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10 Forgotten WWE Managers You Totally Don't Remember - Abraham Washington! Hiroko! Sylvester Lefort! Oliver Humperdink?!

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Bobby Heenan, Paul Heyman, Jimmy Hart then...these forgotten WWE managers! Gareth Morgan presents 10 Forgotten WWE Managers You Totally Don't Remember...


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0:00.0

For every legendary WWE manager like Bobby Heenan or Paul Heyman, there are hundreds of forgotten faces who didn't quite reach those levels.

0:09.5

Now, some of these people only had fleeting runs in the company.

0:13.2

There are also actually a few that should have worked out and enjoyed longer spells than they did, really.

0:18.1

Either way, I am Gareth. This is What Culture Wrestling and here are

0:21.0

10 forgotten WB managers you totally don't remember. Number 10, the Commandant. Don Callis had

0:27.2

nothing on the Commandant. Okay, that's clearly nonsense. Don's run as the Jackal had way

0:32.5

more potential than the WWF realized back in 1997, but probably with a gimmick other than the military-based

0:38.9

Truth Commission, that was a way better fit for the group's original manager, that aforementioned

0:43.5

commandant.

0:44.4

He was an actor called Robin Smith that Brett Hart met in South Africa, and the pair just hit it off.

0:49.6

The hitman recommended his new pal to Vince McMahon, and the commission idea debuted in affiliate promotion, USWA.

0:56.7

Then McMahon brought them to core WWF programming, but the commandant only lasted a few months

1:02.1

on TV before being replaced. When people think Truth Commission, they think Jackal, right?

1:07.1

Actually, do people really think about the commission at all in 2024? I know I don't. But if you were a lover of recon, sniper and Kiergen the interrogator, then you let me know in the comments. Number nine, Oliver Humperdink. Poor Oliver Humperdink debuted in the WWF at the worst possible time. He came over from the NWA in 1987, but struggled to find house room next to ringside icons like Bobby Heenan

1:29.6

and Jimmy Hart. There's some legends right there. Also, Oliver was a babyface manager,

1:34.5

and that wasn't really something the Federation handled well during that era. Who knows,

1:38.2

things might have been different, had he been a heel instead? Humpabink managed Bam Bam Bigelow

1:42.8

during his own initial and definitely out-of-place

1:45.4

face run and Paul Orndoff during his stay with the promotion. By mid-1988 though, he was on the outs

1:52.1

and back in the Alliance right before it changed to WCW. So much for making a splash in the WWF big time,

1:57.7

eh? In retrospect, Oliver's presentation was all over the bloody place, really.

2:01.4

Bam Bam's flame motif and head tattoos didn't really jive with Humperdink's

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