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Floyd Gerald "Jerry" Brisco (born September 19, 1946) is an American retired
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. Brisco is best known for his time in the wrestling promotion
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, where he was a backstage producer, and, during the 1990s, an on-screen character, working alongside Pat Patterson as the "stooges" for the Mr. McMahon character (portrayed by former WWE CEO and Chairman
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). He was most recently a WWE
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where he focused on exclusively recruiting amateur wrestlers into the company. Debuting in 1969, Brisco wrestled for multiple National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
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throughout the 1970s and early-1980s, in particular
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and
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, winning dozens of championships. Throughout his career, he teamed with his elder brother
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as The Brisco Brothers. After retiring in 1985, Brisco moved into a backstage role with the
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(now WWE). He had a late career resurgence between 1997 and 2000 alongside fellow veteran wrestler Pat Patterson as the onscreen " stooge" of WWE chairman
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. Both Briscos were inducted into the
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in
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.


Amateur wrestling career

Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, Jack Brisco, into amateur wrestling, and was eventually awarded an athletic scholarship to
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after winning two AAU tournaments and only losing two high school matches, placing second in Oklahoma States in his only two years of high school wrestling due to broken leg in football. He was a starter on the OSU freshman team winning several matches and tournaments. During the spring break of 1968, Brisco was in
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with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injured
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partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contracted
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and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and become a full-time professional wrestler.


Professional wrestling career


The Brisco Brothers (1967–1984)

Brisco was trained by his brother and debuted in 1967 as his
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partner, using the name Gerald Brisco. The Brisco Brothers were a highly successful team, amassing over twenty tag team championships over the course of thirteen years. They arrived in
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in 1970 (with Brisco becoming Jerry Brisco) and dominated the singles and tag divisions for several years thereafter. It was also in the late 1970s that the Brisco's discovered Terry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, who they introduced to
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for training. Jerry Brisco would amass a number of singles championships throughout the 1970s, including becoming the first holder of Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship. On June 20, 1981 he defeated
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for the
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. In 1983, while teaming in the Mid-Atlantic territory, the brothers turned heel against the team of
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and Jay Youngblood, the NWA World Tag Team Champions. The two teams traded the belts back and forth until the feud culminated at the first
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, with Steamboat and Youngblood regaining the championship. The brothers would hold the title one last time in 1984, ultimately losing to the team of
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and
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. They would leave the Mid-Atlantic area shortly after. The Briscos held minority interests in
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. In 1984, dissatisfied with the direction of the company and smaller than expected
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s, they convinced equally disgruntled majority shareholder Paul Jones to give them proxy voting of his shares. The three men and Jim Barnett sold their shares to
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, enabling him to increase his dominance of the professional wrestling world.


World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE (1984–2020)

The brothers entered the
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in the fall of 1984, once again assuming their familiar role as fan favorites. The Briscos unsuccessfully challenged the North-South Connection,
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and
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, for the
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. Both men would retire from the ring in early 1985. After retiring, Brisco began working backstage as a road agent and booker for McMahon. Following the 1997
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, Brisco capitalized on his notoriety by becoming an onscreen "stooge" of Vince McMahon along with Pat Patterson. The duo portrayed a pair of bumbling comic
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and joined The Corporation and the McMahon-Helmsley Faction. They lampooned Hulk Hogan (then working for
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, the rival of WWF) by mimicking his trademark gestures and using "Real American", his old
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. On the May 18, 2000 episode of '' SmackDown!'' Brisco won his first WWF championship when he pinned a sleeping
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to win the perpetually contested Hardcore Championship. Crash regained the title on June 12 but Brisco was intent on regaining. He pursued Holly around
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but ran afoul of
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, who had agreed to protect Holly. Brisco eventually regained the title the following week with the aid of Pat Patterson in the midst of a match between Crash and his cousin,
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. As Patterson and Brisco celebrated the victory, Patterson poured
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in Brisco's eyes then broke a second bottle over his head. He then pinned the (
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)
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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
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Evening Gown Match at the
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. In the course of the match, Holly interfered and pinned Patterson, regaining the title once again. On July 15, 2005, Brisco was inducted into the
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. He appeared at
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in a party scene and also on the July 23, 2007 edition of ''RAW''. On March 29, 2008, Brisco and his brother were inducted into the
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the night before
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in Orlando, Florida. In June 2009, Brisco suffered three strokes. Four months later, it was announced that Brisco would not be returning to his position as a road agent in WWE. In March 2010, Jerry Brisco did return to the WWE as a
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and recruiter for NXT. According to Jim Ross, on October 19, 2011, Brisco suffered another stroke, a minor one. During the '' Raw Reunion'' episode on July 22, 2019, Brisco pinned Pat Patterson off-screen backstage to win the
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. He became the third person to win both the
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and the
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. He would soon after lose the title to
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. He was furloughed, along with many other WWE employees, on April 15, 2020 and was officially released on September 10.


Personal life

Brisco is married, he and his wife Barbara have two sons named Wesley (born 1983) who is also a professional wrestler, known as
Wes Brisco Wesley Brisco (born February 21, 1983) is an American professional wrestler known for his time in impact Wrestling (TNA), where he is a former member of Aces & Eights. He is a member of the Brisco wrestling family; the son of former Champions ...
, a former FCW Tag Team Champion and Joseph who is a grad student at USF Tampa. Brisco also co-owned a
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with his brother Bill, and longtime partner Travis Allred, known as the Brisco Brothers Body Shop. Jack Brisco was also a partner in the business before his death in 2010. The Briscos were inducted into the
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Hall Of Fame in June 2016. On August 11, 2018, Brisco was inducted into the NWHOF Florida Chapter as “Outstanding American.”


Other media

Brisco appears as a manager alongside Pat Patterson in WWE2K16. After leaving WWE, Brisco began hosting a
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series with
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.


Championships and accomplishments

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**Lou Thesz Award (2015) **Other honoree ( 1996) *
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**
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( 1 time) ** NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time) **
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( 8 times) – with
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**
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( 1 time) ** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ''(Florida version)'' ( 2 times) – with Jack Brisco ** NWA North American Tag Team Championship ''(Florida version)'' ( 2 times) – with Jack Brisco ** NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship ''(Florida version)'' ( 3 times) *
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( 1 time) – with
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**Class of 2005 *
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**
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( 5 times) – with Bob Backlund (1), Jack Brisco (2),
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(1), and
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(1) ** NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship ''(Northern Division)'' ( 1 time)While almost always defended in the
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promotion, Brisco won the championship while working on a card hosted by
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via a working relationship between the two promotions.
**NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship ''(Georgia version)'' (1 time) *
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** NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with Thunderbolt Patterson ** NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Championship ( 3 times) **
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( 1 time) ** NWA World Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-Atlantic version)'' ( 3 times) – with
Jack Brisco Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco (September 21, 1941 – February 1, 2010) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I national championship. He tu ...
* National Wrestling Alliance **
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( 1 time) *''
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'' **PWI ranked him # 54 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" with Jack Brisco in 2003. **PWI ranked him #217 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "
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" in 2003 *
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( 1 time) *
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( 1 time) – with Jack Brisco **
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( 1 time) * World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE **
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( 2 times) **
WWE 24/7 Championship The WWE 24/7 Championship was a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. It was a tertiary championship open to anyone—regardless of gender or WWE employment status—and carried the special ru ...
( 1 time) **
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( Class of 2008)


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