Born as Edward Harrison Leslie on April 21, 1957 in Tampa, Florida, Brutus started weight training seriously at age 17 with his best friend Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan. Always a big fan of wrestling, Brutus attended local wrestling events from an early age. Then at age 20, Brutus left junior college to become a pro wrestler with Hulk. Billed as "Terry and Eddy Boulder," a brother wrestling team, his first professional wrestling match was in Panama City, Florida. Brutus’ first big break came in 1983 in New York, where he joined the World Wresting Federation.This was the birth of "Brutus Beefcake." In 1987 during Wrestlemania 3’s match-up of Rody Piper and Adrian Adonis, Brutus became known as "the Barber" when he helped Rody hold down Adrian and shave his head. In 1993, Brutus jumped ship and joined forces with the World Championship Wrestling organization, where he wrestled until the turn of the century.No stranger to the spotlight, Brutus went on to appear in numerous shows as Hulk’s body double and stunt double in the TV series, Thunder in Paradise.
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Ring name(s) Eddie Golden,Ed Boulder,Eddie Hogan,Dizzy Hogan,Baron Beefcake,Brutus Beefcake,Brother Bruti,Brute Force,The Butcher,The Man With No Name,Zodiac,The Booty Man,E. Harrison Leslie,The Disciple,The Clipsmaster,Stuart "Beefcake" Healey,The Masked Man
Billed height 6 ft. 3 in. (191 cm)
Billed weight 273 lb. (124 kg)
Born April 21, 1957 (1957-04-21) Tampa, Florida
Resides Boston, Massachusetts
Billed from San Francisco, California
Trained by Hulk Hogan,Ivan Koloff
Debut 1977
He took kind of Semi-Retirement later after a major accident. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake made a return to the ring for Jay Repsel's DREAMWAVE Wrestling in LaSalle, IL at "Immortality" on June 6, 2009. He faced "Legendary" Dan Lawrence and was victorious.
