RIP to the late great Mean Gene Okerlund & Ultimate Warrior Stream the Full Shoot Interview (2006) ➡titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/

Man I dont care what this guy talks about. When he starts talking my childhood comes back to me. I loved watching him when I was a kid.

Voice of a generation. R.i.p gene

If someone said, " What does a wrestling announcer/ interviewer look like"? I think of Mean Gene Okerlund!

What a great voice!!!

I could listen to Gene read the dictionary. Very well spoken and what a voice.

When I think of my childhood days watching wrestling I think of mean gene on the mic! He is definitely the voice of WWF back then! RIP mean gene!

Something about Mean Gene asking "Does that jive with you?" Cures my soul ......RIP you legend

R.I.P. Mean Gene

If I ever had to do a public speech, I would study this man something fierce. Gene Okerlund was a LEGEND

Best interviewer hands down! What an incredible voice Gene had as well!

He deserves a hall of fame spot

Mean Gene was the best interviewer in the wwf in the 80's.

Mean Gene was the standard and there will never be another

Met Mean Gene at a wrestling match in Sarasota. He was walking by and my brother called out, "hey, Mean Gene". He came over shook our hands and said, "see what happens when you vote republican".

Incredible voice. Didn’t realise how important it was to my childhood.

Mene gene is a legend big part of my childhood

Big ups to Geno for mentioning Gordon Solie, if you grew up in Fla/Ga you know.

MEAN WOOOOOOO GENE!!!!! R.I.P. Mean Gene Okerlund

I met Mean Gene in Nokomis, Florida (Gulf Coast) at a restaurant I worked at as a server/bartender. Gene loved Kettle One Martini’s straight up, dry with olives. This was back in 2000/2001. I was a huge WWF fan back in the early 80’s till about 1992 when I turned 14 and only cared about playing football and baseball. Gene Okurland came into my restaurant at least twice a week. Gene was one of the coolest, nicest most generous guests I’ve ever taken care of. He and I would talk about wrestling, and I asked him about Wrestlemania III and the Hogan vs Andre match. Mean Gene told me about how Hogan and Vince were worried about Andre not doing business and how there would be nothing Hogan could do if Andre didn’t want him to win. Hogan was supposed to go over, but Andre wanted to test the Hulkster and “Rib” him because Hogan was trying for days to talk to Andre about the match. Andre would run Hogan out of the locker room every time Hogan wanted to go over the match with him. This was a serious concern. Andre controlled his matches and he legitimately shooted on Iron Sheik, Bam Bam Bigelow, Big John Studd, Black Jack Mulligan, etc. Hogan was terrified. Andre called the match and allowed Hogan to get over after the Hulkster showed utmost respect before they wrestled. The rest is history. Imagine if Andre decided to shoot against Hogan…. Andre could’ve been the world champ…

You want to see a sad thing about him its after he past away watch the video of ddp crying well he explained that when he went to his funeral not a damn person from all his year in the business cared enough to go other then ddp when he said was heart breaking

As far as interviewers go, Mean Gene was the GOAT. Seeing him holding the mic for Hulk Hogan was legendary, RIP Gene

Mean Jean was the man.... I truly miss him......

Gordon was great as well

#RIPMeanGene #RIPWarrior

4:30 Reene Goulet I'll remember Bruce Prichard telling about him on the walkie talkie (French accent) "The clown is down!" [Doink/Matt Borne] fell down the stairs in the crowd whenever he appear in the audience on TV he'd be in the background during a match. 😂

Mean Gene had a voice that would make you stop and listen. RIP MEAN GENE

Mean Gene Okerlund. One of the greatest interviewers and interviewees of all time.

I remember one of Gene's last appearances was at a horror con based in Chicago. 😢

There won’t ever be a another Mean Gene

Really sad almost no wrestlers came to his funeral other than DDP & a couple others,sad.

we need more interviews with mean gene

What warrior did was wrong but to be fair to him he sent a letter to Vince months before the match not the day of and held him up so Vince lied to the boys about that. It could have been handled way before the event happened

MEEEEEEEEAAAAANNNNN GEEEEEEEENNNNEEEE.....WOOOOO!!! R.I.P

No one was better than Mean Gene. He lended much needed gravitas that is sorely lacking toodsy

You know something mean gene!!!

"From coast to coast and border to border..." Still hear that voice from my youth....R.I.P.

R.I.P Mean Gene💯🙏🏾

Love Mean Gene, but I get so sick of hearing people 💩 all over Warrior all the time.

Warrior got him paid. Nobody paid to see Gene. But anyway Rip Gene.

anyone who gives Mcmhaon the predator a hard time is ok in my book

This interview with Gene is like having a chat in the bar with your friends slightly roguish grandpa

i HAVE the self dectruction dvd

I think the problem was warrior want to be paid and treated like hogan. Hogan didnt have to "hold" Vince up for money. He siad it was light vince gave him another check. Warrior saw what. Vince want another hogan he just didnt want to pay for it. Vince and hold learned the "new pay" scale for a national wrestling business together. He never made that mistake again. Warrior/lex lugar/hitman/nash/hall....stone cold came close but he even humble him at the end. Hogan the only man that vince never humble with money or his image.

Everyone hated the Warrior

I mean to be fair, Vince fucked up a bunch of people's money over the years. I would have done the same regardless. In the end, it worked for Warrior. He got a huge contract from WCW a year and change later.

Didn’t Vince not pay Stu Hart after he “bought” Stampede Wrestling?

MEAN -WOOOOO-BYE-GOD-GENE

This was debunked so long ago. Warrior asked for more money months ago but Vince lied about it claiming he was being held up.

RIP ultimate warrior

6:45 How ironic he mentions Fox News in that context given what happened with Roger Ailes

I would not call Ultimate Warrior holding up Vince McMahon, the WWF/WWE got caught red handed later on selling Ultimate Warrior merchandise without royalties to Ultimate Warrior. Further look at the majority of wrestlers once they are at the end of their careers and they are broke while the WWF/WWE is a billion dollar company. I have no issue with the Ultimate Warrior getting more money. Gene Okerlund was another one who was not well off in the end.

Vince can get f*****. Warrior was right about him all along.

Warrior gets a lot of flats because he wore the hustle on his sleeve. A lot of the guys in the locker room were after the same thing they just tried to disguise it. He was certainly a complicated and problematic individual, but when he hit those ropes the roof came off the building.

I preferred Warrior over Hogan but overall he wasnt nearly the draw Hogan was and for how long Hogan was. Everytime he left,the show carried on…he greatly overvalued himself.

Ok right off the bat. What does marble mouth interview guy ask Gene, word for word at 0:03?

I always thought of gene as a funny announcer interviewer. It’s funny how so many seem to worship warrior in the ring but all the stories you hear in real life he comes off as an arrogant a hole. Even Bret hart wrote in his book that he didn’t like warrior especially when a handicapped kid asked warrior for his autograph and he declined. That for me makes him a total dick in my book

Man made or not? People think that we take steroids and we wake up the next day with muscles. No matter what steroids or peds anyone takes, they still have to be in the gym daily and put in ALOT of hard work. There are no exceptions to this.

Warrior was a ego maniac but had the appeal & charisma. His ego was his downfall in the wrestling biz.

Warrior was liked by some children and no one else.

Hulk said warrior grew to 8 feet tall and 975 pounds at one point.

Gene Okerlund loves burying and criticizing Ultimate Warrior on this interview as much as he did on the Self-Destruction of Warrior documentary.

Never liked The Ultimate Warrior or his theme music. He was a troublemaker too.

The whole warrior gimmick sucked and the guy couldn’t do anything in the ring.

He did business like a true Republican. That is why his wife and kids left him in the end. He also died dead broke. Probably had to get Tren on loan towards the end.

Gene has the greatest broadcaster voice wrestling has ever known.