10 People You Had No Idea Worked For WWE
2. Brusier Brody
Known for knowing his worth and sticking the f*ck up for it regardless of which promoter he had to battle for the right, Bruiser Brody wasn't really built for a regular working relationship with Vince McMahon.
He did attempt to forge once with his Father though.
Challenging Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Championship in 1976, the wildman also briefly teamed with Big John Studd in a short but eventful stay in New York before returning to the territories where he was able to turn his confidence and dominance into title reigns and greater financial prosperity than he was afforded in the North East.
It's also worth noting who else Brody met for the first time during this period. In one of his semi-regular acts of defiance, he refused to sell for Jose "Invader I" Gonzalez during a match for the company, with their personal and professional differences acknowledged by those that knew them both years later. It was Gonzalez that was later acquitted of Brody's murder - despite admitting to fatally stabbing in "self defence" - following the star's grisly 1988 death.