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  • • WWE RISING STARS & FADING STARS: AJ Ascends, Briggs Breaks Out, Monday Knight Raw, Adios Americano, The Beautiful Flatness, & Bayley Bombs
    As the “Macho Man” Randy Savage famously told Mean Gene, the cream rises to the top. Talented performances simply stand out. Sadly, failures are also easy to recognize. This week’s WWE programming was rife with [...]...2025
  • Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling
    • Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling
    Netflix Hogan’s legacy comes to an end as that racist old man who was booed by wrestling fans and openly mocked by today’s top stars. Hulk Hogan died this morning at 71-years-old, and he leaves behind a very complicated legacy in pro wrestling. In the 1980’s, Hulkamania was the hottest gimmick to ever hit the industry up to that point. Hogan’s massive popularity as the real American hero ...2025
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  • • Saturday Nights Main Event II | WWE Sunday Night Pay Per RetroView
    On October 3rd, 1985, the WWF presented Saturday Night’s Main Event II from the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The show begins with Mean Gene Okerland speaking with Classie Freddie Blassie and Nikolai Volkoff at the entrance way prior to the event. Mean Gene shared that Hulk Hogan will not beat the [...]...2025
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  • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event VII
    • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event VII
    Taped on 09.13.86 from Richfield, OH, drawing 21,000 and a 9.4 rating. There’s probably a pretty good main event for this one with those numbers! Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jesse Ventura, as the Bobby Heenan experiment lasted exactly one show and Ebersol reportedly demanded Jesse return. Roddy Piper joins Mean Gene in the […]...2025
  • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event V
    • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event V
    In our cold open, Mr. T is working out and punching a heavy bag, but Mean Gene interrupts him to ask about his boxing match with Bob Orton tonight. T is not appreciative of this. Taped from Phoenix, AZ on 02.15.86, drawing another massive 10.0 rating. Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jesse Ventura. I’m […]...2025
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  • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event IV
    • The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event IV
    Taped from Tampa, FL. Attendance apparently isn’t known but it did a 10.4 rating (!!!). HOLY SMOKES. Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Bobby Heenan, since Jesse is working with the Hillbillies tonight. Hulk Hogan introduces Mean Gene to his patented python protein shake by the pool in our cold open, as we get closer […]...2025

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  • • Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling
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  • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    WWE When Dusty Rhodes was a no-show for a 1990 WWE house show, fans in Odessa, TX, saw George Steele finally share the spotlight with Miss Elizabeth. In the late 1980s, a bizarre love story captivated the hearts of fans during WWE’s golden era. George “The Animal” Steele, wrestling’s answer to King Kong, developed an intense infatuation with the beautiful Miss Elizabeth, the manager of “Ma...2025
  • • Renee Paquette Names Her Favorite AEW Talents To Interview
    Renee Paquette named some of her favorite AEW wrestlers to interview. Between her time in WWE and AEW, Renee Paquette has worked with industry legends such as Sting and Triple H. She's also worked with modern-day top stars like Mercedes Mone, Swerve Strickland, Roman Reigns, and more. Paquette was asked who some of her favorite people in AEW are to interview while speaking with Denise Salcedo at t...2025
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  • Watch now: The greatest match in Saturday Night’s Main Event history
    • Watch now: The greatest match in Saturday Night’s Main Event history
    WWE.com In their only high-profile encounter on WWE programming, “Macho Man” Randy Savage and Bret “The Hitman” Hart delivered a timeless classic. Saturday Night’s Main Event has hosted some of pro wrestling’s most legendary matches. But from bell to bell, perhaps the greatest match in the show’s history took place in November 1987. On Thanksgiving weekend, “Macho Man” Randy Savage target...2024
  • One-Post Complete and Accurate Bockwinkel vs Jumbo
    • One-Post Complete and Accurate Bockwinkel vs Jumbo
    MD: Back in November 2022, I was doing fairly detailed bullet point write ups of AEW TV over at DVDVR. I think maybe it was a little bit easier to do that at that point of the pandemic, I don't know. I had no intention of writing up the Death Triangle vs Elite series though, so I decided to counter-program by going through all of the singles Bockwinkel vs Jumbo matches we had on tape. These are mo...2024
  • • Blurred 'Yeet' Shirt Available On WWE Shop, Top Moments From 12/18 Raw, More | Fight Size
    Here is your fight size update for December 19, 2023. - A blurred out version of Jey Uso's 'Yeet' shirt is now available on WWE Shop: -- -- https://t.co/IL0g9oLw9c pic.twitter.com/DwMadN7ESV — WWE (@WWE) December 19, 2023 - Top 10 Monday Night Raw moments: WWE Top 10, Dec. 18, 2023: - The recent match between El Hijo Del Vikingo and Swerve Strickland from DEFY PrimoLucha has been uploaded to Yo...2023
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  • WWF - This Tuesday in Texas Review (1991)
    • WWF - This Tuesday in Texas Review (1991)
    December 3rd, 1991 Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, TexasReview originally published: 10/03/2013Updated: 12/03/2023 This Tuesday in Texas was the World Wrestling Federation's experiment to establish Tuesdays as a great night for a mid-week Pay Per View. It was an experiment that failed, and quite badly at that. Despite using the entire Survivor Series '91 show as essentially one long com...2023
  • PPV REVIEW: WWE Wrestlemania XX
    • PPV REVIEW: WWE Wrestlemania XX
      March 14, 2004Madison Square Garden, New York City. Wrestlemania 20 was a landmark moment for WWE .With their flagship event now in its second decade, the company we’re bringing it back home to where it all began, Madison Square Garden.Host of the first ‘Mania back in ‘85 and it’s tenth anniversary in 1984, no other arena in the world has been more synonymous with WWE, and yet thi...2023
  • • Name a Better 1990s US Women's Match: Madusa vs. Hokuto, Career vs. Title
    Title vs. Career: Akira Hokuto vs. Madusa (11:43) **I thought this was fantastic, pretty easily the best women's match in WCW history. True, there really isn't much competition for that crown, but this match stands on its own. I think it stands above all other 90s American women's wrestling matches, which against is not a huge field but whatever, this match rocks. The crowd that had been...2023
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling"

  • 2024
    "WWE also released a trailer for the new show that plays on nostalgia for the original Saturday Night’s Main Event, complete with the show’s original theme (“Obsession” by Animotion) and even featuring voiceover from the late, great Mean Gene Okerlund."

  • 2023
    "Mean Gene was quite simply one of the greatest announcers of all time and well respected in wrestling, but even he had rivals."

  • 2021
    "Mean Gene Riley Greene's 2022 is going to have a lot to do with how much the Tigers are playing Service Time Games, which sounds like a bad Chris Isaak song."

  • 2019
    " Legendary wrestling announcer 'Mean' Gene Okerlund, a master of his craft, dies at 76 "

  • 2017
    "Where is Mean Gene when you need him?"

  • 2015
    "Color commentator Ron Wolfley sounds so much like Jesse Ventura that you expect him to call play-by-play guy Dave Pasch "Mean Gene Okerlund."

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Mean Gene trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    2025
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  • 5 ways for WWE to revive Saturday Night’s Main Event with nostalgic flair
    • 5 ways for WWE to revive Saturday Night’s Main Event with nostalgic flair
    WWE.com As wrestling fans eagerly await the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event, here are five ways WWE can deliver the ultimate nostalgic experience. Christmas is coming early for wrestling fans. This weekend, Saturday Night’s Main Event, the late-night wrestling special that helped put WWE on the map, returns to NBC and primetime. In addition to three world title matches, WWE Hall of F...2024
  • WWE pays tribute to Randy Savage with epic ‘Macho Man’ mixtape
    • WWE pays tribute to Randy Savage with epic ‘Macho Man’ mixtape
    WWE.com Plus, a trio of Survivor Series title matches and the unraveling of Roman Reigns. With WWE’s vast wrestling library, the best streaming content is right at your fingertips—and it’s absolutely free! From iconic classic matches to thrilling modern moments, WWE offers a treasure trove of videos on YouTube at no cost to you, the fan. Each week, I scour WWE’s latest uploads to bring you...2024
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  • John Layfield shares funny political ad for Gerald Brisco as president
    • John Layfield shares funny political ad for Gerald Brisco as president
    @JCLayfield As this election year comes to a close, JBL offers a humorous conclusion to wrestlers discussing politics. As WWE Hall of Famer “Mean” Gene Okerlund famously said, we have reached the 11th hour. Election Day is upon us, ending weeks of painful political commentary from wrestling superstars. But if you’re still undecided about your presidential vote, John “Bradshaw” Layfield is ...2024
  • Missy Hyatt describes rejecting sexual advance by Vince McMahon while she was with WWE
    • Missy Hyatt describes rejecting sexual advance by Vince McMahon while she was with WWE
    Hannibal TV via Post Wrestling Vince McMahon’s recent scandals — the 2022 hush money investigation and the ongoing-but-currently-paused lawsuit filed by Janel Grant against McMahon, John Laurinaitis & WWE — have resulted in several stories about McMahon and the culture he fostered at WWE. During recent interviews with WSI (Wrestling Shoot Interviews) and Café de Rene, WCW veteran Missy Hya...2024
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  • • WWF - This Tuesday in Texas Review (1991)
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  • WWF Survivor Series 1992 Review
    • WWF Survivor Series 1992 Review
    Originally published: December 1, 2012Updated November 25, 2023November 25, 1992Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio With most of the behemoths of the late 1980s now long gone, replaced by a strange mix of smaller, more technically proficient stars and some of the strangest, most cartoonish combatants seen anywhere on television, 1992 was a strange year for the World Wrestling Federation...2023
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  • Raquel Rodriguez discusses Jade Cargill and the female hosses of WWE
    • Raquel Rodriguez discusses Jade Cargill and the female hosses of WWE
    WWE.com WWE is enjoying a women’s wrestling renaissance that the company has never seen before. Its main roster is stacked with former world champions and future Hall of Famers, while its developmental brand, NXT, is building up the next generation of female performers at a stunning rate. NXT is also coming off of an entertaining Halloween Havoc special, where five of the seven matches pre...2023
  • • PPV REVIEW: WWE Wrestlemania XX
    2023
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  • • Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason
    2015
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  • • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    2025
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  • Booker T’s 1997 WCW promo on Hulk Hogan returns as viral fan chant
    • Booker T’s 1997 WCW promo on Hulk Hogan returns as viral fan chant
    WCW A live flub by Booker T nearly 30 years ago has evolved into an homage and a taunt. At WCW’s Spring Stampede in 1997, legendary announcer “Mean” Gene Okerlund interviewed Booker T, his brother Stevie Ray, and their manager “Sister” Sherri. They were preparing for a Four Corners Match to determine the number one contender for Hulk Hogan’s World Title. When Okerlund asked Booker T for hi...2025
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  • WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event fails to meet nostalgic expectations
    • WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event fails to meet nostalgic expectations
    WWE.com The return of WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event stirred excitement but ultimately fell short of expectations, leaving one viewer craving the classic elements of its original run. During its first run on NBC, I rarely missed Saturday Night’s Main Event. As a kid, I’d eagerly check the TV Guide to see when the next episode would air. As a bonus, my family recorded every show. I watch...2024
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  • • Watch now: The greatest match in Saturday Night’s Main Event history
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  • • 5 ways for WWE to revive Saturday Night’s Main Event with nostalgic flair
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  • • WWE pays tribute to Randy Savage with epic ‘Macho Man’ mixtape
    2024
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  • • One-Post Complete and Accurate Bockwinkel vs Jumbo
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  • • Missy Hyatt describes rejecting sexual advance by Vince McMahon while she was with WWE
    2024
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  • On this date in history: Ric Flair wins the 1992 Royal Rumble
    • On this date in history: Ric Flair wins the 1992 Royal Rumble
    WWE The Nature Boy turns in an incredible performance to win the Rumble and the WWE Championship. Regarded by many as the greatest Royal Rumble match in WWE history, Ric Flair outlasted 29 other superstars on Jan. 19, 1992, to win the Rumble and claim the WWE Championship. Coming into the event, the 1992 Royal Rumble had an extra significance as the winner would become the undisputed WWE C...2024
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  • • Blurred 'Yeet' Shirt Available On WWE Shop, Top Moments From 12/18 Raw, More | Fight Size
    2023
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Top Mean Gene news

  • 5 Wrestlers Mean Gene Okerlund Got Along With (& 5 That He Didn't)
    • 5 Wrestlers Mean Gene Okerlund Got Along With (& 5 That He Didn't)
    2023
  • • Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling
    2025
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  • • Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason
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  • Chris Jericho Calls AEW Personality A 'Modern Day Mean Gene'
    • Chris Jericho Calls AEW Personality A 'Modern Day Mean Gene'
    Chris Jericho has praised the intervieweing skills of an AEW star, compared his long-time co-worker to legendary interviewer Mean Gene Okerlund....2023
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  • WWE officially announces the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event
    • WWE officially announces the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event
    WWE’s Instagram Reports hit a couple weeks ago that WWE was planning a “live primetime special on NBC” for later this year, and that it would likely be the return of that Rock ‘n’ Wrestling era staple, Saturday Night’s Main Event. WWE confirmed those reports today (Sept. 17), officially announcing that “the iconic” SNME is coming back. The first edition will come our way Dec. 14 from Nassa...2024
  • • On this date in history: Ric Flair wins the 1992 Royal Rumble
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  • • WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event fails to meet nostalgic expectations
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  • • Cody Rhodes Thinks WWE Should Bring Back The Hotline That Was Made Famous In WCW
    Cody Rhodes has a big idea. The American Nightmare spoke about bringing back the hotline, which was made famous by Mean Gene Okerlund in WCW. The hotline had fans pay an amount to hear real scoops or storyline spoilers from the pro-wrestlers themselves. Cody explained to the After The Bell podcast why he thinks this […] The post Cody Rhodes Thinks WWE Should Bring Back The Hotline That Was M...2023
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Mean Gene fantasy rankings and news

  • • Riley Greene, 2022 Fantasy Outlook
    Here's what A.J. Hinch said regarding Riley Greene and his teammate, who I just covered in my Spencer Torkelson fantasy, "It's gonna be big drama, and you guys are gonna ask a lot, and I love that. I love the pressure on these guys. And then we'll see where it takes us. I hope they put all kinds of pressure on us for Opening Day." Trying not to lose my shizz that every prospect, who is ready, shou...2021
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  • • Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason
    2015
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Mean Gene schedule, game

  • • Kayla Becker: During The Vince Era, It Was, ‘Don’t React, Don’t Smile, You’re Just A Glorified Mic Stand'
    Triple H has made things better for on-screen personalities. Cathy Kelley, Jackie Redmond, Megan Morant, Sarah Schreiber, Byron Saxton, and others make up WWE's current team of backstage personalities. In 2024, one of the company's leading correspondents, Kayla Braxton, left the company to pursue other career paths. While speaking with Simon Miller of WhatCulture Wrestling for a new interview, Kay...2025
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  • • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    2025
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  • • WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event fails to meet nostalgic expectations
    2024
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  • • 5 ways for WWE to revive Saturday Night’s Main Event with nostalgic flair
    2024
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  • • One-Post Complete and Accurate Bockwinkel vs Jumbo
    2024
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  • • WWE officially announces the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event
    2024
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  • • PPV REVIEW: WWE Wrestlemania XX
    2023
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  • • WWF All American Wrestling – August 18th, 1991
    To the nineties this week, just before Summerslam, and an episode I definitely would’ve watched at the time when I became a quick fan just after WrestleMania VII. Hosted by Mean Gene and the Macho Man. The final step into the dark side, as Jake Roberts completes his “training” of the Ultimate Warrior to overcome […]...2023
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  • • Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason
    2015
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Mean Gene rumors, scandals

  • • Hulk Hogan’s tragic death leaves behind a ruined legacy in pro wrestling
    2025
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  • • A fairytale ending: George ‘The Animal’ Steele finally gets the girl
    2025
  • • Watch now: The greatest match in Saturday Night’s Main Event history
    2024
  • • One-Post Complete and Accurate Bockwinkel vs Jumbo
    2024
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  • • Missy Hyatt describes rejecting sexual advance by Vince McMahon while she was with WWE
    2024
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  • • Missy Hyatt: Vince McMahon Tried To Stick His Tongue In My Mouth, I Pushed Him Out Of My Room. He Has Bad Teeth
    Missy Hyatt rejected Vince McMahon's advances. In January, former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit against Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and WWE alleging sex trafficking, emotional abuse, and sexual assault. The lawsuit alleges, in detail, the abuse Grant experienced during her relationship with McMahon. Speaking on Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Missy Hyatt commented on the lawsuit and ...2024
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  • • On this date in history: Ric Flair wins the 1992 Royal Rumble
    2024
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  • • WWF Survivor Series 1992 Review
    2023
  • • PPV REVIEW: WWE Wrestlemania XX
    2023
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  • • Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason
    2015
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