Hulk Hogan Wants to be TNA World Heavyweight Champion

[SYKOVA]

I can't believe either man (Hulk and Ric) are still moving, and Ric is still taking bumps.

I can't see Hulk being World Champ, and I can't see how he even thinks he can do it. He can't move. I was shocked at his match with Sting because it was actually not as bad as I thought it would be. He just can't do it.

And if they find a way to make him World Champ they need to realize it will be the end of TNA....

 

[BC1978]

It wont be the end of TNA....

It could be smart business if someone like Matt Morgan gets the rub off of Hulk.

I really think TNA missed the mark by not putting Hogan and Flair together as a tag team and giving them a run with the TNA Tag Titles. The one thing we havent seen in Wrestling is Hogan and Flair on the same team.

 

[xavyer]

To be perfectly honest, i thought that he would go for the belt sooner, not that i wish for this to happen, because i think is a terrible idea, no one in their right mind would believe he can actually beat someone like Hardy, Bully Ray, Roode, etc. no one would buy into it, like many people say, maybe for a week for the nostalgia factor, but he shouldn't win clean, because then no one would believe it for a second, the man can barely walk, the good thing for him is that he can basicly do what he wants in TNA, Hogan must think that if Sting had the title, why can't he, but the reality is that at least Sting on put on a decent match, but Hogan can't, because at the moment,even with a lot of good superstars, is still about Hogan, so according to him, why not have the Title, even if most people are against this, is just a matter of time before Hogan puts the belt on himself.......

 

[AnthonyM4]

This could be Hogan BSing(like he does sometimes) or it could really happen. I wouldn't be surprised either way. Maybe Bully Ray will beat Jeff Hardy for the title with the help of Aces & 8s and then Ray eventually defends against Hogan. The feud has been teased for awhile now hasn't it?

 

[IT Factor]

Hogan should NEVER become TNA World Champion. Just when Impact starts making better decisions going with younger talent like Aries, Roode , and Storm, then Hogan tries to make himself the focal point again. Quite frankly no one wants to see that tired shit routine of his anymore. It was fun when he returned to WWE in 2002 and faced The Rock at WrestleMania X-8 because he'd been away so long and needed closure for his WWE career. Not to mention he could still decently go inside the ring. These days, Hulk can barely limp his old ass to the ring. Let alone attempt to wrestle again. If Bully Ray turns, I'd LOVE to see Hogan get the Mae Young treatment with the powerbomb off the ramp through a table. Aside from that never happening, I never wanna see Hogan in a ring capacity again. It is further tarnishing his career and making Impact a joke much like WCW did in the end. I guess it'll take Impact dropping even more in ratings for Hogan to understand no one wants to see the same shit again. It's just not entertaining or believeable anymore and I doubt the casual fan would look at Hogan and then look at other younger contenders and buy into it. This would be bad in every possible way for TNA and only benefit Hogan's ego. In the long run, it'll just further damage the company and make their efforts to create an identity useless.

 

[Lowdown]

I'm taking this for what it is; just talk. There's no denying that Hogan has an enormous ego. But he should know that him being champ would not be very lucrative, at least in the long term. For guys like him and Flair, there's always the temptation of the last hurrah, another chance for for them to shine. TNA is alright as it is. Hogan doesn't need to be in the ring anymore.

 

[TheHitMark-SirJoseOle]

When the hell are people going to wise up and just come to terms with the fact that Hulk Hogan is a shameless and glorified troll? Granted, I would never say never in the wrestling business, but Hogan's had so many opportunities to have booked himself into being World Champion in TNA, since he got there. I am not saying it won't happen, but let's actually wait and see until it happens. If memory serves me right, this was the same Hulk Hogan that was going to wrestle in a tag match at Lockdown this year. That never came to pass, this was also the same Hulk Hogan who was supposedly going to feud with Abyss for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in 2010, that never happened either.

This post isn't to dispute Hulk Hogan's ego, but it should raise question in regards to how power hungry he truly is these days, or if he even has any influence to truly get the TNA World Title. Again, looking back to his last few years in WCW, I doubt he had as much clout as the internet oracles like to claim, or else he'd probably have never let the belt go in the first place. Do remember, Hogan was still an active competitor in WCW at the time David Arquette won the World Title. TNA is obviously no different of a story...

Also, I would like to echo the sentiments of others, Hogan also mentioned this in the same breath as wanting to have a full head of hair again, something that is looking as likely as JFK, Elvis and Jim Morrison showing up at Times Square or the 2013 New Year's Ball to drop. So why are we even taking him seriously in the first place, again dumbasses go and get the proper context of the article, and wait till the day Hogan actually wins the TNA title to start all your incessant bitching.

 

[IT Factor]

@Ole; How are we not to take this seriously? TNA has done a lot for cheap publicity before and I'm sure they would do it again if they thought ratings would follow. Most people get pissed at the idea of Hogan being anywhere near the TNA World Title. Rightfully so, especially with a locker room full of talented young guys able to vie for contendership. In case ya haven't noticed, the internet is full of incessant bitching over fan disappointment. You actually seem surprised by that. Where have you been since the invention of dirt sheets and fan forums? Because this has been going on for decades and will continue to do so as long as fans can voice their opinions. Which I would think an intelligent user like you would be all for, not against. That being said, I do think Hogan says a lot of shit to stir things up for controversy. Most smart fans are intelligent enough to realize it's just Hogan being Hogan. Him winning the TNA Title will happen at the same time he lives up to his past promises to "take TNA to the next level where he has already been before". I'm guessing when that happens, they'll be serving ice cold popcicles in hell.....

 

[TheHitMark-SirJoseOle]

@Ole; How are we not to take this seriously? TNA has done a lot for cheap publicity before and I'm sure they would do it again if they thought ratings would follow. Most people get pissed at the idea of Hogan being anywhere near the TNA World Title. Rightfully so, especially with a locker room full of talented young guys able to vie for contendership. In case ya haven't noticed, the internet is full of incessant bitching over fan disappointment. You actually seem surprised by that. Where have you been since the invention of dirt sheets and fan forums? Because this has been going on for decades and will continue to do so as long as fans can voice their opinions. Which I would think an intelligent user like you would be all for, not against. That being said, I do think Hogan says a lot of shit to stir things up for controversy. Most smart fans are intelligent enough to realize it's just Hogan being Hogan. Him winning the TNA Title will happen at the same time he lives up to his past promises to "take TNA to the next level where he has already been before". I'm guessing when that happens, they'll be serving ice cold popcicles in hell.....

I've been watching wrestling way too long, and I just can't let everything I hear be believed until I actually see it happen. I know TNA has done some ludicrous stuff in the past, but I personally don't see this thing with Hogan happening, I just think Hogan's trolling. Most of his rants and raves on the net are just that, one glorified instance of internet trolldom. Time will tell if this really does happen, but considering that Hogan's wrestling matches in TNA have only consisted of a tag team match where Abyss did most of the work and his loss to Sting, which I must add was a match against a fellow legend and we didn't see Hogan steamroll over a younger talent, all has been relatively unharmed in the way of Hogan wrestling other talent. As I've said in other posts, the time to have made Hogan the World Champion would have been his first night in the company. I'll never say never, but I only takes things with so much seriously in regards to what Hogan says, and I just can't put a wealth of stock in much of those said statements.

 

[Zeven_Zion]

@Ole; How are we not to take this seriously? TNA has done a lot for cheap publicity before and I'm sure they would do it again if they thought ratings would follow. Most people get pissed at the idea of Hogan being anywhere near the TNA World Title. Rightfully so, especially with a locker room full of talented young guys able to vie for contendership. In case ya haven't noticed, the internet is full of incessant bitching over fan disappointment. You actually seem surprised by that. Where have you been since the invention of dirt sheets and fan forums? Because this has been going on for decades and will continue to do so as long as fans can voice their opinions. Which I would think an intelligent user like you would be all for, not against. That being said, I do think Hogan says a lot of shit to stir things up for controversy. Most smart fans are intelligent enough to realize it's just Hogan being Hogan. Him winning the TNA Title will happen at the same time he lives up to his past promises to "take TNA to the next level where he has already been before". I'm guessing when that happens, they'll be serving ice cold popcicles in hell.....

Really? You really think that THIS is TNA's big plan to turn the ratings around? To have Hulk Hogan mockingly respond to a Christmasy question on a BLOG on the INTERNET where he's not even the only person interviewed?

Man, some people are just LOOKING for things to bitch about.

 

[The Boss]

See I just fear for the person who has to be pinned by Hogan to lose the belt. No doubt Hogan winning the belt would draw good ratings, not for a long period of time though.

If he has to win I hope it's in a tag team match where whoever gets the pin wins the belt. Because even if his name is Hulk Hogan losing a one on one match clean to a man in his sixties can really hurt one's credibility.[/QUOTE]
In a tag team match? No way. That would kill the title's prestige.

Perfect scenario:

The leader of Aces and Eights turns out to be someone like Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett or even Sting (someone well known but older) and with Aces and Eights' interference he wins the TNA World title. Then they try to take over all of TNA with a title vs control of TNA match at Lockdown.

The cage match will allow for more of a punch kick bloody match which will suit HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN better. It will also allow him to cheat (perhaps getting hold of Aces and Eights' ball peen hammer) while still a face.

Then on Impact Wrestling he should give a speech about what an honor it is to be TNA World champion and how he never dreamed this would happen at this point in his career. He thanks the crowd for their support as "we" saved TNA from Aces and Eights. He then talks about how because of injuries he cannot defend the championship like he would like to and appears as if he is about to surrender the title when suddenly he's interrupted by Matt Morgan who wants a title shot against the almighty HULKSTER. Morgan takes personal shots at HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN claiming that a real champion would defend this title with everything that he has left and calls him a coward. Finally HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN'S pride gets the best of him and he accepts the match where Morgan bulldozes of the HULKSTER to become the new champion.

This way he gets to win the title from someone older so not to make the younger guys look bad, he saves TNA in a way that only HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN can, he has the best kind of match that he can at this point, he brings the Aces and Eights angle to an exciting climax, he gets attention for TNA to get people to tune in and then he drops it to someone younger to give them a push.

Short sweet and effective. That's the best way for a HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN World title reign to be in 2013.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was done correctly. Say Hogan get involved in a fued between Storm vs Roode(c) just an example, and some how gets himself a shot at the title cause Roode is pissed about Hogan always butting in his buisness and Challenges Hogan to a street fight and Hogan says he'll only accept if its for the title, and after the usual accusing Roode of being scared/chicken of facing and old man Roode accepts. Now of course Storm will interfere and cost Roode the title, Hogan gets the title and the big pop from the crowd to end the show.

On the next telecast Hogan comes out thanks the crowd for the support and tells them how much it means to him to have won the title but that he cant realistically go out and defend the title so he will be droping the title and will have a tournament to crown a new champ, Roode and Storm end up in the finals for the title and Storm ends up getting the win. That or something along those lines is how I would do it, If they were to do it.

 

[The Boss]

I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was done correctly. Say Hogan get involved in a fued between Storm vs Roode(c) just an example, and some how gets himself a shot at the title cause Roode is pissed about Hogan always butting in his buisness and Challenges Hogan to a street fight and Hogan says he'll only accept if its for the title, and after the usual accusing Roode of being scared/chicken of facing and old man Roode accepts. Now of course Storm will interfere and cost Roode the title, Hogan gets the title and the big pop from the crowd to end the show.

On the next telecast Hogan comes out thanks the crowd for the support and tells them how much it means to him to have won the title but that he cant realistically go out and defend the title so he will be droping the title and will have a tournament to crown a new champ, Roode and Storm end up in the finals for the title and Storm ends up getting the win. That or something along those lines is how I would do it, If they were to do it.

You are right about how it needs to be done right (although that can be said about EVERYTHING in pro wrestling). I disagree with you about having him just vacating the title. That defeats the purpose of him winning it. He needs to drop it in decisive fashion to give them the rub.

Now, had Hardy not won the title at BFG then the BFG glory tournament would have never seen the winner go on to win the title. In that scenario I could see HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN surrendering the title and putting it up for grabs at the BFG tournament because it would mean that for the first time the winner would become champion. So the tournament would have had more meaning. But seeing as how Hardy just went on to win the title that push would be lost. So he should drop it properly.

 

[SteelX]

Of course people on the internet take it out of context. It was apart of his Christmas wish list.

1 Thirty years of life I want my youth back. I wouldn't change anything, though. I'd wrestle all over again. The same matches.

2 747 jet I would like my own private jet plane again. I'd take all the wrestlers with me on the plane. I don't just want a little Learjet, I want a 747. That would be a wild plane.

3 Knee surgery I've had eight back surgeries, I've had knee replacements, I've had both hip replacements. I only need one more surgery – to fix my right knee – then I'm going to go for the TNA world title. I want to be 59 years old and be the champion.

4 Hair I want a full head of hair, like yours.

www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/21/celebrity-christmas-wish-lists?INTCMP=SRCH

 

[The Boss]

Even though I'm sure HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN was just joking around when he said it, the over whelming attention given to the quote by the IWC might be just the thing to push TNA into making it happen.

 

[IT Factor]

Really? You really think that THIS is TNA's big plan to turn the ratings around? To have Hulk Hogan mockingly respond to a Christmasy question on a BLOG on the INTERNET where he's not even the only person interviewed?

Man, some people are just LOOKING for things to bitch about.

I'll take this quote to address both you and Ole; I understand that Hogan cannot be taken at face value. Why else do you think I pointed out that it's "Hogan being Hogan"? We all know Hulk is a media ****e who will do anything to get noticed. I'm just saying it is sad at this point that he is still doing this kind of thing. He did it back in WCW when WWF no longer wanted him and wasn't relevant, and he's doing it again. Silly me! I thought all people had the right to express themselves. Guess Mr. Opinion Hitler here thinks differently?[sarcasm again, to those who would quote and bitch about that, IRONY!!].

To be fair, I don't think any fan took what Hogan said seriously. But WHAT IF? What if Hogan is serious and TNA actually considers this? Then what? My point exactly.

 

[Zeven_Zion]

I'll take this quote to address both you and Ole; I understand that Hogan cannot be taken at face value. Why else do you think I pointed out that it's "Hogan being Hogan"? We all know Hulk is a media ****e who will do anything to get noticed. I'm just saying it is sad at this point that he is still doing this kind of thing. He did it back in WCW when WWF no longer wanted him and wasn't relevant, and he's doing it again. Silly me! I thought all people had the right to express themselves. Guess Mr. Opinion Hitler here thinks differently?[sarcasm again, to those who would quote and bitch about that, IRONY!!].

To be fair, I don't think any fan took what Hogan said seriously. But WHAT IF? What if Hogan is serious and TNA actually considers this? Then what? My point exactly.

I don't get it. Months ago people were shitting on Hogan for never mentioning TNA and NOT being a media ****e for them.

Now we come to a point where Hogan IS a media ****e for TNA and somehow he's still the bad guy.

And no, there are no "What ifs" in this situation. If you're looking for the "what if" you're looking to bitch. Hogan has said this before and nothing happened. The guy was fucking around. Accept it.

And IF he does win the title then I suppose it would drive all the sissy little marks who just can't handle it away from TNA, thus away from this forum, so finally I won't have to scroll through 3 tons of bullshit to get to the nice posts.

All is well.

 

[The Boss]

In an interview with The Guardian, Hulk Hogan revealed that he wanted to be TNA World Champion. Hogan said:

"I've had eight back surgeries, I've had knee replacements, I've had both hip replacements. I only need one more surgery – to fix my right knee – then I'm going to go for the TNA world title. I want to be 59 years old and be the champion."

Well HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN has had the knee surgery. According to him everything is healing fine and he's teasing an in ring return. Maybe it is going to happen. I hope, I hope, I hope.

 

[BretHitmanHart92]

I really hope Hogan doesn't waste another in-ring return with TNA. If he wrestles again it needs to be on the big stage in the WWE. I've given TNA a chance so many times but they're beyond terrible. Hogan needs to leave, sign a legends/wrestling deal with the WWE. Have one more small run (if he can do it) and finally retire.

 

[The Roadie]

He'll win it from his "son In law" Bully Ray. That'll what the whole Bully marrying Brooke angle is all about, then that'll be the impetus from Bully to turn heel again.

 

[BretHitmanHart92]

Ugh... I really hope not. That would be an embarrassing match. I want Hogan to stop hurting his legacy. I want him to ditch TNA right now, return to the WWE and have a special tag match and retire from the ring. Sign a legends deal and that's it.

 

[Ferreira]

Ugh... I really hope not. That would be an embarrassing match. I want Hogan to stop hurting his legacy. I want him to ditch TNA right now, return to the WWE and have a special tag match and retire from the ring. Sign a legends deal and that's it.

You are either dumb or a troll.

So your plan for Hulk Hogan not wrestling again is for him to wrestle again in a tag match? You're pretty fucking stupid.

Regarding Hulk Hogan, I don't think he is in any kind of shape to wrestle but if he was what is the big deal about him wanting another match? When you have Ric Flair showing up on Monday Night RAW out of breath only cutting a promo what the big deal about the biggest name in this industry wrestling again? And if he wants another retirement match give him one. He might be a dick but he has earned that right to be a dick and to get a match at his age.

 

[BretHitmanHart92]

Hogan vs. Bully Ray one on one would be embarrassing. Hogan in a special tag match where he wouldn't have to do that much work would be fine as long as it's in the WWE where it should be.

 

[AhSpicyDrop]

I didn't really buy into Hogan REALLY wanting to take the TNA title, since he's said plenty of shit like this in the past since coming to the promotion. He's done a "good job" of keeping himself out of the ring but still hogging up the spotlight... And why shouldn't he? Aside from Angle, AJ Styles, and Hardy the promotion doesn't really have anyone that puts asses in the seats.

With Bully winning the belt tonight and taking a shit on the Hogans, it only seems logical that we're going to get a Hogan vs. Bully match in the near future. Hogan is for sure going to win it, but my only real thought is this...How hilarious would it be if Hogan went to do the Leg Drop of Doom, and completely shattered his hip in the process? All joking aside I think that's the only thing that would go far enough into his old-man brain to tell him enough is enough.

 

[Ferreira]

Hogan vs. Bully Ray one on one would be embarrassing. Hogan in a special tag match where he wouldn't have to do that much work would be fine as long as it's in the WWE where it should be.

I've said it once and I willl say it again: you're pretty fucking stupid.

Your point is that: Hulk Hogan should not wrestle!

But that's not actually your point, your point: no, no, Mr. Hogan do no wrestle here, wrestle on WWE! What you are saying is that you are complete mark. You just don't want him in TNA, you want him on WWE, because in TNA you hate him, in WWE he is the greatest of all time.