RIP Hulk Hogan

[Curt McGirt]

1 minute ago, stuntmanc said:

Even in death, he couldn't let anyone keep the spotlight on them for too long (Ozzy).

I wonder if he ends up top of the nightly news like Ozzy. 

[Craig H]

I was going to say if I had anything positive to say about Hogan it’s that he did the THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES promo and the and. Nanny Dog Toss which if you haven’t seen it or haven’t listened to How Did This Get Made, then, well, just look it up on YouTube. It’s one of the funniest fucking things you’ll see and you’ll wonder how the editor left that in.

[RIPPA]

Dave's tweet about it (which I know won't embed) is the most Meltzer tweet ever

 

[odessasteps]

One of my friends just said “If they fly his body back across the International Date Line, does that mean he's alive? “

[odessasteps]

8 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

I wonder if he ends up top of the nightly news like Ozzy. 

If there’s no real news today, possibly. 

[RIPPA]

1 minute ago, odessasteps said:

One of my friends just said “If they fly his body back across the International Date Line, does that mean he's alive? “

You have some dumb friends

[odessasteps]

He wasn’t being serious. He had been paraphrasing all the other famous lies. 

[worldcupfever]

5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

If there’s no real news today, possibly. 

I don't think it's realistic to think Hogan's passing is a less important story than Ozzy's.

[Curt McGirt]

https://bsky.app/profile/notthattomgreen.is.tired.fyi/post/3lupwuhqffs2r

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Real fans know that Hulk Hogan died way better in Japan.

 

[SirSmUgly]

In "honor" of this leathery old bastard's pro wrestling career, let me reproduce for you all, in full, his "finest" promo ever:

I WENT DOWN TO THE HOOD, AND WHEN I WENT TO THE HOOD, ALL THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS SAID “HOLLYWOOD, WHY DON’T YA TAKE BACK OVER? WHY DON’T YA SLAUGHTER THE LAMBS THAT YOU’VE LED TO SLA-SLAUGHTER?” AND AS I SAID “BROTHERS, YOU’RE RIGHT,” THEY SAID “'WOOD, DO IT FOR US. ‘WOOD, TAKE ‘EM OUT ONE AT A TIME."

[SturmCRF]

My main take on this is The Natural's long running catchphrase. But in the interests of balance - for my eighth birthday party, my parents took me and about 20 of my friends to see Mr. Nanny, and straight after that to a local McDonalds. We destroyed that place. Absolutely hyped up out of our minds after seeing the film, we started a full on food fight within minutes. Cushions torn out of the seats, ketchup and nuggets flying, it was mad. My Uncle never offered to help out with one of my parties again. So, thanks for that memory at least Hulk, you big horrible racist.

[Cobra Commander]

Love that the AP breaking news alert is giving the Florida Police and WWE equal billing for their ability to break the news that Hogan died

Shoutout to the Vault people wondering if there’s a protocol for when they can upload Hogan comps without it being too soon. A shame that a certain percentage of 80s Hogan has dubbed out Eye of the Tiger on the WWE Network.

Also, BTS’s 10th anniversary was going to partially be about Hogan and I think they recorded the actual episode content before he tied but the halftime and (presumably intro) are being recorded today

[ExcellenceofAirPollution]

Hulkster in Heaven

RIP and thanks for the memories 'brother.  Sorry you turned out to be such a gigantic piece of shit.  Some of it came with the territory of being King Shit of Fuck Mt. in a sleazy business full of shitty people, especially at the time he came up.  Other stuff away from wrestling there's no excuse for and unfortunately that's the Terry Bolea I'm going to remember most, the racist POS who shamelessly embraced American Fascism

I'm basically the prototypical "grew up with Hulkamania (though Piper was my favorite), teenager during nWo when he became cool again while simultaneously killing my favorite promotion" fan so I've got mixed feelings about the man's career as I'm sure most do.  Everything post 2003 or so with him in wrestling is pretty much a joke to me and can largely be forgotten.  Looking back most of my favorite stuff from the Hulkamania era didn't actually involve him, but he was the central hub it all revolved around.  Same can be said for 96-98 WCW.

My favorite memories of him are his roided out, coked to the gills 80's promos where he cast himself as some sort of quasi mythical figure performing superhuman feats across the globe.  The best of those are untouchable insanity

 

[RIPPA]

Weirdly - Hogan was one of the first people that getting into tape trading changed my opinion on wrestling wise

I remember being stunned when finally seeing footage of stuff in Japan and the pre-Hulkamania work

Not commenting on the quality but just how different things were when not filtered through Vince's 80s lens

[J.H.]

I'm not sure how to feel about this, at this very moment. He was a big part of my childhood. But then there are the things like the constant lying, the Neverending self-promotion and the racism... the last one is a big thing to me.

 

I need time to process

James

[HumanChessgame]

33 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

or all the absurd lying - which side note - I am only seeing this one for the first time and now I want more details

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7WTm-6JSds

[DMN]

'Elvis Pressley was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me...'

Wish I could say that, it's honestly how I feel now. Hulk Hogan was a big part of my childhood (though, even as a kid I was more into Piper and then Bret), but he worked really hard to show the world who he really was, and I respect that, so fuck 'em. I expected to feel more about this, but I don't. Losing Terry Funk hurt me, like losing a grandfather, losing Eddie hurt me, like losing an older brother, but this, this is like losing the racist uncle that showed up and ruined the holidays, despite your fond memories of them from when you were a kid.

Goodbye, Hulk Hogan, good riddance, Terry Bollea. I hope they let Roddy Piper tell you that you gotta head downstairs.

[Steventon]

Getting into wrestling in the 90s, I didn't quite have the emotional connect to him as others may have. But his impact and influence was incredible and larger than life. Hard to think of many others who will have done so much good and so much bad for the business. 

[The Natural]

2 hours ago, Zimbra said:

Say the line, Paul, you've earned it.

 

1 hour ago, SturmCRF said:

My main take on this is The Natural's long running catchphrase. But in the interests of balance - for my eighth birthday party, my parents took me and about 20 of my friends to see Mr. Nanny, and straight after that to a local McDonalds. We destroyed that place. Absolutely hyped up out of our minds after seeing the film, we started a full on food fight within minutes. Cushions torn out of the seats, ketchup and nuggets flying, it was mad. My Uncle never offered to help out with one of my parties again. So, thanks for that memory at least Hulk, you big horrible racist.

Thank you. Fk Hulk Hogan. Never liked Hogan as he always won, Hulkamania was lame as fuck, the "that doesn't work for me, brother" creative control bullshit, all the lies and he's a racist piece of fucking shit. Fuck him, Racist in Purgatory.

Edited July 24 by The Natural

[BobbyWhioux]

Undertaker finally got him, brother.

Yeah, this is pretty surreal, Hogan's presence in/shadow over wrestling has been so big and so ubiquitous for so long that him now not being around is difficult to fathom. Even though you intellectually know everyone dies eventually some folks still get sorted into that emotional "oh they're always going to be around, they can't not be" category.  Whether that's a good thing because they're adored or a bad thing because they're reviled.

Hogan took a turn at being both.

Would I still be here/be into wrestling without Hogan? Eventually, probably, sure.  But I wouldn't have gotten into it when I did in the same way I did without Hogan being the cultural phenomenon that raised the public profile of wrestling when and how he did (even as someone who fell out of love with the act almost immediately.  And of course the less said about the real life, the better, especially as time went on and we learned more and more).

It's not sad per se but the idea of it is going to feel weird for a long time.  [In that one, and only, respect, it is similar to Ozzy.]

[Doragon]

Goodbye Hogan, I love you so much. Just won't be the same without you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubB2seP7PMI&t=475s

[Cobra Commander]

Watching the rest of the AWA Super Sunday card really did put into perspective how over Hogan was there. Drop an actual charismatic face on Minnesota and watch him blow all the white bread candyass babyfaces out of the water.

although to be fair to Verne, Hogan was probably not long for the AWA even if Verne played nice with him.

[SovietShooter]

1 hour ago, The Green Meanie said:

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/14810752/hulk-hogan-dead-wwe/

Fuck the S*n

[Robert S]

29 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

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or all the absurd lying - which side note - I am only seeing this one for the first time and now I want more details

As usual, there is a tiny bit of truth behind that story. From Bret Hart's autobiography:

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I slept all the way to Kansas City. The rumor had gone round that Harley Race was threatening to show up with a shotgun when the WWF came to town, because the Missouri territory was his, and everyone, especially Hogan, was anxious about it. Harley simply walked into the dressing room and held his finger up to his lips, signaling everyone to be quiet as he snuck up behind Hogan and then slapped him as hard as he could on the short ribs. Hogan turned around wincing, and seeing Harley, he turned white as a ghost. Hogan had to be thinking, Oh my God, now what the heck do I do? Then Harley smirked, extending his hand in friendship, and Hogan seemed more than a little relieved.

That also matches what Harley said about this to RF in 2000, BTW (Harley says here that he had said that he had had a gun on him):

But Hogan is definitely not the only one who played up that story to such a degree.

[Curt McGirt]

https://thehardtimes.net/culture/hulk-hogan-dead-at-71-after-decades-long-battle-with-hulkamania/

This is priceless.