In the seven years Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was in the WWF, he managed over 20 different performers in his "Heenan Family" stable. Whether applying the heat to world champions like Hulk Hogan or The Ultimate Warrior on being a perpetual thorn in the back of wrestlers in the tag team division, Heenan was there. In retrospect though, it's entirely possible to consider that in the case of over half of the members of the family, Heenan ended up overshadowing that talents he was managing. For every Ric Flair or Andre the Giant, there's a Hercules or Red Rooster. A case of maybe going to the well 10 too many times, Heenan's truese excellence may lie in the fact that even though he took fewer bumps than talents that he managed, he overshadowed many of them.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
