What The Hell Is So Great About Hulk Hogan?

[X]

I always though Hulk Hogan was the gayest thing that happened to Wwe, like he is gonna beat Randy Orton, right.

Well its obvious you know absolutely nothing about wrestling and even less about the history of the WWE. Without Hulk Hogan, there would be no WWE, simple as that. You obviously must be somewhere between the ages of 10 and 15 because anybody older than that would know that Hogan not only could would and did beat Randy Orton, but he's about a thousand times more important to the business, nothing against Randy Orton.

Until you learn to respect Hogan you have no respect for the business.

 

[lapel8533]

I guess we can start calling this threat the Randy orton/ Hogan one haha but anyhew Hogan only puts over guys who he feels is somewhat established and he sill looks good in the process. I guess he didnt feel that with Orton

Like everyone says hes the Legend Killer and him beating Hogan would not have hurt Hogan and just added to Randy who is a 3rd genertaion star. And Taker did lay down for Orton but he would not at WM21 which would have made him a real Legend Killer. Hogan still feels he draw and deserve the top money and truth is he cant work that well in the ring like Flair can and liek Flair he needs to lie down to the up and commers

And Hogan not putting over orton did not hurt randy's legend killer status. His legend killer status is still in tact.
He dosen't have to kill all legends to be a legend killer.
Besides, according to a lot of you, you guys don't think hogan is all that great, so what value would hogan putting over somebody be anyway?

 

[Shadowmancer]

I always though Hulk Hogan was the gayest thing that happened to Wwe, like he is gonna beat Randy Orton, right.

I like your wording. I respect what Hogan did for the WWF and the Wrestling business as a whole. He was just in the right place at the right time. But as said before nice wording, to the WWE he is just a leach, Randy Orton or Shawn Michaels the year before should have beaten Hogan. I use the word Leach because he reportedly wants the same money that the top names on the billing get, he doesn't deserve that now.

 

[Retribution]

Savage.. has three times more carisma [than Hogan].So to all you Hogan marks tell me why he is so GREAT!!!!!!

Actually, IMO Hogan had more charisma than Savage. Savage was good on the mic and had charisma, just not as much as Hogan.

 

[mabuza]

Face it,Hogan is a big part of the reason we watch wrestling today.I personally am a fan of Hulkamania,but not of Hogan.I think a the mark of a true legend is the willingness to job a put over younger talent,which the Hulkster refuses to do.HHH put over Batista,Orton and Cena,and in the process helped to make them stars a generate millions in ticket sales and ppv buys.Hogan could have pushed Orton all the way to the top,and the only reason I wanted to watch SummerSlam 2005 was to see HBK win.Instead we got a perfect example of the evil known as CREATIVE CONTROL.Its on ething to win a match,but Hogan always wants a ridiculous ending to the matches which he thinks will make him look "dominant" but instead tick fans aroung the world off big time!

 

[PhillyNeNe]

You know, I am not a Hogan fan. I have wathced him for so many years and I tell you, I don't see why he is such an icon. He can't wrestle, he never really could. I've never seen any wrestler or heard any wrestler say that they were motivated by his performances or say Hulk Hogan was such an inspiration. He is full of shit. He is a modern-day Test. He uses steriods, uses a whole bunch power moves, flexes his body, say a couple of things that rhymes and take up all the time on WWE television. What kills me is that he talks about all the money he made, but not the difference he has made for the history of wrestling. He ain't s#@t. What about Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, Junkyard Dog, Paul Orndoff, Jerry Lawler, Greg Valetine, Jake Roberts and all the great wrestlers, not superstars, wrestlers that have made a difference in wrestling? People always talk about how Triple H and Hogan are hogs for everything that involves wrestling, but how come people actually said that Trips makes a difference for them even though they hate him. Hogan ain't shit, he never was and he never wil be!

 

[PhillyNeNe]

Wow, he beat Andre the Giant. The only reason he beat Andre is because Andre let him. Face it honey, Andre is just like Big Show, he was only used for money value. What about Piper, Sting, Flair, Orndoff, Lawler, Triple H, Undertaker, Michaels, Valentine, Roberts, all these guys and work horses of this business? How come he has really beat them? The only reason why he beat Trips and Michaels is because he used his cloat to get the win. Vince needed Trips and Michaels to job to him to get the money and to keep him happy. Now Vince has smartened up like the rest of the wrestling world and realized Hogan is nothing but a money-hungry has been whose even trying to cash in on his own children. You know when you watched that match, they beat him and out wrestled him. Everyone saw it. That's why the night after their respective matches, the feud didn't continue. Hulk didn't want to because he knows it was a fucking fluke. He has never beaten anyone that really mattered. Even the Ultimate Warrior out wrestled him at WM6. Get over yourself kid!

 

[crowdevil]

Actually, Wrestleing of today is in no relations to Hogan. Way differnent wrestleing types. Wrestleing would still be here today even if Hogan wasn't. It was Vince who made it what it is today. Hogan's last and personally best run was in WCW when he shocked the world and told his fans to stick it and joined the NWO. So to say this. Bichoff was the one who actually changed wreslting history to what its known today. Hogan is a no talent (wrestleing skills) over paid, needs to retire before an older Flair out wrestles him and throws him away. PLEASE DO FLAIR!!!!!llol..Just my opinion.

 

[jefferson411]

You are incorrect to give Hogan no credit for wrestling being as it is today. Without Hogan there for WWF to piggyback on throughout the 80's, how can you be confidant that the company would ever have survived long enough to become what it has become. Yes, McMahon is the one who gave him the ball, yes Bischoff orchestrated NWO, but without Hogan its possible wrestling would have stalled in the 90's and been limited to small promotions forever. I have not done a great deal of research and I may be slightly wrong, but I know for sure you cannot discount the profound effect Hogan has had on the industry. To say he doesnt matter because the present product is so much different is like saying that basketball in the 1950's means nothing to what basketball is this century.

That being said, I dislike Hogan very very much. I will never take away from what he did but he is an arrogant self centered ass. My biggest beef with him is how he never gives Austin and Rock the praise they warrent and every comment I have ever heard of him complimenting them is follow by something like "but not as good as I am, brother" or things like that. He is only worried about getting himself over and not contributing to the industry. If he is only going to work one or 2 times a year then he should not be permitted to always win, he should use it as a chance to put over younger stars. There is nothing so great about Hogan, his wrestling now is mediocre and I am not old enough to remember his prime, but he is certainly not worth what he wants you to think he is. He is his own biggest fan.

 

[crowdevil]

I agree to an extent. I was alive in his prime. I watched, and sad to say I was a fan. I agree with him not giving people a chance. Fully. But don't you think that Vince would have pushed another "Icon" if Hogan was not there? I do. Again, this is my opinion. Andre the Giant was the greates and more popular than Hogan all over the world. No internet and world wide television when he was wrestleing, but fame followed him. If he was healthy, Hogan would never have beat him, and that was his highlight and his first major push in WWF. Andre was going to die and he knew it. Saw the documentary...lol.. In that match, Hogan ticked off Andre and andre knocked him out....So yes, I think many others could have fill those shoes. Haogan was in the right place at the right time. Andre the Giant would have been bigger. But WWF was around far longer. When it was WWWWF. I think thats what it was. Not to sure.

 

[Jeremy Dick]

Yes, Vince would have pushed another "Icon".. in fact he has always been doing that with all types of people. When the fans react, he keeps them in the spotlight.. if not, it becomes a depush. When Vince gave Hogan his chance in the spotlight, Hogan ran with it and became wrestling's biggest star.

I'm tired of hearing the "anybody could have been Hulk Hogan" argument, because that's just silly and ignorant. Vince gave Hogan the ball in WWF, and Bischoff gave Hogan the ball in WCW. But Hulk ran with it and became huge. Whether you like him or hate him, you have to give credit where credit is due.

And, yes, beating Andre did help launch Hogan's status even higher, but Hulkamania already existed before Wrestlemania III. Beating Andre wasn't his 'first push' but it definitely helped his continued success.

 

[OnceWalkerr]

Hulk Hogan was the Greatest in ring performer of the late 80's nobody and i mean no'Fucking'body can compare to Hulk Hogan have some respect for the Guy come on! Yes Hulk Hogan is Over Rated and WWE is using him in 2007 when he should be well off retired in 2001 or 2002 instead he got a title run as the WWE champion and as Tag Champion it's really sad that Vince MCmahon is just using Hulk Hogan because he brings loads of Green Bag's it's Mcmahon's Fault Hulk Hogan is still and will always be the Greatest I dont know why youngsters today dont get that! im a big Fan of Hulk Hogan and I always will be one because of his contribution to the Company in the 80's doesn't matter if he Sucks Balls now! I respect him for that and I always will and I say that you people too respect him! Because he is the Legend and nobody has even come close to him or his skills.
Ultimate Warrior and all have won over Hulk Hogan just because Hogan-Vince Decided to take the future to the new level if Hogan had been the top guy throughtout 80's then WWF would have gone down! But Hogan let Warrior and so many others get a Win over him to Push them and make them popular so they can hold the company in the future!

 

[abrahamclark05]

Hulk Hogan is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. I think the reason many of the younger fans in here have such a dislike for him is because in recent years he has looked horrible in the ring and his aged appearance doesn't help either (at times I have almost had to look away from the screen during his matches because of the disappointment I felt). They should not be using him in wrestling matches anymore (if he won't participate in another form, then don't use him!). Furthermore, let me justify why Hulk Hogan is one of the greatest WWE entertainers of all time and why the WWE would not be what it is today with out him. It should not be news that the WWE took off as the result of Hulk Hogan in the early WWE days when McMahon was trying to expand his company to other regions of the United States and take over his competition; there was one man, Hulk Hogan, who was able to draw in the crowds and help make McMahon's dream come true. Hulk Hogan was also, as someone stated, a super hero to kids of the eighties and early ninties. I looked up to Hogan as a role model. Furthermore, in his later days, Hogan was one of the best heels the industry had ever seen. He went from being the Biggest Over Baby Face of all time to the Biggest Heel of all time; I freaking despised the Hogan character in WCW and couldn't wait to see Sting come down from the rafters and kick his as*. Furthermore, his change of gimic helped to make new stars and helped to increase the stardom of people like, Goldberg, Sting, Scott Steiner, Booker T, The Big Show and more.. So to say that he didn't put over younger talent, although it may have been indirectly, he did put them over by allowing Eric Bishoff to change his gimic into a heel. Conclusively, I do not necessarily like the man "Terry Bollea" because of his egoytistical and hypocritical ways, but I will always love the "Take your vitamins, stay off drugs and say your prayers" Hulk Hogan character! Hulk Hogan is the superman of professonal wrestling.

 

[kenvin100]

Hogan was "The Rock or Stone Cold" in the 80s. He made money. He's too old, so is Ric Flair. (I think Ric was in those money in the bank match or ladder match, took really bad falls for an old man) Do your self a favor and retire already!

 

[mysticx0]

boy i wont stay in this string long because unless you grew up with him you just cant know. watch all the video you want, its not the same.

im not gonna harp on how you younger fans come across as disrespectful pukes with some of the things you say about hogan. im not gonna diss your flash in the pan, make your money and get out 4 move goobers like the rock and austin who will hardly be remembered as the heros they are totued to be in about 20 years. hell hogan almost held the world title longer than those two had wwf careers.

did you hear the crowd when austin came back on raw? or the rock...it was about 20% of the pop those guys used to get.

bring out hogan and the crowd chants his name for 20 minutes.

anyway i could go on and on but i wont because its just gonna fall on deaf ears....

 

[Final Form Snyper.]

Hogan is a money grubbing SOB and has been since the late eighties you know for his one fight against Vince at WM19 he wanted 10 times the amount of many that he recieved (which by the way was $250,000) he also has played the whole backstage thing (like HHH, Nash, HKB, etc) threatened to no show a PPv in order to get more money.

 

[abrahamclark05]

Hogan is a money grubbing SOB and has been since the late eighties you know for his one fight against Vince at WM19 he wanted 10 times the amount of many that he recieved (which by the way was $250,000) he also has played the whole backstage thing (like HHH, Nash, HKB, etc) threatened to no show a PPv in order to get more money.

This is something I find to be ridiculous becuase we are talking about the character Hulk Hogan and not the person Terry Bollea. Terry Bollea may be a piece of cra* but that doesn't change the fact that the character Hulk Hogan is one of the best, if not the best, WWE stars of all time. Just because you don't like the "actor" that doesn't mean you have to hate the character he plays as well. I have also read where Paul Levesque and Michael Hickenbottom are also two of the biggests pieces of cra* in the industry; but that doesn't change the fact that DX is freaking amazing!

 

[Capt. Charisma]

Hogan has been a washed up has-been for 15 years now, all he cares about is money. Hes crap in the ring, people cheered for him for a few years just like they are with Cena now, but once the majority of thick skulled wrestling fans in the early 90's realised he aint all that hes cracked up to be they started booing him. He wont job to anyone that hes not friends with in real life, and throws a strop if he doesnt get his own way. When he joined wcw he was big there for about 2 months then they started booing his arse outa arenas, flair was always a better wrestler than hogan, hogan s an overatted piece of crap, guys worked there arses off in the wwf in the late 0's only to have vince come along as if by pot luck and say "your the guy im going to push" deja-vu with cena. At least in the attitude era lots of guys got pushed and not just one guy. The NWO saved hogans career, they paid him more mone and then he spat in wcw's face by vetoing every storyline they came up with his creative control. Hogan killed wcw, without him they would have pushed future stars like the benoit's, the jericho's and the jarret's. Like Vince once said Hogan and Hulkamania is the cancer of professional wrestling.

The Rock was a better wrestler than hogan, he is more agile, quicker, more entertaining (in fact the best smack-talker ever), pulls off better moves, and hes not a backstabber in real life like hogan. You say Stone cold and the rock have 4 move ring sets, i dont know what matches you watched but they varied what they did match by match and pulled off lots of different moves. What kind of argument is that anyway, the only moves that anyone remembers hogan using are scoop slam, big boot, leg drop. Hogan is a pathetic childish carrachter under 10's find fun like that other piece of crap Cena, real wrestling fans know what a piece of crap the guy is.

 

[wrestling247]

in the past few years the only reason hogan was wrestling was to further his daughters bad music career. In his wwe contract he has total creative control over his matches thus he always wins. Its a little know fact that there was supposed to be a hogan HBK part two with hbk winning, well it just so happened that hogan "hurt" his knee, i belive its on wikipedia it says that HHH knew hogan was *****ng out because he did not want to lose to shawn.

 

[coltx7]

If today was March 16 1987 we would all be the biggest bunch of F/N marks. Back in the day I remember strongly being ape shit over Hogan. Now I can honestly say that Hogan is Vince's biggest F/N phony in the history of wrestling. Now for whatever given reason I just don't give a rats ass for Hogan. I don't care how many more times he drops the leg and blows a fart. The guy who was once my childhood hero as alienated me as a wrestling fan beyond repair. To me the nail in the coffin for Hogan was his WCW stint. That hole creative control crap he pulled hurt allot of wrestlers & they're families. Any man who is like Hogan and doesn't care about any other Mans career or family can go to hell.

 

[bigbossman316]

I cant beleive anyone would trash Hogan. This guy is the business, he is the most over superstar ever. back in the 80's this guy had the biggest matches of the time. Personally to me he is the greatest of all time. You go to the smallest and poorest country in Africa they know who the hhulkster is

 

[TheRealDC]

Four words for ya... Twenty Four Inch Pythons... *FLEXES*

NOW, let me tell ya something brother... you wanna know why Hulk Hogan is the man, you wanna know why he is what he is. It's because he eats his vitamins and says his prayers. It's because he is a real American. He always gives the little Hulkamaniacs out there exactly what they want to see. And thats to see Hulk Hogan win. To see Hulk Hogan do whats right. *thumbs up*

Hulk Hogan is not the money grabbing guy that we love. Hulk Hogan is not the reality star that we watch. Hulk Hogan is not the @$$hole that you hear about everyday lately. What you all are bitching about is Terry Hogan.

Hulk Hogan is the character the money grubbing, reality star plays, and he plays it well. Hogan did more for this business then anyone could have hoped for. The only two people to do as much for the business if not more are Austin and The Rock. But don't get me wrong I'm talking Main Stream vibe here. I'm not saying wrestling talent. I'm talking aura. Hogan could WORK a crowd. (Or how you younglings would say nowadays.) HOGAN OWNED A CROWD! That is why Hulk Hogan is immortal, that is why Hulkamania will never die. Sadly, that is why Terry Hogan thinks he deserves ass loads of money to do a show... Hulk Hogan is immortal... and I'm glad to have known that back in the day... it didn't matter about the money as much as it does now. But I was young and I didn't hear about wrestlers leaving because they weren't getting paid. I miss those days. The Internet ruins everything.

I think if you were not a young kid in the 80's watching Hogan wrestle then you really don't have any business telling others they are wrong. Watch the HOF Ceremony when he was inducted.

Now... I'm gonna wait for someone to ask why Rowdy Roddy Piper is so great...