Kevin Sullivan on Why Everybody HATED Ole Anderson (Well... Almost) 

“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.

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.

Ole Anderson seemed like a straight-forward and honest guy. That´s very rare nowadays. I like him and his work.

Kevin is such a nice guy when you meet him so opposite of his in ring character.

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.

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.

Ole was awesome in the original 4 horsemen.

Ole is the man

Loved your work Kevin Sullivan! Task master !!

He definitely loved Buzz, and rightfully so 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.

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.

I wish Ole was in good enough health to do his own podcast. I love the guy. He's my all time favorite.

"Mark Calloway will never draw a dime." -Ole Anderson

I'd love a swearing contest between Ole, Cornette & Tony Schivane.

How could anyone hate the voice of the Shockmaster??

ole is still alive

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 .

legend

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. Lmfao 🤣

Is the way you pronounce Prichard (and Jarrett) a rib?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Seems Like The Old School Fans Got Something Good To Say About Ole

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

"I respect you, Booker man." - Brian Pillman, Sr., "the Loose Cannon" in WCW/NWA (nWo)

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 .

Is Kevin the only pro wrestler from Boston? I love his Boston attitude.

The SHITS...😂👍👍

Love you Task Master. Please let him know Michael Nappo said so

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.

Genius Kevin is …..Much Respect

RIP Ole Anderson

He liked Buzz Sawyer? Damm Ole was something else.

I can tell Kevin Sullivan didn't like Ole.

I liked Ole Anderson. I can be a snob sometimes too. Nobody’s perfect

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.

Rip ole Anderson

All I know about Ole is that he really has a problem with Stid

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.

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.

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.

Ole made the famous comments he would fire Flair and Hogan.

I didn't hate Ole, he was always cool to me personally..

He Loves My Friend Thunderbolt Patterns...

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.

Ole, the man who called Lou Thesz 'pretty good'.

Why did they call him Oily?

One person Ole also liked was none other than Lord Alfred Hayes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-70uRpGj2lrc.html

If I lived in this era, I would hate Ole Anderson and would butt heads with him any opportunity I had.

Wrestlers didn’t like him because they weren’t intimidating Ole

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.

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!"

Ole had no use for HULK HOGAN 😂😂😂😂. Nuff said

Ole didn’t use HULK HOGAN. He thought HULK HOGAN was “ the shits”. Tells you all you need to know 😂

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.

I obviously never worked with Ole but I wish we had more salty old guys in the wrestling business.

Yeah, well if my name was Ole I would be pissed at the world too.😃👍

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

It's weird how people will excuse all the backstabbing, racism, misogyny career derailment and lying if the guy did a couple things right.

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

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?

Ole told it how it was and in a business full of bullshiters that doesn't go well. Guy is a complete wrestling legend

All the pretend fighters getting butt hurt

I HATE ARN ANDERSON, VINCE RUSSO, JIM CORNETTE!

Kevin doesn’t even look like hisself. He looks bad he doesn’t favor hisself at all.

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

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...