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RIP Hulk Hogan!

Bucky

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RIP Brotha!

A true wrestling legend. Let's keep it CLEAN and respectful!

 
Just heard. Damn, only 71. Whether you liked him or not, not old by today's standards. I'm indifferent on him.
Was never a wrestling fan.
 
Well who will be #3 Brotha?

RIP (I guess)
 
Until he popped up campaigning for Trump, I thought he was already dead.
 
It is hard to talk about Hogan in an RIP thread, but I will take a stab at it as a lifelong wrestling fan.

Hogan was trained by the legendary Hiro Matsuda(though he is probably best known as a trainer for CWF, the Florida wrestling group), who the first day broke Hogan's leg, something all too common back in those days. After the leg healed, Hogan went back and blocked Matsuda when he went for Hogan's leg again. Hogan was a huge fan of Superstar Billy Graham, and copied his gimmick almost entirely(they had a similar look, similar way of talking, both used "brother" constantly), but Hogan had a ton more success with it. Hogan would go on to wrestle all over the US and Japan, before coming back for his second stint at WWE(WWF at the time), and creating "Hulkamania", when he became hugely popular. He would then go to WCW and completely reinvent himself as "Hollywood Hulk Hogan", wrestling as a heel(bad guy).

While Hogan's inring style was kinda low impact, it did take a tremendous toll on his body, as wrestling does to all those who do it. The body is not meant to take the abuse wrestlers put it through. Hogan's finishes was a simple leg drop, pretty low impact, but after a career of doing it he needed repeated surgeries on his back and hips, and ended up a full 3 inches shorter.

While there have been better technical wrestlers(lots and lots of them), better inring storytellers, better people on the mic, no one ever had the success that Hogan had. He was one of the few wrestlers than even those who did not watch wrestling knew. His match at Wrestlemania 3 against Andre the Giant is a thing of legends(even though as a match it was pretty terrible, and the old story about his not knowing if Andre would let Hogan slam him was pure fiction). Hogan was everything I disliked in wrestling(the details of that are outside the scope of a RIP thread), I cannot deny the huge impact he had on wrestling and pop culture.

RIP
 
In 1982 Hulk Hogan commissioned a machine gun guitar to be built by Minneapolis luthier Charles Orr, and he stiffed Charley.
Jesse Ventura decided to make Charley whole on the cost of the instrument and used it in a music video, then gave it back to Charley, who hung it up in his shop.
Now Charley is gone, and Hulkomania is over.
But Jesse the Body Ventura lives on.
 
And George Kooymans (Golden Earring guitarist).
 
He was an actor.
 
Keep it respectful?

I respected the Hulk despite his politics but posting him in a picture with Don Jr, one of the skuziest people on the planet, is not very respectful
 
Bucky said:
He was a Professional Wrestler in the sports entertainment industry.

Please, try not to belittle a person's profession.
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All I did was list his job.
 
CaughtInThe said:
All I did was list his job.
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One of his jobs. One of, over the course of his life, many. He is best known as a sports entertainer, which is a far different job than "actor", though it does require some acting.
 
Bucky said:
He was a Professional Wrestler in the sports entertainment industry.

Please, try not to belittle a person's profession.
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"Professional wrestling" is acting. So is being in movies, which he also did.

It's a bad soap opera of oiled up steroid freaks in speedos. They take a lot of damage, but not because they're actually fighting. It's acting. And they are their own stuntmen.
 

How is that different from a ballet dancer?
 
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