Brutus Beefcake Comments On Hall Of Fame Induction

WWE announced that Brutus Beefcake (real name Ed Leslie) will be the final inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame in just five nights, and The Barber” has commented on the news.

Triple H, who will be joining Beefcake as an inductee into the 2019 class with DX, congratulated Brutus on Twitter after the news broke:

A legendary host, #SummerSlam main-eventer and now he’ll be struttin’ and cuttin’ his way into the #WWEHOF!
Congratulations to @brutusbeefcake_ on your induction! #WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/MCtDhCGlBK

— Triple H (@TripleH) April 1, 2019

On the matter of his induction, Leslie, in an interview with Sports Illustrated said:

“This is the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of work. I’m grateful to the WWE, and I cannot wait for the tremendous honor.”

Triple H’s tweet noted that Beefcake main evented SummerSlam 1989 when he teamed with longtime friend Hulk Hogan to take on Zeus and Randy Savage. “The Barber” has spoke about his relationship with Hogan:

“Terry (Hogan) and I were just a couple kids from Tampa living our dream. We had sat on the beach for endless days talking about wrestling, and then there we were, living it, working territories in Florida and Alabama with guys like Ox Baker, Bob Armstrong, and Professor Toru Tanaka. They took us under their wing and helped make us into what we became.”

Barber mentioned his near-fatal parasailing accident in July 1990, and would go on to add to Hogan was a massive help to him during this dark time:

“My doctors told me I was lucky to live. I was never supposed to wrestle again. I was also going through a bad divorce and my parents had just died, so that was a really dark time. I took life one day at a time. I had the support of people in the WWE, and I had a good friend in the Hulkster. Terry pulled me from the depths, and he told me I was going to get better. With a lot of support, I did”.

Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake was one of the names rumoured to be entering the Hall of Fame months ago, and he concluded his interview by saying:

“I’m filled with amazing joy and happiness to have touched so many lives. My 41 years in the ring were an honor and a privilege, and I’m so happy to be joining the WWE Hall of Fame.”

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