I used to work at Tampa Int'l Airport as a bartender at "Big Al's" in the 80's, and Ric would come in about once or twice a week and order a 23 oz Budweiser Draught and 3 Kamikazee's ... Bill was $18.00, and I'd normally get a $20.00 on $18.00 bills........Ric always left $30.00. I made sure his beer was waiting for him if I saw him coming to the bar, or if I didn't see him, he went right to the front of the line!! Always a nice guy, and not all of the celebrities were...
@@billwe5772 - LoL .. I'm not suggesting we were "pals" or anything... Ric probably did the same thing at every airport bar he went in and needless to say, that's a LOT of bars.... Add on all the hotel bars... and he was more into finding some chick to hook up with, so I would be surprised if he remembered!
I love Ric & Ole honestly. So many things that both guys don't get enough credit for. Watts liked Ric & Ole I remember but Watts and Ole had very similar personalities. I'm glad that Ric finally stated that Bill Watts was who he negotiated his return with because people get it mixed up always. Watts also had Cornette working with the company again.
I love the original 4 Horsemen. Ric, Arn, Tully, and Ole were great together. I can really see why someone wouldn't get along with Ole. He seems like a real horse's ***, but as a wrestler I thought he was great. He was believable.
On Mick Foley (Cactus Jack), this was when he had taken a severe blow to the head and thought that he was sort of a cult leader to the homeless. In one skit, Dustin Rhodes goes to see him and Cactus thought that he was a country music singer.
Vader had powerbombed him on the concrete floor on the TBS Saturday night show. I remember that angle vividly and yes it felt corny like a weak WWE storyline. I don't get it with Ole, for such an anti-Vince "old school" guy he was booking some of the worst wanna be WWE stuff. He was behind The Shockmaster concept too.
Mick Foley was doing an Amnesia and missing person angle in WCW at the time in 1992 or early 93 (I first came across Foley in 1991). When his on screen wife found him, he was living on the streets in Cleveland or somewhere like that and had Amnesia or something similar. As a 10 /11 year old, I liked it but in his first book Foley said he hated the angle. When I met Mick at a high profile UK Indy show in 2005, I confessed I did like the angle as a kid. He did laugh.
That's absolutely right. It was called Lost In Cleveland. And if I remember right from reading Micks 1st book Have a Nice Day, Lost in Cleveland was a Dusty Rhodes creation.
@@gregorylevi1826 He and BJ got into it over something and BJ went to Eric with it. Eric fired Ole. BJ later said that he felt that he owed Eric because he gave him a job when he needed one.
OLE ALWAYS COMPLAINED ABOUT FLAIR !!! DID THE SAME MATCH NIGHT AFTER NIGHT U SEEN 1 FLAIR MATCH U SEEN THEM ALL HE SAYS ALL THE TIME !!! FLAIR IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME HANDS DOWN AND MAIN THING HE WRESTLED EVERYBODY !! OLE MADE $$$ WHEN HE WAS A HORSEMEN THATS ALL HE SAID HE EVER CARED ABOUT WHAT U COULD DRAW !!!! I GIVE OLE ONE GREAT THANK YOU ,U PUT TOGETHER THE GREATEST TAG TEAM EVER IN THE HISTORY OF WRESTLING THE ROAD WARRIORS !!!!
It is a shame Ole had some much hate for Flair. Even during the Horsemen run. Ole was, in my opinion, had a slight jealousy issue with Flair. Flair was the top heel from 85 to 88. I think Ole was a great booker during the Georgia Championship Wrestling . But soon as the Crocketts came in 84, Ole got a bit jealous of Flair. But damn that was wrestling during those times.
Ole's mistake here was taking kafabe TOO seriously I don't know how it was in America but absolutely nobody, and I mean ZERO folk in the UK thought wrestling was real in 1992/1993
The late 1992 version of WCW was truly dreadful, I'm old enough to have watched it in real time, aside from Jake and Sting there was no feuds, Bill Watts was doing crap pieces to camera every week about why certain moves were banned, unless you did them after half past 7 on a Tuesday, but so long as your arm was over their neck from the first rope but not under their neck from the second rope Every... fucking...week The prime audience at that time was 12 - 18 year olds and we just didn't give a shit about wrestling going back to the 50's Play to your audience or they will lose interest, end of Edit: I should clarify something, the audience IN THE UK was that age group, maybe it was still more adult in America, but yep WCW completely lost it's audience here, I don't remember it being on tv after 1993 at all until the NWO happened
@@grawakendream8980 NO, YOUR COMPARISONS ARE WRONG. REMEMBER BACK THEN TO PRODUCE A SHOW WASN'T AS EXPENSIVE & THE TALENT DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH MONEY. TOP WRESTLERS AT THAT TIME WERE POOR. WWF BEGAN TO MAKE THEIR WRESTLERS RICH & THEN MILLIONAIRES TO MULTI MILLIONAIRE FORCING THE OLD AWA, NWA, WCW TO DO LIKE WISE. THE MONDAY NIGHT WRESTLING WARS WERE ABOUT THE "DEVALUING" $$ OF EACH OTHERS WRESTLING ORGANIZATIONS. WWF/WWE HAD THE DEEPER $$POCKETS. WWF/WWE FINALLY DEFEATED (& NOW OWN) THE AWA, NWA, WCW, ECW & ALL THE TERRITORIAL WRESTLING ORGANIZATIONS "FINANCIALLY". ...?
Cowboy Watts made numerous offensive comments about homosexuals and the black community. It's a no-brainer, Flair is a big draw no matter where he wrestles or signs autographs.
@@TL2354 He said these things in the weekly newsletter, Pro Wrestling Torch. Someone slipped a copy of it to Hank Aaron, who was also working for Ted Turner at the time. Watts said that he quit because it was too much politics in WCW. BTW, if he hated blacks, why did he give The Junkyard Dog a huge push? Not to mention putting him in a feud with Butch Reed. Then when JYD up and left for the WWE, he gives a push to the unknown Snowman. Needless to say, Watts was PO'd at JYD for up and leaving like he did.
@@mkl62he’s a confirmed a white supremacist because of the vile things he said about black people in the torch. That was how he truly felt, so Bill Watts can burn in hell.
He made those comments on purpose because he was trying to get fired. His contract still have him being paid everything he wanted regardless of being fired. Just like when he took A leak outside his window at the office in front of the other executives. He was shocked he wasn't fired for that but Hank Aaron did the trick.
@@mkl62 because he knew there was money to be made from black fans off A JYD. He understood the power of the black dollar. That's why he pushed black wrestlers.
*The genesis of the Flair-Anderson heat stems from when Anderson loaned Flair some money (not sure how much), which Flair never repaid. Anderson has hated him ever since.*
I used to work at Tampa Int'l Airport as a bartender at "Big Al's" in the 80's, and Ric would come in about once or twice a week and order a 23 oz Budweiser Draught and 3 Kamikazee's ... Bill was $18.00, and I'd normally get a $20.00 on $18.00 bills........Ric always left $30.00. I made sure his beer was waiting for him if I saw him coming to the bar, or if I didn't see him, he went right to the front of the line!! Always a nice guy, and not all of the celebrities were...
Not saying you’re lying but would love to hear if ric remembers
@@billwe5772 - LoL .. I'm not suggesting we were "pals" or anything... Ric probably did the same thing at every airport bar he went in and needless to say, that's a LOT of bars.... Add on all the hotel bars... and he was more into finding some chick to hook up with, so I would be surprised if he remembered!
I recently worked at tpa at the chik fil a ,laziest group of ppl I ever worked for
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I stick with Hard Rock Cafe at TPA everytime@@dantedlane2
THE GREATEST. THE BEST. THE MAN. THE CHAMP. RIC FLAIR.
I love Ric & Ole honestly. So many things that both guys don't get enough credit for. Watts liked Ric & Ole I remember but Watts and Ole had very similar personalities.
I'm glad that Ric finally stated that Bill Watts was who he negotiated his return with because people get it mixed up always. Watts also had Cornette working with the company again.
I love the original 4 Horsemen. Ric, Arn, Tully, and Ole were great together. I can really see why someone wouldn't get along with Ole. He seems like a real horse's ***, but as a wrestler I thought he was great. He was believable.
Life be like Ric be modest....Ric flair be like ..... hold my beer
You the man
I saw Flair team with the Andersons and saw them battle against each other. It’s a bummer Ole & Flair got sideways.
On Mick Foley (Cactus Jack), this was when he had taken a severe blow to the head and thought that he was sort of a cult leader to the homeless. In one skit, Dustin Rhodes goes to see him and Cactus thought that he was a country music singer.
Fun fact. The woman reporter Kathryn White is actually Kathy Gagne, Verne's daughter and Larry Zbysko's wife at the time
Vader had powerbombed him on the concrete floor on the TBS Saturday night show. I remember that angle vividly and yes it felt corny like a weak WWE storyline. I don't get it with Ole, for such an anti-Vince "old school" guy he was booking some of the worst wanna be WWE stuff. He was behind The Shockmaster concept too.
Ole Anderson even said No one would pay to see Mark Calaway wrestle. So Mark went to WWF and became the UNDERTAKER.
Wooooooo
Flair is right about Ole, he couldn't get out of the '70s. He didn't have the creative spark that Dusty had as a booker.
it's me or ole 😆 🤣 😂
Mick Foley was doing an Amnesia and missing person angle in WCW at the time in 1992 or early 93 (I first came across Foley in 1991).
When his on screen wife found him, he was living on the streets in Cleveland or somewhere like that and had Amnesia or something similar.
As a 10 /11 year old, I liked it but in his first book Foley said he hated the angle.
When I met Mick at a high profile UK Indy show in 2005, I confessed I did like the angle as a kid. He did laugh.
It was cactus jack lost in Cleveland if anybody remembers
That's absolutely right. It was called Lost In Cleveland. And if I remember right from reading Micks 1st book Have a Nice Day, Lost in Cleveland was a Dusty Rhodes creation.
The Nerve of Ole to Disrespect Curt/Perfect like That
Ole hated everybody except Harley Race...... he knew better 🤣.
@@classic-kool he never said anything bad about Gene Anderson or Danny Hodge either. I think those were the only three folks he liked.
Maybe he hated his father, Larry Hennig.
@classic kool he knew better when it came to Blackjack Mulligan too.
@@gregorylevi1826 He and BJ got into it over something and BJ went to Eric with it. Eric fired Ole. BJ later said that he felt that he owed Eric because he gave him a job when he needed one.
So was this before Ric and Ole reformed the Horsemen with Arn and Roma at Slamboree?
Im.just worlndern about Rics relationship w the Steiner guys what happened I dig Ric 2 but I'd like his stories!!
OLE ALWAYS COMPLAINED ABOUT FLAIR !!! DID THE SAME MATCH NIGHT AFTER NIGHT U SEEN 1 FLAIR MATCH U SEEN THEM ALL HE SAYS ALL THE TIME !!! FLAIR IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME HANDS DOWN AND MAIN THING HE WRESTLED EVERYBODY !! OLE MADE $$$ WHEN HE WAS A HORSEMEN THATS ALL HE SAID HE EVER CARED ABOUT WHAT U COULD DRAW !!!! I GIVE OLE ONE GREAT THANK YOU ,U PUT TOGETHER THE GREATEST TAG TEAM EVER IN THE HISTORY OF WRESTLING THE ROAD WARRIORS !!!!
Foley was living on the streets. Couldn't remember that he was cactus jack.
Amnesia angle as Cactus Jack
It is a shame Ole had some much hate for Flair. Even during the Horsemen run. Ole was, in my opinion, had a slight jealousy issue with Flair. Flair was the top heel from 85 to 88. I think Ole was a great booker during the Georgia Championship Wrestling . But soon as the Crocketts came in 84, Ole got a bit jealous of Flair. But damn that was wrestling during those times.
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Space mountain
Ole Anderson's real name is Alan Rogofsky.
Ole wasnt Fair to Flair
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Ole's mistake here was taking kafabe TOO seriously
I don't know how it was in America but absolutely nobody, and I mean ZERO folk in the UK thought wrestling was real in 1992/1993
Ole Anderson is too damn grumpy.
The late 1992 version of WCW was truly dreadful, I'm old enough to have watched it in real time, aside from Jake and Sting there was no feuds, Bill Watts was doing crap pieces to camera every week about why certain moves were banned, unless you did them after half past 7 on a Tuesday, but so long as your arm was over their neck from the first rope but not under their neck from the second rope
Every... fucking...week
The prime audience at that time was 12 - 18 year olds and we just didn't give a shit about wrestling going back to the 50's
Play to your audience or they will lose interest, end of
Edit: I should clarify something, the audience IN THE UK was that age group, maybe it was still more adult in America, but yep WCW completely lost it's audience here, I don't remember it being on tv after 1993 at all until the NWO happened
ole wasn't the issue with wcw. bischoff desroyed wcw
REMEMBER THOSE ISSUES WERE LONG BEFORE BISCHOFF.
@@alfordjohnson2383 yeah but they werent lising $85 million a year back then, they actually made a small profit
@@grawakendream8980 NO, YOUR COMPARISONS ARE WRONG. REMEMBER BACK THEN TO PRODUCE A SHOW WASN'T AS EXPENSIVE & THE TALENT DIDN'T MAKE AS MUCH MONEY. TOP WRESTLERS AT THAT TIME WERE POOR. WWF BEGAN TO MAKE THEIR WRESTLERS RICH & THEN MILLIONAIRES TO MULTI MILLIONAIRE FORCING THE OLD AWA, NWA, WCW TO DO LIKE WISE. THE MONDAY NIGHT WRESTLING WARS WERE ABOUT THE "DEVALUING" $$ OF EACH OTHERS WRESTLING ORGANIZATIONS. WWF/WWE HAD THE DEEPER $$POCKETS. WWF/WWE FINALLY DEFEATED (& NOW OWN) THE AWA, NWA, WCW, ECW & ALL THE TERRITORIAL WRESTLING ORGANIZATIONS "FINANCIALLY". ...?
Ole This is arguably the biggest curmudgeon wrestling has ever seen
Helluva tag team guy, though.
Cowboy Watts made numerous offensive comments about homosexuals and the black community. It's a no-brainer, Flair is a big draw no matter where he wrestles or signs autographs.
Watts said these things in front of you?
@@TL2354 He said these things in the weekly newsletter, Pro Wrestling Torch. Someone slipped a copy of it to Hank Aaron, who was also working for Ted Turner at the time. Watts said that he quit because it was too much politics in WCW. BTW, if he hated blacks, why did he give The Junkyard Dog a huge push? Not to mention putting him in a feud with Butch Reed. Then when JYD up and left for the WWE, he gives a push to the unknown Snowman. Needless to say, Watts was PO'd at JYD for up and leaving like he did.
@@mkl62he’s a confirmed a white supremacist because of the vile things he said about black people in the torch. That was how he truly felt, so Bill Watts can burn in hell.
He made those comments on purpose because he was trying to get fired. His contract still have him being paid everything he wanted regardless of being fired. Just like when he took A leak outside his window at the office in front of the other executives. He was shocked he wasn't fired for that but Hank Aaron did the trick.
@@mkl62 because he knew there was money to be made from black fans off A JYD. He understood the power of the black dollar. That's why he pushed black wrestlers.
*The genesis of the Flair-Anderson heat stems from when Anderson loaned Flair some money (not sure how much), which Flair never repaid. Anderson has hated him ever since.*