Ole Anderson on Harley Race

[@darrenbuttery3527]

My favorite Harley Race story was one told by Ric Flair. Ric watched Harley wrestle Andre the Giant once and was shocked to see Harley suplex and body slam Andre in back to back moves. After the match Ric was in the locker room and said to Harley: "I was shocked to see you suplex and slam Andre out there. Did you ask him if it was ok to do that?" Harley takes a long drag on his cigarette and replies: "ask him what? I'm fukin Harley Race. Why the fuk would I ask him anything?" That right there showed the toughness and fearlessness of Harley Race and at the same time showed the level of respect that Andre had for Harley. RIP Andre, Harley and Ole.

[@FredrickCox-ru3em]

That's a great story

[@dustdevil9614]

Top notch even

[@ceegee1959]

My grandpa was a janitor at our municipal Auditorium. I got to see Harley Race and Wahoo McDaniel, Danny Little Bear, The Viking and so many others from the late ‘60s early 70’s. It was amazing!

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Seeing them as a kid must have been similar to watching the gladiators enter the coliseum

[@StDiddy1975]

I half expected him to say, “Harley waa the shits” but Ole respected him too much.

[@tylercox1875]

i mean i don’t blame you because he says that about everyone ie ricky steamboat randy savage hulk hogan ric flair and the undertaker

[@graemenicol6377]

Same here but I guess he's scared of Harley beating him up.

[@generationfailed]

The fear of Harley Race is a real thing and was instilled in Ole early enough for him not to be that dense.

[@andrewcomments5812]

No way in hell he was gonna say that about Harley.

[@joenelson3037]

It’s amazing how down to earth and unpretentious this guy was. You wouldn’t get interviews like this from Ted DiBiase. Rogowski may have been grumpy, but this guy would never lie to you.

[@OSoU812]

Harley didn't give a shit about anything....damn right, he was too busy being Harley Race. What a legend. Love hearing stories about him.

[@RG-lr4pk]

He cared when he had to beg Hogan for a job.

[@Jim-Tuner]

Ole's stories about being around Harley Race in the AWA are always good. The guys Ole got along with in wrestling were always athletes and tough guys like Harley.

[@michaeldorch9447]

@a

[@harrygreb3457]

Because he wished he was one

[@Jim-Tuner]

Always good to hear from a hulkamanic.

[@stephenjones1488]

​@@harrygreb3457how Ignorant can you be lol?

[@harrygreb3457]

@@stephenjones1488not ignorant enough to believe that all talk Ole who got smoked by mulligan several times was a Race level tough guy

[@DrummingTmate]

Ole telling stories about Harley is as good as it can ever get.

[@gtaylor1564]

Ole was very nice to me and my brother when we were kids he would always let us in for free every time they were in town

[@SubZero_125]

RIP Ole

[@KevinBarry-j8w]

The inventor of The Road Warriors,(Ole Anderson), enough said.

[@robsmith8286]

A totally different type of man, time, and business back then. You could see how uncomfortable the true old timers are when doing shoots. Tougher than wolverine shoe leather too, and yet quiet. Gotta love em'

[@SanchezV1]

“Pissed everybody off because I didn’t die”

[@JasPlun]

I miss wrestling the way it was back in the day. I still enjoy some of the modern stuff, but its gotten way out of control. Always hated Ole and that is probably because he did the best job at making me hate the guy. In the end he wrestled at the time when I loved wrestling and he will always be remembered RIP Ole!

[@JagerLange]

The audacity at being stabbed by a man who then sues you. I'd be pissed too.

[@Willie-js6wr]

RIP OLE ANDERSON!!!

[@PaulShaw-ex7ri]

OLE & HARLEY were pro wrestling !

[@brianbooth679]

Natural heel ... decent believable face....good solid promo....RIP MR ROGNOWSKI.

[@poolside16190]

Damn I’ve never heard him talk before. His voice is very professorial. He reminds me of someone who not only knows his stuff but can tell you every thing you didn’t wanna know but are glad you did. That must be part of the reason why everyone has so much positives to say about Ole!🫡 RIP!

[@robertmuhammad7086]

Hilarious. Thank you, for posting.

[@therevolvingmonk]

"The guy wouldn't have to say anything or do anything. He'd just be standing there, and Harley'd say, "Yeah, you look like a fuckin' guy I'd like to knock out." This quote had me rolling.

[@danielfarmer9533]

When Ole calls a man a bad ass then you know they are the real deal

[@kevthegoat8774]

Ole seemed pretty happy here for him

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Harley's perm alone could whoop the current WWE's roster, in it's entirety.

[@seangallagher1947]

RIP Ole.

[@johnrawlings2161]

Say what you want about Ole, but he reminds me of older guys from years back, they were mean and tough but in there in own way he was being funny and outright in what he was saying during this shoot interview!

[@NickFrankie-ze9zd]

Ole's generation was tough as shit

[@b-bopeddie1290]

I mean there's No fxcckin words this was HEAVY HEAVY SHXT ... YOU HAD TOO BE TOUGH AS SHXT JUST TOO EXIST BACK THEN ......... LET THAT SINK IN .... TULIPS

[@josheisert8380]

@@b-bopeddie1290 Actually people were no where near as tough back then. People just acted more tough. Todays athletes are much more advanced.

[@rd6931]

@@josheisert8380 Yeah they advanced into other tougher fields such as gymnastics and acrobatics.

[@KyokujiFGC]

Goddamn, he looks so much younger and healthier here even though this isn't that old.

[@Billy-ml1si]

Harley race owned his old dead ass😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@bkniker]

My wife did Harley's hair, a really nice guy.

[@redfoley9608]

Lmao 🤣

[@jdspreest]

Harley’s perm was even more legendary than all the other shit he pulled

[@henrylicious]

​@@jdspreest Easily toughest guy with a perm ever.

[@jamesconsiglio2709]

Ole and Harley are gone now rip

[@jonboysetser]

RIP 1 of the Original 4 Horsman

[@rayblackard1974]

Didn't realize he'd been stabbed that many times! Knew the one about the older woman stabbing him in the chest in NC. Was a helluva performer..

[@Bob.5459]

May he rest in peace. He cracked me up. Nobody was a wrestler except Ole. Harley was much more accomplished than Ole.

[@lodi70005]

Yeah, but I’ll bet Ole made a lot more money. He was a promoter/owner.

[@jowbloe4700]

Sid Viscous *HAS TO BE* Harley Race's son

[@TheJbonez1000]

Vader

[@ThePauliebuck]

Excellllent

[@quincee3376]

RIP.

[@Fultonfalcons86]

Haku had the balls lol

[@rhubarbray2996]

Well known fact among the boys about how much of a crush Ole had on Harley. Harley always turned down his advances and it would make Ole so mad that he would force Arn to eat hotdogs without the bun.

[@Dean-no2yl]

Don’t care to much for Ole he thought way to much of him self after all he told the undertaker nobody would pay to see him wrestle that being said he still has good stories rest in peace

[@stephenjones1488]

He was right lol. Nobody paid to see "Mean" Mark Callous wrestle. Peroid. The undertaker? Absolutely.

[@PhunkMaster-VivatChristusRex]

Mean Mark Callous would've never drawn a dime. Ole was right, but he wasn't a fortune teller, the Undertaker was but a twinkle in some WWF creative member's eye at best. They were just waiting for someone big enough to wear that get-up.

[@rd6931]

He was right about the "now" it's the potential that he didn't see.

[@Dean-no2yl]

Yea I could see that early on they had him some stupid gimmicks

[@ChrisHughes-q1v]

Jack Briso smoked and drank too, and he could go too.

[@E.C.2]

Bobby Lane and Sam Huff football teams would drink beer at halftime during games and smoke on the sidelines. Better days.

[@E.C.2]

Ole needed to pray more. There's a difference between defending yourself & being a bully.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Mr 85 miles an hour

[@jamesbrown-gx7ip]

the nwa champion , would wrestle a full hour, can your wwe , aew tna champion do the same nightly? all those guys were good athletes or they wouldnt have been champion...but race to me was the best...flair worked his butt off as champion but race just had that look as champion...dusty was a good athlete , but von erich and tommy rich was ok for the times they had it...

[@thadevilzadvocate]

Check out the Rick Martel vs Ric Flair unification match that went on for about an hour.

[@analiysanchez9949]

Anybody can wrestle an hour if 45 minutes are stalling and rest holds

[@drwlpwasright5132]

Bob Backlund was the only WWF champion who could go an hour. Backlund and Race went the one hour time limit in a NWA vs. WWF title match.

[@raystrachan2731]

What year was this?

[@dustdevil9614]

Used to hate Ole cuz of those stupid logger socks he wore but no doubt he was a top asset to rhe biz

[@jamesconsiglio2709]

I've seen him slam andre outside the ring

[@fjccommish]

300 miles at 85MPH isn't just an hour and a half trip.

[@TheJbonez1000]

Steiner math vs Harleys lead foot

[@richhava]

Classic stuff.......how many got it over on Ole.

[@davidworden4470]

I don't care what people think Ole had a huge part in the wrestling industry just like Benoit yes he killed his family but he had one of the worst cases of cte was Ole a racist i don't care im a wrestling fan

[@rd6931]

The way I see Ole he doesn't care what we think lol, and doesn't act based on pretense. Gotta love that, what you see is what you get from him, no fake.

[@revrondog]

85 mph is slow for Race

[@Flatlandproductionz]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@bigmouthrob2957]

Then they started to wear towels and jackets ..horsemen

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Ole looks very ill

[@mightyblack1]

Ole hated black wrestlers.

[@billburns7721]

Cant blame him

[@michael61985]

Ole was the worst thing for wrestling didn't know what talen was

[@reallifelebowski4732]

The hose story is incredible. I never knew the cops used that technique away back then