbing floors y algo así, ¿no?
13:17¿Puedo ser a Bill of the Butcher?
13:19¿Puedo estar en tu cabeza y a tu cabeza scrubbing floors y algo así?
13:22Desde ese día.
13:24Nunca trabajé otra vez en su vida.
13:26Y yo me aseguré de eso.
13:28Pero yo estaba mal.
13:30No tenía la escuela.
13:32Como te digo, si sabes lo que yo ahora,
13:35todo el chafo me, ¿entendrán?
13:38Despite his successful and profitable rise to fame,
13:42Abdullah today finds himself in legal trouble and financial ruin.
13:47What has the whole situation been like for you personally?
13:50Hell.
13:52You don't know who in hell is working with you or working against you.
13:56You understand?
13:58I'm in bad shape.
14:00Real bad shape.
14:08Anybody, anywhere, that does not fear the name of the almighty Abdullah the Butcher
14:16is either an insane fool or they're lying to you.
14:20With Larry Shreve, yeah, it could be really difficult for a fan to know
14:26where the character ends, where the real person begins.
14:29He has reigned terror in the restaurant.
14:32You're right.
14:33You're right.
14:34You're right.
14:35For someone who rode with him for hundreds of hours,
14:38um, yeah, yeah, you, you, you get to know the real guy
14:42or what he wants to show you of the real guy.
14:45Abdullah the Butcher moves swiftly for a big man.
14:48See, he always talk about, he's an entertainer.
14:52He's entertaining you.
14:54But the real true person, you all don't know.
14:57My name is Jocelyn Malika Marshall.
15:03I met Abdullah while I was on the streets feeding the homeless.
15:08He told me his name was Joe.
15:10And I was just so excited to see somebody else out there, like myself,
15:16feeding the homeless.
15:18So I didn't know he had a restaurant.
15:21Gave me the address of the restaurant, and I brought my son over there.
15:25My son said, do you know who that is?
15:28He said, that's Abdullah the Butcher.
15:30And I said, who is that?
15:32Because I'm not into wrestling.
15:34Abdullah was his, uh, hero.
15:37Your son liked all the bad guys.
15:39He loved the bad guys, yes.
15:41Abdullah was the best heel that the world ever saw.
15:46Even picturing my head now, just the way he stands,
15:49the way he moved around the ring, and the things he did.
15:53To see a whole crowd of people move back, he could walk through an hour,
15:59and people would run from him.
16:01And when he'd come through that ring, people would go, uh-oh, here come Abdullah.
16:05It got so it wasn't a gimmick.
16:07He was in character most of the time, especially when we went in public.
16:11Uh, I remember seeing a flight attendant over to him.
16:14And as soon as Abdullah saw that flight attendant,
16:16his eyes bugged out, his mouth started watering,
16:19and she tried to, like, get his beverage order, and just walked away.
16:24And I was like, Abby, are you okay?
16:25He goes, gotta protect the character, champ.
16:27Gotta protect the character.
16:29And that's what he would do.
16:30And so, in his own way, he would create this grassroots campaign
16:35for the authenticity of his character.
16:39When he wanted to the ring with any wrestler,
16:42he made them a good wrestler.
16:45If you fight Abdullah, you fought Abdullah, you got over it.
16:49People knew you the next day.
16:51They got, like, a crown on their head because they're, they're wrestling one of the best.
16:55That's why I say, Abdullah made Carlos Cologne.
16:59Abdullah made Tony and Mr. USA Atlas.
17:03Everybody that fought Abdullah became a big star.
17:07Here comes Frank.
17:09There goes Kevin Malay.
17:11Duty battle continues between Abdullah and Kevin Malay.
17:14Here he is with a big karate thrust to the head of the Dirty Dutchman tale.
17:21What really made Abdullah was a time in Japan.
17:26In Japan during that time, Rass was staying about 70% real.
17:32You got a karate kick in Japan doing a real karate kick.
17:35You got chopped in Japan. It was a real chop.
17:38Don't think it was fate in Japan was who won and who lost.
17:47It was on the cover of all these magazines.
17:49They have billboards of Abdullah. You know, pictures of Abdullah.
17:54He was what I call crazy over.
17:56Like, he was an iconic part of Japanese culture.
18:03You're through. That's fine. Doesn't bother me at all.
18:07As crazy as this might sound, he recorded an album in Japan.
18:19In the dressing room.
18:21My name is Abdullah the Butcher.
18:23I'm going to do all these crazy things to you.
18:25My own family hates me because I'm too vicious.
18:29They never seen nothing like me. I was different.
18:36They only seen the wrestling. You know, that was it. I was different.
18:42Yeah.
18:47Having found success with the hardcore style he adapted from the Sheik, Abdullah becomes a mentor to wrestler Devin Nicholson.
18:55But this long-term friendship will end in disaster.
18:58I actually ended his career. Retired him in the ring. Retired him out of the ring.
19:04My name is Devin Nicholson and my wrestling name was Hannibal.
19:10There will be no more Abdullah after the 23rd.
19:15No class. No idea how to dress.
19:16Starting his career with Stampede Wrestling in 2001, Devin begins working under the name Madman Hannibal and soon launches his own indie promotion Great North Wrestling.
19:29In 2006, he begins working with Abdullah.
19:33Before all the negative stuff happened, I actually considered him somewhat of a mentor.
19:40I would say he was the first wrestler to pick me under his wing a bit and teach me about how to get heat and stuff.
19:52We ended up tag teaming and wrestling each other numerous times.
19:58I knew I used to work for him.
20:00You guys were friends, weren't you?
20:01Yeah. I used to fly into Toronto or whatever and we had shows.
20:06He'd come out to Calgary, Alberta, we'd have shows. You understand?
20:11Abdullah! You think I'm not ready for you?
20:15I'm gonna kiss you in your last match in Canada.
20:20There will be some people that will always hate me for exposing him, but whatever. I don't care.
20:28I stopped him from wrestling.
20:30Already 68 years old and six decades into his career, Abdullah returns to Canada to wrestle Hannibal in what's being billed as his retirement match.
20:48I remember my first experience of Abdullah. My grandmother was actually somewhat of a wrestling fan.
20:55And I remember she let me print a wrestling movie called I Like to Hurt People.
21:01Against the butcher from the Sudan, Abdullah the Butcher.
21:05And I just remember thinking, how did they make this blood effect?
21:09You didn't really know how they did blood in those days.
21:12I'll probably have to edit this.
21:14And I know Bret Hart would put it in his mouth, he said, but I was always afraid to do that.
21:22So then you would take the blade and put it like there and tape over top.
21:28And then when it comes time to bleed, you'd pull it out.
21:32And then, I'm not gonna do it, I'm not Abdullah, but you'd slice down like that.
21:38Now, for me to hit myself, I would hit myself like this.
21:42You see it?
21:46I was around Abdullah a lot, and you never actually see him do the deed.
21:52The blood would arrive as if, you know, by magic.
21:56Abdullah had razor blades on all his fingers.
21:59First he'd cut you with the razor blade.
22:02And what does he got? He's got a fork!
22:03And then he would take the fork and scrape it across here to make it bigger so it could bleed more.
22:08And he actually would stick that fork, he would stick it with that fork too.
22:12He's like stabbing your head with that fork, hurt like hell.
22:15That's Abdullah! Abdullah the butcher!
22:18And he would cut you deep.
22:20Well, did anybody ever complain about being cut?
22:22Not to Abdullah.
22:24Because, you see, in the older days, the guys would tell you this.
22:30Suck it up!
22:32If you don't like it, you're in the wrong business, kid. Suck it up!
22:36There was no bits of the complaining in wrestling.
22:39I didn't carry blades cause I didn't juice every night.
22:41But this was part of these guys' gimmick.
22:44Abdullah the butcher!
22:46Abdullah, Bruiser Brody, Dusty Roll.
22:53Abdullah's blade every night. Every night.
22:56It's kinda like, Rich Flare gotta have the roll.
22:59Well, Abdullah gotta have the blade.
23:01Why do they call him Abdullah the butcher?
23:04What does a butcher do?
23:06They take to make blood.
23:08They try to hurt you, to torture you.
23:09Mm-hmm.
23:10This guy here, he was rushed to the hospital and had four stitches in the back of the head.
23:15This guy chopped him in the damn head and got cut.
23:18Don't think that this is all phony blood.
23:21Abdullah's intense bloodlust and unpredictable style
23:25keeps him from signing with the world's largest promotion, Vince McMahon's WWE.
23:30Vince kinda knew that Abdullah was gonna be very hard to be controlled.
23:36And I think that if you would even ask Abdullah, I don't think he even trusted himself.
23:45Because I don't think a lot of times he planned things.
23:47We were gonna have a tag team match in Ottawa and before the match, we were appearing on a local television show called Roger's Daytime.
23:59I just happened to have a fork right here.
24:01Huh? With the old, you know...
24:04And without this being clad or anything...
24:09It's always a pleasure.
24:10Why do you have to go?
24:12He put the male host in a headlock.
24:16Do it! Do it! Do it!
24:18Walked the male host over to where there was going to be a cooking segment after.
24:22Ah!
24:23Ah!
24:24Ah!
24:25Ah!
24:26Ah!
24:27Ah!
24:28Ah!
24:29Ah!
24:30Ah!
24:31Ah!
24:32And then the guy started bleeding.
24:33Settle!
24:34Back off!
24:35Ah!
24:36Ah!
24:37You know what?
24:38You should come with me!
24:39Ah!
24:40Ah!
24:41Ah!
24:42Ah!
24:43Ah!
24:44Ah!
24:45Ah!
24:46Ah!
24:47Ah!
24:48Ah!
24:49Ah!
24:50We'll be right back after this.
24:51I think that was 2009.
24:52You couldn't even really get away with it then.
24:53It was a miracle he did.
24:54But you could see like how in the old days he could get away with stuff like that.
25:07But I think in 2022 it would be hard to assault a TV show host and get away with it.
25:13I think he was in his late 60s by then too.
25:16So it certainly helped.
25:21After years on the independent circuit and mentorship from Abdullah, Hannibal finally
25:25achieves his own opportunity to wrestle for the WWE.
25:29When I was signed by WWE, he actually screamed with joy.
25:35Because I guess since he never actually wrestled for them and it was kind of like someone that
25:41kind of represented him in a way was going to get in there.
25:45But after a series of routine blood tests, Hannibal receives career shattering news.
25:50In my blood test they found that the hepatitis C virus was present.
25:56And I was like, well first of all I was confused on like how I would have such a thing.
26:04A lot of guys would use dirty razor blades.
26:07You know that.
26:08Because everybody didn't care of blades.
26:09Everybody didn't care of blades.
26:10Then we'd say something like, hey Abby, you got a blade I could use?
26:15Dude, he's going to use the blade.
26:19And you know when you boil something you got to do what?
26:22Give it back.
26:23And they would give it back to Abdullah.
26:26So, it was very easy for somebody to catch a disease because who knows where that blade
26:33came from or who they cut before they cut Hannibal.
26:36Did it cross your mind at that point that it might have been Abdullah?
26:39Yes.
26:40Because there was no other way that I would have thought that I would have caught it.
26:44But I wasn't, like at this point I didn't think that I would have the evidence or anything.
26:53At some point you and this guy Hannibal were friendly with each other, right?
26:57Yeah, we were good friends.
26:58I used to work for him.
26:59He was a promoter.
27:01Right.
27:02So, I don't know what happened but I don't want to talk about this.
27:08I don't want to talk about it.
27:10His career cut short by his hepatitis C diagnosis.
27:22Hannibal is desperate for answers.
27:24I had a guy that was doing a documentary on me.
27:27It was called This Is Hannibal.
27:29We were hoping that it was going to be my journey to WWE movie.
27:33But it ended up just being like a sad movie.
27:36Obviously it didn't work out.
27:38The contrast got rescinded because I have hepatitis C.
27:43So, he was the one that actually saw the cutting incident.
27:47And he showed me the clip from the 2007 match.
27:52And he's like, what is Abdullah doing here?
27:54I haven't even seen footage of the match, to be honest with you.
27:59I would love to see it.
28:01You can see here he's cutting his own head with his razor blade that's taped to his finger.
28:06Right where all the scars are on his forehead.
28:09What he's been doing for the past 50 years.
28:15And you see him doing that to my forehead.
28:19So, I'm like, he's blading me.
28:22Oh my God.
28:23So, eight years managing him in different countries.
28:27I never saw him doing that to another guy.
28:33And if that's the case, wow.
28:36Many local news stations saw my movie and did their own stories on it.
28:41Because Ottawa, I don't think I ever had somebody that had made WWE.
28:45Ronald Kazza, one of the top lawyers in this area, saw the case.
28:52And with his skill as a lawyer, he was able to basically force Abdullah to provide his blood test.
29:01According to his blood work, there's a history of hep C.
29:05So, you would think that he knew.
29:08But whether he knew or not, he should have known it's dangerous to cut someone with a razor blade
29:14with blood on it.
29:16The footage of Abdullah cutting Hannibal with a used razor blade
29:21and the results of Abdullah's blood test form the basis of a lawsuit filed by Hannibal.
29:26A lawsuit that Abdullah claims he couldn't read or understand.
29:31I was getting a lot of letters, right?
29:34What am I gonna do? Open it up?
29:37I don't know what the hell it says.
29:40If it wasn't for Malika, no.
29:45I would, I'd be, I'd be, I'd really be in bad shape.
29:49And he said, sat me down, he said, sit down Malika.
29:53But he told me he didn't know how to read and write and he cried like a baby.
29:58A big, huge man, like this client.
30:02I'd never seen a man cry like that.
30:08That's when I understood what was going on in his life.
30:12And he would ask me to open his mail and read it to him.
30:16And after I looked through it, it included the court case with Devon Nicholson.
30:23I don't know anything about that.
30:25My sister called me and said, you lost the case in Toronto.
30:34I said, what?
30:37And it was default.
30:41That's what, because I didn't show up.
30:44And that was it.
30:46When you aspire to be a professional wrestler, this is how you celebrate a legal victory.
30:51He ended up losing in court in both Ontario and Georgia.
30:56And he was found guilty of negligence, assault and battery.
31:00He either knew or should have known that he had Hep C,
31:05which, which Abdullah still denies, even though he provided the blood tests.
31:10Court documents show that Abdullah carries the same rare strain of hepatitis C as Hannibal.
31:16In the years that follow, Abdullah makes a range of claims, including the allegation that it was Hannibal who gave the disease to him.
31:25After the Canadian judge sees the video evidence, coupled with the confirmation that both men share the same rare strain of Hep C,
31:32the court side with Hannibal.
31:35It's very good to have that on the record after all these years of being called a liar.
31:41Devin Nicholson was awarded $2.3 million in damages.
31:46No, I wouldn't, I don't think it should pay, no, no, not that much, no.
31:50What should have you gotten?
31:52Nothing.
31:54I wasn't that suitor.
31:56When you get into a certain profession, you know, you're taking a risk.
32:01Hannibal could have done it himself.
32:04That's what the guys told me.
32:06Tony, he don't change his blade.
32:09Do it yourself.
32:11He let Abdullah cut him.
32:13He could have cut himself, but he was scared to cut himself, so he got somebody else doing it.
32:18And it cost him.
32:26In dire financial straits, Abdullah continues to make wrestling-related appearances and autograph signings.
32:35Hannibal claims that Abdullah has moved around his assets in order to avoid paying him.
32:41And to this day, the matter is still in front of the courts.
32:45He's never paid anything.
32:46Hasn't paid a penny.
32:50Nah.
32:51I don't think he have it.
32:53I want you all to look at this.
32:56This is dangerous.
32:58This is stuff that you have ever seen.
33:00Look at this.
33:02Oh, boy.
33:04He has no money to repair none of this.
33:07Now, this is a light fixture where the water is coming down.
33:13This is electrical.
33:15Listen.
33:16This is how his house is right now, currently.
33:19Right now, currently.
33:20That's why I didn't allow you all to come back there.
33:27Oh, I am stressed.
33:29I'm stressed.
33:30I've never had blood pressure until I got moved into his house.
33:37But it's worth it when you see someone being taken advantage as if he built a career.
33:43Should have went to school.
33:46Should have went to school to learn how to read and write.
33:52I studied money.
33:56But I needed more than that.
34:01I got shafted.
34:04All the tapes, what I made for many, many years, got nothing.
34:13Whatever he's going through, whatever he's going through, that was all he is anyways.
34:18I don't want to say to him.
34:20I just tell him.
34:21That's the truth.
34:22My brother, don't worry.
34:23My brother, he's a very nice person.
34:26But people play games with him.
34:28Are you aware that he says that he can't read or write?
34:31Did he ever tell you that he can't read or write?
34:33No.
34:34And I've seen him order at restaurants, reading menus.
34:40I've seen letters from him.
34:42I've seen him sign autographs.
34:44He's owned several businesses over the years and been involved with large wrestling contracts
34:49with companies like WCW and Japanese companies.
34:55So he can't read or write?
34:57No.
34:58Nope, he never could.
34:59But he'd find ways, like, if they told him, like, to go to a chicken farm or something like that,
35:08he'd draw a picture of a chicken.
35:11I don't mean this to be humorous, but, like, he knew how to read a menu.
35:17You know, like, we would eat it out three times a day.
35:20He never had an issue.
35:22I don't know if that's the case.
35:25If it is, I think it's just, uh, it's an accolade for him to be that successful around the world without that ability.
35:34But I don't know.
35:35I've only recently heard that.
35:37That's like a shock to me because he made great business transactions, even in a check.
35:46In a check, you have to write it.
35:48I did not know that.
35:50And I, eight years, we traveled, we traveled a lot, spent a lot of time together, and that is a shock to me.
35:58If that is a guy of a second grade education, wow, that whoever was the teacher, we gotta find him or her and honor that person because that teacher did a lot.
36:12Abdul the Butcher himself getting stitched up right here.
36:16The punishing style of hardcore wrestling has a long legacy, but it often comes at great personal cost for those involved.
36:23Abdul and Carlos Colon invented a match with a chain going right across the ring and they were hooked to it.
36:29And even with the rain, a storm, you could still see just all the blood coming down.
36:36It was horrendous, but for the fans, it was just devastating, the punishment that they inflicted on each other.
36:46We felt invincible, and they trained you to feel invincible.
36:52At those times, we would put the blood of their opponent as part of being a heel and suck the blood out of your opponent's head.
36:59When I talk about it right now, I see the expressions on the young, the new generation, like, what the heck were you guys thinking?
37:09But, you know, back then, it was a whole different, different world.
37:16Any time you watch something, even if you watch a movie picture or something like that, they always have violence in it, right?
37:25You have, like, the cops and the robbers, you have this and stuff like that.
37:29It's always violence, and if you don't give the people violence, they don't come and see you.
37:35In a twist of fate in 2021, seven years after his own court battle, Hannibal finds himself at the center of his own controversy by brutalizing a referee.
37:46They were looking for someone to bleed from the spike, so the promoter found this referee that was a known bleeder to take the spike.
37:58It hit him several times for, and it did some damage.
38:05The promoter for that show did not have any medics on site.
38:11It went on longer than it should have.
38:15Like, it was bad communication all around.
38:18Guy, the referee, he ended up getting an infection.
38:21His head was, I mean, mutilated.
38:24I was appalled.
38:26You know, I saw the dude's head with, you know, a dozen different gaffes with staples in his head.
38:30And I'm just like, what in the heck happened here?
38:33Why have charges not been pressed?
38:35Why is this guy not in jail?
38:37Even your story is saying you are recklessly, dangerously, careless, and damn near killed this guy because you're just sloppy.
38:48And if we believe that he got mad and actually attacked this guy with a spike, it's like, you should be in jail.
38:55You should never be booked to wrestle again.
38:57This is not good for the business.
38:59This isn't 1960 where we're going to convince somebody that he's the madman from the Sudan that attacked somebody with a spike.
39:05There's no place for that in the industry anymore.
39:09Oh, my God.
39:10That even makes no sense.
39:12I mean, you just were in that situation.
39:15And, wow, strange things do happen.
39:19Because what are the chances that you win a court case and now you're going to do that to a referee?
39:28Crazy.
39:33To this day, Abdullah's legal problems haunt him, and the hepatitis C controversy has tainted the legacy of his legendary career.
39:45I know it was horrendous to hear because you never want to hear that somebody did this to another guy.
39:57But then you also wonder because, in my case, I was around him in bloody matches, you know, and Carlos Colon and other guys.
40:06Hannibal eventually finds an experimental treatment that cures him of his hepatitis C, but his bitterness remains.
40:20Is there anything that he could do to make this right?
40:23Yes.
40:27I mean, start paying what you can and take some responsibility for what you did.
40:33You've been found guilty in both Canada and the US, but you never apologized for anything.
40:40And, yeah, it's just been a nightmare situation, but I would never expect that from him.
40:47So all I can do is move on, which I have been doing.
40:51I'll be honest, talking about this situation, I mean, this is hopefully the last time I'll have to talk about it.
41:01It was a terrible period of my life, and I'm over it.
41:08Because the lawsuit is argued in a civil trial, the judge found Abdul the Butcher liable, but not guilty, of causing Hannibal's hepatitis C.
41:19This is the Hall of Fame, and all these raps, these raps from here, these are the old ones, they probably are dead now.
41:24They're all in the Hall of Fame with Abdul the Butcher.
41:27Well, I put it this way, all my family is his biggest fan, he's done good.
41:33And I hate to say this, there's a lot of good wrestlers, and I put it this way, he's one of the best.
41:40Being around our next inductee always made me a little nervous.
41:44This is a man who took hardcore to another level. Take a look.
41:50In 2011, Abdul the Butcher is inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame.
41:56When I found out I was going to be in the Hall of Fame, I said, I don't believe it until they booked me there, you know.
42:05And Terry Funk was the one who put me over strong, you know, said nice things about me, you know.
42:11He said, whatever people say about Abdul the Butcher, he made these promoters a lot of money.
42:17I cried because I know the story that to be what he became, he paid the price.
42:28And yes, he made the money, but it wasn't easy being Abdul the Butcher.
42:36What's missing in wrestling today is the idea that someone, an opponent, is fighting for something bigger than a title or a victory.
42:45They're fighting for their lives. That's what he brought to the table.
42:48And I don't know if anyone ever did it better than Abdul the Butcher.
42:52I never seen anybody that the fan was actually afraid of.
42:57They was afraid of him. And I never seen that, I never saw that with anybody.
43:01I think he should be remembered for his greatness.
43:06His greatness because he is the god of wrestling.
43:11Not the negative, you know, just one little situation.
43:16And it's not, uh, proving.
43:22He didn't get a chance to, uh, prove his innocence.
43:28I don't care if they, if they take everything he owns.
43:33I would never turn my back on a man of greatness, such greatness.
43:40He's gonna be okay with the help of God.
43:44Long after you're gone, what would you like people to think when they hear the name Abdul the Butcher?
43:49Just to give me the respect for what I'd done.
43:53And a lot of things people say I'd done, I did not do.
43:58You know what I mean? And that's all I can say.
44:01Whatever you want to think, I'll leave it up to you.
44:05The Man Kun si try and lose it.
44:07Here you will.
44:08Good to see.
44:09All right.
44:10We did not lead.
44:11Our'...
44:12It did not lead.
44:13Wow.
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