Hulk Hogan Passes Away At 71
I really don’t know where to start. It’s Hulk Hogan. There might not be a bigger star in wrestling history as he is often going to be the person fans think of when wrestling is brought up. He absolutely revolutionized wrestling with the title win (January 23, 1984) over the Iron Sheik as it changed the way the business worked. That’s not something you see very often and Hogan ran with that thing for the better part of a decade.
Then you have the heel turn, which managed to put WCW firmly in front of the WWF for a good while. That’s even before he came back and won the WWF Title (last WWF Champion before the change over to WWE, which feels so appropriate) and have the awesome match with Rock at Wrestlemania. Outside of McMahon himself, there is no one who had a bigger impact on the company’s ascension, which is about as important as it gets.
There are all kinds of things that can be criticized about Hogan and a lot of them took place in the last few years, but we’ll save those for another time. This one hurts in a different way, as Hogan is the kind of person I couldn’t imagine ever actually being gone. It’s going to take me awhile to get my mind around this and I can’t imagine the tributes that are going to roll in from WWE. Hogan might not have the most spotless record in recent years, but he absolutely deserves the sendoff he’ll be receiving.
Favorite Hulk matches/moments/ridiculously nonsense stories?
Hey KB, right from the old WZ forum days I’ve known you were a massive Hogan fan from childhood and I really wanted to come on here and read about your thoughts. I echo what you said completely, as this one is really, really difficult to wrap my mind around. The news just came out of nowhere and still has not sunk in. Like, Hulk Hogan is gone! I used to watch his some of his recent interviews and the classic old promos randomly quite often and even I felt like he was just going to be around somehow.
I put on the Wrestlemania 3 match with Andre last night and then his match with The Rock at X8 and just watched it. There will never be another like him. RIP
Yeah, considering what an absolutely awful person he was, I’m not in the camp of letting him have tributes. Then again, I’m not white so yeah. I’ll leave it at that.
This reply proves otherwise.
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Tom how are you holding up man? I know we both loved Hogan I was born in 1989 and I became a Hulkamaniac the day I first watch professional wrestling on the Old WWF VHS tapes he’s the reason I became a professional wrestling fan and he’s the reason I stayed as a Hulkamaniac this hurts more than anyone can imagine I have both of Hogan’s main DVD sets the ultimate anthology and the unreleased collector series so I will be binge watching them sometime from next week RIP Hulkster love you brother and thank you ☹️😢
Hi Tom just to let you know as a follow up on my earlier post they’ve just put up on the WWE vault YouTube channel Hogan’s unreleased collectors series DVD in full it went up about 45 minutes ago I’d love a full review of it if you can find the time that is I know you’re busy thanks man.
I’m about halfway done with it. Should be up tonight if I can get some stuff done around the house first.
Sorry disregard last message I just looked at the time stamp in the thumbnail and it’s only DVD one not the whole collection as I previously thought sorry about that.
You’re not the first person to ask if I’m ok with all this. It’s more I can’t believe he’s gone as he’s one of those people who feels like he was always going to be around.
I fell the same.
I mean, he was known as Immortal for so long.
In the silly moments category and I didn’t see it myself so its one of those who knows if it happened but during the NWO run when they were beating down the WCW roster as a episode of Nitro was going off air with a bunch of WCW guys laid out and spray painted, Hogan turns to the camera and says, ” I am God.”
I believe that was the last nitro segment before starcade 1997.