Brooklyn Brawler Talks The Rock Not Liking His First WWE Contract, Ultimate Warrior Knocking Him Out

Source: Talk Is Jericho

On episode 287 of Talk Is Jericho, WWE Superstar and Fozzy frontman, Chris Jericho sat down with Steve Lombardi, also known as The Brooklyn Brawler. During the show, the renowned enhancement talent talked about traveling with Hulk Hogan and how they became friends. Also, Lombardi, who faced the likes of The Ultimate Warrior, The Rock, and Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat in their WWE debut matches, shared a few stories about the aforementioned professional wrestling legends. On the subject of Hogan, Lombardi discussed going from being a jobber to leading a life of luxury as part of Hogan’s entourage.

“Do you know what the funniest thing about being an enhancement guy was? I was doing TV every single month in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania, and I was, like, working with [Paul] Orndorff. And then, like, an hour later, I would work with [Iron] Sheik. An hour later, I would work with [Roddy] Piper. And then, all of a sudden, Hogan comes into the territory. Hogan takes a liking to me and tells Vince [McMahon] he wants me with him everywhere. Yeah, so I traveled with Hogan for two years. I stood in his house. All of a sudden, from a job guy, doing jobs for all these guys, I’m on Learjets [and] limousines. We’re going to The Love Boat. We’re doing this, we do that. I said, ‘oh my God!’ I was getting heat!”

According to the former Kim Chee, he became friends with Hogan because he marked out for ‘The Hulkster’ when they met.

“Well, I was marking out for him because he just got offered the Rocky movie and he came in and I go, ‘man, you’re bigger than life! You’re that.’ He goes, ‘brother, stop …

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