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Originally Posted by pylon
Brett and his family have bought quite a few cars from us over the years. Usually he'd just courier a draft or be in and out real quick. He was in here a few weeks back helping his daughter buy a car, and seem to have time to spare. The sales guy that dealt with him is young and had no clue who he was. I said to him "If you were gonna compare wrestlers and actors as far as their importance was, you just sold a car to the Al Pacino of wrestling"
Brett is a pretty chatty guy especially with the older fans that really know his career. The big thing with him it seems is not to come across all star struck. IRL he is very humble and soft spoken. I told him my Al Pacino analogy and he said "I've always thought I was more the Robert DeNiro of wrestling."
Anyway, it was really cool to chat with him for about half an hour in my office while he was waiting for his daughter to finish up everything. We chatted about Summerslam '92, Ric Flairs last match he went to and a few of his old classic matches.
Definitely cool getting to casually shoot the breeze with one of my childhood heroes.
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Bret used to work out at my Gold's gym in the South after his stroke. So I had passing conversations with him, and yes very soft spoken and humble. At the time he was pretty self conscious because of his stroke and its effects.
But super willing to talk to people as long as they didn't take a ton of time. My Hitmen seats were right behind his and he recognized my from the gym and shook my hand, which was super cool.
On the other hand, I ran into the Anvil in a bar downtown and he was sitting by himself drinking away. I bought him a drink, and went to say hi and he thanked me for it, but you got the sense that he wasn't one for chit chat at all.
Oh and Hulk Hogan is still and will always be the biggest a$$hole in history. I mean seriously screw that guy.