Your opinion on Hulk Hogan ?

[Andullero]

To understand why Hulk Hogan was popular you need to understand the 80s. It was a time of Reagan patriotism with movies like Top Gun, the Rocky movie where he beats up the Russian, the second and third Rambo film, etc. Hulk Hogan was representative of that time. He is - after all - the real American hero. He 'fought' the Russian guy whose name I can't remember (US vs. Russia) and the Sheik (US vs. Iran)

I don't have an opinion on Hulk Hogan. He did wave at me in a burger king parking lot when I was 6. So that was nice of him.

Yeah, one needs to have fully lived within the decade and experienced it to fully get the excitement that the man's whole gimmick used to inspire, lol.

[Cold Fire]

Loved his gimmick, as a child. Found it cringe, the older I got but still fond of him and the whole "wrestling thing".
Before him/WWF, we had Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. Fondest childhood memory was of my dad getting tickets for me and him to go see Big Daddy, Fit Finley and Giant Haystacks fight at our local town hall, back in the '80s.

The black thing was funny, just seemed like typical American drama.

Gotta say , wrestling still polarises . .

.. pro or con.

People often take one side or the other . .

[gianmarioricco1]

He sold moves hilariously, love me some Hulkster.

[Cold Fire]

He sold moves hilariously, love me some Hulkster.

Bollea droppin' that Big Leg

[Cold Fire]

.. meme 'bout the Hulkster which still makes me laugh my ass off ..










.. but, Hogan's not that old, after all

[Cold Fire]

.. picture of a "real" Hogan, i. e. Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan ..


Like I said , Hulk's name is Terry Bollea and his in-ring-name stems from 'The Incredible Hulk'- character ( which McMahon at that time must have thought Terry resembled ( at least in muscular build-up ) , though one maybe also shouldn't leave out of sight that maybe the early 80' s popularity of of the tv-series maybe made McMahon look for an allusion..) and according to lore the McMahons wanted Bollea to have an irish last- name , Hogan..

[Cold Fire]

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.. what was that with the old proverb "Unlucky at cards.. lucky in love.." again ?

[Cold Fire]

.. gotta say, my favourite quote by Bollea is to be found in his '99 'Hollywood Hogan'-docu..

To be found here..

.. in the vid at 5:25


" But when Hollywood heard thousands of Harley Davidson's, brother .. the brothers of the road wanting me to take the belt for Hollywood and the NWO..."





Gotta admit that I sometimes fantasised about an alternate timeline in which 'Hollywood Hogan' founds his own brands, establishments etc etc etc

^ ^ ^pretty much like Back To The Future Part 2,lol . . .

Or even...

.. though I admit that a prostitution spot in the desert wouldn't really be "wrestling-friendly", lol , since , even though made more bad-ass since the late 1990's, it' s still supposed to be family- entertainment...

[Cold Fire]

How I view Hogan as such...
It is, gotta say , some kind of 'incredible Hulk ' combined with an Irish- American , lol.. To be honest . .
I' ve already given my opinion that Irish had a huge influence on America.. https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ion-of-Ireland

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[kingmob]