Celebrating Gene Okerlund's Winnipeg days

Long before achieving worldwide fame as the key interviewer and event pitchman for the World Wrestling Federation and later World Wrestling Entertainment, the first country outside the USA to experience the rapier-like wit and high-energy commentary of Gene Okerlund was Canada. Specifically, the northern part of American Wrestling Association territory with a telecast out of Winnipeg...

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