Adonis and Ventura......The East/West Connection.
One of the few times that the “commercial” WWF machine acknowledged wrestling life outside the WWF was in 1987 at WM III.
Monsoon & Jesse were calling Piper and Adonis’ match when Gorilla at one point commented in regards to Adrian, “…as we look at the former tag-team partner of Jesse ‘the Body’ Ventura.”
That one line set up Jess for his comeback, “I gotta new tag-team brewin’ - the Barry team: Braverman & Bloom out in LA.”
This was a reference to Jesse’s new Hollywood friends/representation at a time when Jesse really thought his acting career was about to take off.
It may have also been a nod to Vince that Jesse didn’t need WWF
(or wrestling) as badly as the other guys.
It would later turn out that he was right - albeit for different reasons.
