Nobody showed up to Mean Gene Okerlund funeral

[Dave24]

The wrestling business is like a Watchmen comic book come to life. We always think of these wrestlers and personnel as larger than life, but reality hits that these pieces of demon shyt are selfish, malicious, murderous, vice driven, heartless vermin on steroids. The fact that not a single soul showed up speak volumes to this shytty ass industry.

Mean Gene was there for these folks and got them over. Hell, the simple "put that cigarette out" quote took Flair's RR victory to new levels. I'm really not surprised by the news TBH

Did Bret Hart or Dwayne Johnson show up?


@Blessed Koala

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Vacant showed up

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Vacant showed up

That's all that mattered

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Yes thats ultra disrespectful. Mean gene was the face of wwf for real. I never liked how he only did side shows in his later years because he was an icon of the presentation of wrestling. Those days are longggg gone tho. I figured hogan woulda been there. And vince. Im not suprised but heard them both help flair out when he needed it, not going to mean genes funeral tho? Wow

 

[LezJepzin]

Is there something the wrestling industry doesn't want us to know about Mean Gene?

 

[HipHopStan]

I remember when shortly after Macho Man died, Hoegan was going around saying he and Randy broke bread and made peace before Mach’s death. Gene said in very nice terms that was a bunch of bullshyt though.




*Time stamped.

 

[White City Black]

I remember when shortly after Macho Man died, Hoegan was going around saying he and Randy broke bread and made peace before Mach’s death. Gene said in very nice terms that was a bunch of bullshyt though.




*Time stamped.

Might lowkey play a part in Hoegan not showing up to see Mean Gene off

I honestly don’t even like using “fakkit “ in real life, but cot damn Hulkkk is one…

I deadass don’t see many people showing up for his funeral or memorial when his yellow (and red) streak having ass finally gets extracted from this existence

 

[R=G]

 

[BK The Great]

scumbag shyt, that's why i don't watch anymore. When i seen most of these wrestlers are Trump supporters too i really got turned off by this garbage.

 

[julesocean]

I think we must remember that many people in the industry pass away. And after they leave the industry, few remain good friends. You would be surprised how many popular stars from back when keep some close friends that were jobbers in their time. It has nothing to do with what you did for a promoter or company, or how prominent you were in the industry. It has everything to do with did we fukk with each other hard after we left the industry.

 

[THE 101]

Such a shytty business

Props to Booker and Sharmell

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Such a shytty business

Props to Booker and Sharmell

Booker may have some TLR worthy shyt takes, but dude really cared about the "boys in the back". Such a shame that a woman who endured the woes of getting into a shytty business, took bumps with the best of them, and paved the way for women wrestlers to get into the game, end up being just a afterthought to the industry.

Props for Booker and his wife to pay for the headstone. I mean at least she can be acknowledge, rather than being another dead wrestler

 

[HipHopStan]

I remember Bret was talking about how he was at Crush’s funeral and he was talking to (maybe?) Marty Janetty and they were taken aback at the lack of wrestlers there. Then some guy wearing a black hat and sunglasses with a Santa’s Claus beard approached them and they realized it was Macho Man, who had stayed in the back the entire time. Bret said to all of them, “I think we’re the only wrestlers here.” and Macho chimed in saying, “I almost didn’t come. This is always hard.”

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

This really makes me wonder how many people showed up at Kamala's funeral

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

I remember Bret was talking about how he was at Crush’s funeral and he was talking to (maybe?) Marty Janetty and they were taken aback at the lack of wrestlers there. Then some guy wearing a black hat and sunglasses with a Santa’s Claus beard approached them and they realized it was Macho Man, who had stayed in the back the entire time. Bret said to all of them, “I think we’re the only wrestlers here.” and Macho chimed in saying, “I almost didn’t come. This is always hard.”

I thought about this too. There's also the possibility that Gene's family didn't invite a lot of wrestlers to the funeral. They might not have known about certain relationships if Gene wasn't actively in communication with guys he worked with 20-25 years ago.