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What are your thoughts on Hulk Hogan as a worker?
He was technically sound in Japan, but he did not wrestle like that for over 90 percent of his career. However, I feel he was an entertaining worker from 1984 through 1992. He didn't do many wrestling moves, but he normally managed to put on a good show.
He always had very animated facial expressions, whether he was intense, in pain, angry, tired or whatever.Aside from his Hulking up routine,, he sold convincingly for his opponents.
And something he doesn't get much credit for is little extra things he added to his matches to add more entertainment to them. Examples are:
-Putting on Savages sunglasses during a match to mock him
- Bouncing his opponent's head off all 4 top turnbuckles in succession.
- Having Sgt. Slaughter place the Iraq flag over him before a pin fall attempt, then tearing the flag apart
- Attempting to bodyslam a 400 lb plus opponent, fail, and hit it successfully later on so it meant more
-Motioning to the crowd that he would take off someone's mask.
- Mocking The Genius's dancing.
-Chasing the Honky Tank Man around the ring with his guitar.
And so on. Hogan usually managed to put on a good show even if he didn't want to do much actual wrestling. As a heel in WCW, he was lazy and broken down, so by then he really was a bad worker.
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He was technically sound in Japan, but he did not wrestle like that for over 90 percent of his career. However, I feel he was an entertaining worker from 1984 through 1992. He didn't do many wrestling moves, but he normally managed to put on a good show.
He always had very animated facial expressions, whether he was intense, in pain, angry, tired or whatever.Aside from his Hulking up routine,, he sold convincingly for his opponents.
And something he doesn't get much credit for is little extra things he added to his matches to add more entertainment to them. Examples are:
-Putting on Savages sunglasses during a match to mock him
- Bouncing his opponent's head off all 4 top turnbuckles in succession.
- Having Sgt. Slaughter place the Iraq flag over him before a pin fall attempt, then tearing the flag apart
- Attempting to bodyslam a 400 lb plus opponent, fail, and hit it successfully later on so it meant more
-Motioning to the crowd that he would take off someone's mask.
- Mocking The Genius's dancing.
-Chasing the Honky Tank Man around the ring with his guitar.
And so on. Hogan usually managed to put on a good show even if he didn't want to do much actual wrestling. As a heel in WCW, he was lazy and broken down, so by then he really was a bad worker.
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