Georgia Wrestling - The Big Turn of 1980: Sullivan Hansen

[BPavsner]

Knowing the personas that Sullivan and Hanson would eventually take, this IS hillarious to see.

[bcushing]

Not to mention Ole and Stan became one of the best tag teams of all time.

[Piledriver86]

...damn, Stan Hansen was HUGE. And wow, Ive never seen Sullivan without his beard.

[ShootNeutrality]

Stan Hansen does NOT do it as a face.

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

@ShootNeutrality he MAY be able to get over as a TWEENER, but never a full-fledged face.

[gannable]

1980? then look at sullivan in 1983, he aged like 15 yrs. back then these guys aged so fast and so badly. pretty similar to rock stars, must have been the lifestyle of traveling, it does take alot of you.

[BenFrench1973]

some old time wrestling wresting from 7-26-80

[TBirdSCIL]

This is surreal...two of the wildest, most vile heels of the 80's denouncing the acts of Ole Anderson??

[cowbelltg]

Camal jockey.lol

[cardsfan42303]

Kevin Sullivan: "And within a year I'll become the most evil wrestler alive."

Stan Hansen:  "And within a year I'll give in to my anger issues and by 1986 I'll terrorize Larry Nelson."

[Pcfan11]

Sullivan looks like Owen Hart.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

@Pcfan11 More like Bruce Hart.

[Pcfan11]

oh god cant unsee

[MRFABIAN2009]

@Pcfan11 I agree, I think he looks alot like Owen in this video.

[bcushing]

Not only that, but Ole and Stan became one of the best tag-teams of their time.

[gus767]

Does Kevin Sullivan not sound EXACTLY like Owen Hart in this promo????

[princesstamika]

A Bostonian Owen, maybe.

Kevin sounds very Boston in this interview and Owen always sounded unmistakeably Canadian.. .

Cause in the Omni Sunday!

[bigbluedinosaur]

God Kevin Sullivan was a little toad. Always was and always will be. His thighs were so big he looked like a fat old woman walking with a dick up her ass.

[Jarsfan1997]

He was a powerlifting champion at one time, lol. He could squat stupid weight. And it helped for his dreaded "double stomp" lol.

[bigbluedinosaur]

I did like when he and Austin Idol teamed up against The Freebirds.

[mr2damngood73]

Wow Kevin Sullivan and Stan Hansen as faces

[Koolazzmike]

Kevin Sullivan had a squeeky voice back then. LOL

[marathonriverrat]

y bring ur personal buisness to a site when we are talkn about wrestling? keep that stuff to yourself.

[foreverhulkamania]

STAN IS DA MAN!

[Lfdjake91]

They are pretty calm here, but these are 2 of the craziest, wildest men in wrestling ever!!

[OaktownABQ]

I agree -- it's weird seeing Stan Hansen as a babyface!

[DTA550]

Hearing Kevin Sullivan call someone a sick individual is hillarious!!

[Reflect321]

It is hilarious,in retrospect,to hear Sullivan call someone a sick individual.

[JuliusC1973]

@DTA550 It's certainly not something that I am used to seeing. The Guy I saw in Championship Wrestling in Florida, the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling was not like this!

[OrigLanceR]

@DTA550

LOL. You know you have some problems if kevin is calling you that

[ThePGeraFuckingSucks]

@DTA550 True, but this was long before his heel turn and his "kayfabe" descent into evil

In fact in the early 80s Sulley was a respectable mat wrestler

[mamacornettesmoney]

@ThePGeraFuckingSucks Actually, he'd already been a heel in southeastern. Then he turned in Georgia not too long after this. He was also a heel in Memphis in 81. He did turn face again in georgia in 82, but went heel again in Florida in 82. In fact, when he was "pretending" to be face in Florida in 82, part of the angle was that people shouldn't trust him.

It was in 82 when he got more and more "evil", though his heel persona was always kind of crazy, and he was very sneaky/underhanded.

[oldschool6804]

@ThePGeraFuckingSucks HIS CHARACTER IS A SHOOT SULLIVAN IS LEGIT CRAZY!

[SexxyMessiah]

Western Lariat clap..clap..clap

Western Lariat clap..clap..clap

[SexxyMessiah]

Seeing a pre-evil Sullivan brings back fond memories

[tow74]

Oh, the good ol' days. 1980 watching georgia rasslin' on TBS saturdays. 3 years before I was repeatedly sexually abused by my mother's boyfriend. Dang, remember how cool Ric Flair was back then?

[Wayneman117]

Uhhhh..we were talking about wrestling.I thought...Gee..I missed something here.

[SandyKrebs]

In the late 70s Sullivan had a bodybuilders physique, he was already losing it here.

[RareDropRadio]

Whow this is classic!

[mkl62]

Kevin would turn heel later on. Stan Hansen would go to the WWE and challenge Bob Backlund for the title. In 1982, Stan & Ole "won" the NWA World Tag Team Belts.

[1kyredneck1]

stan and sullivan jest wernt meant to be dammed ol good guys..

[JuliusC1973]

He sounds like Kevin Sullivan, but he doesn't look like Kevin Sullivan. Even Stan Hansen sounds different and he's smaller than he was in the AWA and Japan.

[larrystarstruck]

Sorry, but yes it really was the same Kevin Sullivan.

[shymirror]

That can't be the same Kevin Sullivan that was Taskmaster. It's just not possible. He looks like Ray Gordy here. There must have been two Kevin Sullivans.

[VolumedMusicMan]

It is the same Kevin Sullivan he was heel from 1982 onward...

[TheRabidCrippler]

wow Stan hansen Kevin Suliavn...babyfaces? whoa lol

[salanh]

Interesting that Sullivan and Lewin would combine for one the biggest angles ever in Florida as the "Army of Darkness."

[meesterfonnyboy]

And Stan Hansen would be teaming with Ole Anderson within three years.