Post by Grumpyoldman on Feb 28, 2024 2:08:22 GMT -5
I love this story. It just goes to show Ole stuck to his guns & was a man of his word.
Behind the scenes, Anderson was a booker for both Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. He was the last holdout when Vince McMahon purchased GCW from all other partners in the promotion, setting the stage for Black Saturday, where WWF programming replaced Georgia on WTBS before Jim Crockett Promotions later paid WWF $1 million to gain the timeslot for themselves.
When McMahon took over GCW from under Ole's control, according to Anderson's version of events, Vince offered to make Ole more money than he'd ever make but Anderson told him to go f*** himself. Later, he told Vince that he and Linda McMahon could both go f*** themselves, to which McMahon then stated Ole would never work for him. All the way to his passing, Anderson refused any WWE-related overtures, even for documentaries and the WWE Hall of Fame, snarkily commenting that he didn't want to make McMahon a liar by working for him.
A gruff, no nonsense individual who held nothing back verbally when it came to his opinions, Anderson would later end up in a position of power behind the scenes in WCW, and would co-author an incredible book with Scott Teal in 2003, Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling.
Behind the scenes, Anderson was a booker for both Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. He was the last holdout when Vince McMahon purchased GCW from all other partners in the promotion, setting the stage for Black Saturday, where WWF programming replaced Georgia on WTBS before Jim Crockett Promotions later paid WWF $1 million to gain the timeslot for themselves.
When McMahon took over GCW from under Ole's control, according to Anderson's version of events, Vince offered to make Ole more money than he'd ever make but Anderson told him to go f*** himself. Later, he told Vince that he and Linda McMahon could both go f*** themselves, to which McMahon then stated Ole would never work for him. All the way to his passing, Anderson refused any WWE-related overtures, even for documentaries and the WWE Hall of Fame, snarkily commenting that he didn't want to make McMahon a liar by working for him.
A gruff, no nonsense individual who held nothing back verbally when it came to his opinions, Anderson would later end up in a position of power behind the scenes in WCW, and would co-author an incredible book with Scott Teal in 2003, Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling.
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