Wrestling Thread 9: Lets go Chuck Taylor, you're the best wrestler in the world • Page 292

Jesus how small is 2300 Arena?

I forgot today was Thursday so apparently the one AEW 2300 show I can go to is already sold out?

 

Well im gonna showoff how cool of an 8 year old I was. As a kid who became obsessed with wrestling at 6yo (older brother) in 1992 and rented every classic ppv....I was never really that much of a hulkamaniac really. Even as a kid, he was "fine" and i got it. But I never marked out for Hogan as a kid. Truth be told ive never really been a mark for any specific wrestler but anyhow (good story > wrestler). I think i had a million dollars man plushy lol demolition and jake were definitely more my guys.

His impact is obvious. He was a piece of shit but yeah he obviously changed wrestling forever and I dont know where wrestling would be without him right now. Im not happy. Im not sad.

 

When he went on Arsenio and claimed he only ever did gear once because it was prescribed by a doctor due to an injury

 

I always preferred the characters who were counterculture in some fashion. Sting, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Mick Foley, Stone Cold...none of that was Hogan. He was never my guy, always thought his wrestling looked incredibly lazy and lame.

 

Came here to say something along those lines - him, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash were so fucking cool as the NWO to 7 year old me when I was trying to stay up passed my bed time watching Nitro on our upstairs TV. They got me into wrestling along with the WCW cruiserweights.

Beyond that, rest in piss Terry Bollea.

 

Oh the nerve on this guy

 

You're next, Vince.

 

maybe I'm just having selective memory or didn't watch a whole lot of Hulk, but what I did see, he didn't seem particularly good or exciting as an actual wrestler.

 

Never. I'll see clips and think "how fucking bad was this guy in the ring?" He got by on charisma and bootlicking.

 

Not sure how old everyone is here, but in the late 80s/early 90s as like a 3-5 year old, seeing this extremely large muscular man body slam people and give the promos he did and then become seemingly impervious to pain at the end of the match was like watching a real life super hero lol.

 

He wrestled extremely slow and safe

I have heard Cody and the Bucks praise how good he was at pantomiming. That you could be in the nosebleeds and still know everything going on in a Hogan match, but I am not a fan of that.

 

I can totally see that. I was born in 89 and my first true memories of him were WCW/NWO days cause that's around when I really got into wrestling around 5-6 years old.

 

Exactly this. Through my 7 year old eyes, he had this aura around him that was magnanimous and effortless charisma. He was a proverbial god amongst men. I thought a lot of the wrestlers in WCW around that time who were actually pretty good in the ring were chumps in comparison.

 

Remember that time Hogan almost killed actor and comedian Richard Belzer on live TV?

 

he was good in japan or whatever

 

Thinking about it my dislike of Hulk goes back to when he was supposed to play in a local celebrity softball game I attended but bailed when I was like 11.

I got to meet Tony Dungy, Warren Sapp, and Derrick Brooks at least.

 

I’m probably a little older than most people here, but I clearly remember him as a titan of the industry just on marketing and being Vince’s cash cow. Where most other industries clowned on wrestling, Hogan crossed over huge, making movies geared towards my generation, getting endorsement deals and basically just being everywhere. He was a superhero for kids who didn’t read comics.

Also, he made to the top doing a very jingoistic time in America (I mean, what time isn’t, but especially the ‘80s and ‘90s) where they had wrestlers playing dead men, weirdos with a variety of vocations and evil foreigners - he was a pure American values that parents could get on board with. And he almost never lost.

He was not skilled at all, was an asshole and everything else listed, but that didn’t matter because the marketing checked all the boxes for the time.

 

I'm late 30s so I do remember some of his pre-WCW time. Add the jingoism to why he was never my guy, too.

 

Yeah I love that AEW hasn’t put out a tweet about it

 

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