Highspots Presents… Brickhouse TV

A few years ago, Brian Bayless was reviewing shoot interviews, including the first four episodes of Brickhouse TV with the hilarious Brickhouse Brown, God rest his soul. Well, Highspots has uploaded the full run to YouTube, so I’ll bring you the final two from the first season.

Brian’s reviews:

https://blogofdoom.com/index.php/2015/07/12/brickhouse-tv-season-one-episodes-1-2/

https://blogofdoom.com/index.php/2015/08/08/highspots-presents-brickhouse-tv-season-one-episodes-3-4/

And now, the show continues!

Episode 5: Brickhouse focuses on the “first ladies” of wrestling in this episode, starting with Sunny, who’s still top dollar to him (how long ago was this?!). Then to Missy Hyatt, who jumped from guy to guy and onto a few guys, including Butch Reed, who was banging her in the back of a van one time with her ankles behind her ears. He thinks she rocked Jason Hervey’s world and he spoiled her for the rest of the guys.

Brickhouse wisdom: “If I was a bitch and I had a pussy I’d never be broke!”

Dark Journey is next up, the woman who brought down Bill Watts and the UWF via his subsequent divorce. Staying on the dark side, Jacqueline is brought up. He reckons she wasn’t successful because she sounded so country, but he figures that when you’re watching Fran Drescher it’s for her ass, not her voice, so that was a disappointment to him.

Lady Maxine is dredged up out of history, with her muscular body and Mohawk (“God, that turned me on! I used to give myself a quick one in the stalls, thinking about bending her over and slapping her upside that haircut!”). He stops to say how he would be awesome as a commentator in WWE or TNA, which when I think of him talking about some of the girls I’d have to agree with.

“Who’s next? Baby Doll! Oh my GOD!” Brickhouse has no dirt on her so she must’ve been good. He moves to Woman, who started off coming to the matches and the lads would draw straws to try and pull. Kevin Sullivan must’ve rigged the draw, because he always won. She divorced her first husband for him, then left Sullivan for Benoit, then was getting ready to leave Benoit before he killed her.

Robert Fuller’s valet/wife Sylvia is another one he knows, an ex-cheerleader. She and Fuller loved their coke. A guy called Peaches was Brickhouse’s roommate and Fuller’s drug dealer and he let the latter get into a grand of debt. Peaches ended up collecting his debt by banging Sylvia one day when she no-showed the Wednesday matches. Brickhouse saw them at it and Sylvia said she’d bang him too as long as he kept his mouth shut, but he felt loyalty to Robert and Ron Fuller, so turned her down. Also that he knew Peaches had blazed a trail that he couldn’t follow. Didn’t stop Brian Lee or Wendell Cooley going with her later.

Episode 6: Brickhouse gives his thoughts on the Wellness Policy in WWE. He knows people are still doing drugs and tickles his nose when he brings up the name Randy Orton. Taking him off TV would impact storylines, but is no punishment to him if he still gets his guarantee. Therefore, guys like Jeff Hardy and lower level guys have to be made an example of instead.

At that point, he gets a call from Reggie B Fine, so he asks him to share some stories. He starts off by calling Jerry Lawler a high-powered coward who doesn’t pay and always has a “house n*gga” around him, which was Corey Maclin until recent times when he took money from him. Brian Christopher is a good guy who lost everything to drugs.

Brickhouse wisdom: “Brian told me he used to be in the WWF soaring with the eagles. Now he’s back in Memphis scratching on the ground with the chickens!”

Reggie talks about his own experience of going to the WWF and getting fucked up and falling asleep in the lobby of the hotel, so he wasn’t welcome there any more. Brickhouse recalls hearing Brian on the phone turning down teaming with Reggie and Brickhouse because he didn’t want to work with those two n-words. Reggie and Brickhouse used to drive new cars to rub it in his face and to stick it to Jeff Jarrett.

Reggie can’t say anything about Jacqueline because she wouldn’t go with black guys and they laugh about how country she is. They finish on Sweet Georgia Brown, who Reggie doesn’t like and Brickhouse does, which they joke about. Reggie says he’ll call in another time to spill the beans more.

When he rings off, Brickhouse recalls how he and Iceman replaced Harold Harris with Reggie as their manager when Harris went to jail. Reggie was tall and thin at one point, but got so heavy that they couldn’t use him as a manager and he wasn’t really a good worker. Brickhouse says the Godfather gimmick was meant to be for Reggie, but Charles Wright was a better worker, so he got that instead.

Back to drugs, abuse used to be addressed on an individual level by the booker. Brickhouse and Robert Fuller would snort coke and get paranoid and think people were following them, so were always late for shows, leading to Jerry Jarrett giving them an ultimatum. They couldn’t kick the habit, though.

George Wells was the first guy he knew who smoked crack, which led to him going broke. No rehab, no Wellness Policy, just sucking on the “glass dick”. Brickhouse thought it was a shame, because he had some talent.

Similarly, Adrian Adonis suffered from explosive diarrhea as a result of his drug abuse, ruining his hotel room because the coke was cut with baby laxative. The guys in the room, including JYD, Tony Atlas and Paul Orndorff, felt sorry for him, but there was little they could do (“Not like we were Pepto fucking Bismol!”). They freaked out when he freaked out, stripping naked and shitting, so they scarpered when the coke pile was demolished.

Brick thinks drugs are more prevalent in the present than the past despite that and you can see guys come off steroids, like Shawn Michaels, who is small enough to be a cruiserweight. Doesn’t stop him working like a heavyweight and people bumping for him the same. Meth is the real killer.

The deaths of Curt Hennig and Art Barr are the evidence BB uses of drug abuse killing people in the wrestling business, including painkillers for injuries. Brown talks about his own neck problems, including a tumour at the base of his neck that he hopes doesn’t progress, a result of chairshots. Steve Austin has the same deal, hence why he retired to avoid paralysis.

He finishes by saying he won’t glorify drugs, but can’t deny his own drug use and selling drugs. He adds that he limited his drug sales to other wrestlers. The Von Erichs were nightly customers of his.

The Meltdown: Some pretty funny and candid stuff from Brickhouse, who had a way with words. If I find more of his shows I’ll review them because his top five guys who played protocol was legendary stuff.