BROOKLYN BRAWLER on Wrestling THE ROCK in his First Match

Vince Russo welcomes special guest "The Brooklyn Brawler" Steve Lombardi, who discusses being the first opponent for Dwayne Johnson before he became The Rock in WWE. Full episode of Bucket Full of Chicken Necks available at / russotwc
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[@neilsun2521]

Respect to the Brawler for always being there in the background doing the under-appreciated work during the best era.

[@DiversityJackson]

Get yourselves ready to rumble folks! Russo's response to Rikishi will be epic!

[@papboybrooklyn77]

Vince Russo, the Brooklyn brawler a couple of New Yorkers🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@RageManRegg]

Great video Vince! From a guy born in ‘98 that was introduced to wrestling by his grandfather and knowing all the history and stories, this is🔥

[@louiswomble5609]

Great video! Absolutely love and appreciate stories from guys like Brooklyn Brawler etc. please have more guests like this! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@TheChrisPhoenix]

Crazy that guys like Brooklyn Brawler who were known to be the jobbers back in the day, look more intimidating than most of the wrestlers today.

[@jd9119]

The guys in the audience look more intimidating than the guys in the ring today.

[@painkiller_zg2898]

True!❤

[@russellcampbell3500]

A real og here.

[@benng4376]

I had the pleasure of meeting Brawler and he was a genuinely humble dude.

[@V1LL1N]

Big up Steve for bein solid.
What an actual Rock of the roster, as well as the dirtiest player in the game, literally.
He never had the best jeans to begin with, but he sure would give you the shirt off his back- if it wasnt always stuck to the mat.
This is a pun dumpster of Fire.

[@FalconFlynn1]

The wwe hall of fame is BS anyways! But if it was legit, Brawler should definetely be in there!
True Legend!

[@raysiva]

I hearing his side of the Rock’s first match. The Brawler was definitely one of the good bad guys growing up. We loved to hate guys like him or Horowitz

[@debo1937]

Brawler used to be a Meltzer stooge.

[@jd9119]

It's never been confirmed, but yeah.

[@papboybrooklyn77]

Didn’t rock wrestle in the uswa before coming to WWF?

[@jd9119]

I think he was sent there after his tryout match and they gave him a contract.

[@ToddTate-q6z]

I believe many WWE wrestlers don't like being in WWE then you ask why they stall want be there? Because of money

[@ToddTate-q6z]

I got a friend lives in New York that knows Damion priest he tells me that Damion don't like been in WWE the only reason he resign with WWE was because of the money I was thinking that's crazy he could leave WWE become a movie actor or a book author make millions and millions of dollars outside of wrestling

[@davidmcnaboe]

hey this is vince russo: waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

[@blujay1524]

Steve should be a regular

[@laurenceshelly6932]

This one is good. No mention of patreon

[@russellcampbell3500]

Haha nice

[@EwanCumia]

Cornette told this story....

[@EL_Chapo187]

……….ok ?

[@m1k3segura]

Yup mmhum...he ain't lyin