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MINNEAPOLIS — Eugene “Mean Gene” Okerlund, whose deadpan interviews of pro wrestling superstars like “Macho Man” Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan made him a ringside fixture in his own right, has died. Tor Okerlund said his father, who had undergone three kidney transplants, fell a few weeks ago “and it just kind of went from bad to …
In an era of neon and feathers, big hair and bigger mouths, Gene Okerlund held his own beside the loudest personalities that wrestling had to offer. Standing in the shadow of towering, Spandex-clad men, the 5-foot-9 Okerlund, dressed in a neat suit and tie, would interrogate World Wrestling Entertainment’s biggest stars, including Hulk Hogan and “Macho Man” Randy Savage, in …
