I owned this terrible video game. It made me a Bam Bam Bigelow fan because he was the only one that had a cool move, which was just like a cartwheel.
This is an insane over exaggeration and provably false. The list of guys who loved working with him in the 80s and 90s is pretty long and the list of people who actually hated him is pretty short. The new generation absolutely hates him because it turned out he was a racist, but his contemporaries did not.
Good Riddence to this MAGA piece of ****. 80s kid that loved wrestling was sad to learn what a piece of crap this guy actually was.
I actually feel bad that I feel like I feel about him.. He got me into wrestling ( had the hulkamania shirt and all ) but that about it now... I'm not gonna talk down on him too much now that he's gone..
So many people pointing out that the Hulkster was racist but folks often forget he was also a scab, a narc, and an adulterer.
Hulk Hogan was an American icon. He was the face of wrestling when it positively impacted the lives of so many youth. He was a larger-than-life character and his showmanship and energy were unsurpassed. It was his charisma and talent that lifted wrestling into the mainstream. He was a transformational figure and the best wrestler in history. Rest in peace BROTHER.
From the time I was maybe 7-9 or so I liked wrestling. And him and Andre the Giant were my favorites. Too bad he was an awful person seemingly. is what it is.
I initially had negative thoughts when I heard he passed because of who he had proven to be as a person. But, then again, I think we care too much about who we think celebrities are. There are plenty of other celebrities that are bad people and we don't know about it. It's best to not glorify any of them and just remember them for their work. This is fair but I would probably throw in the caveat, it was more the 80s and really early 90s. Many of the wrestlers from the mid 90s, 2000s, and 2010s have negative stories. Part of that is because he came from an era where wrestling was intended to be cartoonish where the good guy always won (like every night) and the exaggerated crowd gestures and hollering really sold things. They didn't have every single camera angle to pick up on slight facial expressions and movements. I don't think he really understood how to craft a more compelling storyline. By the late 90s I think story telling and in-ring athleticism became more important. However, he was absolutely the face of pro wrestling early on and helped build it to be an accepted form of entertainment.
While I'm an 80's kid, my arc of interest in wrestling was quick. Learning it was all an act and staged killed it for me quickly. Yeah, I went to see Jimmy "Superfly" Sunka at the Sam Houston Coliseum. I watched that first Wrestlemania. Then it was over. I didn't have the love for it like so many of my friends did much longer than I did. Calling him things like "the best wrestler in history" is freakin hilarious to me. They did what the script said to do. I don't honestly care that he was a magat. I do care that he was generally a giant racist piece of s*** who was a serial liar. I mean, he tried to tell people he was asked to be the bassist for Metallica. Granted, those things seem to go hand in hand...but I digress. He was also a rat...telling McMahon that the rest of his fellow actors were trying to start a union, which ultimately killed it. Just not a good person and just because he died, I'm not going to praise him because he was a roided up maniac who was just louder than the other actors he worked with.
Hogan took professional wrestling popularity to the next level much like Magic and Bird did back in the day.
On brand. My FIL did the same thing when he realized he was headed for the exit with Alzheimer's. It's weird that a public bath gives you the keys to eternity in paradise.
