Iconic Wrestling Announcer GONE:”Mean” Gene Okerlund Passes Away At The Age Of 76 “Mean” Gene Okerlund was a wrestling icon…He also used to be a radio announcer back in the day on WTOB radio in Winston Salem, North Carolina, where he worked under the name, Bob Smith…His son Todd Okerlund was a U.S. Olympic hockey player and “Mean” Gene became famous for interviewing professional wrestlers back in the AWA days and then he moved on to the WWF, then he took off to the WCW, before returning to the WWF/WWE and he finished his career there…Okerlund is a WWE Hall…