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00:00SÅ‚yszymy mnie, wchodzimy do topu.
00:02Nie słyszymy mnie, wchodzimy się nigdy nie słyszymy.
00:06Devious.
00:08Chcemy.
00:09We rule the world of professional wrestling.
00:11Manipulatory.
00:12Everything from now on will be on my turn.
00:14Behind some of the greatest superstars is a powerful manager.
00:18I can spot the next big thing.
00:23More than just a mouthpiece advocating for their client,
00:25a wrestling manager can be a crucial element that will secure a victory
00:29by any means necessary.
00:32Oh, you saw that.
00:33You got no business out there.
00:34Today we look back at some of the most iconic manager moments
00:38in professional wrestling history.
00:40Oh, yeah!
00:42This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:45That was fabulous, baby!
00:47Woo!
00:48He's your son, man!
00:50Oh, my God, what the hell are you doing?
00:54That's absolutely unbelievable!
00:56Welcome, baby, I'm in this year.
01:04Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.
01:07I'm Michael Cole.
01:08And on this edition, we're looking back at the brains and beauties
01:12behind LeBron, the professional wrestling manager.
01:15You take orders from me!
01:17Because I am the manager of the year.
01:20One of the most important roles one can hold in the square
01:22and circle.
01:23A manager's goal is to elevate a superstar's career
01:26and bring the eyes of the world to them.
01:28Everybody knows Freddie Blassie knows managing from A to Z.
01:33But some managers end up overshadowing the talent they represent.
01:37And that's not hard to do when you're as visually striking
01:40as Captain Lou Albano.
01:42Who's the handsomest of us all?
01:44It's that you are captain!
01:46Many would say that Captain Lou even revolutionized sports entertainment
01:50when he introduced pop icon Cindy Lauper to the world of WWE.
01:54What determination!
01:55What will to win!
01:57Woo!
01:57Don't get too excited.
01:58Remember, it makes your medulla swell.
02:00I'd like to see Cindy.
02:01But would Captain Lou take too much of the credit?
02:03You've heard of gold?
02:04Gold albums?
02:07The female entertainer of the year, Miss Cindy Lauper!
02:11First time we saw Cindy Lauper in WWE
02:14was when she appeared on Piper's Pit.
02:17Captain Lou Albano, your manager,
02:19the man who has taken care of you
02:20and actually brought you from nothing,
02:22had taken you...
02:23Roddy, wait, wait.
02:24Yes, darling.
02:24No, I love Lou, but Lou would never say that.
02:27Lou would...
02:27Hey, how are you?
02:28Cindy, tell all these people out here
02:30how I found you in New York City and Queens
02:32and how I made you a superstar.
02:34Lou Albano just starts talking this really sexist talk.
02:37Tell him how women, Cindy, belong in the kitchen.
02:39Wait, wait, wait.
02:40Lou, Lou, you know, I don't like that.
02:42Cindy, just shut up for a minute, Cindy.
02:43There was a lot of resentment brewing and everything,
02:46and Lou was saying all these terrible things
02:48and this and that.
02:49Tell him how you came off my reputation, Cindy.
02:52Captain Lou Albano.
02:54Cindy!
02:56Cindy!
02:57It was just amazing
02:59we started crossing all these boundary lines
03:01that no one had ever done before,
03:04and I could feel the rumbling.
03:10It was awesome.
03:11It was Captain Lou that made it fun,
03:14and I'm proud to say that I worked with him.
03:17There was no rock and wrestling connection
03:19without Captain Lou Albano.
03:21That meeting with Cindy Lopper
03:23changed the trajectory of this industry forever.
03:32Mr. Fuji was perhaps one of the most dangerous villains
03:35to grace the square and circle.
03:36Through his shady methods,
03:38the devious one developed his in-ring success
03:40into a managerial career,
03:42one where he would represent talent
03:44that was larger than life.
03:45No one can move my Yokozuna.
03:49No one!
03:50In 1992, Mr. Fuji introduced
03:52his newest superstar,
03:54the Japanese sumo wrestler known as Yokozuna.
03:57Together, they would tear through the WWE roster,
04:00and at WrestleMania IX,
04:02nothing was off the table for Fuji,
04:05as his client would challenge
04:06the excellence of execution,
04:08Brett, the Hitman Hart.
04:13The match is underway.
04:15We've been waiting for it.
04:17This is it.
04:18Fuji was one of the most feared guys
04:19in the wrestling business,
04:21and nobody got to mess with Yokozuna
04:22with Fuji around.
04:24Center in, Brett Hart.
04:27Fuji was very stoic,
04:29just an evil presence.
04:32Brett Hart's got the shot, too.
04:33That's it, Fuji.
04:35Fuji, what's he doing?
04:36Man.
04:37He threw second right in his eyes.
04:39Mr. Fuji was ready with the powder.
04:42It was very fitting from a character standpoint.
04:45We got a new champion!
04:47How many tanking titles did Mr. Fuji win
04:49by throwing salt in the eyes of the opponents?
04:52And here he is,
04:53on the grandest stage of them all,
04:55determining the outcome of the WWE Championship.
04:59Fuji threw something right in our time,
05:02and we have a new WWF champion!
05:06Former women's champion Sherry Martell's physical prowess
05:10and tough persona
05:11made her a force to be reckoned with
05:12inside the squared circle.
05:14You're looking at a woman that is didn't mean!
05:18Sherry was also a valuable asset
05:20alongside any male superstar,
05:22as she became one of the most prominent
05:24female managers of all time.
05:25I am in love with Shawn Michaels!
05:31In the lead-up to SummerSlam 1992,
05:33Sherry was caught between a rock and a hard place
05:35as her main man, Shawn Michaels,
05:37came to blows with another potential client
05:40in Rick, the model, Martell.
05:45Where do you stand for tonight's match-up?
05:48I stand just like any other red woman,
05:51right by my man.
05:53Tim Sechno, Sherry is the kind of lady
05:55that is lucky to leave with the winner.
05:57Sherry Martell having to make a choice
05:59between Rick Martell and Shawn Michaels.
06:01You see Martell checking Sherry up.
06:03Look at the hug!
06:05It was something that you didn't always get the chance to see,
06:08that spotlight on managers like that.
06:11Wait a minute, look at her face, Sherry!
06:13She fainted!
06:15She didn't get fainted.
06:17Oh, come and out!
06:18What are you trying to say?
06:19They're catching these two men right over her!
06:21Wait a minute, you think that's delivering
06:23what she's doing?
06:24I got carried to the dressing room.
06:25Somewhere they got a bucket of water.
06:28Oh no, what's it gonna do?
06:30Good place, you know, Sherry is lost!
06:33I got it right in the face.
06:34She just had the innate ability
06:37to enhance everything that she was a part of.
06:41She has been humiliated!
06:45Still to come.
06:46I had told her Blassie,
06:48someone burned down the funeral!
06:52In his heyday, classy Freddie Blassie
06:54was one of the most despised men
06:56in professional wrestling.
06:57And over the years,
06:58the Hollywood fashion plate
07:00became one of the most feared managers,
07:02leaving pencil-neck geeks everywhere
07:04quaking in their boots.
07:05You pencil-neck geeks!
07:07Blassie's managing resume
07:08included the likes of Nikolai Volkov,
07:11the incredible Hulk Hogan,
07:13and even the greatest himself,
07:15Muhammad Ali.
07:16I'm gonna destroy wrestlers
07:17just like I'd destroy all fighters.
07:19Right, fans?
07:20Right!
07:21But his greatest accomplishment
07:23would come when Blassie himself
07:24changed his style
07:25to meet that of his top star,
07:28Iran's favorite son,
07:30the Iron Sheik.
07:31Whenever I'm in the presence
07:32of the Iron Sheik,
07:33I will be called by my rightful name,
07:37Ayatollah Blassie.
07:39In December 1983,
07:41Ayatollah Blassie
07:42would lead the Sheik
07:44to the world's most famous arena,
07:46Madison Square Garden,
07:47where he would take on
07:48the All-American boy,
07:49Bob Backlund,
07:50for the WWE Championship.
07:56Bob Backlund knew wrestling
07:58from A to Z,
07:59and Arnold Skollin
08:00was his manager.
08:02I was, without a doubt,
08:03the most hated man
08:05in wrestling
08:06because I like the ran.
08:08He must be calling himself
08:10Ayatollah Blassie.
08:11He hooked back to back,
08:13he's right in the center of the rim!
08:14He's sitting right
08:15on that lower back.
08:16But Backlund's got a bad neck!
08:18I'll have him in the Campbell College.
08:20Oh!
08:21Oh, no!
08:22Backlund did not submit!
08:23Arnold Skollin threw something
08:24into the ring!
08:26And Arnold conceded the match,
08:28and the Sheik
08:30became the new world champion.
08:33We have a new champion
08:34in the World Wrestling Federation!
08:35Freddie Blassie was never the WWE Champion.
08:40The Iron Sheik winning the title
08:41was a victory for Freddie Blassie.
08:45I come to Denison Staregarden
08:47with my great adventure!
08:49Oh!
08:49Do I get that belt?
08:53The Four Horsemen truly were
08:55the symbol of excellence.
08:56They ruled the world
08:57of professional wrestling
08:58with an iron fist
08:59and looked good doing it.
09:01We control wrestling!
09:03We rule the world
09:04of professional wrestling!
09:05Who better to corral the horsemen
09:07than the infamous
09:07James J. Dillon?
09:09Diamonds are forever!
09:10And so are the Four Horsemen!
09:12Yeah!
09:12J. J. Dillon looked,
09:14spoke, and dressed the part
09:16better than countless others.
09:17But as clean-cut as he looked,
09:18the job sometimes required
09:19you to get your hands dirty.
09:21If we have to be vigilantes,
09:22we'll be vigilantes!
09:24After a match with Dusty Rhodes
09:25landed Tully Blanchard
09:26on the sidelines,
09:28J. J. and the rest of his horsemen
09:29went for a little road trip.
09:33This is how we handle Dusty Rhodes!
09:35Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's him.
09:37Tully and I right on his tail.
09:38I don't think he's seen us.
09:39They had the car,
09:40and they had the camera guy,
09:41and they were waiting for me
09:42to drive by.
09:43That's it.
09:44I think it was natural
09:46for the horsemen
09:47to kind of focus everything
09:49on Dusty.
09:50Once you get him
09:51in that parking lot,
09:52there's no turning around.
09:53It was J. J.'s idea.
09:55It was J. J.'s strategy,
09:57and the Four Horsemen
09:58implemented from the imagination
10:01of J. J. Dillon.
10:03It was like a hit.
10:04I mean, it was like
10:04they were making a hit
10:05on a mafia.
10:07Yeah!
10:08Yeah!
10:09Yeah!
10:11It was an outcry.
10:12for us
10:13to have criminal charges
10:14brought against us
10:15for assault.
10:16The fans really
10:17brought into it.
10:20We were sending
10:20a message to them
10:21that, hey,
10:22don't mess with us.
10:23We'll gang up
10:23and beat bullies
10:24and beat you up.
10:25How about it now, Rhodes?
10:26How about it now?
10:2786, Rhodes!
10:29What?
10:30on the common man,
10:32the American dream,
10:33the plumber's son,
10:34drew nothing but big money.
10:35I want this to stand
10:36as a warning, Rhodes!
10:39Still to come.
10:40If you don't have any brains,
10:42you're lost.
10:43Jim Pornette's on the WWE!
10:46The Undertaker is one
10:47of the most unique characters
10:49to ever exist
10:49in WWE history.
10:51A dead man,
10:52a few words,
10:53Undertaker needed someone
10:54equally as extraordinary
10:55to give him his ticket
10:56to superstardom.
10:58Enter a real-life mortician,
11:00Paul Bearer.
11:01Oh,
11:02are you looking for me?
11:04Paul Bearer soon
11:05became the herald of doom
11:06for any competitor
11:07willing to step
11:08into the ring
11:09with the phenom.
11:10Oh,
11:11what a busy afternoon
11:12is going to be
11:13at my funeral parlor.
11:15But after six years together,
11:17the paranormal partnership ended.
11:19I can't believe
11:19what you're saying.
11:20In 1997,
11:22Undertaker confronted
11:23his former manager
11:24and in response,
11:25Paul Bearer delivered
11:25some astonishing news
11:27about the dead man's
11:28story past.
11:30Undertaker,
11:31this is the beginning
11:32of your end.
11:35We're gonna have to
11:37go back a few years.
11:38We're talking about
11:39a little funeral home.
11:41Paul Bearer was so special
11:42because of
11:43a super high-pitched voice.
11:45It really actually
11:46made you listen.
11:47But there were
11:48two little kids there.
11:50One kid was
11:51a little red-handed punk
11:52and then there was
11:54a second kid
11:55named Kane.
11:57I'm willing to suspend
11:58my disbelief.
11:59It was all because of Paul
12:00and he knew what to say
12:02and when to say it.
12:03Undertaker,
12:05you burnt the funeral home
12:07to the ground.
12:09You killed your family,
12:10Undertaker!
12:11Paul tells his side
12:12of the story.
12:13He was left for dead.
12:15I showed him the love
12:17and the care that you
12:18as his blood never did.
12:20Kane told me!
12:22Kane told me!
12:23He breathed a breath
12:25of fresh air
12:25and all those characters.
12:27Kane is the love
12:29Undertaker!
12:30He's alive!
12:32It was just
12:32the perfect storm.
12:34Kane's the love!
12:35I swear!
12:37It's the truth!
12:38It's the truth!
12:40Oh!
12:41Oh!
12:42Oh!
12:43Oh!
12:43Oh!
12:44You know,
12:45you're jealous.
12:45You're like everybody else
12:46in the WWE.
12:47You're jealous of Jimmy Hart,
12:48aren't you?
12:48Of all the managers
12:49in professional wrestling history,
12:51the mouth of the South,
12:52Jimmy Hart,
12:52was one of the most colorful.
12:53I told you, I told you, I told you!
12:55He's the greatest
12:56intercontinental champion
12:56of all time!
12:58Once the manager
12:59of the legendary tag team
13:00The Hart Foundation,
13:01Jimmy would help the duo
13:02capture their first
13:03world tag team titles.
13:05No, no, no!
13:07We're the champions
13:08of the world!
13:09The greatest team
13:10in the history
13:10of professional wrestling
13:11of the...
13:13Unfortunately,
13:14The Hart Foundation
13:15couldn't remain
13:15on the same page.
13:16Jimmy Hart has been
13:18pulled off
13:19by The Hart Foundation!
13:20The WrestleMania 7,
13:21the trio,
13:22will be back
13:22in the title scene.
13:23Only this time
13:25on opposite sides
13:26of the ring,
13:27things would get nasty.
13:29They're nasty!
13:30And they're gonna become
13:30the next World Wrestling
13:32Federation tag team champions!
13:36Hart Foundation,
13:37tremendous champions!
13:39But that little runt,
13:41Jimmy Hart knows them
13:42very well.
13:43I turned on
13:44The Hart Foundation
13:45for the Nasty Boys.
13:46Nasty Boys
13:47are indeed just that.
13:48Nasty.
13:49But their megaphone
13:50always getting in the way.
13:52Oh, it certainly
13:53is a shame
13:53to have to contend
13:54with that individual
13:55on the outside
13:56when they've got
13:57their hands full
13:58on the inside!
13:59Jimmy Hart was
14:00115 pounds
14:01soaked and wild,
14:03and yet he determined
14:03the outcome of the match
14:04by his physical involvement.
14:07This match deteriorating now,
14:09the referee is losing control
14:10of it.
14:12He nailed it!
14:13This is it!
14:15This is it!
14:16It's over!
14:17We got a new champion!
14:18For him being so
14:19integral into the finish
14:20where the Nasty's
14:21are gonna become champions,
14:23that's a huge moment
14:24for Jimmy.
14:25Look at Jimmy Hart!
14:26Is he happy?
14:28Wow.
14:29You know,
14:29what a great moment
14:30that was.
14:31History has been made
14:32here at
14:33Most of Mania 7!
14:36There's nothing
14:36that I despise
14:37more than
14:38a spoiled brat.
14:39No one
14:40could get your goat
14:41more than
14:41the Louisville slugger
14:42himself,
14:43Jim Cornette.
14:44After all,
14:45I am one of the fastest
14:45rising young managers
14:46in the world today.
14:48The fast-talking
14:49Kentuckian
14:49was master of agitation
14:51that could yap
14:52his way out
14:52of a paper bag.
14:54If I tell you
14:54the sun's not gonna
14:55come up tomorrow,
14:56you better go out
14:57and buy you a flashlight.
14:58Cornette gained notoriety
14:59managing wrestlers
15:00and promotions
15:01all over the country.
15:02But in 1993,
15:04it was his arrival
15:04in WWE
15:05that really caught
15:06the eyes of fans
15:08everywhere.
15:12Why do you have
15:12this?
15:13No business here.
15:14Do you know
15:15who that is?
15:16When you talk
15:16about great managers
15:17in the history
15:18of the business,
15:19Jim was the last
15:20of that bastion
15:21that had not been
15:22to the WWE
15:23at that time.
15:24This,
15:25ladies and gentlemen,
15:26is the greatest
15:27manager
15:28in the history
15:29of the sport of wrestling.
15:31The WWE,
15:33is a whole new
15:34group of fans.
15:35What are his aspirations?
15:37What's he mad about?
15:38Who's he mad at?
15:39What's he want
15:40to accomplish?
15:41Let me just explain
15:42for all of you
15:43genetic defects
15:44out here living
15:44downstream of the
15:45nuclear plants,
15:46I hear you got
15:47some big fish up here.
15:48For him to be there,
15:49I think that that was
15:50a monumental moment.
15:51And then every single
15:52one of these people
15:53will know that you're
15:54a yellow stinking
15:55dog-cur coward,
15:56and I know you are!
15:58Ladies and gentlemen,
16:00this man is gonna
16:01set the World Wrestling
16:03Federation on fire!
16:05For Jim to debut
16:06in WWE
16:07and get endorsed
16:09by Bobby Heenan,
16:10I think added
16:11so much to his legacy.
16:21Up next is our final
16:23two moments
16:23on the countdown.
16:24What will take
16:25the number one?
16:28Bobby Heenan.
16:29One of the most
16:30famous managers
16:31this industry
16:32has ever seen
16:33was simply known
16:34as the brain.
16:35I don't care
16:36how big you are.
16:37If you don't have
16:38any brains,
16:39you're lost.
16:40Heenan's crooked
16:41practices earned him
16:42another less
16:42flattering name,
16:43the weasel.
16:45You see any whiskers?
16:46You see any nose
16:47in here that looks
16:48like a weasel's nose?
16:49Where are the ears
16:49on that sewer at?
16:50In 1988,
16:51Heenan was locked
16:52in a rivalry
16:52with the ultimate warrior.
16:54The brain would
16:55step into the ring
16:56himself in a bout
16:57with the ultimate one
16:58where the loser
16:59would be forced
16:59to wear a weasel suit.
17:10Whenever you saw
17:11a gimmick match
17:11like the weasel
17:12match with Bobby,
17:13it's always about
17:14going out and having
17:15fun and having
17:16a good show.
17:20Bobby Heenan
17:21was one of the
17:22first villains
17:23that you loved to hate.
17:27People loved the warrior
17:28of course and they
17:29hated Bobby.
17:32So once he lost
17:33that match and had
17:34to wear that suit,
17:35that really put
17:35with the cherry
17:36on top of it.
17:38Bobby Heenan
17:38gets put to sleep,
17:40gets put into it
17:40while he's asleep
17:41and you slowly
17:43see the realization.
17:45He doesn't know
17:46what's transpired.
17:47Look at this.
17:48Goes to wipe his face.
17:49Wait a minute.
17:51I've got paws.
17:53Oh, look at this.
17:54He's got it.
17:55Then the crowd
17:56eats it up.
17:57Bobby has a match
17:58with himself.
18:00I think we can
18:00sign the ultimate
18:01humiliation.
18:04It's now time
18:05for our number
18:06one moment.
18:07Over the years,
18:08the role of the manager
18:09has diminished.
18:11One advocate's guidance
18:12has stood the test
18:13of time.
18:14My name is Paul Heyman,
18:17the greatest manager
18:19in sports entertainment history.
18:21Heyman has been
18:22in the ear of some
18:23of the most successful
18:24superstars in history.
18:25But in the main event
18:26of WrestleMania 41,
18:27Paul Heyman,
18:28the wise man
18:29to the tribal chief,
18:30was caught
18:30in a precarious position
18:32when his best friend
18:33and former client,
18:34CM Punk,
18:35cashed in a favor.
18:36At WrestleMania,
18:38in my corner,
18:40your wise man,
18:42Paul Heyman.
18:44Heyman would now
18:45be in the corner
18:45of the Second City Saint
18:47in a triple threat match
18:48against Roman Reigns
18:50and Seth freaking Rollins.
18:54Paul Heyman is here
18:56in Punk's corner.
18:57The question, guys,
18:58though, is
18:58where does his allegiance
19:00really lie?
19:01That main event
19:03was solely built
19:04around Paul Heyman's
19:05emotional relationships
19:07with both Roman Reigns
19:09and CM Punk.
19:10He's guided
19:11not only my career,
19:12but the careers
19:13of so many others.
19:15The Holy Grail
19:17in WWE
19:18is the wisdom
19:19of Paul Heyman.
19:21We've really
19:22kind of created
19:23a bond that became
19:24very authentic
19:25and very real.
19:26Can he hit the GTS
19:27that he does to Rollins?
19:28Speared out of my reins!
19:29Stop myself!
19:31Everybody is down!
19:33And everyone's going,
19:34well, what's Heyman
19:35going to do?
19:36Paul Heyman
19:37has made his choice!
19:39Oh, no!
19:40Paul Heyman!
19:42Load, load
19:43his best friend
19:44and CM Punk!
19:45Paul Heyman
19:46has returned
19:47to his rival chief!
19:49Oh, my God!
19:51Holy crap.
19:52He's going to walk out
19:53with Seth Rollins.
19:54I trust to do.
19:56When you get someone
19:58on your side
19:59like Paul Heyman,
20:00you're able to push
20:01some things through.
20:02Paul Heyman decides
20:03who's going to win.
20:04And more importantly,
20:06Paul Heyman decides
20:07which two are going
20:09to lose.
20:10Benedict Heyman!
20:15Professional wrestling
20:16managers are the architects
20:17of a superstar's success.
20:19But it takes a great one
20:19to turn their superstar
20:20into a blockbuster attraction.
20:22I'm going to go down
20:23to history books
20:24as the manager
20:24of the world's
20:25heavyweight champion.
20:26And that'll do it
20:27for this edition
20:28of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:30I hope you've enjoyed
20:30this look back
20:31at some of the most
20:32pivotal manager moments
20:33in professional wrestling history.
20:35of WWE's Greatest Moments.
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