Brutus Beefcake Edward Harrison " Ed " Leslie ( April 21 , 1957 ) is an American professional wrestler , best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Brutus The Barber Beefcake . He later worked for World Championship Wrestling under a variety of names , mainly as " The Disciple " of real - life best friend Hulk Hogan . He is a former WWF World Tag Team Champion . Professional wrestling career . Early days . Edward Leslie began his career at the side of Hulk Hogan in the 1976 - 1977 time frame . At the time , the two were billed as brothers ; Ed was known as either Ed Boulder or Dizzy Hogan , to match Terry ' s Terry Boulder and Hulk Hogan . Leslie wrestled briefly in Bill Watts ' s Mid - South territory and also wrestled sporadically between 1980 and 1982 in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) before he became known as Brutus Beefcake . According to a shoot interview conducted in 2000 , his first match was with Ron Slinker against Ox Baker and Eric the Red . World Wrestling Federation . 1984 – 1990 . Leslie entered the WWF as a heel under the ring name Brutus Beefcake in late 1984 with manager " Luscious " Johnny Valiant . Beefcake debuted as a vain individual who dressed in outlandish outfits . As a singles competitor , he feuded with David Sammartino and Hulk Hogan , the latter who sought revenge on Beefcake after he and Valiant injured Hogan ' s protege Hillbilly Jim . Brutus got some " cheap heat " when he would come uninvited to ringside during Tony Atlas ' s matches . During the summer of 1985 , Beefcake began teaming with Greg " The Hammer " Valentine , and became known as " The Dream Team " . The Dream Team began challenging The US Express ( Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham ) for the Tag Team Championship . Initially , the US Express fought off their challengers , but the Dream Team soon gained momentum , and at an August 24 , 1985 , show at the Philadelphia Spectrum , the Dream Team won the tag team titles from the U . S . Express when Beefcake rubbed Valiant ’ s lit cigar in Windham ’ s eye . The Dream Team held the titles for eight months , with their primary challengers being a reformed US Express ( with Dan Spivey replacing the departed Windham ) and British Bulldogs . At WrestleMania 2 in Rosemont , Illinois , the British Bulldogs defeated the Dream Team to win the tag team titles . The Dream Team failed to regain the titles and soon reverted to mid - card status . The Dream Team broke up at WrestleMania III . Despite a win over the Rougeau Brothers at the pay - per - view , the team had a falling - out when Beefcake was left in the ring while Valentine and Valiant left with Dino Bravo . This was caused by a miscommunication during the match in which Beefcake hit Valentine by accident . Bravo interfered to allow the Dream Team to win the match . This provided the impetus for Beefcake — along with having had his hair cut inadvertently by Adrian Adonis in a six - man match shortly before WrestleMania — to turn face . Later that night , he acquired the nickname " The Barber " after Rowdy Roddy Piper ' s match against Adonis . Adonis lost the match when Beefcake revived Piper from the effects of the sleeper hold , and it was stipulated he would have to have his head shaved . Beefcake entered the ring and began to clip away at Adonis ' blond locks to avenge the inadvertently haircut from before the event . Thereafter , following a trend started by World Class wrestlers Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez , Beefcake started bringing garden shears with him to the ring , with the handles taped to resemble barber poles , and using a sleeper hold as his finishing maneuver . After each match , he would strut around the ring , " snipping " his fingers like a scissors to indicate that he was about to cut the hair of his defeated opponent . As he cut the hair — using either his shears or an electric razor — he would throw handfuls of hair into the air to the delight of the crowd ; usually , the recipient of these haircuts were jobbers , who either wore wigs or had ponytails attached to their head . After gaining the upper hand in a feud with former partner Valentine and ex - manager Johnny Valiant ( who by the end of their feud was completely bald , thanks to Beefcake ) , Beefcake ' s next big feud was against Intercontinental Champion The Honky Tonk Man . Starting at WrestleMania IV and extending through summer of 1988 , Beefcake vowed to not only win the title but , after putting Honky to sleep , cut his ducktail hair . Beefcake never won the title , since Honky managed to get himself disqualified in most of his matches ; since the title could not change hands on a disqualification , Honky kept the title . Often , Honky had assistance from a mysterious woman named Peggy Sue ; while Sherri Martel sometimes played the role , more often than not , " Peggy Sue " was Jimmy Hart dressed in drag ; Beefcake countered with a " woman " of his own : " Georgina " ( George " The Animal " Steele in drag ) . The feud concluded at WrestleMania IV , where Beefcake won the match through disqualification after interference by Jimmy Hart , but Honky retained the title . However , Beefcake got his revenge by cutting Jimmy Hart ' s hair following the match . A brief feud with " Outlaw " Ron Bass took up most of the rest of 1988 , and was instigated when Bass attacked Beefcake during a match aired on " Superstars of Wrestling " ; the attack caused Beefcake to miss his scheduled Intercontinental championship match against the Honky Tonk Man at the first SummerSlam event on August 29 . Beefcake ultimately gained revenge on Bass in a hair vs hair match in early 1989 . His next major feud was with Randy " Macho Man " Savage during 1989 , and heated up when Beefcake cut a promo on " The Brother Love Show " ( an interview segment on " WWF Superstars of Wrestling " ) , calling Savage ' s new manager , Sensational Sherri , " Scary Sherri , " and an angered Savage attacked Beefcake - before the both of them cut Beefcake ' s hair . Eventually , the feud crossed paths with a feud between his now on - screen friend Hogan and Hogan ' s rival , Zeus , who were embroiled in a dispute over billing in the motion picture " No Holds Barred " ; Hogan , the WWF World Champion , was simultaneously involved in a feud with Savage over the title , while Beefcake ' s involvement began when he was brutally attacked by Zeus ( during Beefcake ' s match against Savage ) . At the 1989 SummerSlam , Hogan and Beefcake teamed to defeat Savage and Zeus . The tag team rivalry resumed when " No Holds Barred " was aired December 27 , 1989 , as part of a pay - per - view special called " No Holds Barred : The Movie - The Match . " In the match portion of the pay - per - view special ( taped two weeks earlier in Nashville , Tennessee ) , Hogan and Beefcake defeated Savage and Zeus in a steel cage match . At the Royal Rumble in 1990 Beefcake had a match against The Genius and while the match ended in a no contest , Beefcake gave the Genius an ugly looking " moon cut " . Mr . Perfect attacked Beefcake ( Perfect and the Genius were a team at the time ) and that led to match at WrestleMania VI . At the event Beefcake was the first person to pin Mr . Perfect in a televised match , thus ending Perfect ' s lengthy undefeated streak in most fans ' eyes . Parasailing accident and return ( 1990 – 1993 ) . In 1990 , a near - fatal parasailing accident put Leslie out of action . He was helping his parasailer friend prepare for takeoff when the driver of the boat mistakenly took a cue to take off , sending the would - be - parasailer ' s bare feet directly into Leslie ' s face . His face had to be surgically repaired with over 100 metal plates , putting his WWF career on hiatus for nearly two years . The accident marked one of the few times the WWF broke kayfabe during the promotion ' s pre - Attitude era , as a real - life — and potentially life - threatening — injury had to be accurately explained to the audience . In early 1991 , to facilitate his return to wrestling , Leslie was put in a mask and randomly attacked heels , notably Rick Martel , Dino Bravo and Earthquake , by running in on their matches . He would hit the heel a few times , headbutt him , and escape . He never wrestled a match in this persona and was never given a name . Leslie returned under his Brutus Beefcake persona in the summer of 1991 , in an short - lived interview segment called " The Barber Shop . " The most notable segment involved the split of the tag team The Rockers , where Shawn Michaels superkicked Marty Jannetty and threw him through a ( kayfabe ) plate glass window ; this turned Michaels heel and began his run toward superstardom . The final " Barber Shop " segment took place in February 1992 , when newly turned heel Sid Justice attacked Beefcake and destroyed the set , to advance Sid ' s building feud with Hogan . In early 1993 , Beefcake ' s injury was used in an angle with Ted DiBiase and Irwin R . Schyster , who had formed the tag team Money Inc . In what was billed as Beefcake ' s " comeback match " ( the February 1 match from New York City was his first since 1990 ) , Beefcake defeated DiBiase by disqualification when DiBiase and Schyster began double - teaming Beefcake . The two then tried to " aggravate " Beefcake ' s injuries when Schyster hit Beefcake with his steel briefcase . This match facilitated a face turn for longtime - heel manager Jimmy Hart – Hart , the manager of Money Inc . , had unsuccessfully tried to stop his team from hurting Beefcake – and Hogan ' s return to the WWF ( after Hogan had taken a year ' s hiatus ) . Hogan and Beefcake , teaming for the first time since December 1989 , formed a tag team called The Mega - Maniacs , choosing Hart as their manager . The Mega - Maniacs wrestled Money Inc . at WrestleMania IX , with Beefcake wearing a special protective face mask . Hogan and Beefcake got their revenge but lost via disqualification . Shortly after WrestleMania IX , Leslie dropped out of the picture in the WWF . World Championship Wrestling . A year later he resurfaced alongside Hogan in World Championship Wrestling . Since the name Brutus Beefcake was trademarked by the WWF , WCW was forced to give Leslie a different ring name . At first , only made short appearances with Hulk Hogan , who referred to Leslie as " Brother Bruti " ( a name Hogan had previously used in WWF promos to refer to Beefcake when they were tag team partners in 1989 and 1993 , Beefcake having previously been referred to as " Bruti " by WWF commentator Gorilla Monsoon amongst others . ) At Halloween Havoc in 1994 , following Hogan ' s cage match victory over Ric Flair , Bruti was revealed as the mystery assailant who attacked Hogan just before his title defense against Flair at Clash of the Champions XXVIII ( Actually , It was Arn Anderson who wore the mask at The Clash of The Champions ) . Leslie was subsequently billed as The Butcher and was placed in the 3 Faces of Fear stable with Kevin Sullivan and Avalanche . The feud between these two culminated in a WCW World Heavyweight title match at Starrcade . Leslie continued to wrestle as The Butcher for some time after the 3 Faces of Fear broke up in January 1995 , then began wrestling under various gimmicks for the remainder of the year . His first saw Leslie as the supposedly amnesic The Man with No Name . He later rejoined Kevin Sullivan as part of his stable Dungeon of Doom . Leslie became known as The Zodiac , a character with black and white face paint who would only say , " Yes , no , yes , no ! " He and the rest of the stable feuded with Hogan for most of the remainder of 1995 , but Hogan eventually turned Zodiac against the Dungeon of Doom by revealing him as a planted mole . After leaving the Dungeon of Doom Leslie became " The Booty Man " , and his gimmick was that of a man infatuated with his own – seemingly bare – buttocks , shaking them on the way to the ring and during matches . Emphasizing this , his signature move at the time was a high knee ( a play on the word hiney , a slang term for buttocks ) . He was accompanied to the ring by Kimberly Page , who became known as The Booty Babe , and began a feud with Diamond Dallas Page ( who was , at the time , Kimberly ' s real - life husband and who had recently lost her as a valet in a match with Johnny B . Badd ; he had been feuding with Badd at the time , but Badd left the company to sign with the WWF and Leslie was added in his place ) . This , like Leslie ' s other gimmicks since he joined WCW , did not last long . When the nWo started , Booty Man attempted to join and promptly received a beatdown from Scott Hall , Kevin Nash , and Hollywood Hogan . Leslie then vanished from WCW and was not seen again for nearly two years . Leslie ' s last WCW gimmick was the bodyguard of Hollywood Hogan , The Disciple , who would help Hogan illegally in many matches throughout 1998 . Debuting early that year , he was almost unrecognizable at first with a full beard , dark sunglasses , and nWo - styled biker attire in a moniker seemingly inspired by the WWF ' s Disciples of Apocalypse ; however , his identity was revealed by Rowdy Roddy Piper during his feud with Hogan . He would always accompany Hogan to the ring for his matches and would often be called on to assist Hogan in beating down an opponent , often using his new finishing maneuver which was dubbed " The Apocalypse " . Leslie often used Hogan ' s WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt while performing the move , draping it over his shoulder and causing the center gold plate to hit the wrestler ' s jaw on the recoil . The Disciple was later kidnapped by The Warrior during Warrior ' s feud with Hogan , being seen hanging by his feet backstage . After being brainwashed by Warrior , he turned on Hogan and was the only other member ( alongside his kidnapper ) of the One Warrior Nation . After Warrior left WCW Leslie ' s role was largely diminished ; although he was employed by the company for several more months his only appearances were either on " WCW WorldWide " or " WCW Saturday Night " wrestling against jobbers . He was no longer with WCW by June 1999 . Semi - retirement . In May 2000 , he appeared with the Extreme Wrestling Federation in a match against Rex Diamond . In July that year he appeared in Australia for i - Generation Superstars of Wrestling under the name of " Brute Force " . In the Summer of 2001 , along with fellow professional wrestler John Quinlan , Leslie wrestled for numerous independent promotions throughout the Northeastern United States . After retiring , he was a part of the Christian wrestling group , World Impact Wrestling . He has also started a wrestling school . He also made an appearance at Pro Wrestling Syndicate ' s debut show in Garfield , New Jersey on June 24 , 2007 . He has appeared at several Memphis wrestling shows , including the 2007 Ultimate Clash of the Legends . On July 28 , 2007 , Beefcake competed for the IAW World Heavyweight Championship at Clash at the Cove 9 against Greg " The Hammer " Valentine and Brian Costello . Beefcake and Valentine lost due to countout while they were brawling outside the ring . They , however , returned to the ring to attack Costello and the ringside announcer announced the return of The Dream Team . He appeared at a WFX event in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada . On January 26 , 2008 - Leslie was the first inductee into the XWF Hall of Fame of 2008 by Jack Blaze at XWF Over the Edge 2008 in Moundsville , WV - once the company folded , it soon became LPW ( Legends Pro Wrestling ) , where Blaze once again honored Leslie on March 26 , 2010 at LPW March Madness 2010 on March 26 , 2010 . The Dream Team made their tag team return to semi - national television in October 2009 for Pro Wrestling Ohio . The team faced off against The Clash for the PWO Tag Team Championships . Beefcake ended up almost winning the belt single - handedly , as Valentine was injured in the days leading up to the contest . However , after a " dusty finish " The Clash retained . Leslie was a coach on the reality television show " Hulk Hogan ' s Celebrity Championship Wrestling " . On July 24 , 2009 , Leslie competed in " Celebrity Boxing 10 " in suburban Philadelphia . He lost in the first round to local competitive eater Bill " El Wingador " Simmons . He was part of the Hulkamania Let The Battle Begin Tour in late 2009 which toured throughout Australia , including Perth and Sydney . On July 31 , 2010 at the Brockton Rox game , Leslie fought in All - Star Wrestling night match at Campanelli Stadium with Tito Santana in Brockton , Massachusetts . On August 28 , 2010 Beefcake made his Debut for Dynamic Wrestling Alliance Based in Middletown , OH . Personal life . Leslie made news headlines on February 8 , 2004 for causing an anthrax scare at one of Boston ' s MBTA stations , Downtown Crossing , where he was working at the time . He had been found to be in possession of a white powder , which turned out to be cocaine . He promptly checked into a drug rehabilitation facility after admitting that the cocaine found at the station was his . As a result , no charges were filed against him . Leslie married Kirsten Georgi on July 1 , 1987 ; the couple divorced in 1991 . His second marriage was to Barbara McGondel on October 1 , 1994 . Together , they have one daughter named Alana . Leslie also worked as a manager at Planet Fitness in Tewksbury , Massachusetts . He became a born again Christian .