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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

The Shockmaster Story EXPOSED – Fred Ottman Talks Hogan Heat & WCW Chaos: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We open Mooney’s Vault to bring you a classic edition of Prime Time with Sean Mooney, featuring special guest Fred Ottman! Fred dives deep into his journey breaking into the professional wrestling business, the real backstage heat after turning heel on Hulk Hogan, and the many gimmicks that defined his career — including the infamous Shockmaster moment that became one of wrestling’s most talked-about debuts.

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0:00.0

This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production.

0:03.5

Folks, if you were a fan of the WWF during the late 80s and the early 90s, you will

0:07.8

indeed remember my guest this week.

0:10.3

He was a large presence in the World Wrestling Federation during that span, in and out of the ring.

0:16.4

You knew him as Tugboat and then as a member of the massive tag team known as the Natural Disasters, as he became known at that time as Typhoon, teaming up with the even more gigantic earthquake. And back then, though, I knew him as Fred and still to this day. I want to welcome Fred Otman. Fred, thanks so much for coming on prime time. How are you, my friend?

0:41.0

Excellent, man. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me on.

0:49.4

You know, we actually got a chance to meet in person. It had been a long time in New York a couple of weeks ago. And it was an interesting weekend. We in new york at the big 13 event taking place

0:58.5

right by laguardia airport and you know i had a conversation with brutus recently because he was

1:03.8

there as well and that was a really incredible event didn't you think it did it i know you do

1:10.0

some of these but on, but on the scale

1:12.9

of where these events are, that was a big one, right? Oh, yeah, it was probably 90 guys there.

1:18.4

Yeah. Minimal. Yeah. It was crazy. And for me, it was huge because, you know, I had, I've done,

1:26.4

I did one in New Jersey a year or so ago,

1:29.7

but it was a much smaller venue. And so for me to walk around there and you see all

1:35.4

these guys that were there, Sean Michaels was there, and, you know, Greg Valentine and

1:41.4

Sergeant Slaughter and the Rugeot brothers and you and and and Brutus and

1:46.2

it was just like the whole room and I'm just like looking around it was just it was freaky to be

1:51.1

back in that in that kind of situation where everybody had aged like 25 years yeah it's like a

1:58.9

time warp yeah the time war sometimes not so kind. Yes. Well, Fred, I have to say, man, you look good. You really do. Oh, well, thank you. You can lie to me anytime. No, but I mean, in many ways, and we had this conversation when we're back there that, you, you know, your hair is, is gray now,

2:17.6

but it was gray back then, right? Yes, it was. It was no judge for men back then. No. All right, Sean? It was Ms. Clara, okay? The smell of, the smell of, uh, ammonia running wild on my face. Because my beard, my hair,

2:34.6

I've been,

2:35.3

uh, you know,

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