• Old School Wrestling Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School Wrestling Legend “The Taskmaster” Kevin Sullivan celebrates his 70th birthday today.
After making a name for himself various different NWA territories, Kevin Sullivan became the leader of his own faction in Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, the infamous ‘Dungeon of Doom’.
Sullivan stayed with the promotion from 1994 till his release in early 2001, shortly before it was sold to Vince McMahon.
He also used to be a member of The Varsity Club from 1987 till 1989 and again in 1999/2000, alongside Mike Rotunda & Rick Steiner.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN SULLIVAN!
• Terry Funk Comments On Vince McMahon’s Inability To Change, AEW’s Success
During a recent interview on The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling, Old School Wrestling Legend Terry Funk talked about AEW’s early success, WWE’s product, Vince McMahon & more.
Below are the highlights:
On the early success of AEW:
“They (AEW) beat them (WWE) right out of the gate on how many people watching. That is not good, that is wonderful. It’s curiosity and they have to understand that and they have to be prepared to produce a better show than what they did that first week and second week and continue on getting better and better and better. That is what they have to have, they have to have that attitude and that belief that they can do it.”
On AEW’s ratings:
“Well, here’s the thing. Why do you think they have that many viewers? It is not all curiosity. It is because the people want something better than what he’s (Vince McMahon) is producing.
I think that you can’t turn sh*t into a great meal. You can’t put whatever you want into there but that is what Vince is doing. He has become repetitious, he has become stagnant, and some of his stuff is totally overbearing and that is just a matter of truth. Now you’ve got a fresh flower coming up right behind you.”
On if AEW is bringing back older fans:
“Of course not. Hell, we are all dead. It’s fresh new fans looking for a damn change, looking for something different, looking for not wanting to play an idiotic football game (XFL) that lasted how many games? Two the first time he tried to produce football? Now he wants to go at it again?”
On if Vince McMahon out of touch:
“What it is is the inability to change. It is an inability to do it and impossibility. That is the truth because you become attached to people, you become inept and that not only includes your wrestlers but it includes your creators. They become attached to them and they become stagnant, they become old and they become repetitious. The water is getting dirty and they better filter it.
He can change but he can’t change his characters. That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers. That is his fault because he feels we are actors. I am not an actor and never was an actor in my entire life.”
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