10 Stories From Bobby Heenan's One-of-a-Kind Career

10. Paying His Due

Bobby Heenan's working life began sooner than most; in fact, the future WWE legend, as he described in his autobiography, took his first steps in professional wrestling before he hit his teens, performing odd jobs at local events in Chicago and Indianapolis.

In the eighth grade, he dropped out of school altogether and took up full-time work, variously, as a theater usher, store clerk, milkman, and car jockey, in order to help support his mother and grandmother during times of financial difficulty.

Two things jump out at you here, the first being that it's mightily impressive a man who didn't finish high school went on to the nickname 'The Brain'. The second is that it really speaks to his incredible workrate, which probably explains how he was able to turn his hand to everything with such seamless aplomb.