Today, we mourn the loss of one of the greatest minds in professional wrestling, Kevin Sullivan. His contributions to the sport will always be remembered.  He was 74.

From Boston, Sullivan began his wrestling career in the early 70s and competed across the United States in his first ten years, though usually in the mid-card.  He broke through the main event in the early 80s in the Florida territory, where he developed a demonic cult leader character and led a stable called the Army of Darkness.  He feuded with the top babyfaces of the territory, including “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes and Barry Windham.

In 1987, Sullivan joined Jim Crockett Promotions, where he stayed three years, primarily as the leader of the Varsity Club and feuded with Jimmy Garvin, and later Rick Steiner.  He bounced around independents and entered WCW as Cactus Jack’s tag team partner and later as the leader of the Three Faces of Fear and then the Dungeon of Doom, a group obsessed with ending Hulk Hogan.  Behind the scenes, he served as one of the bookers for the promotion.  He retired in 1997 and concentrated on booking afterward, though he was fired before the end of the promotion in 2001.

In our last Notinhalloffame update of those to consider for the WWE Hall of Fame, Sullivan was ranked at #42.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to Kevin Sullivan's fans, friends, and family.

A legitimate Olympian who competed for the United States in the 1968 Olympics, Bob Roop translated amateur credibility to a professional one.  Roop competed for the Grahams in Florida for the bulk of his career and though he held their Heavyweight Championship three times and was a technical marvel, he may have achieved his greatest notoriety as Kevin Sullivan’s crazy henchman in his Army of Darkness stable.  If the WWE Hall of Fame was just based on wrestling workrate, Roop would be in, but we know that this is not the primary criteria for it.