5 things learned from WWE Hall of Famer Gerald Brisco's Sportskeeda interview

Gerald Brisco is a WWE Hall of Famer and was with the company 36 years before being released in 2020
Gerald Brisco is a WWE Hall of Famer and was with the company 36 years before being released in 2020

#4. Gerald Brisco recalls his "greatest defeat" in WWE

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WWE Hall of Famer Gerald Brisco struck gold when he appeared on the RAW Reunion episode in 2019.

The episode on USA Network saw the WWE 24/7 Championship won and lost by various WWE legends and alumni. Brisco briefly held the championship after he pinned fellow Hall of Famer Pat Patterson.

However, his reign was short-lived when he was pinned by former WWE Divas Champion Kelly Kelly.

When asked about his loss to Kelly on RAW, Brisco referred to it as his "greatest defeat":

"I'm an old man and you have a nice looking young lady come up to you and says, 'I'm gonna knee you in the groin, you go down and I'll get on top of you and cover you.' What are you gonna do? How fast are you gonna get down? That's the greatest defeat I think I ever had."

#3. Gerald Brisco on his "pretty healthy paycheck" received from WWE Chairman Vince McMahon on Black Saturday

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Black Saturday is one of the most famous, or infamous, moments in modern professional wrestling history.

The name refers to the day in July 1984 when Vince McMahon's WWE took over the timeslot of Georgia Championship Wrestling's weekly flagship program World Championship Wrestling on Superstation WTBS.

McMahon bought out all of the owners of Georgia Championship Wrestling, which included Gerald Brisco.

The WWE Hall of Famer stated that he refers to it as "Green Saturday" as he made a pretty healthy paycheck from the transaction:

"I'd much rather refer it as 'Green Saturday' since it was a pretty healthy paycheck. The sell was something you write movie scripts about. It's something nobody expected. It just came out of the blue. For those days and time, or any days and time in professional wrestling to keep things under wraps for that long of a period – it wasn't an easy negotiation with everybody. You had all these different factions threatening to sue... getting Paul Jones' proxy was something that made the deal go. Mine and my brother, we still didn't have the necessary 51% to put us over the hump. So we had to have a battle on who's gonna get Paul Jones' proxy. Nobody new the sale was coming."