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Hulk Hogan dead at 71

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Wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan dead at 71

Wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan has died, his manager confirmed. He was 71. Manager Chris Volo told NBC Los Angeles that Hogan died at his home in Clearwater, Florida, surrounded by family. Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, attained pro wrestling stardom in the 1980s and 1990s and was...
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Hulk Hogan was one of the biggest stars in wrestling in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
 
Can't really say I was a fan. But I remember his pop culture impact in the 1980s. He gave pro-wrestling a (probably much too) larger than life image. I remember having to explain to my nephew about what really goes on and that it's mostly sheer show, not force.

But 71 is pretty damn good when you've been smashed over the head with a steel folding chair x number of times.
 
i'm conflicted about the death of Hulk Hogan as i am on the side that was a kid of the late 80s/early 90s as i was born in 1985, meaning Hulkamania's peak occurred in my early years but i didn't care much about wrestling outside of Hogan and Savage until i got into the sport in the late 1990s during the Attitude Era/Monday Night Wars era when Hogan was associated with the cool heel stable of the nWo in WCW and WWE's comeback from it's really bad mid 19990s down period with Austin 3:16 being the big deal as well as the rise of The Rock, but i owe Hulk a lot for being the guy who help transition the business in the 1980s by turning WWE from the Northeastern Territory dubbed "New York" due to it being it's de facto home market into the global powerhouse that it is today.

without Hogan, there would be no Attitude Era, no AEW, no TNA, no ECW, no modern Indy Wrestling revolution as well as ROH, there would be no 2010s NJPW expansion in the western wrestling world outside it's home market of Japan, as well as the great Joshi wrestling (Joshi means girl in Japan and that's what Japanese Women's Wrestling is called) breakthrough in the US Market with the likes of Bull Nakano & Aja Kong in the 1990s, Asuka, Kairi Sane, Iyo Sky & Giulia in more recent years in WWE as well as Riho, Hikaru Shida, Emi Sakaru, Yuka Sakazaki and Mina Shirakawa coming to America from Japan in AEW, and everything else that happened in this business in the last 45 years as Hogan's was the man who made the fake sport mainstream in pop culture.

but at the same time, Terry Bollea was a terrible person raging from abusing creative control to lying about a lot of things (my favorite Hogan lie is he claimed that Metallica tried to talk to him about being Cliff Burton's replacement after his untimely passing in 1986 in a bus wreck in Sweden while Metallica was on a European tour promoting "Master Of Puppets") to his most recent sex tape scandal which had the infamous "i am a racist" comment he made in it where he said the N word, to even his public endorsement of Donald Trump which resulted in him getting booed out of what turned out to be his last live appearance on WWE TV on the Raw debut on Netflix back on January 6 where the LA crowd at the Intuit Dome booed him so hard, it couldn't be ignored. needless to say, Hogan at the end of his life had ruined his image and legacy for this behavior and i don't feel sorry for him but do feel bad for his friends and family, i would say Rest In Peace, but i don't think Hogan deserves it. i'm sorry, but Rot In Hell Hulk Hogan.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
Hogan at the end of his life had ruined his image and legacy for this behavior and i don't feel sorry for him but do feel bad for his friends and family, i would say Rest In Peace, but i don't think Hogan deserves it. i'm sorry, but Rot In Hell Hulk Hogan.
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I have similarly seen scads of negative comments about Ozzy Osbourne's passing, criticizing him for doing shows in Israel.

We all have our defects. Some "derail" due to the effects of aging or just values that have not seen modern enlightenment. But once people are dead, perhaps withholding useless condemnations... or at least waiting a while... is appropriate.
 
In the late 1970s I worked at a station that produced a regionally syndicated Wresting show. As I was on the production staff I got to meet Hulk Hogan when he came through on the wrestling circuit. This was when he was just starting out in the business and beginning to make a name for himself. Even then the persona was pretty well honed, at least in front of the camera.
 
I was able to meet Hulk, Randy Savage & Miss Elizabeth at a WWF event backstage. This was way back in the day when all the shenanigans with them in the storyline were going on in '85 or '86. They were all so nice and down to earth. It was strange to see them out of character though; especially seeing Randy Savage speaking somewhat normally was truly bizarre. lol. RIP to them all.
 
Again, I have no words. RIP you legend, and condolences for his fellow wrestling teammates, family and friends :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

We've lost way too many celebrities in the past few days. Ozzy, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Chuck Mangione, and now Hulk.
 
I miss "Young Rock" which had the supposedly true stories of these wrestlers.

In the above photo he looks like Reba McEntire's husband on "Happy's Place". Her real-life husband.
 


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