10 Greatest Things About WCW’s Final Year
7. Mean Gene Gives Zero F**ks
'Mean' Gene Okerlund made a name for himself as a no-nonsense interviewer with a ridiculous quick wit and an unmatched ability to think on his feet, but the dying days of WCW saw Gene's no-nonsense approach amped up to 11.
From watching him during that last year or two of WCW, it was clear that Okerlund was well aware that WCW was dying a death and that he was more than happy to say and do what he wanted. And for the watching audience, it was great!
Gene was clearly at the f**k it stage by that final year, and he wouldn't hold back in throwing shade a wrestlers' way. In particular, 'Mean' Gene seemed to reserve a special sense of disdain for Jeff Jarrett and the Mike Sanders-led Natural Born Thrillers stable.
Forever quick to throw around a "blow it out of you ass," Gene Okerlund had gone from firm, unfazed interviewer, to a savage who relished any opportunity to lay a verbal beatdown on the heels of the day. It was 'Mean' Gene Okerlund, just not quite as we'd come to know him over the previous two decades.