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The World According To Dutch: WrestleMania 11...My First WrestleMania

The World According To Dutch:  WrestleMania 11...My First WrestleMania

Posted: Feb 9th 2010 By: mikeiles

My condolences to the Brisco family on the passing of Jack. I didn't know Jack very well but I was on the Miami Beach card the night Terry Funk won the title from Jack. I was a rookie in those days, but not even the other wrestlers knew the outcomes of the other matches on the card so it took me by surprise when Terry Funk won the title. Miami Beach, as I recall, next to Memphis, was one of the best wrestling cities in the country. It was a great thrill to work in Miami and I still remember bits and pieces of the match as I stood in the back of the Miami Beach convention center, It was hard to see but the place was jammed and smoke hung in the air. You must remember that those days was before people were banned from NOT SMOKING inside a public building. After the match, after you were sure you had contracted lung cancer from all the smoke, you could still feel the energy in the air as a stunned Miami Beach crowd had just witnessed a title change right in front of their eyes. The match was scheduled as Dory Funk Jr. in a rematch against Jack but Terry ended up taking his place and won the title. Nobody expected Terry to win. Wrestling, in those days, was a lot more exciting than it is today. Call it evolution, call it overexposure...I, at least, call it the truth.

WrestleMania 11...My First Wrestlemania

WrestleMania 11 was my first WrestleMania when I went to the WWF in the mid 90's. Even though it was my first, I realized that it could possibly very well be my last because that was, and still is, the curse of the wrestling business.

Insecurity in not knowing what the next day has in store for you. The wrestling business breeds insecurity no matter where you are on the card. First match, mid card...main eventer. When it came to insecurity, it knew no boundaries.

I signed a two year deal with the WWF when I first went there but found out later, that almost 100% of all the contracts written by WWF in those days, heavily favored the promotion more than the talent. Even though you could make big money, it wasn't guaranteed. Again, this was in the day before WWF went public and became a corporate entity. Going public made the WWF/WWE change their business model and it is more talent or performer friendly today than what it was when I was there but don't miscontrue what I said. Contracts still are written that favor the promotion much more than the individual talent.

Whereas wrestlers today in the WWE are on guaranteed salaries, that caveat didn't exist when I first went there. The only thing that was guaranteed was a set number of guaranteed 'appearance dates' per year which meant next to nothing really. This may come as a shock to those who are under the impression that everybody made killer money in the WWF but most wrestlers who signed a deal with WWF in those days were only guaranteed "dates per year" instead of "money per year" and, at the bottom of the pay scale. The "dates per year" clause was used mostly to move guys off the roster without having to go through the trouble of just outright releasing them.

Once, I had an attorney look at my contract as I was telling him that this was a standard WWF talent document. He asked me why would anyone 'sign' such a document? I had no answer really other than to say that WWF controlled the only game in town and you either played ball on their team or guess what? You didn't play at all. Simple. That's why it is imperiative that pro wrestling have competition because if one company dominates the field, its not good for talent or for fans. Hear that TNA?

But back to my story. WrestleMania 11 was shaping up to be a good one and before I sat down to write this, I Wikipediaed WM11 to see what was said about it. I always Wikepedia stuff to see if I agree with it. If not, I edit it myself which lasts for about two hours before its changed back to what it said originally. I've often wondered about people who monitor Wikipedia. Do they have jobs or do they just sit around and guard whats been written? But then again...I should wonder about people like me who change Wikepedia to reflect what I want it to say. One time...I tried to change my name to the correct spelling and was told that I didn't have sufficient evidence to prove I was right.

The reviews on WM 11 were mixed. One said it was the Worst WrestleMania of all time..now that's a little strong I must admit...and another one said it was what saved WWF which is equally as strong but in the opposite direction. Let's split the difference. The show was OK. Debate settled.

At WM 11, I was managing Jacob and Eli Blu, who in reality were twin brothers Ron and Don Harris. My ring name was Uncle Zebekiah and how I ever ended up with such a name, I'll never know. The origin or the birth of the name was never claimed by anybody in WWF creative. I can see why. Who would want to speak up at a creative meeting..."Hey, Vince....I gave Dutch the Uncle Zebekiah name.!!! WTF? I dare to say that whomever invented that name kept it close the vest.

Anyway, the back story was that I was their uncle, who had somehow had an epiphany one night after drinking a half gallon of moonshine whiskey in the Appalachian Mountains about leading my two 'brain addled' nephews out of the hills of West Virginia to the big lights of NYC and the WWF. In other words, we were playing some dumb ass hicks from the sticks and more or less, playing the stereotypical hillbilly folk that the movie, Deliverance, made famous. I didn't mind playing the role as long I wasn't the one being stretched across that log like what happened to Ned Beatty in the movie. If you didn't see the movie...well it was pretty much assumed that Ned got buggered by some hillbilly guy while stretchered out over a fallen tree stump. The lines, "squeal like a pig" took on a different meaning after seeing that movie.

The storyline was, that Jacob and Eli were like the mentally challenged young banjo picker boy in the movie and I was their uncle who took advantage of their size and lack of mental acuities to make money off them. Or I guess that was the story. Nobody really ever took the time to fill me in on the whole mess. I just made it up as we went along. I never did ask WWF creative what they had in mind...because they didn't have anything in mind it was clear from the beginning.

When the WrestleMania card was released, it came as a complete surprise when we learned that we were on the card. How did we get on a WrestleMania card? We certainly hadn't done much on TV to get us there but we weren't arguing. We were glad to have been included on a WrestleMania. This was our FIRST WRESTLEMANIA and our opponents were Lex Lugar and Davey Boy Smith. Man, I could just see a 5 STAR match coming out of that one!!! With the high flying abilities of Lex and Davey combined with the fluid and athleticism of Ronnie and Donnie...it was a match that would have to be seen to be believed.

WM11 was scheduled for Hartford, Connecticut which was in the WWF's backyard so to speak. Hartford couldn't have been more than a 30 or 45 minute drive from WWF Headquarters in Stamford. WM 11 was getting a lot of mainstream publicity due to one of the feature matches which pitted former NFL All Pro Lawrence Taylor against Bam Bam Bigelow. Bigelow and Taylor had previously been involved in an ringside altercation on RAW during one of Bigelow's matches which set the stage for the match at WrestleMania. Taylor, who was being portrayed as just a visitor at ringside, somehow got involved in a shouting and shoving match with Bigelow and before it was over, Bigelow ended up pushing Taylor on his butt back into his chair. Taylor was a HUGE football star having played with the Super Bowl winning New York Giants and that fact wasn't lost on ESPN who gave the match between Taylor and Bigelo mainstream coverage.

The card looked solid and I looked forward to going to a WrestleMania which was considered then, and even to this day, the BIGGEST WRESTLING PPV in the world. This was late in my career and I had always said that before I finish my days in the ring, I would like to work in the WWF and see two things. Center ring in Madison Square Garden and be on a WrestleMania card. I accomplished both before I stepped out of the ring.

About a week before the event, WWF scheduled a publicity exhibition which was to be held right in the middle of Manhattan...in TIMES SQUARE. I was called by WWF, along with Jacob and Eli Blu, to attend this event which was timed perfectly to garner as much attention on WM 11 as possible and would be carried LIVE to the New York City metro area on one of the LOCAL NETWORK channels. Plus with Lawrence Taylor attached to it, it would be slammed all over ESPN and all the national networks and newspapers were invited to pick up the story. That's one thing about the WWF major networks and newspapers in the NYC area.

On this event in Times Square would be Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash as Diesel, Razor Ramone, Jeff Jarrett, RoadDog, Billy and Bart Gunn, Lex Lugar and Davey Boy Smity plus myself and the Blu Brothers. I don't want to sound like a complete mark here but going to a WrestleMania and standing in the middle of Times Square with your image on the big JumboTron in the Square rates pretty high on the highlight scale for me.

We were flown to NY the night before our scheduled appearance in Times Square and housed in a hotel right in the middle of Manhattan. You know...being in Manhattan and in an expensive hotel, you would think you would be in the lap of luxury. Well, news flash. Just because the room cost $350 per night....it was far from luxurious. Truth be known, the room was just a room and IMO, the actual value of the room, just as a room, stood at about $35. I don't know why WWF chose that hotel because it sucked. The only redeeming value in the hotel accomodations was that it was in Manhattan. By rights, the hotel should have paid us to stay in that dump. I mean, it wasn't really all that bad but it damn sure could have been a lot better.

The Times Square event was scheduled for early in the morning...around 8AM or so. I had breakfast in that hotel at around 6AM which, for most wrestlers, that's when they're going to bed, not getting up. It was a regular breakfast...scrambled eggs, sausage, bagels, orange juice..nothing really special or out of the ordinary...except for the freakin PRICE!!! The breakfast ended up being $22.95 without the tip added in. This was 15 years ago too. I thought to myself...this was bullshit. Here I was paying an outrageous price and a McDonalds was sitting right across the street with the McDonald's Super Deluxe Breakfast begging me to come in. Of course, even the McDonalds Super Deluxe breakfast was much higher than normal due to being in Manhattan but it was nowhere close to the robbery that the 23 dollar breakfast victimized me for. Here's a fact and a bit of useless information that you probably won't know but how many McDonalds are in Manhattan? If you know the answer, email me at dirtydutchmantell@gmail.com and tell me. Or you probably know the answer if you saw the documentary SuperSize Me. Well, I guess there is something to that location, location, location thing I always heard about real estate.

Not only was the food expensive, did I mention that it sucked? I could have gotten a better breakfast in a homeless shelter. I imagine that if people can afford those prices, their thoughts aren't on food. This whole hotel and food thing sucked. The room sucked, the service sucked and even the TV sucked. It was also right at the end of March and colder than a banker's heart, the room's heat didn't work properly and I couldn't wait to get out of this hotel. I was only in that hotel for one night but it already felt like I had spent a week there.

Since we all stayed at the same hotel, Vince McMahon included, right after breakfast, we all were transported via tour bus to Times Square where there was a ring already erected with all the WrestleMania signs all over it. The motive behind doing this Times Square meant that it would get a ton of coverage in the sports pages. Times Square was the perfect place to stage this event as it is estimated that 1.6 million people pass through Times Square each day with over 275,000 people actually working there. So, getting people to stop for 10/15 minutes at at time while it was being broadcast LIVE wouldn't be a problem.

As we drove through the heavy traffic in Manhattan that cold morning...it was a HUGE RUSH for me. This was my first time in Manhattan, the home of Madison Square Garden, the Empire State Building, and the World Trade Center Towers. Little did any of us then but 6 years later on September 11, 2001, the Towers would be the centerpiece of world history and a complete change in how all of us lived our lives. Thinking back on that now gives me chills.

This was the first time I had ever been in traffic in Manhattan because I had never really been in the city before. I had been on the outskirts of the city...like in Newark or in Rutherford, NJ at the Meadowlands Arena. The traffic was unbelieveable and when I looked out the window, I couldn't help but notice...a sea of yellow. It belonged to the Yellow Cab Company and every other vehicle seemed to be a taxi.

Up to this point, I didn't know what was scheduled for us on the event. I knew that all the wrestlers had taken their work bags with them so they could change into their ring gear for the appearance. Right before we got to Times Square and parked the tour bus, Pat Patterson, who was one of the bookers and still works with WWF today, sat down beside me on the bus and gave me the rundown on what I and the Blu Brothers would be doing that cold ass morning.

Actually, for such an important event, I was surprised that there wasn't more of a concentrated effort at coordination. Pat just came along and sat down like it was just another day at the office. Pat told me what we were doing that day was simple. All they wanted us to do was get into the ring....with Davey Boy and Lex and cut a promo on them. Davey Boy and Lex would cut one back and we had three minutes to get it done. Then Pat stopped talking. I looked at Pat and he looked at me and I said, "that's it"?

Pat said, "yep, that's it". I then asked Pat was there anything specific he wanted me to say?

Pat looked at me like I'd spit on the Pope and nonchalantly added... "well, its WrestleMania and its a pretty big event...you know, like the biggest PPV in the world and since you've been in this business for 20 years, and you know what to say." Then he laughed and just got up and walked to the back of the bus to talk to Shawn and Diesel and Bam Bam.
I always loved Pat because he and I used to travel together years earlier in Florida and he taught me a lot about the wrestling business. But what Pat had told me was that he realized I knew what to say and he was right. If I had been a rookie, then Pat would have probably given me the interview. But, I wasn't. Thats one of the things from the past that I fear is gone forever...the ability to ad lib an interview on the spot. Today, they would have given me 5 pages of dialogue that they would want me to deliver verbatim. I liked it much better in the old days where you played off the crowd and they let you know if they liked your interview...on the spot.

It was late March and the temperature hovered around 28 degrees. All the guys got dressed on the bus and we all stayed there until it was time for us to go out. When we stepped off that bus that morning...the cold slapped the hell outta of you. Ron and Don were both wearing their trunks and their vests but they were shivering because it was about 28 degrees that morning. I couldn't help but think...what idiots go out on LIVE TV in freezing weather at 8AM in the morning dressed for the beach? Well, I have an answer for you. WRESTLERS!!! That's who. I always liked the Caribbean islands in the winter time and I've never been a fan of cold weather and that day didn't change my preferences. There was stiff wind blowing, which of course made it colder. But at least, I was dressed so I wasn't so cold. What made it colder was that the tall buildings surrounding Times Square block all the sun out which made it seem colder if that's possible.

As we got closer to the time that we had to appear in the ring, a couple of securtity guys came and got us and took us across the street where we awaited our turn inside a little tent so to speak which had a monitor installed so we could see what was going on in the ring.

I looked at Ron and Don as they walked across the street and normally those big bastards really stood out in the crowd but on the streets of Manhattan, they fit right in. Actually, after seeing some of the mutants in the crowd that morning, the wrestlers looked more normal that the people who just stopped by. Looking around, there were a few crackheads, some homeless people, a man preaching the end of the world and every nationality in the world was represented there that day.

We watched the telecast on the big screen high above Times Square. The tent blocked out the wind a little bit but not the cold. As we waited in the tent, I don't know how many people were there but it was jammed. I'd say at least 4,000 people were jammed on that little rectangular section around the ring and the streets were packed too. New Yorkers were making a lot of noise at 8AM in the morning.

Since this was a LIVE BROADCAST carried on a major station in NYC, it also had commercial breaks. So the show had to be on time. During the commercial breaks, the next group of wrestlers would get into the ring. Since I was going to the ring, I didn't have my glasses on and that became a problem especially when I didn't know where I was going. My vision became a huge problem later on.
There was media from around the world there that day coming from as far away as the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Brazil with tons of photographers and camera people everywhere. I remember Taylor and Bigelow opening up the show because their match was the one that would have the most interest, especially with the NY crowd. It was a great interview with the crowd being totally involved in it. Both men ended up being pulled apart and I remember looking up and seeing it all on the huge JumboTron that sits high above Times Square. I have to make a statement here. Even though I was cold and freezing...and miserable...I couldn't help but think that this was one of the greatest things I'd ever done. How many people, I thought to myself...get to do stuff like this? In the middle of Times Square with the world media looking on...being on my first WrestleMania and having your image splashed on the big screen was going down as one of the highlights of my career. Little did I know that one of the highlights of my career would turn out to be one of the most embarrassing.

Shawn Michaels and Diesel went next and did their thing and the crowd knew everybody, knew their stories, knew the angles. The crowd was LOUD especially for a 'breakfast' gathering. Ronnie, Donnie and I all stood and watched the show from the tent but it was much easier to watch it on the JumboTron. When Shawn and Kevin Nash finished, the show went to commercial break and then it was our turn.

Our handlers, who I had never seen before, were really rushing us to get us there. We literally had to push people out of the way to get to the ring. As I stepped into the ring, the crowd looked at us...a wild looking cowboy type with a hat and a vest with two giant looking wild men...and they hopped on us with the typical New York insults. Go home, ya bums. Geat outta heah. Ya suck. Wow...what a tough crowd but as they say...if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere and the thing is, they're right.

We stepped into the ring and waiting for us were Lex and Davey Boy Smith. The announcer told me and I can't even remember who he was but he walked over to me and said, "Vince said make this quick. We're long."

Long...meant we were over on time and since the segment was scheduled for three minutes...but now, we were being asked to cut it short maybe down to 2 minutes or less. But I wasn't sweating it...this was something that wrestlers deal with on a daily basis. This would be a piece of cake. I'll say something to insult the crowd and then say something to insult Lex and Davey and then they'll say whatever BS they want to say and out we go. The key word was 'fast'. And that's exactly what happened.

When the interview opened, the crowd exploded because they had been prompted to make a lot of noise and they did. It looked great on the JumboTron because I couldn't help but look at it. The announcer came to me first and of course, I popped on NYC and their Yankee accents and then I turned it to WrestleMania and the match with Lex and Davey Boy. It was a great visual seeing Ron and Don stare down Davey and Lex in the middle of Times Square. Then Lex and Davey had their say and the segment was over.

As soon as the segment was over...the announcer and the referees were shouting for us to hurry to get out of the ring. We must have gone too long in our segment but I didn't think so. Or the commercial break was short but whatever the reason, I was hurrying to leave. As I stepped out of the ring, all I could hear was hurry and get out. Usually ring steps are built to fit around the ring post as a 90 degree angle but for some reason, the steps weren't positioned around the corner post. They were just pushed up against the ring which left the 'corner hole' open. Ron and Don stepped off first and as I stepped off the ring apron, yep, you guessed it, I misjudged the step and fell completely into the open part of the steps.

I need to stop here and explain the structure of ring steps. Rings steps are built triangularly to fit around a corner ring post at a 90 degree angle. Thats the key word here...fit 'around' the ring posts. Quite naturally, if the ring steps are just pushed up against the sides of the ring...it has a huge hole in the middle with nothing there. So with that said, as I tried to step off the ring apron onto the steps, I misjudged my step and WHAM!!! I fell right down in the section of the steps that should have been around the corner post. The New York fans, who I had just blasted on my interview, thought that was one of the greatest things that they've ever seen. Seriously, I thought I had broken my ankle and I had to be literally lifted out of the hole and carried back to the bus.

My right leg was all the way into the hole and my left ankle felt like it was broken. Since Ron and Don were freezing, they didn't even look back at me and left me there as they sprinted for the warmth of the bus. I'll never forget the New York crowd getting on me but I was in too much pain to notice. I was in pain and since I was holding up the show....the security guys yanked me out of my situation and carried me across the street and I might add, not too gingerly either.

When I got back to the bus...after being carried by security...Ron and Don looked at me like WTF? Where have you been? I told them that I had damn near killed myself and they had left me. Both of them started laughing and I would have laughed too but the pain was too much. Let me tell you a little about how heartless wrestlers are. Nobody on the bus...Ron and Don included asked me how I was. Actually, the only person who did ask me was Vince himself.
That's all we had to do that day and the bus took us straight to the airport where we all boarded our flights back home. WrestleMania weekend was coming up and we would be busy. When I arrived home, I immediately went to the ER and had the ankle X-Rayed. They told me that it was broken but there was nothing they could do for it and that I needed time for it to heal.

Problem was...I didn't have time. WrestleMania was coming up in 4 days...and if I had to limp to the ring...I was going to be there.

Next time...how I got ready for WrestleMania with a hairline fracture, what goes on day of show backstage at a WrestleMania, meeting all the celebrities there...Pamela Anderson, Salt and Pepper, Ken Norton, Reggie White, the Bill Clinton impersonator and the after show party.

 

Tags: Dutch Mantell, Jack Brisco, Terry Funk, WWF, WWE, TNA, Bam Bam Bigelow, Jeff Jarrett, Pat Patterson

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