10 greatest wrestling managers of all time

Honorable mentions

Sensational Sherri was a pioneer for women in pro wrestling.

J.J. Dillon had a short managerial career, but it was a career made by one faction: the Four Horsemen.

From 1985-1989, Dillon would manage the legendary faction to numerous world titles and tag team titles.

He was often ringside for some of the biggest feuds of the decade against the likes of Sting, Lex Luger, Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors.

Sensational Sherri was originally a women's wrestler. But during the time she was active, women's wrestling wasn't nearly as popular as it is today. She wrestled in the AWA and WWF but is most memorable for being a heel manager for the likes of Macho King Randy Savage and Ted Dibiase from 1989-1992.

She often opposed Miss Elizabeth in her feuds. When she left for WCW, she ended up managing the legendary Ric Flair and a young upstart tag team known as Harlem Heat.

Harlem Heat was a revolutionary tag team at the time and Sherri led them to seven championship reigns. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2007 due to a drug overdose.

Gary Hart wasn't as well known as guys like Bobby Heenan and Jim Cornette, but he was behind the legendary feud between the Von Erichs and the Fabulous Freebirds from 1982-1985.

He also famously managed the Great Muta when the latter ventured into WCW from Japan. He was the spokesman for the Japanese legend who had feuds with the likes of Sting, Lex Luger and Ric Flair in WCW.

Slick was notable for being one of the first African American managers in the wresting business. He was a suave, well dressed jive-talking mouthpiece for wrestlers such as the One Man Gang (later Akeem), Butch Reed, the Big Boss Man, the Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov), Rick 'the Model' Martel, the Powers of Pain (Warlord and Barbarian) and Power and Glory (Hercules Hernandez and Paul Roma).

Most of his clients weren't known for their talking so Slick did the talking for them.

Most of us wrestling fans in our 30s and beyond first knew Mr. Fuji as the manager of Demolition and later Yokozuna.

But he was actually a former tag team champion in WWWF in the 1970s with Professor Toru Tanaka. He managed the Orient Express, the Powers of Pain and Demolition in feuds against the likes of the Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty), the Hart Foundation and Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel).

He is perhaps well remembered for blowing salt in Yokozuna's opponents' eyes, including Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 9.

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