![]() Here is what Bruce Prichard said on the podcast: Since Pat Patterson has a heavy French-Canadian accent, he struggles to pronounce: ‘De Janeiro’ properly. On a recent episode of the ‘Something to Wrestle With Bruce Prichard’ podcast, it was revealed that the tournament being held in ‘Rio De Janeiro’ was a giant rib. ![]() It turns out that this tournament is also a big inside joke by Vince McMahon on Patterson. In case you are wondering, the tournament was made up by WWE and it was all a work. That sums up today’s episode of Talk is Jericho.If you are a fan of wrestling history, you probably know that Pat Patterson is the first-ever WWE Intercontinental Champion. The story that has been pushed by WWE is that Patterson won the title in a tournament on September 1st, 1979 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Some fans have asked him why he didn’t do more on the show but he points out that it wasn’t his spot to ask for more time. ![]() He informs that he had thrown his old costumes out so he had to buy a new one for this appearance. He points out that it was hard to see and talk to everyone that day because everyone had things to do. ![]() McMahon turned around and they shook hands, and they talked again after the show. He hadn’t seen McMahon in a while, and as he was walking towards Gorilla about 10 minutes before the show McMahon walked out of his office. Prichard notes that it was great to see McMahon at RAW’s 25th anniversary a few months ago. Patterson suggested that Prichard say “what if” and pitch something else, instead of just telling McMahon that his ideas suck. Patterson reminded him that McMahon was their boss and although they had a tight knit relationship there was no need to promptly call McMahon’s ideas stupid. He recalls having some heated arguments with Vince McMahon, and he remembers Pat Patterson pulling him aside one day after a particularly brutal session with McMahon where things got nasty. If his job required him to do something that’s exactly what he’d do, but when the time came for him to give his opinions he’d be sure to do that too. He notes that he’s been accused of being a “yes man” over the years but that’s not the case at all. He’d sit with Ed Cohen and Pat Patterson in booking meetings and he’d also do some work in marketing and promotion. Prichard inform that he didn’t have a job title or description at that time. McMahon insisted that Prichard would have to move to New York in order to work for WWE and they finally struck a deal. He eventually got McMahon’s number and he called him everyday until McMahon finally took his call. Prichard notes that McMahon really wanted that territory and in 1986 Prichard was feeling lost there. For a long period of time, Boesch’s promotion was one of the only territories that Vince McMahon couldn’t take down. For those reasons, performers loved working for him. He worked for Paul Boesch in Houston, who gave his performers a good guarantee and treated the guys very well. Prichard notes that he got his start in the wrestling business at a very young age, even timing out television shows at 12 years old. He jokes that Undertaker has held that over his head for years. Prichard notes that most of the time that’s because the company knew Undertaker would be able to get a reasonable match out of those guys and everything would be okay. Jericho points out that Undertaker had some “lesser” opponents during those early WrestleMania years.
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