Bobo Brazil

The James Brothers, Johnny and Jesse.

Juan Humberto, how could we l- overlook a superstar like that? So we come down to Bobo Brazil and Wild Bill Longson, and this wouldn't have been when Longson was NWA Champion, uh, or World Champion or else why Bobo Brazil wouldn't have that name.

It doesn't seem like it would be a card that would [laughs] be in St. Louis.

Longson may have still been traveling.

Boy, that's expensive for those days.

[laughs] All right, I'm not gonna dither any longer.

I'm gonna say the year, just based on Bobo Brazil and Bill Longson being in the main event.

The year is 19- ooh, but wait, there's more.

His, uh, family will be in attendance to accept.

He joins Bobo Brazil and Bruce Swayze as the only three to be in the Art Walk Hall of Fame."

Well, that's great.

Art Walk of Fame.

He'd come in once every six weeks or so.

But, you know, all the stars I grew up with and, you know, literally idolized on television, Bobo and Dr. Jerry Graham, Dr.

Bill Miller, and, you know, just all these great stars.

And, uh, Terry was Terry ended up leaving the sheep promotion and going to work with a guy named Jack Kane.

Definitely, I don't remember any of them being short.

So I think the Sheik went in and probably put in 15, 20 minutes with Valentine.

And I can tell you another classic that I saw was Valentine against Bobo.

And it was a 60-minute draw.

Pedro Morales, he was there for the Puerto Rican fan base and the Latino fans.

Bobo Brazil, there it is.

He connected with the black fans, the African-Americans.

If you can see him, damn it, you can be him, damn it.

A grand opening has been

held for the newly renovated Bobo Brazil Community Center in Benton Harbor.

As the city looks ahead to additional improvements at the facility, supporters, city leaders and family members of wrestling icon Bobo Brazil toured the building on Thursday.

The city used two state grants totaling $1.5 million to repair the roof, replace windows, shore up the exterior and improve HVAC and electrical systems.

City Manager Alex Little says the next steps include finding tenants for office space and seeking additional grants to restore the gym.

We want it to be a full-time community center for youth in this area to be able to come and engage in sports, play basketball.

tennis or whatever, and especially in the wintertime when there's not much to do.

Stephen Harris, a son of Bobo Brazil, says he hopes the center can give young people something positive to do and help reduce violence in the community.

Saginaw was a major town.

Um, you know, Benton Harbor, where Bobo Brazil was, uh, near, on the northwest side of, of Michigan, was a major town.

You could go down to Kellogg.

You could go down to Battle Creek.

I think the reason WWF liked to celebrate is if they did something progressive that was kind of impressive.

But there were other black champions of real note prior to Tony Atlas, like Ernie Ladd and Bobo Brazil in particular.

were huge stars in the 60s and 70s.

Like, you know, even if it were closer to home, Junkyard Dog was the biggest star in Mid-South Wrestling before they became Tag Team Champions.

So whilst in WWF it may have significance from a statistical point of view or a data point of view, information point of view, I guess, I don't think it's a particularly... significant moment in professional wrestling history certainly and i'm not even sure it's that bigger moment in wwf history given as i said early bobo brazil was us champion not sure if he was the nwa or just a non-badged us champion who defended that title in wwf loads in the 70s so like i'm not sure it's that that big a deal i don't want to put tony ellis too far down though he was quite a big star for wf for about five years between in the early 80s um kind of like at times probably the number two or three babyface under backland um but i don't know i i'm not sure i feel like he's done enough to get in

there will pictures of him every black history month though

they will they will but i feel like that's a that's a note against wwe rather than i agree tony ellis

So why would they put it in a child-

Because B- Bobo Brazil was a great American.

No. No.

Oh, you're-

Mr....

Are, are you, are you going...

Are you saying Mr. Brazil- I don't- ... was not a qual- quality American?

I, I understand, I understand that it sounded like that.