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Edward Harrison Leslie Jr. (born 21 April 1958) better known by his stage name Brutus Beefcake, is an American professional wrestler, occasionally performing for independent promotions. He is best known for his work in the WWF (now the WWE) during its late-1980s heyday when he used a barber gimmick, during the use of which he acquired the nickname "The Barber," and also for his work in WCW under various names. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stage name, or a screen name for movie stars, is a pseudonym used by performers and actors. ... // Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that performs regular shows involving professional wrestling for monetary gain. ... // World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America. ... A barber (from the Latin barba, beard) is someone whose occupation is to cut hair, give shaves and cut beards. ... In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ... WCW logo from 1999-2001. ...

Career

Early Days

Ed Leslie began his career at the side of Hulk Hogan. At the time, the two were portrayed as brothers, alternately Terry and Ed Boulder, or Hulk and Dizzy Hogan. Hogan has been said to have had much to do with Leslie's success as a singles star, often using his political status in the WWF and WCW to get Leslie various pushes, of varying success. Terrence Gene Bollea, best known as Hulk Hogan and Hollywood Hogan (born August 11, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler and actor. ... In professional wrestling, a push is an attempt by the booker to make the wrestler win more matches and so become more popular with the fans. ...

WWF

Brutus Beefcake was by far his most successful gimmick; he acquired the nickname "Barber" after Roddy Piper's match against Adrian Adonis at WrestleMania III. Adonis lost the match and it was stipulated he would have to cut his hair; Beefcake entered the ring with a gigantic pair of scissors (gardening shears, actually, with the handles painted to resemble barber poles) to do this. After this, he would cut off the hair of his opponents after knocking them out with a sleeper hold. Usually he'd snip off a few strands of hair with the shears, and then finish the job with an electric razour, removing most of the hair of the jobbers he was fed into random and intentionally humourous styles. A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Nick is short for Nicholas). ... Roderick George Toombs (born on April 17, 1954 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), best known by his stage name of Rowdy Roddy Piper, is a Canadian professional wrestler of Scottish descent. ... Keith Franke as Adrian Adonis Keith Franke was an American professional wrestler, best known as Adrian Adonis. ... WrestleMania III was the third pay-per-view in WWEs annual WrestleMania series. ... As professional wrestling is staged, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent. ...

Leslie was rumoured to be in line for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, but a near-fatal parasailing accident put him out of action for months, and more or less destroyed his face, which had to be surgically repaired with metal plates and screws. What had happened was that he was walking along a beach while on a vacation, and turned around just in time to catch a landing parasailer's knees directly in the face. This event ultimately ended his career in the WWF, so after he had healed enough to compete again, he singned with the WCW, where he was often a tag team partner to Hogan after returning - the duo were known as The Mega-Maniacs. Intercontinental Championship belt used from 1985-1998. ... Parasailing, also known as parascending, is a recreational activity where a person (two people may also ride at the same time) is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a parachute. ... WCW logo until 1999 World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. ... A professional wrestling tag-team consists of two or occasionally three wrestlers who are working together as a team. ... The Mega-Maniacs Hulk Hogan & Brutus Beefcake The Mega-Maniacs was the team of Hulk Hogan & Brutus The Barber Beefcake. ...

WCW

In WCW, as the name Brutus Beefcake was trademarked by the WWF, he was given a number of gimmicks and ring names. At first he was Brother Bruti, a heel, feuding with the new WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan, who had just arrived in WCW. The feud between these two culminated at Starrcade 1994, and was then abruptly dropped as fan interest was simply not there. Leslie would soon resurface, however, as The Butcher and later The Man with No Name. He would go on to be part of Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom as The Zodiac, a character with black and white face paint who would only say, "Yes, yes, no, no". A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark)[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. ... In professional wrestling, a heel is a character who is portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner; sometimes they are humourously referred to as evil. In non-wrestling jargon, heels are often bad guys in professional wrestling storylines. ... A professional wrestling feud is a staged disagreement between two wrestlers or factions of wrestlers over a purported slight or insult. ... The World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship (sometimes simply WCW Championship, WCW Title, or World Title) was the primary championship in the World Championship Wrestling professional wrestling organization. ... Starrcade 2000 logo Starrcade was the primary supercard of the NWA and WCW from 1983 until 2000. ... Kevin Sullivan Kevin Francis Sullivan is a legendary professional wrestler known mostly for his feuds with the American Dream Dusty Rhodes and Mike Graham in the NWAs Florida promotion. ... The Giant Dungeon of Doom are offically the best-named Tag Team in wrestling history (WrestleFest Magazine 1994). ...

In 1996 Leslie feuded with Diamond Dallas Page, this time as The Booty Man. He was accompanied by Page's ex-valet (and real-life wife), Kimberly Page, who he referred to as his "Booty Girl." His gimmick was simply that of a man who would shake his (supposedly) bare buttocks on the way to the ring. Naturally, this too did not last long. When the nWo started, Booty Man attempted to join and promptly received a beatdown from Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Hulk Hogan. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Diamond Dallas Page Page Falkenberg (born April 5, 1956 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler under the name Diamond Dallas Page (or, DDP for short); the name on his current SAG and AFTRA cards is Dallas Page. ... In professional wrestling, a manager is a non-wrestler character who is paired with a wrestler. ... Kimberly Page Kimberly Page (born Kimberly Lynn Bacon on January 1, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and former valet for her husband Diamond Dallas Page. ... The nWo (New World Order) was both a professional wrestling storyline and the stable of wrestlers who were its central players. ... Scott Hall in TNA. This article is about the professional wrestler. ... Kevin Nash Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) is a professional wrestler who has performed in both World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling and now Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. ...

Leslie's last WCW gimmick was The Disciple—he was almost unrecognizable at first with a full beard and biker attire, and he was a member of the nWo. He was later "kidnapped" by The Ultimate Warrior during Warrior's WCW run and feud with Hogan, and was the only other member (along with Warrior) of the One Warrior Nation. The Ultimate Warrior James Brian Hellwig (born June 16, 1962), is an American professional wrestler known by many as The Ultimate Warrior, who legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993. ... The nWo (New World Order) was both a professional wrestling storyline and the stable of wrestlers who were its central players. ...

Retirement

Leslie is largely retired now, and was last in the news for causing an anthrax scare at Boston's Logan International Airport, where he was working at the time. It turned out that he had cocaine instead of anthrax. He promptly checked into a drug rehabilitation facility after admitting that the cocaine found at BOS was his. As a result, no charges have been filed against him. [1] Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area - Total - Water 232. ... KBOS is the airport identification code. ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ...

Profile

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Previous identities

Titles/Accomplishments

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