Former WCW wrestler and booker Kevin Sullivan spoke to Wrestlinginc.com recently. He talked about all the latest hot topics including the current situations with WWE. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Working with Hulk Hogan:
"He had complete control, but he was receptive of ideas. Turning him heel was my idea, and it took him forever to grasp it. But once it was done, it was good."
Who came up with the Idea of NWO:
"He was at my house and Nature Boy was saying 'don't do it Hulk.' It was Eric's idea to bring in Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, it was my idea to turn Hulk."
On if the same thing can be done with John Cena:
"Here's the only thing with Cena. I've watched him over the years. He did something very nice for me one time. I had my great nephew go to the matches and introduced them. He signed autographs, he's the real deal. There are a lot of guys that are full of s--t, and I may be one of them. For him to do that to me, and didn't know me from Adam. He's a real good guy, he's the kind of guy I'd be at the pub with and have a beer. He's walking the line as a grey matter. He's got the audience split. The kids are cheering him until 17, girls until 25 are cheering him. Everyone else is booing him. He is playing a role that's never been touched. Austin was a babyface. Nash and Hall was the easiest guys I ever worked with. Anything you wanted to do, they'd do. But they were pretty much babyfaces, but Cena has this audience cut in half."
How he will book John Cena:
Let me ask you something? Kevin Owens, who everybody is jumping up and down over. Can you name a person besides Cactus Jack to get over like that with a shirt on? Name me one. If you ask me who hit 500 home runs, I can name you ten off the top of my head. So why does everybody say these guys have to be pushed? If you're an athlete, and you're walking down the street at 2 am, John Cena is walking on the left, Kevin Owens is on the right, which side of the street are you gonna get up on? They need to want to be you, or be afraid to fight you. I think they've tried to make a chance, and people listen to the pounding of the drum, but have attendance or ratings gone up? We don't want to listen to when people tell us what to do. For 14 years the ratings have went down. If that happened in college football, would those people still have a job? Coaches would get cut for not doing their job. Players would get cut."
what can be done in the current situation?
"You'd have to snuff it off. A guy brought up to me that wrestling and boxing was built on legitimacy. We have a bunch of tongue-in-cheek people laughing at us. It wasn't like that with Bruno Sammartino, but we can't go back. My great great great uncle was the first world heavyweight champion, my step cousin was the world heavyweight wrestling champion. Boxing keeps on producing fights, and it doesn't look much different than the 50's. The wrestling product today doesn't even look anything like the 90's or the early 2000's? There's a 'stunt double' and nobody complains. This is where I'm going to be a nasty old man. This country needs Donald Trump as President. Because we put up with this stuff. If we hate it that bad, why don't we turn it off and stop watching?"
In addition to this topics he talked about ending Goldberg's streak. How he had the best guys of that time and more you can check out his complete interview at Wredtlinginc.com