RIP Kevin Sullivan

[Sweet Brown Koko]

Link: https://www.wwe.com/article/kevin-sullivan-passes-away

 

One of my favorites and a guy ahead of his time. His Florida stuff is legendary, but I always LOVED his team with Cactus Jack in WCW. Jack would try to sneak in reading a book during their matches and Sullivan would slap him to get him to focus but Cactus LIKED being slapped. 
 

RIP

[flyonthewall2983]

More familiar with him in mid-late 90’s WCW when he was brought in to pacify Hogan with the Dungeon of Doom. His match with chris benoit in Baltimore was a really fun brawl that for awhile I didn’t get tired of watching over and over.

But a few years ago I found this clip of him in Florida, leading up to his heel turn. It is kind of a masterclass of buildup with all the charm of territorial wrestling at it’s disposal to help move the story along. It’s also kind of disturbing to watch.

https://youtu.be/_e1BPPzuhvg?si=InkjEH2lIAWaEmBt

[Ricky Jackson]

Everything I've seen of the Florida Prince of Darkness run has been wild. His passing may finally inspire me to try and watch as much of it as I can. I've been wanting to explore classic Florida for years. I also loved his team with Jack in the 90s

RIP

[Blehschmidt]

During my local ring announcing tenure, Sullivan worked several shows for the promoter and he was always the nicest guy and very easy to talk too. I'll always remember him browsing through the pile of DVDs I brought to sell at the merch table and engaging me in conversation about Ring of Honor and who from there we thought was good enough to make it to WWE.

Very sorry to hear of his passing.

[Ricky Jackson]

Started a work-in-progress chronological career retrospective playlist

 

[C.S.]

One of his most underrated promos: "You come from a community and we come from a neighborhood."

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4q4yuu

(Dailymotion embeds seem borked on this forum - or borked for me, at least - so here it is as a link instead.)

[KawadaSmile]

He deserves praise just for doing the often imitated, never accomplished feat of having an actually creepy cult leader gimmick. 

What a unique career. May he rest in peace.

[sek69]

Kevin was always one of my favorites, and it's a god damn shame all the high quality Florida stuff is just collecting dust in the WWE vaults.

[flyonthewall2983]

On 8/9/2024 at 3:24 PM, C.S. said:

One of his most underrated promos: "You come from a community and we come from a neighborhood."

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4q4yuu

(Dailymotion embeds seem borked on this forum - or borked for me, at least - so here it is as a link instead.)

Is “Paulie” Heyman?

[C.S.]

On 8/11/2024 at 11:38 PM, flyonthewall2983 said:

Is “Paulie” Heyman?

Sorry for not seeing this sooner, but yeah, it's Heyman.