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The other day I watched a youtube video about "Superstar" Billy Graham a wrestler who Hogan took a lot of things from. Graham admitted to taking steroids and was disappointed when Hogan went on Arsenio Hall and wouldnt admit to it. Later we learned that a lot of wrestlers hated Hogan behind the scenes and were tired of his BS. The feud between him and Iron Sheik is hilarious.

Was I like a lot of kids a fan of Hogan at one point, of course, and he was probably the single most important figure in wrestling history. But he's done a lot of terrible things, ruining TNA wrestling which was a great alternative to WWE and his latest politcal stuff are just more examples. The movies he did were pretty bad as well. Watching Dark Side of the Ring opened my eyes to how bad some of these wrestlers were a people. Just remembered about him ratting out Ventura to Vince. There are so many things.
 
I think it might be hard to describe to people with no memory of the pre-internet era just how big Hulk Hogan was for a period in the last 80s. I remember being 7 years old in the dying day of communist Yugoslavia and renting a VHS of No Holds Barred because I loved Hogan. I can't quite figure out how I even knew who he was because WWE certainly wasn't shown on state TV in freaking Yugoslavia.

And on the topic of No Holds Barred, which was a terrible movie in which Hulk basically played himself, not only was a it a major studio release, but it finished 2nd behind Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in earnings the week it opened. That's astounding when you think about it.
 
prodigy said:
The other day I watched a youtube video about "Superstar" Billy Graham a wrestler who Hogan took a lot of things from. Graham admitted to taking steroids and was disappointed when Hogan went on Arsenio Hall and wouldnt admit to it. Later we learned that a lot of wrestlers hated Hogan behind the scenes and were tired of his BS. The feud between him and Iron Sheik is hilarious.

Was I like a lot of kids a fan of Hogan at one point, of course, and he was probably the single most important figure in wrestling history. But he's done a lot of terrible things, ruining TNA wrestling which was a great alternative to WWE and his latest politcal stuff are just more examples. The movies he did were pretty bad as well. Watching Dark Side of the Ring opened my eyes to how bad some of these wrestlers were a people. Just remembered about him ratting out Ventura to Vince. There are so many things.
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I heard a story today about Hulks son driving drunk and getting in a car crash and killing the passenger in the car with Hulks son. Hulks son was in jail and there was a recording of a discussion between Hulk and his son talking about the passengers death and Hulk said something about how the dead kid must have had bad ju ju/bad karma and had it coming. Basically the dead kid deserved to die due to bad karma? Pretty messed up if true.
 
fishonjazz said:
I heard a story today about Hulks son driving drunk and getting in a car crash and killing the passenger in the car with Hulks son. Hulks son was in jail and there was a recording of a discussion between Hulk and his son talking about the passengers death and Hulk said something about how the dead kid must have had bad ju ju/bad karma and had it coming. Basically the dead kid deserved to die due to bad karma? Pretty messed up if true.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq3pdXIQnfM
 
gandalfe said:
Oh, wait, a better 3rd for this:

www.usatoday.com

Chuck Mangione, whose jazz songs found new life on 'King of the Hill,' dead at 84

Chuck Mangione, the jazz trumpet legend whose song "Feels So Good" found new life on TV's "King of the Hill," has died at 84.
www.usatoday.com
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Those of a certain age have heard this hundreds of times. Damn, we are about to lose so many 60's and 70's musicians, actors, etc. It's not going to be easy losing the people we grew up on.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKp7g0mxHVc



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JimLes said:
I think it might be hard to describe to people with no memory of the pre-internet era just how big Hulk Hogan was for a period in the last 80s. I remember being 7 years old in the dying day of communist Yugoslavia and renting a VHS of No Holds Barred because I loved Hogan. I can't quite figure out how I even knew who he was because WWE certainly wasn't shown on state TV in freaking Yugoslavia.

And on the topic of No Holds Barred, which was a terrible movie in which Hulk basically played himself, not only was a it a major studio release, but it finished 2nd behind Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in earnings the week it opened. That's astounding when you think about it.
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The Hulkster had all the merchandise.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqKw3u36QI
 
fishonjazz said:
I heard a story today about Hulks son driving drunk and getting in a car crash and killing the passenger in the car with Hulks son. Hulks son was in jail and there was a recording of a discussion between Hulk and his son talking about the passengers death and Hulk said something about how the dead kid must have had bad ju ju/bad karma and had it coming. Basically the dead kid deserved to die due to bad karma? Pretty messed up if true.
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Well he was a Trumptard.
 
fishonjazz said:
I heard a story today about Hulks son driving drunk and getting in a car crash and killing the passenger in the car with Hulks son. Hulks son was in jail and there was a recording of a discussion between Hulk and his son talking about the passengers death and Hulk said something about how the dead kid must have had bad ju ju/bad karma and had it coming. Basically the dead kid deserved to die due to bad karma? Pretty messed up if true.
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Yeah his son is a POS. Even after this he still got a DUI a year or so ago. And there is body cam footage of the Hulkster showing up to meet with cops and bail his dumb *** son out who can only tell the cops that he is his son.

Anyways yeah Hogan was pretty big back in the day, perhaps the best example I can think of him randomly showing up in the Gremlins sequel. It was one of those scenes that if you saw as a kid you'll forever remember it.

View: https://youtu.be/SCk5XnxI46U?si=cOIlu6cbLcpIBcpO
 
LogGrad98 said:
Same. I imagine in plenty ways I'm stuck in my teenage years. Most of us are to some extent. But to be stuck there through WWE just feels weird and juvenile on another level.
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I mean, I can't speak to why some adults like WWE because hell, I'm not sure some folks realize it's fake. I do however think about something my wife told me a few years ago.

She's a social worker. She's done everything from intense residential for troubled teens(translation: kids throw benches at your head and occasionally stab your coworker to death) to women's emergency shelter(cops occasionally help their buddies find where their battered wife is staying). I would gently rib her about watching things like Love after Lockup or 90 Day Fiancé or Love Island kind of stuff. One time, she told me that in her line of work, she just wants to come home and watch something stupid and unwind. Watch shows whose stars'/contestants' choices make her feel infinitely better about her own life. She doesn't wanna watch the news, or sad Italian movies with subtitles or BBC mini-series about toxic masculinity.

I spend my day teaching mostly motivated adults and laughing every 5 minutes. I generally feel better about myself and the world by the time I finish work(I also teach online and have no commute). Maybe if I was in my wife's position, I'd come home and watch 2+ grotesquely ripped men pretend to beat the crap out of each other.
 
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