RIP to the late-great Lanny Poffo aka The Genius🔥 Stream his full shoot interview from 2014 ⬇ 📺titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/
Lanny Poffo was a lot more than a jobber. He's very well known and remembered by most wrestling fans. Hell of an entertainer. He was also a very skilled worker. It's a shame we never got to see him and Randy tag-team on the big time. Lanny is perhaps being humble, but I think he's selling himself short.
Lanny got it right. Not everyone is going to be Hulk Hogan but its the experiences in life that matter. He expereineced more life than most humans ever will - he did life proper.
I was fortunate enough to meet Leapin Lanny (as he was known then). It was a wwf house show and during intermission my dad and i went for snacks and there he was just walking around. He was super nice and cordial. He knelt down on my 6yr old level to speak with me. He gave me a frisbee which i still have.
What a fantastic attitude! I've got a bunch of 80's WWF house shows & Lanny was ahead of his time to me. He was very underrated & I was happy to see him as the Genius. He deserved that run & was great at it.
Better brother by goin against Randys wishes and allowing him to be inducted solo, and allowing his arch nemesis Hulk Hogan to speak at his induction??? Randy is prob slappin Lanny silly in Heaven as we speak for selling him out like that. lol
Randy was working towards HOF before he died. He did a commercial for WWE promoting his action figure and the wrestling game that featured him as a playable character which was a big get at that point. Sort of like how Bret did the DVD to bury the hatchet before he did the HOF
@@Censored4UViaGoogle Randy wouldve only accepted going in to HOF with Poffo family inducted together, not solo.. Lanny went against Randys wishes, and stabbed him in back by allowing Hogan to speak at his induction.. ZERO chance Randy allows that if he were still alive
Lanny was never a major draw. But he was a decent human being! I'll never forget his run as "The Genius" who scored a count out victory over Terry Bollea! R.I.P. Lanny Poffo (Leaping Lanny, The Genius) One of wrestling's true nice guys.
He may have been a jobber in his early WWF days, but I remember VERY well being happy to see him come down to job out. Leaping Lanny was high flying before almost anyone and was solid technically in the ring. He was maybe the only jobber to get a spotlight before the match when he would do things like read a poem and throw out a frisbee. At least he was presented as a top tier jobber.
I don’t think I have ever heard of or seen a more humble superstar. Too many retired wrestlers are bitter, it’s refreshing to hear from someone who was just grateful for an opportunity.
Perhaps not a *super* star, but it was always very clear he was having fun. Also, while Jobbers may not have gotten "Superstar" paychecks, Lanny made it clear in this interview that he felt well taken care of, and as a Jobber, he probably had it much easier after his on-stage time to fade away, perhaps even be able to take the family to the amusement parks anonymously... (... Unless, of course, he were to start improvising poetry in public to embarrass his kids... 🤣)
I loved him as a jobber. I was too young to know it was scripted, but I always rooted for Leaping Lanny Poffo! He never won, but I still rooted for him.
The genius was one of the funniest gimmicks of all time. His match on Saturday nights main event vs Hogan, and winning, was a historic match. Him doing his calculations outside the ring was Genius !
I was a big Leapin Lanny fan in the 80s when the Poffos had the Lexington territory. I reached out to him after Randy died. We had a great multi email exchange. He was polite, cordial, and listened to this fan offer condolences. Like John Tetra, Lanny Poffo was a true class act.
Back when I was a kid, & didn't know wrestling was a work, my 2 favorite wrestlers were Ricky Steamboat and Lanny Poffo. It's nice to know that even as a young kid, I had an eye for talent & ability over flash & marketing. RIP Lanny.
He started as a heel but a top heel with tons of personality. Then as "the Genius", he wasn't a jobber. Jobbers don't get video segments and his were entertaining. If I remember, he did the in ring interview gimmick like piper and beefcake.
This guy was awesome back in the 70’s when he was with Atlantic Grande Prix Wrestling. He (Leaping Lanny) and his brother, the Macho Man….feuded like nobody’s business. Their matches were brutal.
Spot on, Lanny. A good jobber can make a wrestler into a true star or even an average in-ring performer look good. Bret Hart stands as a shining example of this. Lanny Poffo is another.
When he defeated the Hulkster and then helped Mr. Perfect smash the championship belt, I was old enough to know it was all an angle, but I was livid anyway. That's how talented Lanny was as a heel.
It’s funny. I have lived through watching so many of my favorite wrestlers pass away, but there was something about Lanny’s passing that just hit differently.
Good to see this shoot interview from the late Lanny Poffo a.k.a The Genius.... Good that he saved his pennies for a rainy day & was still financially stable, even after his stint in pro-wrestling when he retired 👌😁😷🇨🇦🇺🇲 Rest in peace bruv😇🙏👼🙏
One of my favorite televised wrestling memories is from I think Mid-Atlantic Wrestling out of Atlanta. Lanny had been injured in the match and was being carried out on a door that had been dismantled and brought to the ring because the opponent had broken his Lanny’s back. The announcer is going on about Oh Lord he will never wrestle again, this is terrible. Here he comes now, as the announcer sticks the mic in Lanny’s face and says Can we get just a few words? That may have been when it hit me, this is definitely fake.
Lanny has the right attitude.... much like Barry Horowitz and George South did. "I got to wrestle on national tv!!!" You could be the champion of a small town with 200 fans, or you could be on National TV!
Lanny Poffo and I shared private messages on YT when that was a feature. He told me that once George Scott left the WWF, the new guy didn't see much potential in him to warrant a push. He stayed because of the money and because his brother was there. Thankfully, he got the push he deserved and he made the most of it. He learned how to throw that right hand from the great Bobby Eaton, who he tagged with.
I saw him at an indie show in the 90's. His opponent was green with a green as grass valet. Lanny was having to shout at her to get on the apron for the distraction. I took a posed photo of Angelo at a table in the back.
Wow, nice little clip here, what a great attitude he had, I bet he could have taught alot of the young talent today. I forget which wrestler it was who said "We all had a part in creating Goldberg", alot of the top stars don't realize that if nobody "lays down" for them, they wouldn't be the stars there are, so in that sense, the jobbers are the real star makers here.
Before Joining the WWF, “Leaping” Lanny Poffo was the top babyface for “outlaw” [not part of the NWA] territory ICW [International Championship Wrestling] out of Lexington Kentucky. - He had a red hot feud with his brother “Macho Man” Randy Savage over the ICW world heavyweight title. - So he knew what it was like to main event.
Lanny could work .. and he really could leap .. he did beat Hogan via count out .. we love the Bushwackers they were hilarious too.. in that rumble and out in record time .. Iron Mike Sharp could put on a show too .
IDK why Lanny said he was a jobber. Looking at Wiki he had lots of victories in the WWF including even some big names like Jim Neidhart. I guess he was just being modest.
He wasn't really a jobber, no. He was a solid midcarder and great worker. I think the context he's using "jobber" is in reference to when he faced or feuded against main event guys. He doesn't use the word as a pejorative. He's proud that he went out there and did the job. He knew his part to play, and he played it very well.
RIP to the late-great Lanny Poffo aka The Genius🔥
Stream his full shoot interview from 2014 ⬇
📺titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/
Lanny Poffo was a lot more than a jobber. He's very well known and remembered by most wrestling fans. Hell of an entertainer. He was also a very skilled worker. It's a shame we never got to see him and Randy tag-team on the big time. Lanny is perhaps being humble, but I think he's selling himself short.
Lanny got it right. Not everyone is going to be Hulk Hogan but its the experiences in life that matter. He expereineced more life than most humans ever will - he did life proper.
Lanny poffo summed up in 2 words.
Decent man.
I was fortunate enough to meet Leapin Lanny (as he was known then). It was a wwf house show and during intermission my dad and i went for snacks and there he was just walking around. He was super nice and cordial. He knelt down on my 6yr old level to speak with me. He gave me a frisbee which i still have.
That's so cool. I never met him but I would have loved to. I was a huge Lanny fan as a kid.
Awesome, thanks for sharing.I got to meet him after a WWF house show in San Diego in the mid 80's. Got an autograph, great guy.
That's awesome, bro!
Leaping Lanny was an awesome part of the golden era!!! What a treat to watch his on Superstars every Saturday. Definitely a legend!
What a fantastic attitude! I've got a bunch of 80's WWF house shows & Lanny was ahead of his time to me. He was very underrated & I was happy to see him as the Genius. He deserved that run & was great at it.
Good wrestler. Better brother.
RIP the Poffos.
Better brother by goin against Randys wishes and allowing him to be inducted solo, and allowing his arch nemesis Hulk Hogan to speak at his induction???
Randy is prob slappin Lanny silly in Heaven as we speak for selling him out like that. lol
Randy was working towards HOF before he died. He did a commercial for WWE promoting his action figure and the wrestling game that featured him as a playable character which was a big get at that point. Sort of like how Bret did the DVD to bury the hatchet before he did the HOF
@@Censored4UViaGoogle Randy wouldve only accepted going in to HOF with Poffo family inducted together, not solo.. Lanny went against Randys wishes, and stabbed him in back by allowing Hogan to speak at his induction.. ZERO chance Randy allows that if he were still alive
Lanny was never a major draw. But he was a decent human being! I'll never forget his run as "The Genius" who scored a count out victory over Terry Bollea!
R.I.P. Lanny Poffo (Leaping Lanny, The Genius) One of wrestling's true nice guys.
At the time the only one to have beaten Hogan, in any match, until ultimate warrior did it at wrestlemania 6
@@mrveritas700 And then he and Mr. Perfect smashed Hogan's championship belt with a ball-peen hammer! Could've brought tears to a glass eye
I agree he was a great worker RIP Lanny and had a count out win over Hogan
The genius wasn't a gimmick. He literally seems like the most intelligent person in wrestling
Definitely an autistic before it was known. Seems like a really good dude.
@@nicolasjeric-allan2489 he would have been great announcing .. the Brain and the genius
He may have been a jobber in his early WWF days, but I remember VERY well being happy to see him come down to job out. Leaping Lanny was high flying before almost anyone and was solid technically in the ring. He was maybe the only jobber to get a spotlight before the match when he would do things like read a poem and throw out a frisbee. At least he was presented as a top tier jobber.
Definitely a jobber to the stars, he got to have his share of victories against lower ranked jobbers on TV too.
I don’t think I have ever heard of or seen a more humble superstar. Too many retired wrestlers are bitter, it’s refreshing to hear from someone who was just grateful for an opportunity.
Superstar? 😂
@@rmartin7558I'd say he was a superstar
lol superstar? The guy only had a job because of his brother Randy.
Perhaps not a *super* star, but it was always very clear he was having fun.
Also, while Jobbers may not have gotten "Superstar" paychecks, Lanny made it clear in this interview that he felt well taken care of, and as a Jobber, he probably had it much easier after his on-stage time to fade away, perhaps even be able to take the family to the amusement parks anonymously...
(... Unless, of course, he were to start improvising poetry in public to embarrass his kids... 🤣)
I think bro is using it in a contemporary WWE type of way where they call everyone a superstar.
He was a timex wearing, high-school ring wearing, coach-flying, taxicab riding, son of a gun---and he's having a had time keeipng these Kinny's down!
This made me laugh loudly! 🤣
What a great attitude. There's much to take from that.
I loved him as a jobber. I was too young to know it was scripted, but I always rooted for Leaping Lanny Poffo! He never won, but I still rooted for him.
He always put in the work and gave a great show (just to lose) but he worked a ton
I remember that headbutt from Andre like it was yesterday. Lanny was leaking like crazy
Leaking Lanny Poffo!
The genius was one of the funniest gimmicks of all time. His match on Saturday nights main event vs Hogan, and winning, was a historic match. Him doing his calculations outside the ring was Genius !
The Brain went crazy when he won against Hogan. That was great.
Hulk down was the ending to his equation einstein would be proud
Growing up I never knew Lanny was Macho Man's bro!
I was a big Leapin Lanny fan in the 80s when the Poffos had the Lexington territory. I reached out to him after Randy died. We had a great multi email exchange. He was polite, cordial, and listened to this fan offer condolences. Like John Tetra, Lanny Poffo was a true class act.
Never saw this clip. Very good and kudos to lanny!
I always loved listening to Lanny. I remember his poems...very clever.
Back when I was a kid, & didn't know wrestling was a work, my 2 favorite wrestlers were Ricky Steamboat and Lanny Poffo. It's nice to know that even as a young kid, I had an eye for talent & ability over flash & marketing. RIP Lanny.
Always enjoyed watching Lanny as a kid. One of my favorites.
He started as a heel but a top heel with tons of personality. Then as "the Genius", he wasn't a jobber. Jobbers don't get video segments and his were entertaining. If I remember, he did the in ring interview gimmick like piper and beefcake.
I loved The Genius gimmick. To this day, when I do something cleaver. I turnaround and say, superior intellect!
That's not Leaping Lanny Poffo! That's..........The Genius! Respect!
This guy has wisdom.
RIP Lanny 👍
George South was proud to be one and was ultimately respected and protected by other wrestlers.
George also had a great attitude. He got to be on national tv!
This guy was awesome back in the 70’s when he was with Atlantic Grande Prix Wrestling. He (Leaping Lanny) and his brother, the Macho Man….feuded like nobody’s business. Their matches were brutal.
This guy is AWESOME - humble and THANKFUL for his role in WWF!!! Wish i could have seen him live.
Ladies and gentlemen... a true pro... who gives a hoot if you win or put others over... business is business
What an interview! Another jobber I remember that I've not seen since the 80's was Gary Star.
Spot on, Lanny. A good jobber can make a wrestler into a true star or even an average in-ring performer look good. Bret Hart stands as a shining example of this. Lanny Poffo is another.
When he defeated the Hulkster and then helped Mr. Perfect smash the championship belt, I was old enough to know it was all an angle, but I was livid anyway. That's how talented Lanny was as a heel.
I love when he was throwing the flying fresbees
That's the way to look at it. What a great career. He worked with so many of the legends at a special time in the business.
It’s funny. I have lived through watching so many of my favorite wrestlers pass away, but there was something about Lanny’s passing that just hit differently.
I guess it's true that only the good die young. I wish that Leaping Lanny / The Genius had made it to 90 plus.
Awesome interview ❤
What a great interview!
Coolness personified
Good to see this shoot interview from the late Lanny Poffo a.k.a The Genius....
Good that he saved his pennies for a rainy day & was still financially stable, even after his stint in pro-wrestling when he retired 👌😁😷🇨🇦🇺🇲
Rest in peace bruv😇🙏👼🙏
He was very skilled wrestler and that's why they chose him to work with the stars....he made them look good! What a class guy
Lanny calling out Ole. Love it!!!!
One of my favorite televised wrestling memories is from I think Mid-Atlantic Wrestling out of Atlanta. Lanny had been injured in the match and was being carried out on a door that had been dismantled and brought to the ring because the opponent had broken his Lanny’s back. The announcer is going on about Oh Lord he will never wrestle again, this is terrible. Here he comes now, as the announcer sticks the mic in Lanny’s face and says Can we get just a few words? That may have been when it hit me, this is definitely fake.
it was real back then damn it
I never knew Lanny was born in Canada. Cool.
His moonsault was a thing of beauty.
Lanny and Maven would've been fun as a tag-team. Different eras.
R.I.P. The Leaping Genius.
R.i.p mate thanks for the memories
I met the guy very nice guy a bit of a character but a gentleman.
he is great, and i always like the underdog. leaping lanny was one of my favorites.
The Genius Lanny Poffo. The Worlds Smartest Man he used to say.
Poffo was great as the genius. He was so funny when he called lod the legion of sissies and wrote poems about the legion of Sissies.
Lanny was a special person
He was still very articulate.
Lanny has the right attitude.... much like Barry Horowitz and George South did. "I got to wrestle on national tv!!!" You could be the champion of a small town with 200 fans, or you could be on National TV!
Lanny Poffo and I shared private messages on YT when that was a feature. He told me that once George Scott left the WWF, the new guy didn't see much potential in him to warrant a push. He stayed because of the money and because his brother was there. Thankfully, he got the push he deserved and he made the most of it.
He learned how to throw that right hand from the great Bobby Eaton, who he tagged with.
Damn, this is refreshing to hear!
The first wrestler to bleed on SNME was Paul Orndorff in January 1987.
A class act! Great worker!
1:52 Miss you, Curt 💪🤍
I love leaping Lanny poffo.
I saw him at an indie show in the 90's. His opponent was green with a green as grass valet. Lanny was having to shout at her to get on the apron for the distraction. I took a posed photo of Angelo at a table in the back.
Good man. Great attitude. “The Genius” was a decent gimmick. He got over.
Wow, nice little clip here, what a great attitude he had, I bet he could have taught alot of the young talent today. I forget which wrestler it was who said "We all had a part in creating Goldberg", alot of the top stars don't realize that if nobody "lays down" for them, they wouldn't be the stars there are, so in that sense, the jobbers are the real star makers here.
Him and Kurt Hennig paired up. Perfect Genius. 😅
Giant Gonzales was learning a back flip so he could be called Leaping Giant Gonzales.
Lanny was a Canadian? I thought the Poffo Family is from Florida.
RIP Lanny
😂 @ the shot at Ole.
Great attitude!
The Genius was a great gimmick
I liked the Genius character.
Well said 👏
Great guy. RIP. 🙏
If only more wrestlers had this mindset of putting the company first .....
First match i ever seen in person was leaping lanny vs randy savage in a high school gym
Who won?
Leapin' Lanny!
Why be mad of you're losing if its a work and you're getting paid a lot anyway. Lanny has the right attitude imho.
Perfect Genius combo was perfect. Genius should have been IC champ.
Great mindset
R.I.P. Bam Bam Bigelow
Before Joining the WWF, “Leaping” Lanny Poffo was the top babyface for “outlaw” [not part of the NWA] territory ICW [International Championship Wrestling] out of Lexington Kentucky. - He had a red hot feud with his brother “Macho Man” Randy Savage over the ICW world heavyweight title. - So he knew what it was like to main event.
Lanny does seem exactly like someone that Ole would hate.
I would say he was top tier jobber
Leaping Lanny might have been more over if he wasn't the Macho Man Randy Savage's brother. It just wasn't meant to be.
Lenny did a bleed 🩸 job for Andre The Giant Heel turn on NBC Saturday Night Main Event 1987
That battle royal had about 7 or 8 big stars who weren't in WrestleMania 3
Lanny poffo demolition Paul orndorff for example
Lanny could work .. and he really could leap .. he did beat Hogan via count out .. we love the Bushwackers they were hilarious too.. in that rumble and out in record time .. Iron Mike Sharp could put on a show too .
He may have been a jobber, but he had a World Championships Attitude!!! Your missed Lanny
People call Lanny a jobber…..he died financially stable and not trashing his legacy like Flair
IDK why Lanny said he was a jobber. Looking at Wiki he had lots of victories in the WWF including even some big names like Jim Neidhart. I guess he was just being modest.
He wasn't really a jobber, no. He was a solid midcarder and great worker. I think the context he's using "jobber" is in reference to when he faced or feuded against main event guys. He doesn't use the word as a pejorative. He's proud that he went out there and did the job. He knew his part to play, and he played it very well.
It was a paycheck.
Did he say bleed on NBC?
It's hard to believe that he and Randy were brothers.
Does anyone have Sd Jones interview ??
Pretty cool dude
He beat Hulk Hogan on Saturday Night Main Event
but without randy he would of never been heard of