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Brian Blair on next week 50th anniversary CAC Reunion, more

Posted: Apr 12th 2015 By: Bob Mulrenin

B.Brian Blair is today's guest on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling, Mr. Blair, who is now the President of the Cauliflower Alley Club has such a rich history in the wrestling business as a performer but now he is making a difference as the head of the CAC. The Cauliflower Alley Club is a non-profit fraternal organization, comprising of both retired and active professional wrestlers and boxers in North America.

In his wrestling career Blair is known mostly for his run as 1/2 of the WWF tag team The Killer Bees alongside his partner, Jumpin' Jim Brunzell, but his career not only as an amateur but as a singles talent hardly define who Blair was as an overall performer. The energy level is high, the stories are fantastic and The Two Man Power Trip is buzzing over the appearance of B. Brian Blair.

The full episode is available to download on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/two-man-power-trip-wrestling/id962899095?mt=2) PlayerFm and TuneIn as well as the following link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-04-08T21_00_00-07_00

In the following clip, Blair discusses wrestling the Hart Foundation and their long standing tag team title feud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRzi2rNph8

The 2015 Cauliflower Alley Club Convention is Las Vegas:

There's all kind of stuff going on at CAC. It's like the who's who, everyone is going to be there including some surprise guests. We've sold out and it will be the most people to ever attend the event this year. Promoters, wrestlers it will be so packed and jammed up to see all of the newest talent on the Indy scene. There will be people from the WWE, seminars, signings, and nostalgia. The Demolition will receive the first ever Tag Team Championship Award and Larry the Axe Hennig will be receiving the coveted Lou These Award.

Jack and Gerry Brisco?s influence on Blair?s Career:

When I was young, I was following Jack Brisco through the aisles of a shopping center around Christmas time. I followed him from aisle to aisle and when he found out I was following him all of a sudden as I turned to see where he was, he snuck up behind me and said BOO and scared me so bad but we got to be great friends. As a kid we were very poor and my parents were divorced and I had a lot of press about my athleticism, I was very blessed to be an athlete and have a dream and a desire but those guys (Jack and Jerry Brisco) brought me up and said you can be what you want to be and I became a Killer Bee (laughs).

Teaming with Jumpin? Jim Brunzell as part of the Killer Bees tag team:

I am more proud of my singles career then I am the Killer Bee run, which was a great run because I love Jumpin? Jim. Jim was a great partner and we still do things together. We were on the road together for five years and never got into one argument so that's pretty strong. Jim was a Minnesota State High Jump champion and a great athlete, so we had a lot of fun.

Leaving the WWF after not receiving a promised Tag Team Championship run:

I quit Vince at WrestleMania 5 after he had told us we were going to win the titles on three different occasions. Vince said it once and the late great George Scott said it to us twice. We saw the writing on the wall with all of the tag teams coming in at that time and I decided I wanted to be a business man and I was just beat up plus I wanted to spend some time with my wife.

Vince McMahon finding out about a proposed Wrestlers Union in the 1980s:

Vince found out that Jimmy, Jesse Ventura and a few other guys were discussing starting a union. So Vince decided to give everyone a two-week vacation. For some reason Vince never forgot about that and I think it cost us the WWF Tag Team Championships for sure but looking back on it, I've had lot of titles and so has Jimmy so even though they are prestigious belts in my heart I feel like I did what I needed to do because every single night I worked as hard as I could for every fan that sacrificed their dollars to watch us perform. Whether it was 100 people of 5,000 people I performed to the best of my ability and always wanted to give the fans their money's worth.

B. Brian Blair also discusses his time in Championship Wrestling from Florida, road stories with Andre The Giant and Dusty Rhodes, The WWF Tag Team Scene in the 1980s, Masked Confusion and more about the CAC.