The Hulkster, RIP

[Markk]

Sad news American Icon passed away....

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/pro-wres ... hogan-dead

[Dr Exiled]

RIP Hulkster.

I loved the bald guy that did all the interviews. He never broke character. Here is an interview with Hulk Hogan:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChNLkUuaLFk

[Markk]

" To all you little Hulksters out there, train, say your prayers, and eat your Vitamins!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-dI4Sl2rzE

[Doctor Steuss]

RIP Hulkster.

I loved the bald guy that did all the interviews. He never broke character. Here is an interview with Hulk Hogan:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChNLkUuaLFk

Good ole "Mean Gene" Okerlund. I always loved when he'd have energetic chaos pairs, like Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, or Hogan and Randy Savage. Him, staying a serious and somber interviewer, while pure chaos ensued around him was always amazing.

[Markk]

RIP Hulkster.

I loved the bald guy that did all the interviews. He never broke character. Here is an interview with Hulk Hogan:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChNLkUuaLFk

Good ole "Mean Gene" Okerlund. I always loved when he'd have energetic chaos pairs, like Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, or Hogan and Randy Savage. Him, staying a serious and somber interviewer, while pure chaos ensued around him was always amazing.

Mean Gene was awesome....

Remember Dick Lane? I had a job when I was around 11 or 12 selling the "Wrestling Special" at the old San Bernardino Auditorium. We would walk around yelling "Wrestling Special 10 cents." We got paid around 50 cents or so and after the match started we had our choice of seats that didn't sell out to sit in. Dick Lane would come once in a while, but my biggest memory was Freddy Blassi filing down his teeth, allegedly of course, and the midgets was fun also. Roller derby was a big thing also down the street at the Swing Auditorium.


In regard to the Hulk....

We had a family friend that was the president of a So Ca Make a Wish Foundation. He said that Hulk was by far the best celebrity he worked with, that he went above and beyond with the kids in the Hospitals.

[Doctor Steuss]

Remember Dick Lane?

I think that was before the time when my brothers and I were into wrestling.

I think we started watching somewhere around 1986-ish.

In regard to the Hulk....

We had a family friend that was the president of a So Ca Make a Wish Foundation. He said that Hulk was by far the best celebrity he worked with, that he went above and beyond with the kids in the Hospitals.

I only had two very brief interactions with him. It was back when there was a Gold's Gym on Flamingo and Sandhill here in Vegas, that I used to work out at. For some reason, it was where all of the celebrities tended to work out when they were in town. Both times he was there when I was, he made sure that the second someone made eye contact with him, to go over and say hi, and gas them up. Both times he told me I was on my way to having "some serious pythons." I couldn't have weighed more than 220 pounds at the time, lol. Incredibly generous and cordial to make time like that when he was just going about his life.

I still remember how devastated I was when the tape of him was leaked, and all of the other stuff. Never a particularly comfortable experience when a childhood hero falls from the pedestal we built for them.

[Markk]

Remember Dick Lane?

I think that was before the time when my brothers and I were into wrestling.

I think we started watching somewhere around 1986-ish.

In regard to the Hulk....

We had a family friend that was the president of a So Ca Make a Wish Foundation. He said that Hulk was by far the best celebrity he worked with, that he went above and beyond with the kids in the Hospitals.

I only had two very brief interactions with him. It was back when there was a Gold's Gym on Flamingo and Sandhill here in Vegas, that I used to work out at. For some reason, it was where all of the celebrities tended to work out when they were in town. Both times he was there when I was, he made sure that the second someone made eye contact with him, to go over and say hi, and gas them up. Both times he told me I was on my way to having "some serious pythons." I couldn't have weighed more than 220 pounds at the time, lol. Incredibly generous and cordial to make time like that when he was just going about his life.

I still remember how devastated I was when the tape of him was leaked, and all of the other stuff. Never a particularly comfortable experience when a childhood hero falls from the pedestal we built for them.

For sure, one lesson I have learned in life is never get too close to your heroes, especially as you grow old. Another thing I learned, from watching Dragnet; a quote from another hero Detective Joe Friday, ....unfortunately hero's, like our police officers, "we recruit them from the Human Race."
The Hulk was not my hero, but he was a good dude.

I love this video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMdCURQpGg

[Gadianton]

I liked Hulk Hogan as a kid and I like the the character even now, the "pre-postmodern turn" version of a wrestling hero. I wouldn't say I was a bigger fan of his than others. I agree Mean Jean may have the number one spot in terms of pure character. Even as a kid, "say your prayers and eat your vitamins" was a little much, and I would have been embarrassed to have been a "Hulkamaniac" for fear of getting made fun in grade school.

I recall him defending himself on Howard Stern for his controversies and I thought he played it pretty well. If you f'd up back in the day, the best thing you could do to rehabilitate your image was to go on Howard Stern and let him give you hell for an hour.

My thinking was hugely influenced by the WWF as a kid, and as I've said, I can't think of a better prelude to the terror we find ourselves in today, the post-truth world that embraces negative heroes, than the long story-arc of wrestling personalities from the 80s to the 2000s.

It's nice the Hulk was patient with kids, but he certainly didn't have an issue sending countless children to their doom through unnecessary and brutal deportations, cutting off world aid, and cutting off health and other benefits to children in need. He probably even knew about the Epstein connections and what that entailed and looked the other way, being more of a hero for male children. So at the end of the day, he turned out to be your typical fraud. Full of optimism and feel-good showmanship but with nothing to back it up. One of his last public acts was to rip off his shirt in front of the world in a call for unbridled fascist nationalism. And so he died a fool and a loser, if we look at his life in terms of its overall moral quality. If there is a hell, may he burn there for a long time for what he did to the rest of us in his abject ignorance and self-indulgence.

[Markk]

Remember Dick Lane?

I think that was before the time when my brothers and I were into wrestling.

I think we started watching somewhere around 1986-ish.

In regard to the Hulk....

We had a family friend that was the president of a So Ca Make a Wish Foundation. He said that Hulk was by far the best celebrity he worked with, that he went above and beyond with the kids in the Hospitals.

I only had two very brief interactions with him. It was back when there was a Gold's Gym on Flamingo and Sandhill here in Vegas, that I used to work out at. For some reason, it was where all of the celebrities tended to work out when they were in town. Both times he was there when I was, he made sure that the second someone made eye contact with him, to go over and say hi, and gas them up. Both times he told me I was on my way to having "some serious pythons." I couldn't have weighed more than 220 pounds at the time, lol. Incredibly generous and cordial to make time like that when he was just going about his life.

I still remember how devastated I was when the tape of him was leaked, and all of the other stuff. Never a particularly comfortable experience when a childhood hero falls from the pedestal we built for them.

How much do you weight now, you must be a big dude. when I played football and soccer and was in my tip top condition I went about 220-225. did you mean 120?

[Markk]

I liked Hulk Hogan as a kid and I like the the character even now, the "pre-postmodern turn" version of a wrestling hero. I wouldn't say I was a bigger fan of his than others. I agree Mean Jean may have the number one spot in terms of pure character. Even as a kid, "say your prayers and eat your vitamins" was a little much, and I would have been embarrassed to have been a "Hulkamaniac" for fear of getting made fun in grade school.

I recall him defending himself on Howard Stern for his controversies and I thought he played it pretty well. If you f'd up back in the day, the best thing you could do to rehabilitate your image was to go on Howard Stern and let him give you hell for an hour.

My thinking was hugely influenced by the WWF as a kid, and as I've said, I can't think of a better prelude to the terror we find ourselves in today, the post-truth world that embraces negative heroes, than the long story-arc of wrestling personalities from the 80s to the 2000s.

It's nice the Hulk was patient with kids, but he certainly didn't have an issue sending countless children to their doom through unnecessary and brutal deportations, cutting off world aid, and cutting off health and other benefits to children in need. He probably even knew about the Epstein connections and what that entailed and looked the other way, being more of a hero for male children. So at the end of the day, he turned out to be your typical fraud. Full of optimism and feel-good showmanship but with nothing to back it up. One of his last public acts was to rip off his shirt in front of the world in a call for unbridled fascist nationalism. And so he died a fool and a loser, if we look at his life in terms of its overall moral quality. If there is a hell, may he burn there for a long time for what he did to the rest of us in his abject ignorance and self-indulgence.

Lol....You bring so much sunshine to these threads.