10 Wrestlers Who Were Notoriously Difficult To Work With
5. Ole Anderson
Ole Anderson, to borrow his bluntness, was a miserable sack of sh*t. An incredible heel - incredible - and genius wrestling mind, he was, nonetheless, a miserable sack of sh*t. Those aren't the words of your writer; they are the words of the men who worked with. The men, to a man, that he alienated.
"Nothing makes him happy," Bobby Heenan once said of him. Burying him with his next-level wit, Heenan described Ole as "the kind of guy with a size 10 foot who wears size nine shoes". As booker in Georgia Championship Wrestling, several - countless - performers sacrificed morale for a payday. The original Doink The Clown, Matt Borne, revealed that Ole relished breaking new guys into the business. But not just that: Ole, stretching an already troubling practise, would wait until the greenhorn was on his last legs before knocking them about. What was already euphemistically pitched as something "protective", in Ole's hands, entered the realm of pure sadism.
A consummate pro in the ring, Ole's inclusion differs from the rest. People didn't merely hate him, they feared him. No less a badass than Arn Anderson was intimidated by Ole, who referred to him as "tyrant" - "the one guy I was most afraid of in the wrestling business."
A true heel, you can trawl through YouTube all day long, and you'll not find anybody with a good word to say about him.