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Post by phinney on Jan 10, 2005 18:02:24 GMT -5
I gotta say my favorites were Cornette, and SOH. Cornette was so funny and did some fantastic work. SOH: need I say more?
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Post by bobbyryates on Jan 10, 2005 18:24:21 GMT -5
let us not forget:
gene anderson
lord alfred hays
hump was great. i didn't care for paul jones that much. jimmy holiday only lasted about a month before he left. but gary hart was the best. hart is the only guy i have ever seen that could just stand still and rile the crowd, you always knew his mind was working, even if he was just standing still. and great on the mic, too.
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Post by phinney on Jan 10, 2005 20:16:07 GMT -5
let us not forget: gene anderson lord alfred hays hump was great. i didn't care for paul jones that much. jimmy holiday only lasted about a month before he left. but gary hart was the best. hart is the only guy i have ever seen that could just stand still and rile the crowd, you always knew his mind was working, even if he was just standing still. and great on the mic, too. I completely forgot Hart (no jokes gwlee, Im the young one). He is one of my favorite too. Also Gene too. I liked his work as Snuka's manager. |
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Post by MacWRichmond on Jan 11, 2005 7:35:28 GMT -5
And let us not forget:
Professor Boris Malenko!!!
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 11, 2005 15:45:34 GMT -5
And let us not forget: Professor Boris Malenko!!! Or Homer O'Dell unless he was just before this time frame. He managed both tag teams of Rip Hawk/Swede Hanson and Missouri Mauler/Brute Bernard  |
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Post by JNance on Jan 11, 2005 16:40:28 GMT -5
I agree, Cornette has to be at the top of the list - but you've got to give it up for James J.Dillon. Yeah, he helped the Horsemen keep the gold, but what a great business mind! He's also a great guy to meet. He is a class act. Humperdink was great, Paul Heyman, even Paul Ellering deserves mention. Thanks !!
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Post by phinney on Jan 11, 2005 20:42:53 GMT -5
Yeah JJ was great. I liked how he managed Tully. They made a good pair
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Post by stingmark on Jan 12, 2005 14:50:02 GMT -5
Cornette
JJ Dillon
Bobby Heenan
in that order
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Post by ralphsnart on Jan 14, 2005 19:29:59 GMT -5
Years ago, I was at a lounge in Florence, SC and that was where Gene Anderson and a lot of other wrestlers were staying; I started a conversation with Anderson and bought him a couple of drinks, and he got comforatble talking to me (the faces were being mobbed on the other side of the lounge) and I asked Gene why he quit managing and went back to the ring (He was looking very tired at this time, and his ring work was not what it use to be). He told me that he would do anything not to be Snuka's 'manager' - according to Gene, he was a nanny. Snuka was illiterate, an illegal alien and famous for bouts of temperment - Crockett chose Gene to be Snuka's caretaker because Gene was the only one who would take the job; Anderson had to do all the driving, take Snuka through the airports and basically hold his hand to get Snuka where he was suppose to be; also, Anderson had to work the stick because Snuka would 'zone out' at inoppertune times. After Gene quit being Snuka's nanny, Snuka no-showed a few times and Crockett was getting on his case, so Snuka went to Georgia.
All I have to go on is what Gene Anderson told me - Anderson was one of the guys that I really respected; he always showed at his cards, he always gave 100% (even in his last days), but I believed him - he just seemed very casual - but he never dropped the kayfabe with me.
Anderson was a great wrestler, a decent manager, but the best was Jim Cornette - nobody could work the stick like the 'Prince of Polyester'.
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Post by ssteward on Jan 16, 2005 0:55:04 GMT -5
Cornette
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Post by GarvinStomp on Jan 16, 2005 11:39:56 GMT -5
JJ Dillon
Jim Cornette
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Post by Baltimore Jack on Jan 16, 2005 11:52:00 GMT -5
JJ Dillon, Jim Cornette, SOH
It's strange, the Horsemen really didn't need a manager (in the traditional sense that some wrestler's need managers to get them over or to talk for them), but JJ proved to be such an indispensable part of the Horsemen, and played pivotal roles in many of the angles. He seemed very real in that role.
I thought the guy that did the most for guys who needed it was Sir Oliver Humperdink. Great TV voice, too.
I wish I had been able to see more of the 60s and early 70s managers in the Crockett area (like Homer O'Dell and JC Dykes.)
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Post by Baltimore Jack on Jan 16, 2005 11:58:47 GMT -5
Ooops! How could I forget the great Boris Malenko? He and the Superstar were wonderful together in 1976 and 1977! Lighting the victory cigar was my favorite manager gimmick.  (Bill Janosik Photo) |
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Post by phinney on Jan 16, 2005 17:29:19 GMT -5
Shoving that cigar into Igor's eye was pretty cool too ;D
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Post by christrester on Jan 18, 2005 1:53:27 GMT -5
Boris Malenko
JJ Dillion
SOH
Cornette.
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