Ken Patera is the King of unintentional comedy. I love when Ken starts laughing I think this is the only time he ever laughed at this story. I lose it every time.
I remember meeting Ken Patera in Rice Lake, WI back in 1981. I was an awkward, gangly 16 year old, 6' 2" and 145 lbs., and it was a chance meeting where he and a couple of other wrestlers had pulled into the same gas station as us to refuel. The term "heel" had not come into vogue at that time, I knew Ken Patera as the elite weightlifter who had represented America well in international competition. I walked up and asked, "Excuse me, are you Ken Patera?" I saw his guard go up as he answered, "Yes," then saw the defensiveness replaced with a smile when I extended my hand and simply said, "Good luck tonight." He returned the handshake and replied, "Thank you."
They have all these stories about Haku and Rick Rude and Slater being tough but Masa Saito is wrestlings forgotten dark secret. Without question not a guy anyone would want to mess with.
Interesting Fact: Mr. Saito, or Masanori Saito was a world-class, freestyle wrestler having competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, where he placed 7th in the heavyweight division.
Nobody but nobody tells a story like Kenny and it was so funny he couldn’t even tell it without chuckling at his version but really nice to see the AWA boys sittin around a table doing what they do best Promo’s 😀🇨🇦
Olympic weightlifters are some of the best athletes around with extreme vertical jumping ability. When Ken Patera was in his prime he was 315 Lbs., only 6'1" tall, but could easily dunk a basketball on a 10-foot rim.
Let's be real here. Honestly, I think the cops did just randomly mace him because they felt threatened because he was fucking huge. I can imagine this happening just because of the amount of cocaine running through the world at that time, the situations and how hostile people were.
It was 12:30 at night they have no obligation to serve him food when they are closed. And they were busy filming the commercial.Ken should have ate food when the restaurant was open instead of getting drunk.
They should’ve stopped on their way to the hotel while in the taxi. Then they could’ve pounded down a few QP each and also it would helped absorb the later drinks!
Dick Slater got beat up by a smaller guy outside a bar in Clearwater, Florida. I witnessed it. Dick Murdoch was the king of tall tales when it came to bar fights. He must have been in a fight in every bar in Florida. It was his way of getting marks to buy him drinks.
What year was it that you saw Slater got whooped? Also are you saying Murdoch would basically brag and tell people stories of getting in fights so marks would buy drinks to hear more?
Now that was funny. I miss those guys. I watched them in my entire youth. Went to many AWA Matches with my father. My father was built like them and was friends with many of them.
@@PaulShaw-ex7ri I’ve seen The Killer Bees wrestle house shows when I was a kid. They were already a jobber tag team by then, I guess I never cared enough to listen to them,lol. But, seriously; thanks for the info.
Patera is such a great storyteller here! Funny guy. He was one of the very first wrestlers I had ever seen, in television, at that point, in 1981. He has always remained in my top 10 all time favorites along with Dusty, Blackjack Mulligan, DiBiase, Vader, and others.
I have a feeling for some reason that the supposed kid who threw a rock, didn't happen, and Ken actually just broke the windows out after getting turned down trying to buy 1/4 pounders 🍔🍔💪
Well you can think that, but you've got to ask yourself, what does he gain by lying about it? I mean, he already served his time over the ordeal. Another thing, if he is lying, and he did throw the rock, why was he never charged with that? There were plenty of witnesses there when it happened. They went to prison over what happened in the hotel with the cops. Not what happened at McDonalds.
@@1980bwccriminals even after getting out of jail ALL say they didn't do it. It was the running joke in the movie Shawshank redemption. Every inmate had an excuse as to why he was there. Inmate #1: "how bout you?" Inmate #2: "Lawyer fucked me"
Newspaper article in 1984 said a guy threw a rock through the window, and the kid ad McDonalds did not tell the cops who it was. Kid probably did not know who Ken Patera was.
The story doesn't make sense, someone fired and hangs around an hour and a half after they close then chucks a big rock? The time is what makes it very questionable, but it was a good "Story" from Ken
Funny how his fellow wrestlers are all looking at each other- "So it was some unnamed kid- that supposedly was a disgruntled former employee yet was somehow never identified- that threw the massive boulder through the window, huh Ken?" 😂😂😂
These guys were the best I used to go to the local venue every Friday night with a friend sat 3rd row center and had some of the greatest times ever ...
I was living in Milwaukee when this happened. Him an Saito threw the rock through the window. The cops arrested them at McDonald's and they were sentenced to 5yrs in state prison
Rreminds me of when Ken was getting released from prison. Everyone in the was hyped up by the fact that Ken's first appearance in the WWF after being released was going to feature him attempting to break the worlds bench press record. Hulk Hogan wasn't having any of it though as he chimed in "Pressing weights, Pressing weighs, that's all I'm hearing about Ken Petera. Brother, let me tell YOU! The only thing YOU been PRESSING is LICENSE PLATES!"
the one thing that makes me believe he was telling the truth is when he said he didn't see the ex-employee throw the rock. If he were lying he probably would of said that he indeed did see him throw the boulder.
so thats why he went to prison lmfao. wen i was watchin wwf he had jus com bak to wrestling from prison. i remember they would always talk about it but i never new why he went to prison
Any truth to his account? He was at a bar, McDonald's, and a hotel in Wisconsin. About 45 years ago, Ken wrestled at an arena in my area. The month before a big, stupid high school kid hit him from behind when he was walking to the ring. This night the same kid, apparently, tried it again. I got home in time to hear on the 11:00 news that the kid survived but was at the local hospital. No charges filed. Lesson: the element of surprise places a heavy emphasis on SURPRISE.
Aww, too funny. Oddly= I remember this happening, it was on the news when I was a kid, but I had heard they got in a fight AT a McDonalds and busted the place up. Look at Greg Gagne. And Brunsell. The high flyers were one of my fav's. I grew up in MPLS so the league that played on TV was the one they were in, I don't recallt the name. Great memories when wrestling was fun and full of characters.
Yeah, I remember the McDonald's incident 😮, and yes, it did end with the cops pulling their handguns and threatening to use deadly force. Just so you know, or may not know, with a bare handed professional fighter, deadly force can be called upon in extreme cases. If you are the cop, you better be able to prove that there was no other way of gaining control over a violent suspect, or, your ass is grass. But it has been done, especially in hand strangling cases, as it was a means of saving ones life. I'm glad that they went along with the cops. It really could have been a sad as hell incident with all comedy aside. Supposedly, Ken made the statement that, " that's what they get when you send boys to do a man's job." True story!
Reporter: "Uh huh Ken, sure, so what color was the kid's hair?" Ken Patera: "The color of the kid's hair was the color of any typical kid's hair color of the early 1980s."
Patera is not being honest its said patera threw the rock then cussed at the mcd employee and said if you got a problem im at so and so hotel . How do you explain how the police were able to find patera so fast
Ken Patera is the King of unintentional comedy. I love when Ken starts laughing I think this is the only time he ever laughed at this story. I lose it every time.
I remember meeting Ken Patera in Rice Lake, WI back in 1981. I was an awkward, gangly 16 year old, 6' 2" and 145 lbs., and it was a chance meeting where he and a couple of other wrestlers had pulled into the same gas station as us to refuel. The term "heel" had not come into vogue at that time, I knew Ken Patera as the elite weightlifter who had represented America well in international competition. I walked up and asked, "Excuse me, are you Ken Patera?" I saw his guard go up as he answered, "Yes," then saw the defensiveness replaced with a smile when I extended my hand and simply said, "Good luck tonight." He returned the handshake and replied, "Thank you."
What a story
Ken Patera is comedy gold. The dude is hilarious.
Nailed it 👌
Yep I used to go to his gym in Minnesota. 💪
He's got that old fashioned 'off the cuff' no hesitation' truth
6:22 his laugh breaks me.
Without even trying to be funny. He can kill a promo as well as Luger.
They have all these stories about Haku and Rick Rude and Slater being tough but Masa Saito is wrestlings forgotten dark secret. Without question not a guy anyone would want to mess with.
Interesting Fact: Mr. Saito, or Masanori Saito was a world-class, freestyle wrestler having competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, where he placed 7th in the heavyweight division.
What's so interesting about that? Tons of wrestlers have a background like that. They're not pro wrestlers just because 😂
@@Man_Getteris there any thing you have done that is more interesting than competing in the Olympics, Jake?
Ken made me laugh so hard I cried listening to him tell the story 😂
Nobody but nobody tells a story like Kenny and it was so funny he couldn’t even tell it without chuckling at his version but really nice to see the AWA boys sittin around a table doing what they do best Promo’s 😀🇨🇦
Ken Patera, wow ... great legend of the golden age of wrestling. God Bless him.
Ken was the 1st American to clean and jerk 500lbs. He came in 3rd in the 1977 World's Strongest Man contest and that was with a bad back.
Can you imagine how hard a man who power cleans 500lbs could shoot! Double leg someone into orbit.
That's back when the worlds' strongest man was based on 'the world' being North America only.
@@butwait To "North Americans" it still is, and yet they still can't find it on a map.
Olympic weightlifters are some of the best athletes around with extreme vertical jumping ability. When Ken Patera was in his prime he was 315 Lbs., only 6'1" tall, but could easily dunk a basketball on a 10-foot rim.
Ken is good at making up stories. Each version is different from the others🤣🥰💪
Let's be real here. Honestly, I think the cops did just randomly mace him because they felt threatened because he was fucking huge. I can imagine this happening just because of the amount of cocaine running through the world at that time, the situations and how hostile people were.
If I ever saw a man running at me being that huge and high on coke, I’m not taking my chances
@bigboi2128 Exactly right? I wouldn't doubt he knocked out 16 people. He's fucking massive
@@GreatestGames777 honestly, if the cops were scared of Tyson after biting that dudes ear off mid-fight, can’t imagine this was anything different
@@bigboi2128 If I saw tyson running at me I would fucking be gone.
Ken never did coke. He just drank a ton and used painkillers.
I spent some time with Kenny in the early 90's... He is an awesome man. Kenny's story has changed over time.
He was at McDonalds, but he sure told a Whopper!
Ken Patera was a beast when he was young I believe everything you said about beating the cops up he's a badass
Not only that, but Saito was in the class of Harley Race and Meng as far as toughness
I love how obvious it is that none of them believe anything he’s saying.
Some of it is true.
Ken needs a lie detector test on that McDonald's story
On his death bed he will admit to the rock and laugh his way off into the pearly gates.
Don't we all... Don't we all, brother
It just so happens a kid gets fired while mc Donald’s is closed and shooting a commercial.He’s lying he threw the rock
He went to prison for beating up the cops. One of the cops was the daughter of someone important in the local government. Saito beat up most of them.
It seems quite obvious he did it, but eh it's a McDonald's dude was hangry
Laughing is probably the only contagious thing that feels great.
Gagne can’t believe him but he is trying, looking like Greg from the Brady bunch. Haha
This isn't a Story about a Man named BRady..Who married a lovely Lady...
I Remember seeing Ken on strongest man..he carried an engine block quite far!! 💪🇺🇲🇬🇧✌️
I remember seeing likes of Ken, Franco Columbo, Bruce Wilhelm on CBS production of WSM
He could overhead press 500 lbs
Wasn't as strong as Bruce Wilhelm..
@@asphaltcowboy7567 not so sure about that bro...✌️🇺🇲🇬🇧
The right thing to do would have been to offer to make Ken a couple of burgers.
Yep💪
It was 12:30 at night they have no obligation to serve him food when they are closed. And they were busy filming the commercial.Ken should have ate food when the restaurant was open instead of getting drunk.
@@rudistorm3348 If only you could have been there.
They should’ve stopped on their way to the hotel while in the taxi. Then they could’ve pounded down a few QP each and also it would helped absorb the later drinks!
3:39 Regardless of legitimacy, I loved how nonplussed he was to witnessing the rock getting thrown.
5:39 This is now the church scene from Kingsmen.
Dick Slater got beat up by a smaller guy outside a bar in Clearwater, Florida. I witnessed it. Dick Murdoch was the king of tall tales when it came to bar fights. He must have been in a fight in every bar in Florida. It was his way of getting marks to buy him drinks.
What year was it that you saw Slater got whooped? Also are you saying Murdoch would basically brag and tell people stories of getting in fights so marks would buy drinks to hear more?
Now that was funny. I miss those guys. I watched them in my entire youth. Went to many AWA Matches with my father. My father was built like them and was friends with many of them.
Patera hates telling this story but damn it’s one of the best stories ever.
The look on Jumpin Jim’s face is hilarious
He was a dope peddler that got iron sheik and others on drugs by his own admission. I lost all respect for brunzy !
@@PaulShaw-ex7ri I’ve never heard that before. Thanks for the info, for real.
@@TherealHazlett yes , jim said it himself on some interviews . Others said he was known as THE PHARMACY.
@@PaulShaw-ex7ri I’ve seen The Killer Bees wrestle house shows when I was a kid. They were already a jobber tag team by then, I guess I never cared enough to listen to them,lol. But, seriously; thanks for the info.
Patera is such a great storyteller here! Funny guy. He was one of the very first wrestlers I had ever seen, in television, at that point, in 1981. He has always remained in my top 10 all time favorites along with Dusty, Blackjack Mulligan, DiBiase, Vader, and others.
Plot twist: Ken was in the squared circle at the time of the incident and all the cops were hired jobbers.
As much as a POS 180lb Buck Zumhoff was, he still beat a crowd of drunks at a bar in my hometown.
Every version of this story I hear is different...except Ken and Saito fighting cops and going to jail.😂😂😂
I have a feeling for some reason that the supposed kid who threw a rock, didn't happen, and Ken actually just broke the windows out after getting turned down trying to buy 1/4 pounders 🍔🍔💪
Nope. Ken just told you what happened! 😉
Well you can think that, but you've got to ask yourself, what does he gain by lying about it? I mean, he already served his time over the ordeal. Another thing, if he is lying, and he did throw the rock, why was he never charged with that? There were plenty of witnesses there when it happened. They went to prison over what happened in the hotel with the cops. Not what happened at McDonalds.
@@1980bwccriminals even after getting out of jail ALL say they didn't do it. It was the running joke in the movie Shawshank redemption. Every inmate had an excuse as to why he was there.
Inmate #1: "how bout you?"
Inmate #2: "Lawyer fucked me"
Newspaper article in 1984 said a guy threw a rock through the window, and the kid ad McDonalds did not tell the cops who it was. Kid probably did not know who Ken Patera was.
The story doesn't make sense, someone fired and hangs around an hour and a half after they close then chucks a big rock? The time is what makes it very questionable, but it was a good "Story" from Ken
Funny how his fellow wrestlers are all looking at each other- "So it was some unnamed kid- that supposedly was a disgruntled former employee yet was somehow never identified- that threw the massive boulder through the window, huh Ken?" 😂😂😂
These guys were the best I used to go to the local venue every Friday night with a friend sat 3rd row center and had some of the greatest times ever ...
Im just loving these ❤
I was in high school when this happened both legit Tough men Ken beyond Strong ...this is the funniest story Ken tells ever
I never knew that Patera was so funny and a good story teller.
Epic. Just remember, this is 'Merica!
The only problem with the story is that nobody would be mad after getting fired from McDonalds.
Mr. Patera is asked about this legendary incident all the time when he is a guest on various podcasts!
Patera was a great talent in the 80's.
1:38 "scotch and water" lmao at first I heard him say "discussion water" 😆
I never knew Ken Patera was wild like this😊
If you watch the zapruder film closely you will see there must have been a second rock thrower coming from the grassy knoll.
I was one of the few people in the world to have gotten fired from McDicks too. But im autistic so that place was a nightmare and a half honestly.
Why did you end the video so abruptly, Vice? You could have at least developed a better ending scene than that.
Because they clipped a scene from the episode
Turn down the music. Like just a bit.
I was living in Milwaukee when this happened. Him an Saito threw the rock through the window. The cops arrested them at McDonald's and they were sentenced to 5yrs in state prison
Saito was in the hotel room. He and Patera did waste those cops until the pistols came out.
Thanks for repeating what Patera just said and it was the fired kid who threw the rock through the window.
Was that Medusa? Wow! She aged well
Agreed.
I thought just the opposite. Just my opinion.
Frisby from Twiligjt Zone can tell some whoopers 🍔 🍔 !! 😂😂 the whistle in the laugh
Old Cop Whooping Frisby, that's what they called me.
Kens voice has never changed even a scoche.
How do you watch the full episode?
Is there anything more entertaining?? Then these old school wrestlers storys 🤣👋
I always knew there was more to that story that throwing a Boulder through a window ! You get 2 years in prison for just that.
Ken is a character
I wonder if he met Darrel Brooks up in Wakeshua
Waukesha is a big city compared to where I grew up in Wisconsin population 800 no motels anywhere within a half hour drive except maybe Waupun.
Nothing has changed. Guilty until proven innocent.
Well, he was found guilty in a court of law…
That's his story and he's sticking to it.
Rreminds me of when Ken was getting released from prison. Everyone in the was hyped up by the fact that Ken's first appearance in the WWF after being released was going to feature him attempting to break the worlds bench press record. Hulk Hogan wasn't having any of it though as he chimed in "Pressing weights, Pressing weighs, that's all I'm hearing about Ken Petera. Brother, let me tell YOU! The only thing YOU been PRESSING is LICENSE PLATES!"
The rock supposedly weighed 300 lbs, no kid was throwing it through the window.
Where did he get that from?
30-40 lbs
Okay well thats definitely not my definition of a street fight 😂
You could take a nap while Patera is talking, wake up 30 minutes later and be caught up.
I don't believe a word he says, but I'm still on his side
the one thing that makes me believe he was telling the truth is when he said he didn't see the ex-employee throw the rock. If he were lying he probably would of said that he indeed did see him throw the boulder.
What are the names of everybody being filmed? I only recognized Vern Gagne and Kenneth Patera.
Madusa (Debrah) Micele, Diamond Dallas Page, Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne (in addition to Ken).
@@tresfielder3148Thank you my friend.
@@judahsoremy9857You're more than welcome my friend! Happy Early New Year to you and yours!!
so thats why he went to prison lmfao. wen i was watchin wwf he had jus com bak to wrestling from prison. i remember they would always talk about it but i never new why he went to prison
A McCraving turned into a McBrawl, LOL!!! >_
They have cameras all over. Why didn't ya....!!
I love hearing the old wrestling stories but I’m sure with time, they all get spun a little.
Any truth to his account? He was at a bar, McDonald's, and a hotel in Wisconsin. About 45 years ago, Ken wrestled at an arena in my area. The month before a big, stupid high school kid hit him from behind when he was walking to the ring. This night the same kid, apparently, tried it again. I got home in time to hear on the 11:00 news that the kid survived but was at the local hospital. No charges filed. Lesson: the element of surprise places a heavy emphasis on SURPRISE.
Waukesha is one town over from me and I never go there...
If McDonald's was closed for over an hour, why was an employee still there in the first place?
Should've left a "We're closed " sign on the glass.
They were filming a commercial he said
I've heard of the "Keystone Kops", but these cops are the cordwood cops...
Start stakin' the bacon...
There is also a great Patera Story when he knocked a guy down (deservingly so) at Howard Johnsons. Look for that one.
Fingerprints and/or DNA is all what's needed these days!
I believe every word Ken is saying 😊
It's really annoying how DDP has to be on all of these shows as if he's a fucking legend. He isn't.
Aww, too funny. Oddly= I remember this happening, it was on the news when I was a kid, but I had heard they got in a fight AT a McDonalds and busted the place up. Look at Greg Gagne. And Brunsell. The high flyers were one of my fav's. I grew up in MPLS so the league that played on TV was the one they were in, I don't recallt the name. Great memories when wrestling was fun and full of characters.
In the version of this story I heard, it was Saito who threw the rock not the kid
Bro acquired +1 to bicep
Yeah, I remember the McDonald's incident 😮, and yes, it did end with the cops pulling their handguns and threatening to use deadly force. Just so you know, or may not know, with a bare handed professional fighter, deadly force can be called upon in extreme cases. If you are the cop, you better be able to prove that there was no other way of gaining control over a violent suspect, or, your ass is grass. But it has been done, especially in hand strangling cases, as it was a means of saving ones life. I'm glad that they went along with the cops. It really could have been a sad as hell incident with all comedy aside. Supposedly, Ken made the statement that, " that's what they get when you send boys to do a man's job." True story!
Reporter: "Uh huh Ken, sure, so what color was the kid's hair?"
Ken Patera: "The color of the kid's hair was the color of any typical kid's hair color of the early 1980s."
I would have had Patera autograph my landscape boulder, then name a burger after him.
There was no kid who threw that boulder 😂😂😂
Is like 16 cops vs batman or venom😁super hero👍
this story changes a bit every time he tells it
Honestly Id sue the whole police force... didn't even teally investigate.
Lazy. Love the story of what happened.
I've heard this story before but the person telling it said Ken Patera broke the window.
Ken's never wavered from this story.
Patera is not being honest its said patera threw the rock then cussed at the mcd employee and said if you got a problem im at so and so hotel . How do you explain how the police were able to find patera so fast
I bet if Sid snapped out of anger he’d smash ten cops too
is that Monsson off to the left?
6:00-6:40 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Back the blue til it happens to you!
It's that Diamond Dallas Page beside story telling Ken ❤😮😊
Ken wheeze laughs like i do. What a great story! Some of the cops were good, ROFL
Madusa is unrecognizeable
Got to be honest...I reckon he threw the bolder haha
I remember mr saito and mr Fuji tag team heels in wwf beating the polish hammer Ivan putzki and Tito Santana for the belts I was so mad 😡 😮
Cant believe bill Murray was there
Who said that?
@@THATGUY-ir4ieI think he was talking about Greg Gagne.
They were doing a commercial....thats what he's gonna go with
Oh, a "kid" threw the boulder through the McDonald's window. That was it.
Who is the woman at the table? Don't recognize her