Jim Powers on Pat Patterson Proposition for Big WWF Push
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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Former WWF/WCW star Jim Powers talks openly about his experiences in the World Wrestling Federation.
Though Powers does not name the specific WWF agent who propositioned him, several other wrestlers from that era (including Jim Powers former tag partner, Paul Roma) say it was Pat Patterson.
As Jim tells it, Roddy Piper heard about the situation and went directly to Vince McMahon. Powers credits Roddy with helping save him from getting fired because he says normally after turning down an advancement the office would typically dispose of you.
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People have sympathy for Pat because he was gay....Truth is, he was a predator and guilty of at least sexual harassment....Vince covered for it because apparently he is a predator himself.
Doesnt have to mean Vince Mcmahon is predator, could just mean he's a mobster. Could be both tho
Yep Pat lived during a time where being openly gay was frowned on but then is now celebrated he used that shield too perfection. I don't care what your sexual orientation is you mess with kids your a POS period
Well how can any of them be a Predator when they are not even in the Jungle or invisible?
@@acehunter3229 You make a good point....
@@He-Rex 🤣
Makes me love Roddy even more. What a guy.
AMEN
The more I heard Vince McMahon speak of Pat Patterson I knew they're was a thing between them. Pat Patterson wanted the guys. Vince wanted the guys and girls.
vince's acting out with women may have been a masking behavior
I have always respected Roddy Piper and even more when he manned up and , fighting tears , admitted what happened to him in not so many words . When I was about 8 years old two brothers owned a local corner store . One about in his forties and his younger brother in his twenties. The younger offered me a part time job after school stocking shelves . Little did I know I was being groomed by him . After a few weeks he offered to take me to a Penn State Football game which would require us to stay at a motel . When my mom found out about the stay over she went %$#@ing nuts and knew what the deal was . His older brother took me aside and told me stay away from him before my mother got involved . I was without a father and was his mark . I can understand what these young wrestlers can go through trying to reach a dream . Standing up is hard to do when your dreams are on the line , but down the road your self respect is something that can't be haggled with . Kudos to you for standing up to this bullshit !
Go figure a penn state game🤣🌭
@@Dr.Meth666my thoughts exactly
Writing book media🤣🤣 WTF ever works
Kudos to your awesome mom!
Did you respect him when he wore blackface?
Salute to Jim powers, I used to love his theme music in WCW. Wish he had got a bigger push.
Jim was NOT used to his potential. As a kid, I could not understand why he always lost despite looking like Ultimate Warrior w/o facepaint.
This... As i kid i also couldnt understand why Roma didnt make it or why Marty Jannetty turned into a jobber when he was the better rocker.
@@kreed82HBK was far better than Jannetty obviously. Roma was good...and had a decent career. Powers was better than most of today's wrestlers...but the roster was so stacked in the 80's.
He didn't have warrior's intensity or charisma or drawing power
@@jaymike3302 Dont let Mcmahon and Patterson's preference fool you. If you are old enough to remember the rockers as a team it was Janetty that looked more fluid and took the lead while Shawn followed. How they looked as singles is another story.
@donjohn2695 who did?
Paterson right now is roasting in HELL.
People make jokes about sexual assault in WWE over the years,but i find nothing funny about sexual assault/aggravation. These a-holes that use power to get laid are the worst of the worst.
you're not wrong but when nothing can be done about injustice even when everyone's aware of it, what else do you expect for people to do?
@@mmgvii8076 I would go the route of commenting how you can quit working for a company that abuses others and go to various news outlets or authorities to condemn them but why bother commenting that? 🙄
@@dwade6322 yeah, it never seems that simple smh
@@mmgvii8076 I tell one thing,if just ONE of the 100's of stars/office people would have recorded damning evidence of the unlimited law- breaking convo's that were had...just ONE...but everyone cared more about themselves and their paychecks at that place.
@@dwade6322 Yeah. And former wrestlers lie so much. And they always say they would have been huge or champion if not held back unfairly.
I was a fan of Jim powers!
Greatest Irish Whip Powerslam Ever
Tom Brandi who was tag team partners with Jim in the AWF talked about how Pat was a huge sexual predator. Brickhouse Brown mentioned how Pat tried to get Brick to perform a private dress rehersal for him. Shane Douglas and a couple of others confirmed Jim's story about Jim getting his notice because Jim would not engage in those activities with Pat.
He was turning them men into bishes 😂😂
There is a heartbreaking video interview with Piper where he implies Pat took advantage of him. So very sad...
How are we supposed to believe that?
@@jaymike3302Believe that such a video exists? You could watch it, I guess.
@@jaymike3302It's the most likely reality
@@MikeyJMJ It sounds highly unlikely to me. Unless Piper propositioned Patterson to get money.
@@jaymike3302it happened when Piper was a noob. He was like 16 or 17, just a kid
Roddy Piper probably stood up for him because he experienced the same in the past. He has talked about it after this interview came out.
At 47 seconds, Powers went full Jersey.
💯 👍
He should’ve been one of Tony’s soldiers in the Sopranos
Poppers and weird shex - Tony Soprano
😂Yes he did!!
"It was pretty regular, you heard it on a regular basis for the most part. Then you wouldn’t hear it for a while. Then it would come full circle. But it wasn’t so much Vince as it was the people that he had surrounding him. You talk about an industry where you have young, good looking, well-built men in the ring. Half naked, three quarters naked actually. It left the door open. He had a lot of people around him, Vice Presidents and bookers that were very much into that.
They put you in a really bad situation especially once you start making some money and you kind of get comfortable with that and then you find out that your job’s on the line. Either do it or get fired. I witnessed quite a few that walked away…They were asked to do things. Sexual things with other men that they did not want to do. My former partner being one of them…"
- Paul Roma
News Nation interview
February 20, 2024
This was talked about on the Phil Donahue show 30 years ago but it's being treated like something new. The wrestlers who made the accusations back then got laughed at by pathetic toadies like we see the in comments here. Randy Orton's uncle was one of them.
@@timthegem Former wrestlers lie so much. And they always say they would have been huge or champion if not held back unfairly.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco can both stretch you in completely different ways.
I remember Bret Hart talking about Owen Hart ribbing Hacksaw Jim Duggan at a Hotel. Duggan called the office in the Hotel and wanted to know where a local gym was. So the employee asked Owen. Owen said give me the phone and told Hacksaw, "Why don't you find it yourself you lazy fat ass!!!" Owen hung up the phone because he heard Hacksaw storming out of his room coming toward the office. Owen then told the Hotel employee, "Just tell him Jim Powers said that."... Ha ha ha! Afterwards it did get personal between Hacksaw and Powers. I don't think they ever fought though.
HAHA, you gotta love these old time ribs!
delete that so there's never any closure anywhere
They should give out "I was pushed by Pat Patterson" t shirts at Wrestlemania. It's what he would've wanted
Prob given bjs in hell
A gentleman would push in your stool.
Or I was a Pat Patterson *Gay*(Crossed Out) … GUY 😂
Its fudge packerson not pat patterson
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pat Pet-your-son
@@adamant5906 Damn... yeah that one's most accurate.
Jim Powers was a decent wrestler, I believe he was propositioned for gay services. When Jim refused, he was screwed.
By not being screwed
@@vivahernando1 When I say he was screwed, l mean by his career. Jim Powers had the look and talent. Jim probably had dreams of being a huge star that didn’t happen due to him not submitting to Pat.
Why do you think it’s referred to as getting a push
In Patterson and Terry Garvin's case it would be "giving a push" though, Everyone who knows anything about Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin know that in the ball game called life they were the catchers not the pitchers. I worked for Harley Race and WLW, Harley's wrestling promotion on and off for 20 years and heard ALL KINDS of stories from guys and girls that was in WWF at the time and them walking into Patterson's or Garvin's office and they were on their knees blowing or bent over the couch or desk in their office or taking it from behind by new young guy or rookie.
Pushed in?
I think it was the wrestler Brady Boon that said "If you drop a bar of soap 🧼 in the shower 🚿 in the WWF, you better look behind you before you bend over to pick up the bar of soap." Lol 🤣 😂 😆
Nikolai Volkoff said Pat Patterson was a real shooter. You didn’t want to let him get behind you.
Jim Powers was one of the preliminary scrubs you watched on Saturday morning Channel 9 in a squash match.
Paul Roma didn’t like Jim Powers. The reason why people believe that story of Jim Powers was part of the ‘Pat Patterson, Cream Team!’
People believe it because they’re marks that believe anything they’ve heard from the same debunked sources for decades. If he was screwing the vice president of talent relations why would he be in preliminary matches and never win a title? Why wouldn’t he be like other rumored “team” player Brooklyn Brawler who had a job with WWE until Patterson died? Why wouldn’t he have gotten a single or tag title run like another supposed boy toy Silvin Granier? Doesn’t add up. Paul Roma hated Jim Powers and started the rumor. Maybe it was Roma on the team. He’s the one that got another tag team run, tag title shots, battle royal wins and wins on pay per view not to mention plugged in with NWA/WCW and pushed in the Four Horseman even after all other members said no thanks. Flair himself said “I think we got stuck with Roma because Jim Barnett was a fan if you catch my meaning.” So maybe it’s another example of accusing a guy of doing what you’re doing.
Enhancement talent. They made the stars shine. Powers, Lombardi, Sharpe…legendary talents
Paul Roma would give this a dislike
Would he? He didn't like Powers (not many did) for being a selfish prick with an overinflated ego. But he always seems sympathetic of Powers having been put in such a terrible situation.
Jim Powers, Shane Douglas, Stevie Ray and Paul Roma would be great additions the Anthem Sports and Entertainment's TNA Wrestling Producers and Creative.
What a random eclectic bunch of names lay off the podcasts
@@Whatusain what does this has to do with people that worked at the WWF being sexully harrassed. Please stop protecting sexual predators.
@@Mr.Majestic77 're read my comment and 're respond
Pat was known to act like this and this is why most of the top guys hated him and were disgusted by his behavior
I think it must have been Pat Patterson's blood pressure medicine that caused him to act that way, I'm sure he could have got a note from his doctor
Fucking disgrace!
Vito !!
Regardless of what type of "favors" Powers did for Pat Patterson or lack thereof, he was never going to get that big of a push regardless back in the WWF because he was a smaller guy and Vince liked to push the bigger guys like Hogan etc. The best hope for guys Powers' size back in the day in the WWF was being in a tag team. Powers was about 5'10" 225 lbs which isn't a "midget" in actual life but in the WWF back in the day I'm sure Powers was viewed as "tiny" by the WWF management.
Piper actually said if it weren't for the WWF, he'd be in jail.
😔Man, I miss Razor Ramon. Just imagine if he were around today to see everything going on with Vince!🙄
Scott Hall makes a comment about Vince Mcmahon in a youtube slightly edgy topic, then says I love you Vince looking in camera, in very soft tone, clearly scared of Vince Mcmahon taking it personal.
Damn Pat was a menace, Surviving Pat Patterson
That a joke to you
@@malachisgrace1047It's fine. Sometimes in life, humor is the best way to handle a horrifying situation.
Heard about Pat the Perv years ago lol
I didn’t even watch the video but this is the funniest title in youtube history
Was the WWF/E ever a wrestling fed? I'm beginning to wonder.
if jim woulda jus pulled em down to his ankles and let pat pound cake his cheeks then he would be a mega star w mega money ...gotta take that patty poundin! he would done the jersey turnpike to ya
i call him "roddy roddy piper" too lol
Most eight year olds did real time finding out it was rowdy made him sound silly
I did too back in the day
Vince, Alfred Hayes, Pat Patterson all of them was homosexuals and they coerced/threatened/and bribed their way into homosexual situtations with the talent...It's a thousand wonders one of those wrestlers just didn't kill them... Nailz nearly killed vince if he had he would've saved a lot of people from stuff like this...
spot on
💯
Alfred Hayes too?
If true then violating the women talent is to cover tracks but surely with the revenue growing obscenely theyre behaved now
@@catguy00 In an interview(you can look up the video) Piper talks about when he was sexually harassed by Hayes.
Just imagine how many wrestlers gave into Patterson's demands for a push. I'm sure Ultimate Warrior was one of them and ended up disliking gays.
The Rock. Shawn Michaels.
Pat Patterson pushed from behind.
And liked to get pushed too
Nah, Pat pushed him from the front..... In the Baseball Game called life Pat and Terry Garvin for that matter was the Catcher not the Pitcher..... that's very common knowledge.
😂😂😂😂 literally right😂😂😂
Lol
He was working me before I knew what working was 😂
He never actually said it was Pat Patterson that propositioned him. Most likely Terry Garvin who was known for doing it
They were both doing it. Let's remember, when Gavin was fired for the same bs, they made Patterson disappear for awhile from the company as well. Many insiders have stated Garvin was the 'fall guy' for all of it.
I tugged pattersons micro rod at the ramrod in ft lauderdale back in 73
I always believed Jim over Roma, and I thought he was a better wrestler as well..and he had a much MUCH better build as well
There were 2 episodes on talk shows in the 1990s which focused on what Jim powers is talking about here. In one episode (Donohoe) one of the wrestlers was explaining how he was being s3xually harassed, and the audience actually laughed.
Well we can all look forward to a tell all book about to come out soon. Isn't that how these things happen?
possibly audio book by AI via China
Title Match, I watched the Jim Powers RF Video interview many times.
Are you sure Jim was offered by Patterson? I thought it was by Terry Garvin.
Probably both.
I have always hated on Pat Patterson for his evil ways and it angers me how dirt-sheets acknowledge him.
First time ever in my life Jim Powers gets to talk
Jim Powers was a good worker,...damn shame
The fact that Brock lesnar had the biggest push than any other wrestler only makes me wonder.
Why wasn't Pat arrested.... Now that all these people are admitting it, he got a away with it
Because it would've very possibly taken the entire company down if he was. Therefore he 'had to be' protected. People have always said this about Patterson since the 1980's (among far worse situations about underge boys). As more cases kept coming forward in more recent years, they then used his triumphant 'coming out' as a front. It's incredibly sad.
so that’s why it’s called getting a push
It would be refreshing to hear ...why didn't i get "the push" well i just didn't have star quality the best i could hope for was low middle carder i just wasn't a star
This makes me love piper even more he was super based 😂😂😂😂
Patterson should have been jailed.
All these clips should show the date like this one does at the beginning. Better loint of reference.
So the lawyer that interviewed him was in with Vince's lawyer ???? Talk about getting "worked"
Yeah, to lose case about wwf being on steroids not highlight..but then interviewer cut him off when he says there's guys out there...Like everyone was bored of information.
Pat was a receiver not a quarterback
He WAS a tight end. I stress WAS
Any reason why Pat Patterson is still in the HOF?
I don't think he was ever charged with anything. Snuka is the only one removed because he was charged with 3rd degree murder.
@@mtgamateurnight Pat Patterson is dead so he wouldn't be charged with anything. At any rate, neither was Vince until years later he now stands accusations. Pat Patterson was a higher up in WWE that most tried to avoid stirring the pot, or else they would face the same consequences Jim Powers did and would be condemned to jobber status. Paul Roma, by association with Powers, was also a jobber until writers decided to give him a pass for not being Jim and decided to include him in the tag team of Power and Glory with Hercules.
You understand it's not a real hall of fame right?
@@JimVollrath-tf5hc it's a WWE hall of fame. If the organization chooses to keep honoring a rapist, real or fake, it shows the type of people those in charge of WWE are - even if they're not Vince. Everyone knows wrestling is fake, but what Pat Patterson did wasn't fake.
@@pavelromanenko3718 there was only one person in charge.
The Stamford outfit has always thought they could do whatever they want- law and morals and scruples to the wayside
powers is still wrestling too , looks like. it's all catching up with vince now
Jim Powers was an extremely sexy man in the 80s so I can definitely see why he was targeted.
those midcards were so boring just job to the killer bees and get the hell off the screen time
Captain of the cream team baby
Disgusting.
Pat wanted to Powers a push from the back
lol Patterson's loaddddd
I always thought Jim Powers was a good wrestler and wondered why he never got any traction in his career. Know i know why
This might sound strange but I’d love to see Jim fight Paul Roma in the ring , I believe they hate each other- hopefully someone could get the both on the same podcast
The WWE has nobody to blame for this scumbag other than themselves. Everyone knew what was going on and rather than deal with the issue and get rid of him they allowed it to continue indefinitely . Seems to be a common occurrence up there in the corporate offices.
They didn't call Pat BJ Paterson for nothing!🤣🤣🤣
BEFORE HERBERT FROM FAMILY GUY THERE WAS PAT PATTERSON 😅
Not even getting on the gas got him treated fairly... got blowed up like a toad then Pat wanted his legs! Especially the middle one! 😩💩👎
Before diddy combs there was pat
I remember Jim Powers in the WWE.He was a jobber and didn't really win a whole lot.
Pat loved to push and be pushed
John Cena is Pay4Gay first, then PG
I loved the young stallions too bad they didn't get along
No thanks, I’m good…
Lmfao thats the funniest WWF meaning Ive heard but so true
Hello
How old is this video? Or did Jim find the fountain of youth
He was 55 in this video lol
@@gameshack1985 he didn't look it
Piper was genuine
Uncanny resemblance 😂 they look like the same guy, just older. They say you start to look like your mate. 😂
Did vince poop on Paul roma
#VinnieMacBrownShower
I don't think Roma allowed Vince to do anything to him sexually and vice versa. That's likely why he was basically a jobber throughout his whole WWE/WWF run.
Roma was an alpha personailty, predators ferrit out the weak ones, I highly doubt he was propositioned.
Patterson sounds like an awful individual.
He's an icon and an idol to the lgbtskdifiosng32323+++ cult.
I dont know how Hot Rod was a street kid. I spoke with his mom, and he was in was going to school to become a lawyer and started wrestling and then quit school to make a career out of wrestling.
He had an abusive father and left home, said if he stayed he would have killed him. I think it was A&E that did a really good bigraphy on Piper covering this and it had first hand tales from Piper on this. You should check it out.He didnt quit to become a wrestler, he got into that much later
All Vince friends gatekeepers
The more shoots videos i watch on wrestlers and management being scumbags the more i hate it wrestling now.
He named Jim cornette😂😂😂😂 I know Jim is a freak and has gay old bitter man vibes but y’all love him
And so many stars like hbk , taker , hhh , ect gave Patterson praise for being a good person and friend. Now they're all being exposed, and guarantee they're all sweating bullets . Just goes to show it doesn't pay off to be a shill
'Now they are all being exposed'? This video is over 10 years old and it certainly isnt the first story so....
Jim
pat was a h o m o
Everything in life is political. If one person holds power over another they will use it.
I used to be a wrestling fan as a kid but when I hear these guys call fans marks ,it makes me feel as if they being disrespectful, wont call myself a fan cause I’m no one’s mark. It’s just sad how bad these guys want to stay in the line light. They the marks.
Jim’s face was Pat’s favorite place to sit until toy boy Michaels joined the team.
Career Carpet Kid
lmao
Baseless horseshit.
This is a disgusting topic!
Patterson a rampant cat
Jim Powers WWF Wrestling Career Stint #2 : 8/3/1985- 10/30/1994
0:55 That's what they wanted to do.
😂😂😂😂 facts
Sure u didn't....
Jim Powers Wrestling WWF Career Stint #1: : 10/2/1984- 6/20/1985