Kevin Sullivan Kevin Francis Sullivan ( October 26 , 1949 ) , is an American retired professional wrestler and booker . He is perhaps best known for his feuds with the " American Dream " Dusty Rhodes and Mike Graham in the NWA ' s Championship Wrestling from Florida , and against Hulk Hogan and the Four Horsemen ( specifically Chris Benoit ) in World Championship Wrestling . Sullivan is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as an executive producer , while also competing on the independent circuit . Professional wrestling career . Early career . Sullivan wrestled as " Johnny West " in the NWA ( Gulf Coast ) in the early ' 70 ' s , capturing the NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team championship ( along with Ken Lucas ) , defeating Jack Morrell & Eddie Sullivan on March 11 , 1971 . Next , he went to NWA Florida Championship Wrestling in 1972 and captured the tag team championship with Mike Graham . He took three years off from the NWA to join the WWWF as a mid - card face ( from 1974 – 1977 ) . He had a ( rare for the time ) face versus face battle with Pete Sanchez on an MSG undercard . Sullivan also wrestled as a face for Roy Shire for the National Wrestling Alliance in their San Francisco territory . Sullivan then worked in NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling and Championship Wrestling From Florida as a face until the early 1980s . His first heel run was in Memphis where alongside Wayne Ferris ( The Honky Tonk Man ) and manager Jimmy Hart he battled the local faces including Jerry Lawler . He left Memphis for Georgia but once again turned heel while in the Georgia territory before he moved on to Florida to work for Eddie Graham . Championship Wrestling From Florida . Known as the heel " Boston Battler " , Sullivan ' s " devil worshiping " gimmick started during this time . In CWFL he became associated with " Maniac " Mark Lewin ( Purple Haze ) , Bob Roop , The Lock and Luna Vachon amongst others as the Army of Darkness . Sullivan split his time with the ICW and brought the devil - worshiping gimmick there , along with Lewin and Roop . He had the Fallen Angel as his valet , who later became known as Woman . Sullivan was the top heel in ICW when the company first went national and had noted feuds with Austin Idol , Superstar Billy Graham , Bruiser Brody , Joe Savoldi and Blackjack Mulligan . Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling ( 1987 – 1992 ) . Sullivan formed The Varsity Club upon arrival in the NWA with Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner . They immediately started feuding with Jimmy Garvin because Sullivan wanted Garvin ' s wife Precious for himself . This feud lasted a while with Sullivan " breaking " Garvin ' s leg at one point . Steiner left the group and was replaced by " Dr . Death " Steve Williams and Dan Spivey . They feuded with Dusty Rhodes , the Road Warriors , Rick Steiner and Eddie Gilbert . Sullivan even attacked Gilbert ' s wife Missy Hyatt . By late 1989 , the Varsity Club was gone , and Sullivan formed " Slaughterhouse " with Cactus Jack and Buzz Sawyer to feud with Rotunda . Sullivan took time off in late 1990 and returned in early 1991 as the manager of One Man Gang , Black Blood , and the Angel of Death . They cut El Gigante ' s hair and had a brief feud . Sullivan also was the masked Merlin the Wizard briefly to manage Oz . He came to Japan in 1992 , and participated in FMW . And , he fought against Atsushi Onita with Ed Farhat . Smoky Mountain Wrestling ( 1992 – 1994 ) . Sullivan was in a feud with " Primetime " Brian Lee where after Lee ' s matches there would be a miniature tombstone brought to ringside . During this feud he was known as The Master and enlisted the help of The Nightstalker and the Mongolian Mauler to soften up Lee . After Lee defeated Nightstalker , he finally came face to face with The Master who was revealed to be Sullivan after he delivered a fireball to the face of Lee and was joined by Nightstalker in busting open Lee on live television . Lee would return and finally get the upper hand on Sullivan in a Singapore Spike match with Sullivan which Lee won after Nightstalker accidentally hit Sullivan with the spike . Sullivan left SMW shortly after losing a match to Ronnie Garvin by DQ in March 1994 . Extreme Championship Wrestling ( 1993 – 1994 ) . In early 1993 , Sullivan and Nancy , went to Extreme Championship Wrestling , where he teamed with The Tazmaniac . The two won the Tag Team Title and feuded with The Public Enemy . Sullivan also had a bloody feud with Abdullah the Butcher . Sullivan left Woman behind and headed to World Championship Wrestling in spring 1994 . World Championship Wrestling ( 1994 – 2001 ) . He formed a tag team with his " brother " Dave Sullivan , a dyslexic character who referred to himself as " Evad " who was being picked on by The Nasty Boys ( Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs ) . He enlisted Cactus Jack ' s help and beat them for the Tag Team Title . Dave was injured and out of action for a while and Sullivan split with Cactus after losing the titles . Sullivan defeated Cactus in a Loser Leaves WCW match at Fall Brawl . Dave came back and dressed like his idol , Hulk Hogan . This infuriated Sullivan , who hated Hogan , and they started feuding . Sullivan brought in Hogan ' s best friend , Ed Leslie , as The Butcher , to feud with him . He also brought in Avalanche and called the trio the 3 Faces of Fear . They feuded with Hogan , Randy Savage and Sting . In early 1995 , after not being able to end Hogan ' s career , Avalanche left the group and Sullivan turned on The Butcher . Later in 1995 Sullivan began hearing the voice of someone calling for him to come find him . Over the course of several weeks , vignettes were shot with Sullivan searching for the man , who eventually became known as The Master . Once Sullivan found The Master he was rechristened with a new gimmick , The Taskmaster . The two men immediately started putting together a new group that eventually became known as the Dungeon of Doom . In time , the group grew to include Kamala , The Barbarian , Meng , The Yeti , Hugh Morrus , Loch Ness , One Man Gang , Big Bubba Rogers , and The Giant . Sullivan also brought in his former 3 Faces of Fear stablemates , with Avalanche wrestling as The Shark and The Butcher wrestling as The Zodiac . For a very short time , Big Van Vader also was a member . Managed by Sullivan , four Dungeon of Doom members lost to The Hulkamaniacs in a WarGames match at September ' s Fall Brawl . As a result of Hogan ' s win over Zodiac , he got to spend five minutes alone with Sullivan . The feud with Hogan continued for much of the remainder of the year and saw the group add Jimmy Hart as its manager , after he turned on Hogan in October 1995 and cost him the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a match with the Giant . The Dungeon then feuded with the Four Horsemen , and Sullivan acquired a certain disliking for Brian Pillman . Once Sullivan sent Pillman packing , the Dungeon and the Horsemen rejoined forces to get rid of Hulk Hogan and his friends and formed the unsuccessful Alliance To End Hulkamania . Afterwards , Sullivan and Horseman Chris Benoit picked up where Pillman left off and started a brutal feud , which lasted for over a year , with Benoit " stealing " Woman from Sullivan . Sullivan brought in Jacquelyn to help him and also added Konnan to the Dungeon . Sullivan lost a retirement match to Benoit at Bash at the Beach on July 13 , 1997 . This loss gave him more to time to concentrate on his job as booker . Sullivan stayed on as the booker or a member of the WCW booking committee and made a brief on - screen appearance with the reformed Varsity Club of Rotunda and Rick Steiner with their cheerleader , Leia Meow . After a couple of months , he was back off television . In 2000 , after the demotion of Ed Ferrara and Vince Russo ( and subsequent departure of the latter ) , the resulting chaos led to Sullivan ' s promotion to head booker . This move infuriated a number of WCW wrestlers , given Sullivan ' s history of professional rivalries with Benoit ( Benoit had an affair with Nancy Sullivan and later married ) . Benoit , Dean Malenko , Eddie Guerrero and Perry Saturn would quit the night after , immediately signing with the WWF . Sullivan was fired before WCW ' s sale in 2001 . Recent years . In 2003 , Sullivan made one surprise appearance in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , as the officiator in the first Clockwork Orange House of Fun match . In late 2003 / 2004 , he worked for the All World Wrestling League / Big Time Wrestling . In 2012 he started wrestling in the Pacific Northwest with his nephew Dash Venture and Ron Von Hess ( half - brother to Dash and son of Kurt Von Hess ) . Together they won the AIWF World Six - Man Championship . On April 28 , 2012 Sullivan made a surprise appearance , initially under a mask , during the Shane Douglas vs . 2 Cold Scorpio match at Extreme Reunion in Philadelphia , PA . On March 8 , 2013 Sullivan appeared in Nitro , WV where he reunited with Dash Venture Sullivan in his corner as he faced Ron Mathis . On July 7 , 2013 Sullivan appears at Supercon in Miami as himself to sign autographs . He appears as himself in the opening wrestling sequence of the 2013 film " Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies . "