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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Mean Gene Okerlund on Hulk Hogan, WWE’s Rise & His Radio Roots: Prime Time Vault

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this exclusive throwback interview, Sean Mooney sits down with the legendary "Mean" Gene Okerlund to dive deep into the golden age of professional wrestling! 💥

Transcript

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0:00.0

And, you know, people have asked me many times to rate the best announcers of all time, not just the WWF.

0:06.4

And I always say, you know, there's Gene Okerland and then there's the rest of us.

0:10.8

You don't put anybody else in order behind him.

0:13.3

And no one compares.

0:14.3

And with that, I want to welcome my longtime, close personal friend, WWE Hall of Famer, mean Gene O'Korland.

0:21.5

Gene,

0:21.8

thanks so much for joining us this morning here on primetime.

0:25.6

You know,

0:26.0

Mooney,

0:26.2

it's pretty tough for me to follow that intro.

0:29.6

And you're talking about some of the accomplishments

0:32.8

that I've had on the microphone,

0:35.6

on the announcing side of our business.

0:38.0

But I always kind of categorized everybody, you know, the play-by-play guys, the utility guys, the color guys.

0:49.8

And then there were the interview guys, and that's kind of a lost art today.

0:55.6

Oh, you just don't have that many pure interviews where you're shooting from the hip.

1:01.3

Yeah, they're scripted and kind of a canned, but I find those really quite boring.

1:09.7

I like that when you could fly by the seat of your pants

1:12.2

with guys like Savage and Flair and, of course, Hulk Hogan. Andre was a little tough, but

1:18.8

that's another thing. That's another story, which we will get into as we go here. But, you know,

1:24.5

I said, you know, my longtime, close personal friend, before we get into, where did that come from? I mean, it's, it's kind of your signature. But, you know, I said, you know, my longtime, close personal friend, before we get into,

1:28.1

where did that come from? I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of your signature. But do you

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