Kevin Sullivan (Wrestler)

Kevin Francis Sullivan ( born October 26, 1949 in Key West, Florida ) is an American professional wrestler. Sullivan was in his mid -90s and early 2000 Booker WCW.

Career

Sullivan made ​​his debut in 1970 in Georgia. He spent most of his career, however, in Florida, where he was the entire 1980s played an important role as a leader of his "Army of Darkness". In 1976 he was in the WWWF (now WWE) several matches where he among other things, Bruiser Brody and the " Superstar" Billy Graham faced.

In the late 1980s, Sullivan formed another group, the Varsity Club, consisting of " Dr. Death " Steve Williams, Rick Steiner, Mike Rotunda and Dan Spivey. It managed to win the NWA Tag Team titles him on the side of Williams. In the early 1990s he succeeded in similar success on the side of Tasmanicas in ECW and on the side of.

In 1994 he moved to WCW, where he worked both as a wrestler and as a Booker. As Booker he set his focus heavily on established wrestlers, especially Hulk Hogan, he was competing against monster -like enemies. The cooperation has been hampered by claims Hogan, who through contractual clauses had a say in the outcome of his matches. The same applies to a later period of cooperation with Kevin Nash.

As a wrestler, he won first with his tag team partner unwanted Cactus Jack WCW Tag Team titles. After title loss, he feuded with Cactus Jack at first, then moved to the then- WWF.

The mid-nineties was Sullivan in the match against Hulk Hogan in the first row. So he founded two directed against Hogan groupings, first with Ed Leslie and John Tenta the "Faces of Fear " and then the Dungeon of Doom, which included in addition to the Faces also Kamala, The Giant and Big Van Vader temporarily.

The Dungeon of Doom was in an ambivalent relationship of the former version of the Four Horsemen. Partly it was allied against Hogan, but feuded with Sullivan individual Horsemen, first with Brian Pillman, the 1996 WCW left, and then with Chris Benoit.

The feud with Benoit saw before after written by Sullivan himself storyline that Sullivan's longtime wife and manager Nancy should start an affair with Benoit. In this time, but Nancy and Benoit came closer, so Nancy left her husband in favor of Benoit in real life.

In 1997, the feud between Sullivan and Benoit ended with a career - ending match that decided Benoit for themselves. Thereafter, Sullivan focused on his duties as a booker. Here he was accused mainly of pages Benoit to have blocked his WCW career out of personal animosity. Sullivan appeared briefly as a manager of a new edition of the Varsity Club. In 2000, Sullivan was named after the dismissal of the former main booker Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara to main Booker. Then changed his old rival Benoit and other disaffected younger wrestlers to the then WWF, which is seen as a factor in the downfall of WCW. When WCW was bought in 2001 by the WWF, Sullivan was no longer Booker.

In 2007, Sullivan was shocked by the news that Nancy Benoit and their son Daniel murdered and had then taken his own life itself.

Achievements title

Criticism

As Booker WCW continued Sullivan focuses heavily on established wrestler with an impressive physique (such as Kevin Nash or Hulk Hogan ). This got wrestlers like Chris Benoit no chance. This eventually escalated to the effect that Benoit, Perry Saturn, Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko WCW left and sought their fortune in the WWE.

This and more attributable to Sullivan's behavior events made ​​him a target for accusations that he was to blame for the demise of WCW.

Film and series appearances

  • Wrestlers
  • Americans
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
  • Person (Key West )
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