Greg Valentine - When I Punched A Fan in WWF
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- Greg Valentine discusses the time when he punched a fan in WWF & Linda McMahon called him about the lawsuit. Streaming now 📺 TitleMatchNetwork.com
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If you've ever seen the Indian Strap Match (first time ever at Madison Square Garden) on WWF Most Unusual Matches VHS then you will understand. It featured Greg "The Hammer" Valentine vs Chief Jay Strongbow.
Near the end, when Valentine went to grab a chair, one of the fans at ringside tried to grab it away from him. Within seconds, Greg is punching the fan. Turns out the fan actually sued him and the World Wrestling Federation.
Find out what happened when Linda McMahon called him about a separate punching incident and all the fan fights that happened back in that era of wrestling.
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I love these interviews with the Hammer. What a guy
Greg: “I’m being sued.”
Lawyer: “We’ll take care of it.”
Greg: “Whatever happened with that lawsuit?”
Lawyer: “Oh, he died.”
😉
Legend has it, that the lawyer also represents the Clintons 🤣🤣
The Mob took care of it. Gotti crew
Slip and fall I believe
@@thewickednetwork7667 gotti is a jew , so yeah and clinton is a jew
How hard did Greg hit him then?! 😮
My Father was a Jobber, back in the 50s & 60s. So many more threats from fans then. He would tell me stories. It was like running a gauntlet, to & from ring. People with razorblades on their shoes, kicking your legs. Seats that go right up to ringside. Narrow apron outside of ropes & no mats on floor. Working small towns, at a stock yard or national guard armory. The good & bad guys, staying together & trying to get safely to their cars. Finding a place to eat & keep an eye on each other. They were Tough & a little crazy. Special kind of brotherhood. And yes, what Greg said. If they could get someone to come through the ropes, they owned them. Even told me that people have gotten so excited, that they would have heart attacks. Dad's gone now, but he would WOW me with these stories.
AWESOME TESTIMONY TO WHAT I GREW UP WITH . . . MY DAD RETIRED OUTTA THE ARMY WITH THE RING ANOUNCER WHEN THE WRESTLER'S CAME HERE TO THE NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY . . . WHEN I WAS A KID , , , I GOT TO MEET AND HANG OUT WITH THE WRESTLER'S AT THE SHERITON HOTEL . . . I'M TALKING ABOUT THE GUY'S THAT YOU JUST GOT DONE WATCHING (" TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER ") WERE PARTYING AND HAVING A BLAST ! ! ! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR COMMENT , , , IT LETS ME KNOW THAT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE . . .
""" WOOO """ 👍👍👍
What wrestling is missing today is the jobber
Sorry about your bad experience Greg. I am Puerto Rican and we love you n wrestling as a whole.
Probably the most laid back and humble pleasant guy in wrestling.
Ricky Steamboat is pretty chill, as well.
I clearly remember seeing Greg in 1982 at New Britain High School in New Britain, Connecticut. He was walking through the crowd in a school hallway. I was with my dad. Went up to say hello & Greg kind of growled and said "get away from me." My dad yelled "hey!" Greg stopped and turned around. My dad grabbed my arm and said "c'mon let's go." The Hammer stayed in character. Miss those old days of the WWF coming to high school gymnasiums.
Ah! A fellow Connectican now are you? New Britain no less! Wa-hoo!
Long before the infamous "Curtain Call" moment in '96 that broke the rule of "Kayfabe".
Greg probably doesn't know this, but in the mid 80's, he and Hogan set the all time Detroit attendance record at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Over 25,000 fans packed the outdoor venue. Hulkamania was running wild at the time.Never mind that it was Free. This was decades before Ford Field was built.
Much respect to Ric Flair but the Hammer is where most of us 80's kids learned about the "figure four".
Did you know him and Flair were partners back in the 70's?😉
@@bifftannen2062 Difference is Mr Valentine is a nicer person in real life.😉🙈🙉🙊
Wwf kids maybe. Nwa and wcw knew both
@@brabbit2967 I liked WCW more than the WWE in the 90 Monday Night wars but back in the 80's the WCW/NWA were only territorial promotions and only came on at odd times in the Northeast which was WWF country. I'd be lucky to catch the WCW on a random Sunday in between a Kung Fu movie and 3 Stooges episodes by accident during those times 😅
Specially kids in the 80s from New York or jersey
I'm sure Greg is proud to share these stories, since these incidents are solid proof that he was one heck of a heel. Fans trying to hit you is like the ultimate badge of honor for a bad guy, it means that you're doing your job very well and that you got their attention. 😉
Piper was stabbed 3 times
@@BeeBumper Heenan and Cornette have been stabbed as well
@@rasputingrigori8901 bobby Heenan was SHOT at! He dove under the ring. The guy fired 5 shots at the brain.
Cornette said he's had 100 fans arrested for jumping the rail and attacking him. Also heard Ole Anderson was stabbed 7 times.
What a GREAT story teller, Thanks Greg.
Love Greg! When I met him I asked if we could lock up for the picture and he obliged. That was really cool.
Greg seems the most honest of any of these guys I've watched interviewed. I agree with other comments, that he seems to show a quite prudent attitude, in his responses--that he could say even more but stops himself. But then, he's just covering himself from possible litigation, too. I also feel the same about Wayne Farris, though he isn't afraid to say what he feels. A great interview would be to have them together.
My best friend, we've been friends since we we're 4 and we're 53 now, reminded me so much of "the Hammer" I started calling him Mike " the Hammer" in the early 80's. Same kind of look, definitely the build, and tough, just like Greg.. We laugh about it when I occasionally bring it up, but he saved my mouthy ass alot when we were young..
Greg doesn’t like hitting fans - ha, ha, heeeee🤣
I don’t think he did. He was a talented professional who did his job. If you interfere with that job and attack him he’s within his rights to fight back. I’ve watched so many of these interviews and I think he’s a gentleman at heart without a violent nature outside of his job.
I was at a match in the Boston Garden in the early eighties. Greg was walking up the ramp from the ring to the dressing room and a fan took a swing at him.. Greg hit the guy so hard that he got knocked 2 rows back. Then about a half dozen security guards swarmed over the fan and finished the job. They beat the guy unconscious, and dragged him out of the Garden. Back in those days, the security guards were just local guys who were just looking for an excuse to beat on someone. It happened at least once or twice per event.
The Garden, remeber those long trough's they had in the bathroom to piss in?(could be fenway im thinking)
@@Dhardy316 I think you mean those long concrete spiraling stairways we all walked through like cattle to get to the upper levels. They always stunk of urine. Happy to say I've been to the Garden several times over the years to see wrestling and Boston Bruins hockey. That was a legendary venue to us in the area during all of those phenomenal Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins years. I may have caught a Celtics game at the tail end of the Boston Garden but can't remember for sure if it was there or the Fleet Center when it was new. but yeah, I think you are right about the piss troughs in the Garden.
@@packofhounds I seen Hulk Hogan vs Big Boss Man Steel Cage match at the Garden when i was a little lad, words cant describe the croud, I might of been 8ish
When the Garden was still standing no stadium could ever beat the Garden for any event. Especially any band or performers that were from the area. How I missed those days even especially the Celtics.
Back in the '80's, at the old garden, there were more fights in the stands than in the ring! Brutal! Dangerous!
"I don't like hitting fans, I hate it." 🤣
I remember watching this on a Coliseum Video back in the day. A big fat guy grabbed the chair and Greg nailed him. Classic.
I was about 8 in 1989 and WWE use to come to Cali where I lived and would hit up the local small venues. My aunt was paralyzed and in a wheelchair and at the time there was no handicap access to a few venues cause of steps leading to the front doors. So we were allowed to enter the buildings where the wrestlers would enter and walked literally through the locker rooms and hallways to our seats. I remember Greg picked my younger sister up and moved her to the side out of the hallways lol Koko b ware I can remember and Hercules in the back all oiled up and stretching. Was a cool experience as a kid
I am a super fan of Valentine after watching his interviews! He is super smart and he is one of the best story tellers I’ve ever had the joy to listen to! He made so many men big shots in the wrestling ring! He is the guy who made these others get over! True tough guy! Cool as 🧊 ice!
Greg Valentine’s memory is spot on. After all he has been through during his wrestling career, his memory is incredible.
Greg ‘the hammer’ Valentine, what a legend and gent.
I could watch the Hammer tell stories all day.
The "Most Unusual Matches" compilation video.......first Coliseum Video I ever saw
When I was a kid I saw some kid spit on Tiger Chung Lee. Two security guards just picked him up and took him to the locker room. I have never seen fear in someone's face like that since.
Ya..I would be scared also..it's like remember couple years ago when a fan was really badmouthing a female wrestler and a security guard I believe took that fan backstage and Bully Ray Dudley came up to him and gave him a talking to bout that issue with the female wrestler and sent him on his way and that fan decided to cause a stink bout it on social media big time.
Yeah, I dont care what sport theyre in, if you spit in another mans face you have to accept what you got coming to you.
Amen to that if you put your hands on an athlete you deserve whatever you get.
And here was me, feeling bad cause my friend through popcorn at him
He was a great heel. No wonder they wanted to get at him. Really showed how good his work was.
I love the stories Greg tells, really gives us an inside on the life's these guys lived.
I watch them all.
Back in the day, the fan/wrestler interaction was no joke -- Fans would go after the wrestlers & they would go after the fans
Once you learn of the history of pro wrestling an how it worked and kayfabe was so important,you have a true appreciation for the work these guys did. I think the wrestling was the easy part for most guys,the travel an kayfabe was horrendous!
Vince killer McMahon and the mafia took care of that lawsuit.... Best believe it!!
I got the "WWF's Most Unusual Matches" VHS for my birthday one year. We watched that thing until it so worn out it was unwatchable. I loved Jesse Ventura's commentary on this thing. If you can find it, watch it. It has some great matches of pre-Wrestlemania WWF.
have a vhs copy in my basement
Puerto Rican’s have bad tempers. Lol. You go Greg! Cancel culture has nothing on you! So proud.
We are aware we have tempers . cancel culture has nothing to do with it .
@@abnerreyesart6625 yes it does. People cant say anything they observe anymore
Cancel culture? Ok fox news watcher
@@1212Jiggz If you think that the term didn't come from mainstream news networks then think again.
@@shirleypena4133 like fox
'Darling, go and kiss your auntie Greg before we go' 😳
Greg, Puerto Ricans in New York love you 😆
Before Greg hit him he said “ if he dies, he dies”
Great interview!!
I love the Hammer, so this is awesome.
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@@mikecozzi1040 OOOHhhh yeah, his promos were freaking awesome. He just looked like he'd knock your block off when he walked into the building.
@@Shadowcub69 😳 Thanks! I Needed That!
🤓Lol!
I am so sorry you had to deal with that Mr.Valentine.I've seen over the years twice & always had a deep respect for your art.ESPECIALLY THAT FIGURE FOUR WHICH IN MY OPINION YOU ARE THE KING OF THE FIGURE FOUR.
FLAIR PALED IN YOUR SHADOWS!!!!
My neighbor Ray looks, sounds and even moves like the hammer. He could be Greg's older grey haired brother, I just wish his long winded stories were as interesting as the hammer's
Haha, imagine that, your neighbor starting with "Did I ever tell you about when I punched a fan while I was in the WWF?" and you would just go "Sure, Greg, about a dozen times, but please tell it again!".
Ray didn’t break Wahoo’s leg…
So fuck Ray! 🤣👈
"I put the belt over my face and head to the locker". Have to protect the money maker..
The Hammer!!! Lol Great Villian
Just goes to show you how very good he was at his jjob.
love this guy. man would I like to sit down and talk the old days of wrestling with him, and all the territories they worked. when wrestling was great.
I’ll sit and watch Greg for hours thanks
One of the best heels in history.
Don't mess with The Hammer!!
Greg always looked so old :) Now he is really old and looking younger.... Scary.
Puerto Ricans have bad tempers. You're not kidding Greg. I should know, I was married to one !
" once they get past the border and into the ring, they are all yours"...lol
Greg seems like the wrong wrestler to test lol
Back in the 1970's I was a believer in wrestling.
Living here in Florida I grew up mostly watching Championship Wrestling from Florida which was the NWA.
However on Saturdays at Midnight I could watch the WWF Main Event so this was my first look into the WWF wrestlers.
Enjoy listening to Greg's stories...
Us 80 kids learned it from Ric Flair Jack Brisco and of the Las Vegas Nevada leg lock
Them Puerto Rico and Mexico shows back then you had to fight for life to make it out and if you was a heel with heat lord have mercy
Who the hell would attack a wrestler? Big men baby!
I'VE BEEN A BELIEVER SINCE I WAS 8 YEARS OLD . . . NOW I'M 55 , , , AND I'M STILL A BELIEVER , , , ("IN THE OLD STUFF") ! ! !
""" WOOO" 👍👍👍
"Once they get into the ring...their all yours....you can beat the crap out of em". lol!
Awesome. Look at Beefcake on the cover just chillin.
I love that VHS cassette most unusual matches. They should have called it the best of Don Muraco
l still have mine. One of my faves.
@@breal1183 do you also have PWI lords of the ring? They use to have it on TH-cam
Steubenville Ohio! Born and raised lol...never remember seeing the Hammer there
When I was 13 I kicked a wrestler I'm the back at an ECW show. I was a dangerous little bastard.
Valentine and Beefcake were my favorite tag team as a kid.
Greg " funny you mentioned that " Valentine
C'mon Greg @1:28 My first WWWF match in 1973, I was ringside for Chief Jay Strongbow vs Baron Von Rashke. We kept shooting those red rubber bands at the Baron, so he came over to the ring post and spit right on me and my buddy - I thought it was hilarious but my friend started crying, then again he caught most of it - Lol....
I believe this incident is one that Bruno Sammartino mentioned when he talked about being upset that his son David got fired for hitting a fan. Bruno said David deserved it because WWF’s policy was that if a wrestler hit a fan they got fired, but he was upset that Greg Valentine and Randy Savage had hit fans and weren’t fired for it, that David was the only one who got fired for striking a fan. Bruno said he believed the fan was planted to spit on David just to give Vince an excuse to fire David when he struck the fan for spitting on him.
Helped the heel angle. Fans are nuts.
They didn’t call him the “Hammer” for nothing!!
I remember when that first happened!
I am reminded of when Rick Rude punched a fan out for simply talking smack outside the arena and Rude broke the dude’s palate and ended up getting sued but had to pay it all outta his own pocket. 😅
😳 Really! Ravishing Rick Rude the Lover Boy! The one that all the Women Love!
😳I wonder if it was a Jealous Nutcase?
When you take your woman out to see Ravishing Rick Rude she's going to Look she's not Dead yet!
😳 That must have ruined that Date night!
My condolences to the family and close friends of Rick Rude.🙏🙏🙏🙏
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt 😳 It doesn't always work out that way, Vince McMahon told the Greatest Wrestler of all Times and the Most Dangerous Wrestler of all Times!
😳Dr David Schultz!
to Slap Down John Stossel and he Did!
Dr David Schultz got thrown under the Bus!
😳Dr David Schultz was Cheated Out of a whole Lot of Opportunities and Money!
😳 It's my opinion because there is a lot more to the story!
The story I am talking about has to do with early 90s WCW and Erik Watts. Rude always wanted to see if guys in the locker room could beat him in anything physical. Rude came up behind Erik (who was on the phone) in the locker room one time and Rude asked him, “How would you get out of this move?” Erik then got out of the move and slammed Rude against a pole. Rude was impressed yet pissed. Turns out Rude messed up his shoulder during this. Rude then proceeds to violently push Erik off but still acted like everything was cool. He then went outside the locker room where the fan was and then punched out the fan, breaking the fan’s palate. Some say the fan may have been talking smack to the obvious Rick Rude character but Rick himself took it personally in that moment.
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😳I never knew that's how it went down!
I think this channel was one of the first ones to upload parts of the interview with Watts. Supposedly Rude had to pay about 80k.
fans were way worse back then. yet lebum james gets fans ejected for hurting his feelings with words
The (Fuc-king) Hammer. A all-time great legend
I know wrestling is kayfabe but this guy make it look real.
I remember my brother hitting one of the Andersons Ole or Arn at the Omni in Atlanta. You could get right up on the wrestlers. I think it was Ole turned and spit right in my brother's face. He deserved it
Ole was the master at getting heat from the fans, he wrote the book on how to do it.
If you spit in a guys face the least you should expect is a punch.
As the late Paul Bristol once said, anytime you spit in a mans face you better be ready to fight!🙈🙉🙊
Summer 1977 in West Palm Beach I was at a match where the headliner was Dusty Rhodes vs Superstar Graham. After one of the preliminary matches, as one of the heels (can’t remember his name)was walking to the dressing room, an older friend in his teens went to yell at the guy. The heel then reaches out and grabs my friend by his shirt & starts shaking him like a rag doll. My friend came back to his seat & his shirt is messed up, I could see it was real & he was a bit shook up too. Maybe 15 minutes later security came up to my friend & asked him to come with them, the wrestler came back out to apologize & they shook hands & that was it. I think the wrestler was either Black Gordman or Great Goliath but can’t remember 100%. But the guy was a heel with a latin persona.
I remember in the early 70s in El Paso Texas He was wrestling as John Fargo, tag team champions with his "brother" Don Fargo. On his way to the ring he's arguing with a drunk fan ringside and the fan was pointing his finger in his face and the fan actually poked him in the chest with his finger so he punched the drunk fan and KOed him. The cops came and arrested the fan...lol (the good ol' days) My family knew the guy that got KOed which made it even funnier.
I like him, and his stories.
Good job Mr. VALENTINE
When it comes to Puerto Rico and wrestling, those people are just crazy. I've met some wonderful people from there, but getting into that event just makes then do cazy shit.
I peed next to the Hammer in a bathroom at the LA Sports Arena in the 80s. He had his GV wrestling shoes on! I didn't spray on him though.
Greg once shoved my head on a traffic cone and chucked me at Jerich120, I was 10 lmao
The more I see these shoots with the Hammer the more I wish he’d a gotten a bigger push before Hogan
Greg, You did the correct thing smacking a fan that spit on you, You don't spit on another human being, That Just Wrong.
Ask Seth Rollins if they still got that problem. LoL 😂😂😂
The Hammer ! What a great wrestler, one of my favourites...
When a fan attacks wrestlers have a right to defend themselves. Blackjack Mulligan got sliced up with a straight razor in I believe Boston. If you respect the wrestlers then leave them alone.
Jake the Snake said an old lady cut him with a box cutter, and a guy in Texas shot at him in the ring! (I think I saw it on a Joe Rogan show/clip)
Saw a fam jump in the ring at Sunnyside gardens, the wrestler punched him and then continued with the match
Hammer is a legend is he in the hof
We love you Greg!
The fans get nuts. I remember as a kid watching wrestling from St Louis.There were two elderly ladies and they would get all bent out of shape . They would be standing at the edge of the ring yelling at the wrestlers while slapping the surface .
Did he say Stupidsville, OH?
Only Respect to The Hammer!
If any fan was upset with you it was because you were SO GOOD as a Heel. That being said, hope you popped 'em a good one!
Anybody that jumps into my job trying to punch me will get... The BUSINESS!!!👊🏾
Respect The Legend of The Hammer!
How could a full grown adult believe it was real? Even most children had to know it was fake. 80s wrestling was by far the best era. The only reason I watched it was because of the bad guys. The humor was off the charts!
Back when Men were Men. I would take any fan that got in the ring with a Wrestler in the 70s or 80s, over anyone on a WWE, AEW, NWA, MLW, ROW, ROH or Impact roster in 2021.
Funny story! I actually know the man. I can not disclose his name but he is NOT dead lol.
Did you pull brass knuckles from your tights when you punched him?
The first guy mentioned in this video who hit Greg Valentine, had serious health problems. He died before his bogus lawsuit could go to court.
Lowell Memorial Auditorium, mid 80s 3rd row on the main aisle to the Ring! Mr Valentine is walking to the ring, shorter than I was expecting but also Way Bigger than I thought. Like a walking Working Mans Muscle! This drunk on the other side of the aisle smacks GV on the back of his head-hard too. In a micro-second the guy was one handed dragged over the 4 ft fencing by his neck and deposited face first onto the concrete floor, hard too! LOL! GV Managed to give the guy a few light slaps off the back of his head before Security and Cops dragged the hemorrhaging (from the nose mouth and rest of his face) jerk away. I do know he (drunk) was arrested so it was real. Best story of the night: Harley Race gets suplexed right in front of us and in the process a huge rope of Snot comes flying out his nose. Up it goes in an arc, seemed like slo motion and its coming our way. Hits this kid in front of us right on the shoulder even though he was attempting to evade it. Sucker must of been 8 inches long and draped on this kids shoulder. Probably 12 - 13 yrs old, old enough to laugh at. He turns to see if the horror was real and now one end of it is sticking to his face! The kids now catatonic as my buddy Dave leans over to tell him "You know Pal, having the King Of Wrestling huck a big snot on you is quite an Honor"! The kind words didn't help! LOL