Why Heenan & Gorilla Were WWF’s Best Team: PRIME TIME VAULT
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production. |
| 0:04.0 | Okay, let's get into our topic today. |
| 0:07.2 | And I teased this before with folks during the week that I want to talk about, you know, not just announcers. |
| 0:14.6 | I mean, people have specific announcers. |
| 0:16.5 | And you know, when I was with the WWF, you heard all the time, like, who was the best announcer? the best announcer but you know I want to talk about it was who were but I believe was one of |
| 0:25.4 | the best announced teams ever and it and it took two to make this happen and that |
| 0:30.7 | was Bobby the Brain Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon and I think that I said this in our what we put out talking about the show, is the most |
| 0:40.6 | entertaining, I think, announced duo ever. |
| 0:44.6 | And people may have, you know, everybody has their different opinions, but I was very close |
| 0:48.7 | to both of them. |
| 0:50.0 | And what they had was incredible magic. |
| 0:56.2 | And a little background on both. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, Bobby Heenan was born Raymond Lewis Heenan in Chicago in 1944. |
| 1:11.6 | And he started in the business, wanted to just, you know, that's, it was never a question for him for a lot of these people. |
| 1:15.8 | And, and then you have a gorilla monsoon. |
| 1:21.3 | It was born, you know, Robert James Morella, who a lot of people don't realize, Jim. |
| 1:24.4 | He was a fantastic amateur wrestler. |
| 1:28.7 | And I think one of the reasons we got along so well when he found out I was also born in Rochester, New York. |
| 1:30.0 | So he, that was kind of our first connection. |
| 1:33.9 | But he went to Ithaca. |
| 1:34.9 | And in 1959, he got second in the NCAA tournament. |
| 1:40.2 | So he was quite an accomplished athlete as well. |
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