Ole's booking of the Georgia territory was unmatched. He was great in the ring in a time when 'great' didn't mean flips, dives and superkicks. And he gave arguably the most believable interview in the business. Ole is among the true greats in the wrestling business.
And you forgot he,was an JO to fellow wrestlers and fans who would come up for a autograph and he would just turn his back to them. Ole Anderson or what ever his real name was was even nastier than Ole. Arn thought he was this great wrestler and all he had was a spine buster a move anyone could perform. Or the other end of this nastiness were people like Ray Trailer and Kevin Sullivan two nasty people in the ring and both just wonderful to me. Its the. Thus is why Kevin has lasted so long and Ray would remember me and always say here is this guy who bodyslanmed me and everyone would believe him Just a nice guy.
Gordon Solie once told Ole that Tommy Rich was on the warpath intending to get him. Ole replied: "Look at me! I'm shaking". Those were the good old days
@@kwmusic4560 your right. I may ole when I was 9 it was 1974 and he was alright. He believed in kayfabe and was in character. He signed my omni program and shook my hand. My dad was a truck driver and did trips to Jacksonville Florida each month and always took time off to stop in Atlanta so I could see the wrestling at the omni. Years later at a convention I saw him and he remembered like it was yesterday.
As a performer, Ole was a workhorse. As a booker, he let his biases get in the way of what would have been good for the business. Buzz Sawyer was the definition of one of a kind. Don't know if that guy was ever diagnosed with any mental disorders, but he was one of the most fascinating performers to watch in his era. Rough in ring style, rough promos that drew you into his world.
And he also took $2,000 from the Undertaker, and a class of other guys, to train them to wrestle, and disappeared with it. Barely taught them a thing, and stole their money. He was a dick, just for that.
As a performer Ole was a joke, the other Horseman could put people over. Ole couldn't And I will take the Hart Foundation, The Bulldogs, Garea and Martel over the Andersons any time
@@BrianJohnsonArmwrestling I didn't say he saw them once and took off with their money, I said he took off with their money. You're right, Taker was one of the few who stuck with it, but when it was finally time for Buzz to get his "students" paid work, he disappeared. And Taker says they still weren't taught anything, they just had great cardio, because all they did was run all over, but got very little knowledge of how to work.
He is a class act. He was my daughter's Spanish teacher. She didn't tell me bc she thought I would embarrass her if I ever met him..she figured I would ask him to go into character 😂 I did meet him accidentally at his beauty salon. I went into this salon to make an appointment for my wife and he was sitting behind the counter. I had no clue it was his shop. I was in awe..he was making an appointment for my wife and I kept my cool until he was done. That's when I let him know I was a huge fan. He had pics all over the wall it was a great experience.
I ran into Ole in South Carolina about 2014-2015 around there he was coming out of an ice cream shop and I was going in and I said you're Ole Anderson and he says yes I am and you are Who, and I told him my name and we shook hands he was gracious he spent 20 minutes talking to me and my wife we laughed and joked didn't even talk wrestling he couldn't have been nicer. I was really hoping he would tell me to f*** off it was an enjoyable and entertaining conversation cool dude but I didn't work for him.
Straight forward and honest but very much against nearly everyone that isn't up to his mindset. But I guess some of the more notable folk are like that anyway. That is both a blessing and a curse.
I think Ole's crabby shit-on-everybody interviews are pretty funny, but I doubt I would want to work for the man. The only person I heard him speak respectfully about was Lou Thesz who he said "basically beat the crap out of me" during a friendly mat workout when Thesz was 85 yrs old. It is certainly a testament to how tough Lou Thesz was even up until the very end.
Some of the guys he spoke respectfully of were guys like Harley Race, Gene Anderson, Larry Hennig, Verne Gagne, Danny Hodge and so on. The kind of guy Ole respected tended to be guys from an athletic background who could take care of themselves in the ring.
He had profound respect for Lord Alfred Hays and a very long ago English Star named Tinker Todd which he conveys hilariously and poignantly in a great anecdote about the two men.😂🎤🐴💎👔👞👞🇬🇧🤼♂️B.W.
"Mean" Mark Callous took over "Psycho" Sid Vicious/Justic' spot as part of the Skyscrapers tag-team with "Dangerous" Dan Spivey (in WCW); they were managed by Theodore R. Long (Teddy Long); Mike Enos also was a part of that team. "Mean" Mark had a finishing move called the Heart Punch.
Ole was an excellent worker. Also people need to understand that Ole was more into old fashioned Professional Wrestling than modern Vince style Sports entertainment. And if you worked for him he was the boss. Seems like hating on Promoters is a favorite Past time for many Wrestlers. Oh as for those he said were no good, at the time in question they might not have been. And he might not of had the time to let somebody that didn't know what they were doing learn. And then again in some cases they are more known for becoming a character than Wrestling.
Ole Anderson was very under rated as a worker . I saw him in a barn burner of a match with Magnum TA when 3veryone said Ole was finished . Ole knew how to work a match .
Ole never said he made the official decision to make Ric Flair the champion. He said he call Eddie Graham and asked if there was anyway they could make Ric Flair the champion. That’s why Ole will say he made Ric Flair champion.
I met Kevin Sullivan and many other wrestlers at Doug Moore's Gym Bloomington MN in 1998. Kevin Sullivan was class act and a very nice guy. I have a picture of myself in a headlock with Kevin Sullivan. The met Raven, Perry Saturn, Terry Taylor and have photo's with all of them. I also met Lex Luger the same day. What a prick. I have picture with Lex he's was about 2 inches taller than me but his hands were smaller than mine. lol
Ole was great, but as great as he was he is one of many who only likes to remember things from his own perspective. He finally admitted to that in admitting he should have "at least sat down with Vince (McMahon) and listen.
@@freedom2084 . more of a paraphrase. Ole admitted a few years ago that had he listened to Vince, things would have been much better for him and everyone who got burned when he cussed out Linda.
@@freedom2084 , actually, there is a video here on UA-cam where he admits he should never have lashed out at Vince and Linda and that it was his own fault why he didn't have a more memorable hand in the business after GCW was bought out.
Ole put together and made the Road warriors. Gave randy savage the name macho man. Original 4 horseman. For a time Booked Georgia and mid Atlantic at the same time. What is that 60 wrestlers? I believe was the 1st to have a heel announcer on tv. Roddy piper. Great promos and a great worker Named Wcw. World Championship Wrestling. Ole does say he made and told the NWA to have Flair the champion. Made lots of money for many years as a booker and a wrestler. With out going back and checking the road warriors, Stan Hanson, Tony atlas, rock n roll express, Jim Cornette liked ole. Kevin Sullivan can’t deny ole was a good wrestler check out the battle of Atlanta. Fans were climbing the cage to get in or ole’s heel turn on dusty. Name me a another wrestler who cursed out Vince and his wife. Right to their face. He cursed out Vince to his face then he brought his wife the next week
Actually, he gave Randy the savage name. He faced him on TV and later said in the back, "They ought to name Poffo's kid Randy Savage. He sure wrestled like one.
@@drtenma3744 yep......watch him wrestle......but Vince wasn't selling wrestling.....he sold entertainment.....there is a difference.....and yes....Mark thrived with that gimmick.
He missed on Mick Foley. Ole said Mick was nothing but a 2nd rate worker. Mick would never get over with the fans or draw a dime. Ole admitted in a shoot interview with Ricky Morton that was was wrong about Mick Foley.
Hogan was a joke as a wrestler/worker. The Brain had already made a reputation in AWA managing Nick Bockwinkle and managing him in GCW also and the undertaker gimmick would have never got over on GCW because the WWF was more into characters and GCW was more about wrestling even though it was a work but Ole knew that. As a matter of fact WCW had a commercial at one time poking fun at WWF saying “we wrestle”.
It was in Marietta Georgia and Ole was going to team with Ronnie Garvin and my wife said there’s Ronnie Garvin I’m gonna go get his autograph and went she got back she said Ronnie Garvin is a jerk when I ask him for his autograph it looked like it made him mad and acted like he didn’t want to sign it. She said there’s Ole Anderson I’m gonna see if I can get his autograph and when she got back she said now he was nice I said can I have your autograph and he said you sure can. Ole said Mark Calloway would never draw a dime and he was right Mark Calloway didn’t the Undertaker did. Back then the NWA/WCW concentrated more on wrestling and Vince was more on cartoon characters. Ole was right about Hulk Hogan also. In Georgia watching Terry Bollea wrestle was like watching paint dry but Vince took him and made him a comic strip character. Vince McMahon aimed more at the entertainment side of wrestling and the AWA and NWA/WCW concentrated more on the wrestling side which now people seem to want more wrestling than entertainment.
Gotta give Anderson some points for tenacity. It still kind of saddens me that corporate executives, of all things, would be the people to make the stubborn bastard give up.
Georgia was a hit and miss territory . Ole did his best work in MidAtlantic .Although his best story line was the beat down on Dusty Rhodes , his tag partner vs The Assassins . That took months to unfurl .
GA was pro wrestling in the 70s and 80s. I was fortunate to have seen its evolution and peak in those decades I mentioned. Carolinas had some interesting stuff at that time too but GA was the Jerusalem (or Rome) of the whole shootin match. If you combine Texas, Carolinas, and Fla, sprinkling in a little bit of Minnesota AWA and Bill Watts Oklahoma - thats what Atlanta, GA was. The Mecca and Medina of the art. Forget WWF. It was lucky to be a popcorn vendor at GCW. If Ole and Jim Barnett had disregarded their brotherhood to the other NWA promotions and just taken the TBS expansion and crushed everybody else, nobody would have ever heard of Vince McMahon Jr. They just couldnt disregard the system they came up in and those old mafia-esque alliances. And maybe they shouldnt have, cause they were men of honor, unlike Vince Jr, who was a real prostitute who exposed the business for a buck and what little notoriety he ever had. His product always sucked hen dicks and effectively killed wrestling as anything other than a fall-to for those who couldnt make it in MMA.
Ole did respect alot of guys. But you had to earn his respect and also stand up to him when he tested you. In the 1960s in the AWA, he drove between towns with Harley Race. He was friends with Gene Anderson, Larry Hennig, Harley Race and Verne Gagne. But when Ole became booker in Georgia, things changed. Most of the guys he had been friends with and broken into the business with were retiring. And the tough guy amateur athletes Ole had alot in common with were getting really rare in pro wrestling. He was also the boss in Georgia and Ole was a real hardcore kind of old fashioned boss. If you drew, he liked you. If didn't draw you were gone. Ole could be friends with a really weird guy like Buzz Sawyer or push a guy like Tommy Rich up to the top of his cards who wasn't his of wrestling just because Rich could draw. Ole was also brutually honest with guys. There was no sweet-talk. If he thought you were no good, he told you direct. Alot of guys are mad at him for getting rid of them or not hiring them. He wasn't always right about guys. But he was brutally honest unlike 90% of the guys in wrestling who sweet-talk to their face and then tear them up behind their back. The other thing about Ole is that he is almost unique in that he was able to walk away from wrestling financially well-off and had no interest in trying to stay in front of the cameras. Its just part of the culture we live in now that a guy like Ole Anderson is going to be hated for what he was while guys are going to look at an Eric Bischoff as a great role model.
Ole Anderson created Tommy Rich by having him get destroyed a little less horribly week after week vs Abdullah the Butcher . If Ole had not run that angle nothing that hapoened for Rich afterward , including The NWA title , would have happened . I heard it said that Tommy left Georgia because despite all the big houses he was drawing Ole never thanked him . THANK HIM !? Why ? Ole created him . Name one other promotion that used Tommy Rich on top or tried to build him up . There were none .If I were Ole I would not have been issuing thanks either .
Just shows you that people will forgive and forget when you have wrong someone or a lot of people don't they have a right to an apology even if you don't want to give it to them
You kids see Racism everywhere 'cuz these lies have been repeated over + over. The old adage "Repeat a lie 3 times and it becomes reality." And that's the card all leftists pull because they do nothing to improve society, they spread lies to take down a society. Divide + Conquer is what they've been doing to us since the '50s. Keep throwing that "Racism" card around. Listen to the racist comments from your teachers when they tell you how racist white people are. Oh, but not them until they find out that black + Latino people are voting for the G.O.P. candidate. What they say to their friends when they hear Candace Owens or Thomas Sowell praise Conservative Values. The only way you can call Ole a RACIST is if you Qualify it by saying, "Ole didn't like anybody of ANY RACE."
The only thing Ole Anderson said that made sense was, "I'm 70 years old. I don't know what I'm doing half the fuck of the time because all the medication I'm on. Yet you have a President of the U.S. that is running this country that's older than I am. WTF!"
Bob Roop said when Ole was the booker in WCW he made two of the Samoans (One being Rikishi) Back down when he challenged them as they were saying they were gonna kick his ass.
@@trentaccid2177 Its a joke from the "Shockmaster" incident in WCW. Ole was the voice of the shockmaster and ole continued doing the lines after everything had gone wrong. Like everyone else, Ole was nearly breaking up laughing about what happened and he blew a line and called Sid Vicious "Stid".
LOL I never noticed Ole called him Stid I was too busy listening closely to hear Bulldog say " he fell right on his bloody arse" and Stevie Ray saying "who the hell is this mother fucker?" LOL
If you listen to Ole's full comments, what he says is that he could never have used Hogan in Georgia because they had run towns weekly. And running weekly, Hogan would get exposed quickly. He said that Hogan could work in places like the AWA and WWE where they arenas maybe once a month or less.
Southie 31 if you know the facts you wouldn’t be ignorant. He wasn’t hulk hogan. Ole named him Sterling Golden. He was too new in the business. Green. In Georgia they wrestled every week the same places. Same fans. Someone new to the business would be exposed to the weekly fans that he is not progressing. Ole said he would be better off in a territory where the fans would see him once a month or every other month. If someone were to run shows weekly to make money you need wrestlers who can already work
I believe, if you look at the eras. How it was when Ole started and the way it was going. With drugs and drinking. That probably got Ole more, loss of respect for the business. Now with social media & so much recklessness in Indies and especially the No Selling, hes probably glad hes as old and away from the business. Its definitely a 180 from his time.
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 Right? Loved his booking in Championship Wrestling in Florida. I like cause he was funny with the psycho shit. He always reminded me of a wrestling Danny Devito.
@@alberthenley2988 he is one of the GOATs because the guy booked the freaking NWO-Crow Sting-Goldberg! Arguably the three most profitable & influential angles of all time
maybe it's backwards. An old man of strange reputation whose dark and strange intentions like Sullivan never liked anyone and more as a writer in wcw. Why don't you ask him about the benoit incident?
That’s because Hogan couldn’t or wouldn’t wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag. Verne Gagne said the same thing but both Verne and Ole like to present wrestling as somewhat real and Vince just wanted to make a cartoon out of it.
Kevin would come to Daytona Beach often. We would see him in Pine Haven and a place called the bottom. He had ball because white people stayed away from those areas....
I would have tagged with you Kevin and smashed them. …just talk most would say but it’s easy to find me…I’m 300 lbs and brown belt in Filipino mixed martial arts
Uh, so what's the reason everybody hated Kevin Sullivan? My guess is that it was the rambling, self-indulgent, nonsensical promos he was known for, which had most viewers cringing in embarrassment
Kevin's demonic cult leader gimmick drew tons of hatred in Bible Belt Florida, especially in a time when the news media was pushing "satanic panic". Those wacko promos of his, especially when played off the deadpan Gordon Solie who reacted to them in the same manner he did all the other promos, were simply a part of the character. Let's put it this way: if Kevin could play an evil character on TV so convincingly that 20 years later grown men believe that Chris Benoit killed his wife and kid because Kevin placed a curse on them, that says something.
Ever notice how almost everyone when asked about Ole is somewhat nuanced? In that they'll point out both his good and bad points? But whenever Ole is asked about anyone it's goes right to,"Oh,they were the shits" and"He's an idiot" and so on? Kind of telling about if you ask me...
“Ole Anderson was like a size 10 foot in a size 9 shoe .” - Bobby Heenan 😆
Ole's booking of the Georgia territory was unmatched. He was great in the ring in a time when 'great' didn't mean flips, dives and superkicks. And he gave arguably the most believable interview in the business. Ole is among the true greats in the wrestling business.
And you forgot he,was an JO to fellow wrestlers and fans who would come up for a autograph and he would just turn his back to them. Ole Anderson or what ever his real name was was even nastier than Ole. Arn thought he was this great wrestler and all he had was a spine buster a move anyone could perform. Or the other end of this nastiness were people like Ray Trailer and Kevin Sullivan two nasty people in the ring and both just wonderful to me. Its the. Thus is why Kevin has lasted so long and Ray would remember me and always say here is this guy who bodyslanmed me and everyone would believe him Just a nice guy.
Gordon Solie once told Ole that Tommy Rich was on the warpath intending to get him. Ole replied: "Look at me! I'm shaking". Those were the good old days
@@trentaccid2177 I'm talking about Ole as a wrestler and as a booker, not about his off screen personality.
@@kwmusic4560 your right. I may ole when I was 9 it was 1974 and he was alright. He believed in kayfabe and was in character. He signed my omni program and shook my hand. My dad was a truck driver and did trips to Jacksonville Florida each month and always took time off to stop in Atlanta so I could see the wrestling at the omni. Years later at a convention I saw him and he remembered like it was yesterday.
As a performer, Ole was a workhorse. As a booker, he let his biases get in the way of what would have been good for the business. Buzz Sawyer was the definition of one of a kind. Don't know if that guy was ever diagnosed with any mental disorders, but he was one of the most fascinating performers to watch in his era. Rough in ring style, rough promos that drew you into his world.
And he also took $2,000 from the Undertaker, and a class of other guys, to train them to wrestle, and disappeared with it. Barely taught them a thing, and stole their money. He was a dick, just for that.
As a performer Ole was a joke, the other Horseman could put people over. Ole couldn't
And I will take the Hart Foundation, The Bulldogs, Garea and Martel over the Andersons any time
@@specialk9424 Ur wrong, Taker kept going back and did work with him a bit. He didn't just see them once an took off with their money
@@BrianJohnsonArmwrestling I didn't say he saw them once and took off with their money, I said he took off with their money. You're right, Taker was one of the few who stuck with it, but when it was finally time for Buzz to get his "students" paid work, he disappeared. And Taker says they still weren't taught anything, they just had great cardio, because all they did was run all over, but got very little knowledge of how to work.
Ole was a braggart and bully
Kevin is such a nice guy when you meet him so opposite of his in ring character.
He is a class act. He was my daughter's Spanish teacher. She didn't tell me bc she thought I would embarrass her if I ever met him..she figured I would ask him to go into character 😂 I did meet him accidentally at his beauty salon. I went into this salon to make an appointment for my wife and he was sitting behind the counter. I had no clue it was his shop. I was in awe..he was making an appointment for my wife and I kept my cool until he was done. That's when I let him know I was a huge fan. He had pics all over the wall it was a great experience.
I ran into Ole in South Carolina about 2014-2015 around there he was coming out of an ice cream shop and I was going in and I said you're Ole Anderson and he says yes I am and you are Who, and I told him my name and we shook hands he was gracious he spent 20 minutes talking to me and my wife we laughed and joked didn't even talk wrestling he couldn't have been nicer. I was really hoping he would tell me to f*** off it was an enjoyable and entertaining conversation cool dude but I didn't work for him.
You should've told him "No, Jim Neidhart was Who. I'm [your name]." He might have laughed. Or he might have told you to fuck off.
Ole Anderson seemed like a straight-forward and honest guy. That´s very rare nowadays. I like him and his work.
Straight forward and honest but very much against nearly everyone that isn't up to his mindset. But I guess some of the more notable folk are like that anyway. That is both a blessing and a curse.
He just said he let personal shit and playing favourites get to him..sorry bud that aint honest..dont think you even watched the video
Loved your work Kevin Sullivan! Task master !!
Ole was awesome in the original 4 horsemen.
Ole is the man
He really was....... He was so good at his job that he even has some of these people leaving comments hating him lol
I think Ole's crabby shit-on-everybody interviews are pretty funny, but I doubt I would want to work for the man. The only person I heard him speak respectfully about was Lou Thesz who he said "basically beat the crap out of me" during a friendly mat workout when Thesz was 85 yrs old. It is certainly a testament to how tough Lou Thesz was even up until the very end.
Uhh his idol & blueprint, Verne ...?
At least he destroyed Meltzer.
Some of the guys he spoke respectfully of were guys like Harley Race, Gene Anderson, Larry Hennig, Verne Gagne, Danny Hodge and so on. The kind of guy Ole respected tended to be guys from an athletic background who could take care of themselves in the ring.
@@Jim-Tuner Ole also respected Skandar Akbar alot since Ak was trained by Danny Hodge
He had profound respect for Lord Alfred Hays and a very long ago English Star named Tinker Todd which he conveys hilariously and poignantly in a great anecdote about the two men.😂🎤🐴💎👔👞👞🇬🇧🤼♂️B.W.
He definitely loved Buzz, and rightfully so lol
"Mark Calloway will never draw a dime."
-Ole Anderson
Mark calloway didn't. UNDERTAKER did
@@matthewthomas9194 And Mark Calloway is the only guy who could've pulled off that gimmick.
In a shoot, he didn't even remember taker lol he has to have remembered him 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can watch his shoots all day he buried everyone
"Mean" Mark Callous took over "Psycho" Sid Vicious/Justic' spot as part of the Skyscrapers tag-team with "Dangerous" Dan Spivey (in WCW); they were managed by Theodore R. Long (Teddy Long); Mike Enos also was a part of that team. "Mean" Mark had a finishing move called the Heart Punch.
Ole said the very same thing about Mick Foley. Ole admitted that he was wrong.
I wish Ole was in good enough health to do his own podcast. I love the guy. He's my all time favorite.
No one could put up with him long enough to put it together, edit it, run it, etc. He's probably still as much of an ahole today as he was back then.
Ole was an excellent worker. Also people need to understand that Ole was more into old fashioned Professional Wrestling than modern Vince style Sports entertainment. And if you worked for him he was the boss. Seems like hating on Promoters is a favorite Past time for many Wrestlers. Oh as for those he said were no good, at the time in question they might not have been. And he might not of had the time to let somebody that didn't know what they were doing learn. And then again in some cases they are more known for becoming a character than Wrestling.
Well explained.. still people would never understand..
Hogan needed far more seasoning than GCW scheduling could allow for . He was not ready for a top territory as Sterling Golden
Ole Anderson was very under rated as a worker . I saw him in a barn burner of a match with Magnum TA when 3veryone said Ole was finished . Ole knew how to work a match .
No shit sherlock.
I'd love a swearing contest between Ole, Cornette & Tony Schivane.
How could anyone hate the voice of the Shockmaster??
Ole never said he made the official decision to make Ric Flair the champion. He said he call Eddie Graham and asked if there was anyway they could make Ric Flair the champion. That’s why Ole will say he made Ric Flair champion.
I met Kevin Sullivan and many other wrestlers at Doug Moore's Gym Bloomington MN in 1998. Kevin Sullivan was class act and a very nice guy. I have a picture of myself in a headlock with Kevin Sullivan. The met Raven, Perry Saturn, Terry Taylor and have photo's with all of them. I also met Lex Luger the same day. What a prick. I have picture with Lex he's was about 2 inches taller than me but his hands were smaller than mine. lol
ole is still alive
The older I get the more I understand Ole. Say whatever you want about Ole, he didn’t get were he was by kissing ass
Ole. Lmfao 🤣
Ole was great, but as great as he was he is one of many who only likes to remember things from his own perspective. He finally admitted to that in admitting he should have "at least sat down with Vince (McMahon) and listen.
Was that a quote from Ole or someone else ?
@@freedom2084 . more of a paraphrase. Ole admitted a few years ago that had he listened to Vince, things would have been much better for him and everyone who got burned when he cussed out Linda.
@@Panwere36 can you tell me the source or reference that Ole said that A WWE dvd ?
@@freedom2084 , actually, there is a video here on UA-cam where he admits he should never have lashed out at Vince and Linda and that it was his own fault why he didn't have a more memorable hand in the business after GCW was bought out.
Tito Santana quoted him a racist in his book. Referring to him as a Mexican rather than work with him in any decent booking in Georgia.
Ole put together and made the Road warriors. Gave randy savage the name macho man. Original 4 horseman. For a time Booked Georgia and mid Atlantic at the same time. What is that 60 wrestlers? I believe was the 1st to have a heel announcer on tv. Roddy piper. Great promos and a great worker Named Wcw. World Championship Wrestling. Ole does say he made and told the NWA to have Flair the champion. Made lots of money for many years as a booker and a wrestler. With out going back and checking the road warriors, Stan Hanson, Tony atlas, rock n roll express, Jim Cornette liked ole. Kevin Sullivan can’t deny ole was a good wrestler check out the battle of Atlanta. Fans were climbing the cage to get in or ole’s heel turn on dusty. Name me a another wrestler who cursed out Vince and his wife. Right to their face. He cursed out Vince to his face then he brought his wife the next week
Actually, he gave Randy the savage name. He faced him on TV and later said in the back, "They ought to name Poffo's kid Randy Savage. He sure wrestled like one.
Wasn't it Ole who told Taker when he was at WCW "No one will ever pay to watch you wrestle"
@@drtenma3744 yep......watch him wrestle......but Vince wasn't selling wrestling.....he sold entertainment.....there is a difference.....and yes....Mark thrived with that gimmick.
@@drtenma3744 yes. He didn’t think of putting mean mark into an undertaker. I think only one man had that level of genius
@@mkl62 I thought it was Larry Hennig(The Axe) that gave him that name
Ole for being such a great booker think who is missed on 1) Hogan 2) Taker 3) The Brain 4) anyone who was a star in the WWF.
He missed on Mick Foley. Ole said Mick was nothing but a 2nd rate worker. Mick would never get over with the fans or draw a dime.
Ole admitted in a shoot interview with Ricky Morton that was was wrong about Mick Foley.
Hogan was a joke as a wrestler/worker. The Brain had already made a reputation in AWA managing Nick Bockwinkle and managing him in GCW also and the undertaker gimmick would have never got over on GCW because the WWF was more into characters and GCW was more about wrestling even though it was a work but Ole knew that.
As a matter of fact WCW had a commercial at one time poking fun at WWF saying “we wrestle”.
legend
Seems Like The Old School Fans Got Something Good To Say About Ole
It was in Marietta Georgia and Ole was going to team with Ronnie Garvin and my wife said there’s Ronnie Garvin I’m gonna go get his autograph and went she got back she said Ronnie Garvin is a jerk when I ask him for his autograph it looked like it made him mad and acted like he didn’t want to sign it.
She said there’s Ole Anderson I’m gonna see if I can get his autograph and when she got back she said now he was nice I said can I have your autograph and he said you sure can.
Ole said Mark Calloway would never draw a dime and he was right Mark Calloway didn’t the Undertaker did. Back then the NWA/WCW concentrated more on wrestling and Vince was more on cartoon characters.
Ole was right about Hulk Hogan also. In Georgia watching Terry Bollea wrestle was like watching paint dry but Vince took him and made him a comic strip character. Vince McMahon aimed more at the entertainment side of wrestling and the AWA and NWA/WCW concentrated more on the wrestling side which now people seem to want more wrestling than entertainment.
"I respect you, Booker man." - Brian Pillman, Sr., "the Loose Cannon" in WCW/NWA (nWo)
Is the way you pronounce Prichard (and Jarrett) a rib?
Gotta give Anderson some points for tenacity. It still kind of saddens me that corporate executives, of all things, would be the people to make the stubborn bastard give up.
The war was over . Wrestling died . They payed well ,
Georgia was a hit and miss territory . Ole did his best work in MidAtlantic .Although his best story line was the beat down on Dusty Rhodes , his tag partner vs The Assassins . That took months to unfurl .
GA was pro wrestling in the 70s and 80s. I was fortunate to have seen its evolution and peak in those decades I mentioned. Carolinas had some interesting stuff at that time too but GA was the Jerusalem (or Rome) of the whole shootin match. If you combine Texas, Carolinas, and Fla, sprinkling in a little bit of Minnesota AWA and Bill Watts Oklahoma - thats what Atlanta, GA was. The Mecca and Medina of the art. Forget WWF. It was lucky to be a popcorn vendor at GCW. If Ole and Jim Barnett had disregarded their brotherhood to the other NWA promotions and just taken the TBS expansion and crushed everybody else, nobody would have ever heard of Vince McMahon Jr. They just couldnt disregard the system they came up in and those old mafia-esque alliances. And maybe they shouldnt have, cause they were men of honor, unlike Vince Jr, who was a real prostitute who exposed the business for a buck and what little notoriety he ever had. His product always sucked hen dicks and effectively killed wrestling as anything other than a fall-to for those who couldnt make it in MMA.
@@shanefelkel9966When Vince is finished with something its worthless
Ole did respect alot of guys. But you had to earn his respect and also stand up to him when he tested you. In the 1960s in the AWA, he drove between towns with Harley Race. He was friends with Gene Anderson, Larry Hennig, Harley Race and Verne Gagne.
But when Ole became booker in Georgia, things changed. Most of the guys he had been friends with and broken into the business with were retiring. And the tough guy amateur athletes Ole had alot in common with were getting really rare in pro wrestling. He was also the boss in Georgia and Ole was a real hardcore kind of old fashioned boss. If you drew, he liked you. If didn't draw you were gone. Ole could be friends with a really weird guy like Buzz Sawyer or push a guy like Tommy Rich up to the top of his cards who wasn't his of wrestling just because Rich could draw. Ole was also brutually honest with guys. There was no sweet-talk. If he thought you were no good, he told you direct. Alot of guys are mad at him for getting rid of them or not hiring them.
He wasn't always right about guys. But he was brutally honest unlike 90% of the guys in wrestling who sweet-talk to their face and then tear them up behind their back.
The other thing about Ole is that he is almost unique in that he was able to walk away from wrestling financially well-off and had no interest in trying to stay in front of the cameras.
Its just part of the culture we live in now that a guy like Ole Anderson is going to be hated for what he was while guys are going to look at an Eric Bischoff as a great role model.
You nailed that 100% spot on...... You know what you're talking about Jim.
Couldn’t agree more with your comments and I’ve heard other wrestlers say the same thing about Ole…..
Ole liked people who drew houses .
Ole Anderson created Tommy Rich by having him get destroyed a little less horribly week after week vs Abdullah the Butcher . If Ole had not run that angle nothing that hapoened for Rich afterward , including The NWA title , would have happened . I heard it said that Tommy left Georgia because despite all the big houses he was drawing Ole never thanked him . THANK HIM !? Why ? Ole created him . Name one other promotion that used Tommy Rich on top or tried to build him up . There were none .If I were Ole I would not have been issuing thanks either .
The guy said Hogan was useless and could never draw a dime. Tells you all you need to know about his talent evaluation.
Is Kevin the only pro wrestler from Boston? I love his Boston attitude.
Just shows you that people will forgive and forget when you have wrong someone or a lot of people don't they have a right to an apology even if you don't want to give it to them
I can tell Kevin Sullivan didn't like Ole.
I heard stories and saw shoot interviews from Ole and he seems like a very bitter and racist human being.
I'm surprised Tony Atlas liked Ole Anderson.
You kids see Racism everywhere 'cuz these lies have been repeated over + over. The old adage "Repeat a lie 3 times and it becomes reality." And that's the card all leftists pull because they do nothing to improve society, they spread lies to take down a society. Divide + Conquer is what they've been doing to us since the '50s. Keep throwing that "Racism" card around. Listen to the racist comments from your teachers when they tell you how racist white people are. Oh, but not them until they find out that black + Latino people are voting for the G.O.P. candidate. What they say to their friends when they hear Candace Owens or Thomas Sowell praise Conservative Values.
The only way you can call Ole a RACIST is if you Qualify it by saying, "Ole didn't like anybody of ANY RACE."
Because he helped Tony with wrestling and he gave him money. On my job if someone helps me learn my craft and pays me should I dislike them ?
The only thing Ole Anderson said that made sense was, "I'm 70 years old. I don't know what I'm doing half the fuck of the time because all the medication I'm on. Yet you have a President of the U.S. that is running this country that's older than I am. WTF!"
The SHITS...😂👍👍
He liked Buzz Sawyer? Damm Ole was something else.
I liked Ole Anderson. I can be a snob sometimes too. Nobody’s perfect
Wrestlers didn’t like him because they weren’t intimidating Ole
Bob Roop said when Ole was the booker in WCW he made two of the Samoans (One being Rikishi) Back down when he challenged them as they were saying they were gonna kick his ass.
All I know about Ole is that he really has a problem with Stid
Whos STID?
@@trentaccid2177 Its a joke from the "Shockmaster" incident in WCW. Ole was the voice of the shockmaster and ole continued doing the lines after everything had gone wrong. Like everyone else, Ole was nearly breaking up laughing about what happened and he blew a line and called Sid Vicious "Stid".
LOL
I never noticed Ole called him Stid
I was too busy listening closely to hear Bulldog say " he fell right on his bloody arse" and Stevie Ray saying "who the hell is this mother fucker?" LOL
He Loves My Friend Thunderbolt Patterns...
Ole could be an a hole but turn around and be really funny too. He was a little more complicated than some of the other guys.
RIP Ole Anderson
I didn't hate Ole, he was always cool to me personally..
Ole made the famous comments he would fire Flair and Hogan.
Ole didn’t use HULK HOGAN. He thought HULK HOGAN was “ the shits”. Tells you all you need to know 😂
At that point in his career he was. It was years later that he became the Hulk Hogan we know.
He was
If you listen to Ole's full comments, what he says is that he could never have used Hogan in Georgia because they had run towns weekly. And running weekly, Hogan would get exposed quickly. He said that Hogan could work in places like the AWA and WWE where they arenas maybe once a month or less.
Southie 31 if you know the facts you wouldn’t be ignorant. He wasn’t hulk hogan. Ole named him Sterling Golden. He was too new in the business. Green. In Georgia they wrestled every week the same places. Same fans. Someone new to the business would be exposed to the weekly fans that he is not progressing. Ole said he would be better off in a territory where the fans would see him once a month or every other month. If someone were to run shows weekly to make money you need wrestlers who can already work
@@Jim-Tuner Hogan was on the road weekly in the then WWF
Wrestling multiple times per show
Rip ole Anderson
Genius Kevin is …..Much Respect
I believe, if you look at the eras. How it was when Ole started and the way it was going. With drugs and drinking. That probably got Ole more, loss of respect for the business. Now with social media & so much recklessness in Indies and especially the No Selling, hes probably glad hes as old and away from the business. Its definitely a 180 from his time.
Why did they call him Oily?
It's weird how people will excuse all the backstabbing, racism, misogyny career derailment and lying if the guy did a couple things right.
I'm not a fan of Kevin Sullivan but he deserves a spot in the HOF just because he invented the tree of woe's.
Kevin Sullivan is probably the greatest booker ever
And don't forget the double stomp lol
@@uncledrosselmeyer6480 Right? Loved his booking in Championship Wrestling in Florida. I like cause he was funny with the psycho shit. He always reminded me of a wrestling Danny Devito.
@@alberthenley2988 he is one of the GOATs because the guy booked the freaking NWO-Crow Sting-Goldberg! Arguably the three most profitable & influential angles of all time
Kevin Sullivan was Awesome!!!
Ole, the man who called Lou Thesz 'pretty good'.
To be fair , Thesz wasn’t a strong draw everywhere . He had areas that were strong and others were the drizzling shits , deader than Kelsey’s nuts
maybe it's backwards. An old man of strange reputation whose dark and strange intentions like Sullivan never liked anyone and more as a writer in wcw. Why don't you ask him about the benoit incident?
It happened 20 years ago, look up what he said about Benoit
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Right, good Day fella
@@schnarfschnarf5886 Sullivan is arguably the GOAT booker/writer.
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What Benoit incident? When Benoit murdered his family?
I obviously never worked with Ole but I wish we had more salty old guys in the wrestling business.
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If I lived in this era, I would hate Ole Anderson and would butt heads with him any opportunity I had.
Ole had no use for HULK HOGAN 😂😂😂😂. Nuff said
That’s because Hogan couldn’t or wouldn’t wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag. Verne Gagne said the same thing but both Verne and Ole like to present wrestling as somewhat real and Vince just wanted to make a cartoon out of it.
Time and place is the context here. A green and limited Sterling Golden would had bored people out in 3 minths, or less.
Yeah, well if my name was Ole I would be pissed at the world too.😃👍
Except that his name is Alan.
@@Millwall77 Ah..Well he should of kept that name. Oh well his or whoever's choice.
One person Ole also liked was none other than Lord Alfred Hayes ua-cam.com/video/70uRpGj2lrc/v-deo.html
Ole told it how it was and in a business full of bullshiters that doesn't go well.
Guy is a complete wrestling legend
Kevin would come to Daytona Beach often. We would see him in Pine Haven and a place called the bottom. He had ball because white people stayed away from those areas....
He had a deep hatred of Tom zenk and try to move him out of his long contract. Zenks response was pin me pay me
I HATE ARN ANDERSON, VINCE RUSSO, JIM CORNETTE!
All the pretend fighters getting butt hurt
I would have tagged with you Kevin and smashed them. …just talk most would say but it’s easy to find me…I’m 300 lbs and brown belt in Filipino mixed martial arts
Uh, so what's the reason everybody hated Kevin Sullivan? My guess is that it was the rambling, self-indulgent, nonsensical promos he was known for, which had most viewers cringing in embarrassment
Kevin's demonic cult leader gimmick drew tons of hatred in Bible Belt Florida, especially in a time when the news media was pushing "satanic panic". Those wacko promos of his, especially when played off the deadpan Gordon Solie who reacted to them in the same manner he did all the other promos, were simply a part of the character.
Let's put it this way: if Kevin could play an evil character on TV so convincingly that 20 years later grown men believe that Chris Benoit killed his wife and kid because Kevin placed a curse on them, that says something.
Kevin doesn’t even look like hisself. He looks bad he doesn’t favor hisself at all.
He's 73 years old.
He was a greedy self centered guy, Despised anyone that is better than him, Which is basically, EVERYBODY
Ole Anderson was a jealous hater. That's all.
Well a lot of us love ole it was not for him they would have been no horseman he even named road warriors and Sullivan knows how great ole was
Ever notice how almost everyone when asked about Ole is somewhat nuanced? In that they'll point out both his good and bad points? But whenever Ole is asked about anyone it's goes right to,"Oh,they were the shits" and"He's an idiot" and so on?
Kind of telling about if you ask me...