Early on, the WWF approached Fred with an idea. "You're gonna be Tugboat," Fred said of one of his ring names. "He's a sailor. I said, 'let me get this right.

Fred Ottman had a 90s run in WWF and WCW as many characters, most infamously The Shockmaster. But his breakthrough came as Tugboat in the early 90s in WWF as he was one of Hulk Hogan's closest ...

He was almost renamed Sheik Tugboat. Yes, seriously. The WWF wanted to capitalise on real-life issues between the United States and Iraq by booking Tugboat as a turncoat who'd ditch Hogan and ...

Former WWE and WCW star Fred Ottman has discussed about his nephew Cody Rhodes' current WWE run, including "The American Nightmare's" WWE exit in 2016.

He was set to debut in an 8-man tag match with partners Davey Boy Smith, Dusty Rhodes, and Sting. However their opponents wanted to know the identify of the mystery man, so they called them out on ...

Instead, McMahon and the then-WWF came to their senses and had the main event pit Hulk Hogan against Sgt. Slaughter in what was quite the feud. Tugboat wasn't even on the card.