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Ole was grumpy but honest. Hard but fair. Made alot of wrestlers wealthy ! Road warriors especially!

"You don't look too damn tough to me..." love that story.

Hawk and Animal all time favorite wrestlers and tag team. RIP Mike Hegstrand better known as Hawk 1957-2003 and Joe Laurinaitis better known as Animal 1960-2020. Followed them most of their career since summer of 1986.

@Mr.toughguy481

5 ай бұрын

You know your wrestling..

@johnthegreat

4 ай бұрын

Where are you from

@danielcurry4011

4 ай бұрын

Virginia USA

@johnthegreat

4 ай бұрын

@@danielcurry4011 i followed them out of chicago, from, awa,but they were un the south first, they took chitown by storm

Road Warriors Hawk and Animal vs Powers Of Pain Warlord and Barbarian my all time favorite feud 1988.

Ole struck gold with the Road Warriors

Mad Max was shown in 1979. The Road Warrior was shown in 1981 (Sometimes called Mad Max 2)

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Correct. I say that in the video.

@adamlane6453

7 ай бұрын

The second movie was Mad Max 2 in all markets outside the USA, where it was called The Road Warrior.

@validationboy

7 ай бұрын

@@adamlane6453 thanks

Ole may have been a grouch but he understood professional wrestling. The Road Warriors debuted in Georgia in 1983. They were Pro Wrestling Illustrated tag team of the year as rookies.

I have much more respect for Ole after watching his interviews. Tells you how everything worked.

Ole is a national treasure

@Mr.toughguy481

5 ай бұрын

Piece of shhhh ric flair,arn,tully made the 4 horseman...Ole was a extra.

@YourNightmare4u2c

5 ай бұрын

He's a national treasure? He made the biggest blunder in wrestling history......he told Mark Callaway no one would ever pay a dollar to watch him wrestle and let him leave go to WWF. The rest is history....the Undertaker is possibly the G.O.A.T

@TobeyStarburst

3 ай бұрын

@@Mr.toughguy481 and what are you?

@TobeyStarburst

3 ай бұрын

@@YourNightmare4u2c Taker is trash bag

@Mr.toughguy481

3 ай бұрын

​@@TobeyStarburstA king...

Road Warrior was one of my favorite movies ever so I loved the Road Warriors persona

@thewrestlingtimemachine

5 ай бұрын

Same here! It was awesome!

sadly hes a grumpy old man these days; but I didn't knew he came up with the road warriors gimmick. greatest wrestling tag team ever. RIP hawk and animal

Sad Ole didnt stay with the industry. One of the great minds. Road Warriors are one of the best tag teams ever.

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@YourNightmare4u2c

5 ай бұрын

THE best tag team. Road Warriors and then The Freebirds.

"It was Road Warriors, I know nothing about Mad Max...anyway" 🤣🤣

I didn't know the LOD had Jake in it. I do know that Animal was Johnny Laurinitis' brother though. And that Ole was the voice of The Shockmaster😂

@gilawojodi

7 ай бұрын

Also the voice of the black scorpion 😂

@ProphetJayWyatt

7 ай бұрын

Cult of Cornette in the house!

@coreyh6140

7 ай бұрын

“You wanna piece a me……you wanna piece a me….”

@validationboy

7 ай бұрын

@@gilawojodi yes, that too

Mad max then the road warriors

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

It was Mad Max and then "The Road Warrior" like I stated in the video. Not "Road Warriors."

My fav tag team

Grumpy Ole Anderson, may you rest in peace. This was a difficult interview but it's worth it to know more about the Road Warriors! You could tell he took pride in discovering Hegstrand.

Olie comes off as a harsh guy and maybe he is but his mind for this biz was very peculiar but it worked. He also from what gather was not a man to beat around the bush he was straight forward and to the point none of them s behind your back politics. This is just my opinion if him tho idk him on a personal level.

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I like Ole's stye!

@marcopolo7768

7 ай бұрын

So, I guess when he told Mark Callaway no one would pay money to see him and he went on to be the Phenom the Undertaker he was on point. Ole Anderson was a complete jerk

@russellcampbell3500

7 ай бұрын

@@marcopolo7768 yes because we're all so perfect no one should ever make a mistake with all the crystal balls on sale these days. Hind sight is 20/20 young man so it's easy to condemn after the fact. And let's be honest even Mark would admit he had no talent back then and if it wasn't for the taker character MacMahon was going to pass on him also.

@ProphetJayWyatt

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, Mean Mark Calloway just wasn't cutting the mustard...

Ole is EXACTLY right. I was watching Hawk and Animal since, I'd say, about '85. When "Iron Man" hit, you KNEW that whoever were the unlucky bastards who were facing them were about to experience legalized murder. Even BEHIND the scenes, a lot of these poor schmucks would see their names on the card against the Warriors, and they'd grab their bags and leave town. I can't stress how DOMINANT the Warriors were; we thought they were unbeatable. And we LOVED them. When they joined the WWF the first time, I DREADED how Vince was going to portray them. And I turned out to be right.

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Well said. After joining the WWF they were never the same.

Love him 😂

I liked the Road Warriors look before the shoulder pads. I still liked them when they got the pads , just thought the look was lame.

@thewrestlingtimemachine

4 ай бұрын

😮

@johnthegreat

4 ай бұрын

U mean the village people look 😅

@BrianMoro-gz8de

4 ай бұрын

@@johnthegreat that was when they first started. In between the village people look and the cartoon look. When hawk would pop the neck collar off by flexing. The makeup looked more like war paint .

@Freddy70008

4 ай бұрын

​@BrianMoro-gz8de I get where you're coming from. The Shoulder pads were stupid. Before those they seemed more realistic.

@brianlindsley4088

4 ай бұрын

They actually had a leather vest with spikes on them and leather forearm bands with spikes on them

Ole always saying "He never made no money"

@YourNightmare4u2c

5 ай бұрын

Ole never made any money. He hasn't been able to get a job anywhere.

Just MO.... This guy does make a whole LOT of sense on several different levels, but YGBKM... It's that attitude of his that's hard to get past!! # 1.... 50% of it is that he's just TOTALLY ARROGANT!💯 # 2.... 50%, ONE CRAZY DUDE!!💯 Wow! Smh.......

I have to ask - how difficult was it to interview Ole? haha How did you feel after this interview?

They almost had a Pier 6 Brawl.

This where you wanna be when Punk comes back!?! Oh wait... Nice just to have a piece of wrestling knowledge with all the darkness continuing to spread across this vast flat world. Thanks RV! Whoop!! Whoop!!!

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Haha! Cheers brother!

road warrior was a great film. Smart move by Ole to use the road warriors gimmick in pro wrestling.

The movie was called road warriors and mad max was the main guy obviously

@shanhowe973

7 ай бұрын

Warrior

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Yes, like I said in the video.

3:51 😂😂😂 fuck mad max

@thewrestlingtimemachine

Ай бұрын

😁😂🤣

i didn’t know that they went by LoD first before The Road Warriors

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

They were called "The Legion of Doom The Road Warriors."

@tomwigal8856

7 ай бұрын

The Legion of Doom was the name of Paul ellering faction they had more than just the Road Warriors in it in it Jake The Snake and some others I can't think of right now

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

@@tomwigal8856 Correct. The other member was The Spoiler.

@douglaspaterson5269

7 ай бұрын

I think King Kong Bundy was in the stable also.​@@tomwigal8856

@brianlindsley4088

4 ай бұрын

Also King Kong Bundy

That interviewer 😡

Russian Vids doing wrestling vids?

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

I had one back in 2016 as well. I started a new one.

@gripstrength

7 ай бұрын

@@thewrestlingtimemachine cool

And the Road Warriors may have never existed and we may have never got to see one of the greatest teams of all time had it not been for Matt borne getting fired for being with an underage girl because it was supposed to be he and arn anderson being managed by precious Paul and winning the tag Turney that may have been the Crockett cup not sure on that part

First movie was Mad Max second one was Road Warrior and third one was Mad Max beyond Thunderdome and then new age Mad Max fury road.Next in line set for 2024-20?? is Furiosa and The Wasteland.

@thewrestlingtimemachine

7 ай бұрын

Correct. I've seen Mad Max beyond Thunderdome & Fury Road in the theater. I'm a big fan of the series.

@Nosfeast

7 ай бұрын

@@thewrestlingtimemachine Yea me too the newer one was ok.I also have the steam game and it's really good.There was this kid in the road warrior the one who tossed the boomerang. And that kid always reminded me of the Ultimate Warrior in looks.

Mad max came out in 78 or 79 . the road warrior came out in 81. he's an old clueless guy

@thewrestlingtimemachine

6 ай бұрын

Correct.

If you listen to Al Snow talk about his wrestling tryout, you lose a lot of respect for the Andersons

@thewrestlingtimemachine

3 ай бұрын

I can't stand Al Snow. He wasn't very talented.

he's right and totally reasonable lol. he made a great living as a booker, got guys over and was able to comfortably retire - but still gets shit over the tiniest details by smarks who think the big billion dollar idea was so easy and obvious and ole was just too dumb to see it

@YourNightmare4u2c

5 ай бұрын

The guy is fucking broke.

Remember, this "genuis" told a man named Mark Callaway that no one would ever pay a dollar to see him wrestle. 🤔🤔

@Allaloneisallweare

4 ай бұрын

Which at that time he was right.

@LosVillanov

4 ай бұрын

Along with every other promoter in the country at that time including Vince

This video says everything about Ole Anderson -confused and bitter, and if he hasn't heard about, it doesn't exist. He made all that money by using other talent and bullying his way into positions.

Wow, Ole, got some serious Narcissistic bs going on in his head! What a joke he was!

@thewrestlingtimemachine

6 ай бұрын

😮

No one made money in the business according to Ole

Sounds exactly.....beyond a shadow of a doubt......like a hater

@thewrestlingtimemachine

6 ай бұрын

🤨😮