I was a skinny kid in Weyburn when Jim played for the Red Wings. He was younger than me but was already bigger and stronger than me. We were 4 of us in a friend's basement playing pool when all of a sudden I'm in a chokehold from behind-I had just met this kid and he's got me in a sleeper hold and I'm panicking! I throw a hail Mary over my head with a closed fist and he lets go. I don't know where I connected because I was just about out. The others in the room jumped in to prevent any further altercations (thank god!). A year later, Jim is playing with the Moose Jaw Warriors, and also playing high school basketball. There's a tournament in Moose Jaw, and I"m on the Weyburn team. The one game we played Moose Jaw, I get player of the game. I never thought anything of it. Next summer, Jim is in Weyburn and brings it up with me in a residential neighbourhood. He says that I got player of the game over him by one rebound. I didn't even recognize him! But months later he still remembers! And challenges me to 1 on 1 in a driveway. No frickin way! I don't know where he's coming from - the basement incident, or basketball skill. I was still a skinny kid and he was not skinny! I'll tell you this - when I look back and look at his career, he was a class act. He was just competitive. Not a blood thirsty meathead. And I've learned a bit about how to look at people. This interview speaks to his competitiveness. I've listened to it a few times and have to say that what little I know of Jim this fits his character. Competitive, good guy.
That's a helluva story and what a great 1st NHL fight VS Dave Brown...And he had no idea...well, it worked out much better for him that he didn't know!😂😂
Daryl Reaugh: "You really didn't know who that was??" Jim McKenzie: "I had no idea he got traded!!" This has to be one of the funniest hockey stories of all time! Jim McKenzie's a great story-teller!
Great Interview, Jim MacKenzie didn't really know who he was messing with. He met the Toughest guy in the NHL at that time frame . He stood in their but got his ass put down on the ice . TKO WIN FOR BROWN.
Than who? Mckenzie was great...Brown lost plenty. Flyers dorks always talk big, but if they had any idea what theyre talking about theyd know Mckenzie was the toughest around.
Jim McKenzie came to the Dallas Stars with a reputation as a tough guy, but he wouldn’t fight anyone. I guess he felt he had already made his reputation and didn’t need to fight any more. Maybe he was hurt. I don’t know, but he was a huge disappointment.
That's like Sandy McCarthy going to the Bruins. He didn't do shit with the Bruins. Didn't look like he was interested in fighting anymore. Or, maybe he was burnt out...
I'M A PHILLY BOY BORN AND RAISED . THE BROAD STREET BULLIES WERE LIKE GODS TO US BACK THEN. THEN CAME ROUND 2 OF BAD ASS PLAYERS LIKE GLENN COCHRAN, BEHN WILSON, PAUL HOLMGREN,MEL BRIDGMAN. ECT THEN CAME MY FAVORITE #21 DAVE BROWN..... COULDN'T SKATE WELL COULDN'T SCORE WELL. BUT HE PROTECTED HIS TEAMMATES AND WITH DAVE ON THE BENCH THE OTHER PLAYERS PLAYED WITH BIGGER BALLS. AND MAN COULD HE FIGHT. # 21 DAVE BROWN IS THE ONLY JERSEY I EVER BOUGHT. AND WORE IT TO GAMES WITH PRIDE. AND DAVE NEVER EVER DISAPPOINTED. AFTER ONE HOME GAME I MET DAVE AND WHAT A NICE GUY HE WAS. WE JOKED ABOUT MY #21 JERSEY HE SAID I MUST BE THE ONLY DUDE THAT EVER PUT THE BROWN PATCH ON THE BACK OF A FLYERS JERSEY...... DAVE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAVORITE FLYER.... AND HOW ABOUT WHEN FLYERS RETIRED #88 JERSEY ERIC LINDROS. HE GAVE DAVE A SHOUT OUT... I WAS LIKE WTF THAT IS SO COOL. THX FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES DAVE..... PEACE...
Comments are so brutal easy to talk tough from the bleachers. It was a different time would be easy not to recognize especially in an unfamiliar uniform.
@@khav11 He didn't get TKO'ed. If you watch that fight in slo mo you see that Brown actually misses that shot, and gentleman Jim falls due to the momentum.
@@howardanderson3662 lol he got smashed to bits and like he said he was too scared to fight brown again, that's the definition of ownage, also he got TKO'D are you a mckenzie lover? or i'd get some glasses if i were you
McKenzie got dropped at the end but watch that fight and tell me it wasn't a pretty good toe to toe exchange before Brown buckles McKenzie. That's an A+ tilt in my books between two beauties
@@FightStoriesPodcast Yes, it was a good fight. (And I watched this fight live, by the way; so I recall it well.) But that is not the issue. McKenzie and his interviewer made it sound like this was an event tilt, and it simply wasn't.
Dave Brown WAS NOT a tough guy.....NEVER would fight the tough guys unless he was able to JUMP them and get in a few shots before they even knew they were in a fight........
I remember McKenzie playing for the Hartford Whalers...A pleasure to watch...
Growing up in the 80s in the Philadelphia area and being a huge Flyers fan, Dave Brown was like a folk hero.
He sure was.
I can imagine. Probert was like that for the entire state of Michigan then.
We ABSOLUTELY LOVED him in Edmonton
That was bad bad leeroy brown when jay wells hit him he was a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of peices gone
King of the sucker punch
One of my favorite hockey stories!
McKenzie the most underrated fighter in the NHL!!
Real men
Beat Twister !
Jim is in the top 3 of all time best fighters in my opinion.
Great story. More of these please.
One of the best stories I ever heard
I was a skinny kid in Weyburn when Jim played for the Red Wings. He was younger than me but was already bigger and stronger than me. We were 4 of us in a friend's basement playing pool when all of a sudden I'm in a chokehold from behind-I had just met this kid and he's got me in a sleeper hold and I'm panicking! I throw a hail Mary over my head with a closed fist and he lets go. I don't know where I connected because I was just about out. The others in the room jumped in to prevent any further altercations (thank god!).
A year later, Jim is playing with the Moose Jaw Warriors, and also playing high school basketball. There's a tournament in Moose Jaw, and I"m on the Weyburn team. The one game we played Moose Jaw, I get player of the game. I never thought anything of it. Next summer, Jim is in Weyburn and brings it up with me in a residential neighbourhood. He says that I got player of the game over him by one rebound. I didn't even recognize him! But months later he still remembers! And challenges me to 1 on 1 in a driveway.
No frickin way! I don't know where he's coming from - the basement incident, or basketball skill. I was still a skinny kid and he was not skinny!
I'll tell you this - when I look back and look at his career, he was a class act. He was just competitive. Not a blood thirsty meathead. And I've learned a bit about how to look at people. This interview speaks to his competitiveness. I've listened to it a few times and have to say that what little I know of Jim this fits his character. Competitive, good guy.
Love this interview. Typical Saskatchewan kid.
"Dont look at the dead guy" LOL Jimmy that was awesome
Strange you see a lot of hockey "experts" leave Dave Brown off the top 10 list of enforcers of all time. I would rate him in the top 5 all time
I meant Dave Brown being left off the top 10 all time list of enforcers. He is my No 1
Brown was 2nd only to Probie imo.
Most of the lists I've seen Brownie is on it in the top ten.
@Plemons Residence They had a few fights and they were all close.
# 1 ................ ENUFF SAID !!!!!!!!!!
Great story telling.
Loved Jim McKenzie
Lmfao, greatest hockey fight story I've ever heard
That's a helluva story and what a great 1st NHL fight VS Dave Brown...And he had no idea...well, it worked out much better for him that he didn't know!😂😂
Daryl Reaugh: "You really didn't know who that was??"
Jim McKenzie: "I had no idea he got traded!!"
This has to be one of the funniest hockey stories of all time! Jim McKenzie's a great story-teller!
Brown got traded for Acton in middle of 88-89 season. Lol. I think Linesman was who Jimmy was talking bout
So funny !😅
Great Interview, Jim MacKenzie didn't really know who he was messing with. He met the Toughest guy in the NHL at that time frame . He stood in their but got his ass put down on the ice . TKO WIN FOR BROWN.
Probert was tougher...
Than who? Mckenzie was great...Brown lost plenty. Flyers dorks always talk big, but if they had any idea what theyre talking about theyd know Mckenzie was the toughest around.
Love Jim McKenzie he own troy crowder. 😅😂
Jim McKenzie came to the Dallas Stars with a reputation as a tough guy, but he wouldn’t fight anyone. I guess he felt he had already made his reputation and didn’t need to fight any more. Maybe he was hurt. I don’t know, but he was a huge disappointment.
That's like Sandy McCarthy going to the Bruins. He didn't do shit with the Bruins. Didn't look like he was interested in fighting anymore. Or, maybe he was burnt out...
@@Mr.77776 I remember that.
@@johnhelms8226 Right! Such a disappointment.
I'M A PHILLY BOY BORN AND RAISED . THE BROAD STREET BULLIES WERE LIKE GODS TO US BACK THEN. THEN CAME ROUND 2 OF BAD ASS PLAYERS LIKE GLENN COCHRAN, BEHN WILSON, PAUL HOLMGREN,MEL BRIDGMAN. ECT THEN CAME MY FAVORITE #21 DAVE BROWN..... COULDN'T SKATE WELL COULDN'T SCORE WELL. BUT HE PROTECTED HIS TEAMMATES AND WITH DAVE ON THE BENCH THE OTHER PLAYERS PLAYED WITH BIGGER BALLS. AND MAN COULD HE FIGHT. # 21 DAVE BROWN IS THE ONLY JERSEY I EVER BOUGHT. AND WORE IT TO GAMES WITH PRIDE. AND DAVE NEVER EVER DISAPPOINTED. AFTER ONE HOME GAME I MET DAVE AND WHAT A NICE GUY HE WAS. WE JOKED ABOUT MY #21 JERSEY HE SAID I MUST BE THE ONLY DUDE THAT EVER PUT THE BROWN PATCH ON THE BACK OF A FLYERS JERSEY...... DAVE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAVORITE FLYER.... AND HOW ABOUT WHEN FLYERS RETIRED #88 JERSEY ERIC LINDROS. HE GAVE DAVE A SHOUT OUT... I WAS LIKE WTF THAT IS SO COOL. THX FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES DAVE..... PEACE...
Heard lots of good things about Brownie off the ice. He even did some stand up comedy acts I heard. Philly's greatest enforcer ever.
LOOK HOW IMPORTANT MY COMMENT IS!!!! IT'S IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!
@@evenkeel6131 HAHAHAHAHAHHA BUT READ IT JERKOFF !!
@@billymurph8125 DIAGF YOU PHEASANT! NOBODY READS THAT SHIT!
Brown always Was a Cheapshot artist.
Comments are so brutal easy to talk tough from the bleachers. It was a different time would be easy not to recognize especially in an unfamiliar uniform.
Agreed, lots of yip yappers and keyboard warriors talking trash around here as expected lol
So true. Most of the morons commenting have never even laced up a pair of skates.
Brown was traded in mid 88-89 season for keith acton. Reason I believe Jay Miller went to LA Kings rite after. Lol
Brown crushed him in both fights. Go watch.
Brown wasn’t too tough when his jersey came off. Got owned by middleweight Rob Ray!
Round 1 was an edge win for Ray . Round 2 and 3 were draws.
McKenzie got TKO'd by Brown in that fight.
i miss landlines
hahah buddy tell me about it! So much clearer!
mckenzie got tko'd i guess he got memory loss from that devasting TKO.
I remember when Brown jumped Probert and Probert still pummeled him. But then again that's why big #24 is the best of all time.
@@55Porter "crickets"
@@khav11 He didn't get TKO'ed. If you watch that fight in slo mo you see that Brown actually misses that shot, and gentleman Jim falls due to the momentum.
@@howardanderson3662 lol he got smashed to bits and like he said he was too scared to fight brown again, that's the definition of ownage, also he got TKO'D are you a mckenzie lover? or i'd get some glasses if i were you
Wow. What does the brown probert fight have to do with it. And yea the momentum caused him to fall LOL...
LOL yeah he got dropped.
Sure he didn’t know who he was, sure.
Sorry, but you didn't do "really well" against Brown. He pummeled you.
McKenzie got dropped at the end but watch that fight and tell me it wasn't a pretty good toe to toe exchange before Brown buckles McKenzie. That's an A+ tilt in my books between two beauties
@@FightStoriesPodcast Yes, it was a good fight. (And I watched this fight live, by the way; so I recall it well.) But that is not the issue. McKenzie and his interviewer made it sound like this was an event tilt, and it simply wasn't.
Dave Brown WAS NOT a tough guy.....NEVER would fight the tough guys unless he was able to JUMP them and get in a few shots before they even knew they were in a fight........
What ? When Dave Brown stepped on the ice , every spectator in that arena knew a fight could happen.
You're high! Dave Brown was one of the toughest players to play in the NHL.