Pro Wrestling: 20 Angriest Managers in Wrestling History

A good manager leads a team or an individual and makes them a winner. A great manager is not afraid to defend that team or individual, even if it means that they begin to yell and scream like an animal. It may get them ejected, but they are doing whatever it takes to defend whomever they are managing.

Sports managers will often do whatever it takes to protect their guys. Wrestling managers are even more intense. No matter what it takes, wrestling managers will go to great lengths just to get a victory for the wrestlers they represent. It often leads to a lot of short fuses and very angry people at ringside.

Here is a list of 20 of the angriest wrestling managers of all time. More importantly, here are 20 managers throughout history that would yell and scream as much as they can for the benefits of their wrestler counterparts. These managers have said and done just about everything that they can to take attention away from their clients.

Lita

We can start with Lita, who has done some great managerial work with Essa Rios, The Hardys, Kane and Edge throughout her WWE career. Her place on this list is mostly for her work with The Rated-R Superstar. She turned on Kane by using a Money in the Bank briefcase. She yelled in many a match for her beau and had a high percentage of winning those matches for him.

She wasn't that great of an angry and yelling wrestling manager, but she was effective. It wasn't exactly a natural state for her character, but she adapted well and made it work for a good amount of time.

Paul Ellering

Paul Ellering is a great wrestling manager from back in 1980s and 1990s. He is most widely known for his managerial services for The Road Warriors throughout multiple wrestling promotions. Ellering looked like he was soft-spoken, but could deliver promos like the best of them. Hawk and Animal were always more concerned with yelling loud and sounding incoherent at times.

Ellering was a perfect buffer for them to explain their thoughts on the matter at hand while also keeping that intensity. It is that intensity that puts the trio in the WWE Hall of Fame and Ellering on this list.

Sharmell

The Queen herself makes it onto this list, which seems to be making her emotional in this picture. She should expect to be here. After all, she stood by the side of her man, Booker T, who began referring to himself as a king and walking around with a ridiculous accent. Sharmell would have her own accent, as well as her little idiotic tiara. Even if the gimmick was lame, it did lead to some of the best work Booker T did in WWE.

The former Miss Black America would always be angry if something bad was happening to her husband. She would yell and scream until she got her way, just like royalty. Her highest shrieks came during her feud with The Boogeyman. He said he was coming to get her, which he did. She seemed to be getting pretty angry, which she was. Then she ate some worms and was even more angry. All in all, it was a memorable moment in the "Tell Me I Didn't Just See That" department.

Jimmy Hart

Jimmy Hart was always a pretty cool guy, but he was The Mouth From The South. If something didn't go his way, he let you hear it. Actually, if something did go his way, you heard about it as well. Heck, if anything went anywhere, we knew about it from Jimmy. The guy was just plain loud and talkative. This doesn't even include that he carried around and used a megaphone.

Vince Russo

Vince "[insert a swear word]" Russo makes this list of angry managers because he was a manager and he always was angry. It's pretty cut and dry to explain why he is here. If you wrote yourself into storylines, which included becoming world champion, and nobody watched, you would be angry too. If you booked matches that the highly paid superstars didn't like, you would be angry too.

If you were Vince Russo and had to watch what he produced for World Championship Wrestling, you would be angry too.

The Grand Wizard of Wrestling

It's important to address this man as The Grand Wizard of Wrestling. The name without the part of wrestling actually pays reference to a position in the Ku Klux Klan. Surely, those who like to find racist parts of pro wrestling will be adding that one to their lists.

TGW of Wrestling, however, was the first real heel manager in terms of what we expect from today's heel managers. The Wizard would talk badly about the crowd and interfere physically in the match, two staples of the heel manager persona. He was also one of the original complainers, but it did end up paying off for him. The Wizard would manage multiple world champions and countless Hall of Fame-caliber superstars.

Freddie Blassie

"Classy" Feddie Blassie is a throwback to the good old days. Blassie would be a shoe-in for the hypothetical Mount Rushmore of wrestling managers. He always kept a pretty level head at ringside, never truly letting his attitude get the best of him.

However, Blassie does have the classic line of calling fans "pencil-head geeks," which is about as heelish as they got back in the day. Blassie knew how to deliver his lines and he felt like a real coach during his matches. It was more than an act with Blassie. He made you believe that he really trained his clients.

Luna

Luna Vachon was always one of the meaner-looking divas in WWE history. However, she also had some managerial experience. Among the talent that this hardcore chick managed was Shawn Michaels, Bam Bam Bigelow, Tommy Dreamer and Gangrel.

The person that really comes to mind when I think of Luna as a mean and angry manager is when she managed Goldust. Whether it was the original gimmick or his phase as "The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust," Luna asserted herself with Goldust. She managed The Bizarre One and looked more bizarre than he did, a feat that wasn't too easy, especially when he was dressing randomly as TAFKAG.

Bill Alfonso

One of the best managers in ECW history, Bill Alfonso needed to take a chill pill. Alfonso never seemed very happy at ringside when he managed people. His signature accessory was his whistle, considering he was a former referee. Alfonso would blow that whistle constantly during a match. Why bother yelling words when the piercing sound of a whistle speaks dividends?

A genius move by one of the managers often overlooked in the history of the business.

Teddy Long

Teddy Long was a successful referee and general manager in his career. He was also a manager at one time, managing the likes of Jazz and Rodney Mack. They were short-lived, but Long was a great mouthpiece.

Long portrayed a pissed-off black man who thought things were racist so well that he should have been involved with The Nation of Domination. At that time, we swore he would be creating one. Even today, fans are calling for a new Nation and for Teddy Long to give up being general manager to head the faction.

James Mitchell

James Mitchell is a scary dude. Even today, his simple look freaks me the hell out. Mitchell is a fantastic manager that could be viewed as a poor man's Paul Bearer by some. To others, he was just a meaner guy, which is certainly the case.

Even in this picture, Mitchell looks pissed off. Then again, in any picture of his, Mitchell looks pissed off. He looks like he could use a hug, but it's hard to tell if that would really help the problem very much.

Armando Estrada

Armando Estrada was a pretty solid manager a few years ago for Umaga. Umaga always seemed like a superstar who never got what he fully deserved. Despite being a Cuban gimmick for a Samoan wrestler, it seemed to work for Estrada.

Estrada would often be furious at ringside, even when Umaga was winning the match. How angry do you have to be to break a Cuban cigar to signal the end for Umaga's opponent?

Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley

If you were the boss's daughter, you would assume that there wasn't much to be upset about. Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, however, changed that idea. It wouldn't be too out there for her to let out a scream or be upset when accompanying Triple H or Chris Jericho to the ring.

She was even involved with The Alliance during the Invasion storyline, leading to a lot of anger and hostility. It also led to some screams that, even a decade later, affect my hearing.

Ric Flair

The Nature Boy may be a 16-time World champion, but he was also one pissed-off manager when he wanted to be. Flair managed in TNA and WWE and was always showing frustration in the only way Flair could. He could take his suit jacket off, throw it on the ground, stomp on it, elbow drop it, etc.

You name it and Flair likely did it. Wooooo...

Jim Cornette

Jim Cornette always spoke as if he thought the rest of the world was deaf. Cornette was never a happy guy, but is considered one of the best managers of all time for his attitude and success as a ring general.

Cornette would carry a tennis racket around classically, validating the phrase "actions speak louder than words". His racket would do a lot of the talking if need be, but his mouth certainly did a good amount as well.

Bobby Heenan

Heenan is about as good as you can get as a manager. He is the benchmark that managers strive to get close to. Heenan always knew something clever to say, but it didn't mean that he didn't know how to flip out. Heenan could get heated very easily and it wasn't too crazy or too rare of a sight to see.

The fact that Heenan could have a meltdown seemingly while also keeping his cool is a feat in itself that makes him the perfect wrestling manager for anyone, past or present.

Melina

Melina did a great job starting out with MNM as their manager. Throughout her WWE career, we grew to know about her very large shriek. Melina would use multiple tactics to win, including her beauty.

Even more distracting (almost) was that scream. What the heck was that noise? Is that who Kelly Kelly was channeling this week on Monday Night Raw?

Daivari

Daivari was not only a very angry manager for Muhammad Hassan, The Great Khali and Kurt Angle. Daivari was an angry manager who would yell in another language. If that's not impressive, I don't know what impressive is. Yelling alone would get you heat from the crowd. Yelling in a language nobody understood was heel gold.

Daivari did wonders for his clients and I view him as one of the best in the last decade, certainly.

Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman or Paul E. Dangerously, the name doesn't matter. All that matters was that Heyman was a pissed-off dude. Maybe it was his out-of-shape body, his failed wrestling promotion or his thinning hair. Something was always eating away at the guy.

He always found a way to speak his mind while also telling everyone exactly how pissed off he was at that moment. He spoke so well that I could swear he would have hung with the likes of The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Freddie Blassie and Bobby Heenan in their respective times.

Vickie Guerrero

Then there's Vickie Guerrero. At first, Vickie was just Eddie's wife. Then she was Eddie's widow. Since that point, she has blossomed into a fantastic heel manager. She screams about as loud as the rest on the list, is never happy, always battles a chorus of boos and constantly has to stop mid-sentence to say "Excuse Me!" really loudly. I don't know if she is the best manager, but she is certainly one of the angriest managers in history.

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