Will Hogan ever lose a match in TNA?

[8five]

I'm talking about clean. Will the immortal Hulk Hogan ever legitmately get pinned or made to submit by a member of the TNA roster?

My thought is that at some point Bischoff will stab him in the back or something and he loses a match but never clean

 

[Schizophrenic]

Yes I think he will. He's said that he's in bad shape and I dont think he or Eric think that a guy who knows he can't "go" anymore going over one of the young guys without some messing with them would go over.

With this and your other posts I am starting to think you are just another TNA naysayer. If people stopped trying so hard to be "in the know" and tried to look at this as a simple fan of simple storylines to follow and fans of matches and didn't care about "who should win" or "this guy's backstage politics" they would enjoy ALL wrestling alot more.

 

[punchline]

No, Hogan will never cleanly lose a match in TNA for 1 simple reason... He's already established that he will not wrestle! That's not what he's there for and i really don't understand why people just cant get that through their heads.

 

[Jeffingb3oh3]

No, Hogan will never cleanly lose a match in TNA for 1 simple reason... He's already established that he will not wrestle! That's not what he's there for and i really don't understand why people just cant get that through their heads.

I disagree with you man. He even offered to wrestle on this week's Impact. He said that if he had to get back in the ring, he would. I do think that if they put him into in a rivalry that in order for it to work even better, I could imagine seeing him lose once or twice, but rarely ever.

 

[3:10 To Umanga]

I don't know if I am in minority here, but I don't really care to see Hogan wrestle a match. Personally, I don't care to see Flair wrestle a match either for that matter. At their age and diminished skills, it just doesn't make sense from a logical perspective. Using them to help enhance the current roster and infuse the storylines with both marquee names to give a rub to the newer generation is the correct usage of either men. The match quality these days would be shamefully inadequate.

If you want to see Hogan (and/or Flair) matches, there are some great DVD's put out by some other company... I think it starts with a couple of W's.

 

[Schizophrenic]

I don't know if I am in minority here, but I don't really care to see Hogan wrestle a match. Personally, I don't care to see Flair wrestle a match either for that matter. At their age and diminished skills, it just doesn't make sense from a logical perspective. Using them to help enhance the current roster and infuse the storylines with both marquee names to give a rub to the newer generation is the correct usage of either men. The match quality these days would be shamefully inadequate.

If you want to see Hogan (and/or Flair) matches, there are some great DVD's put out by some other company... I think it starts with a couple of W's.

Going to agree with you. I like having Hogan and Flair in the company but I would not be interested in either man wrestling a match. I am currently enjoying Flair and Hogan's role in TNA. With the set of shameful matches these two had in Australia, I don't think anyone would really want to watch them wrestling in TNA.....IF it ever happens.

 

[ErictheEnt]

Of course he will lose.

The politics you're referring to are past due for a couple of reasons. Hogan losing now does NOTHING to help anyone or does it diminish who he was. It's way too late for him to 'pass the torch' now. Some say he passed it to the Ultimate Warrior but then he took it right back. He should have passed it long ago.

Second, he did job in WCW when he went heel. He lost cleanly to Goldberg which I guess was his final attempt to pass the torch. He lost to Piper as well (to the Sleeper no less). He also gave up to Lex Luger's Torture Rack a couple of times. Hell, I think he even put over Sting and a few others. So it's not like he's never lost before. Him losing now wouldn't be anything new unless he went back to the yellow trunks and tried pretending he was the same dude; trashed a few people and then jobbed to AJ Styles in some epic match.

Still, being kind of a smart I wouldn't think anything of it. It's too late in his career for me to be impressed with Hogan by laying down.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

The question isn't if Hogan will lose cleanly to somebody, he will. The questions is, will he put somebody over? He could quite easily lose to AJ Styles and it's what I expect to happen. But I don't see Styles coming out of the match and being any better for it. Mostly that'll be down to TNA booking and their inability to make anything memorable, but it'll also be down to and dependant on how Hogan works with Styles.

 

[Maestro48239]

questions like this make me think back to the 80s, when i was a kid and watching wrestling was still new to me. my dad every week would point out how at one time bobby heenan or capt lou albano, or freddy blassie were big name wrestlers back in the day. although you would never see them wrestle. age catches up to them all. you may see one match or a beatdown with hogan and flair, but i really doubt they would become active wrestlers again. they've earned their accolades back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. they really have nothing to prove anymore. so they do what they can to make TNA a better product. and that means promos, booking and working with creative

 

[Big Daddy Fool]

If he was a smart booker he will lose a match. If he wants to put over new stars and send TNA in a direction to overtake the WWE he has to lose and lose cleanly. He is the biggest name in wrestling history and by far the biggest name in TNA. The Hulk Hogan name still means a lot to the casual fan and beating Hulk Hogan cleanly is a rare occurrence. The only way to get new starts over is having them beat an established name and their is no more established name in the world of pro wrestling then Hulk Hogan. To have a clean victory over Hogan is almost as big of an accomplishment as winning a world title. Him winning a match does nothing except set TNA back in terms of progression.

It would look bad if their young champion or anyone for that matter look if they lost to a man closing in on his 60s with more fake joints then real ones. Mae Young walks to the ring less gingerly then Hogan. Him winning would destroy any credibility they might have gotten with a young star and the only purpose it would serve is to feed Hogan's massive ego. The key is also if he loses he must lose cleanly. If someone picks up against him with use of interference or foreign object he might as well lose. It shows that they couldn't beat a crippled old man closing in on collecting social security, would look awful and make it look like they have no business in the ring.

To go further I really think it will be awhile til Hogan wrestles if he does at all. The man can barely move and is in awful shape. He limps as he walks to the ring and I think Haystacks Calhoun had better mobility in his day then Hogan has now.

 

[UseYourBrain]

If he wrestles, he'll eventually lose clean to put somebody over. This version of Hogan seems hellbent on proving he's not selfish and on trying to rewrite the history of his image before he's gone. I think he'll go way, way out of his way to show us all just how willing to job he is.

 

[XgringolocoX]

Let's say for the sake of arguement the Hogan laces up the red and yellow and goes out to "do one more" ...again...
How does this help the young TNA wrestler? Hogan is all broke up and looks horrible just walking around. All Hogan has at this point is his name. A very good game in the wrestling business, but still.
Let me put it this way. Beating Hogan today is like winning a mental contest against the smartest child with down syndrome. Need I say more?

 

[smalltownfan]

Hogan will not lose a TNA match because I don't think Hogan will wrestle a TNA match. He said it previously that he felt and looked horrible during his HulkaMania tour and that he would think several times before lacing up the boots again. Now of course if he absolutely has to, he will, but it will more than likely be in a tag match with someone. I think his singles match days are over.

 

[LSN80]

Hes yet to wrestle a match, so how can we say one way or another if he will or not? He may NEVER wrestler a match in TNA. If you watch him move around(which the camera seems to be trying to hide), the man is limping very badly. From all the reports i read from his Hulkamania tour in Australia, he couldnt even get up for the leg drop. He needed a ton of help to even beat 58 year old Ric Flair! The short of it is, I dont think he will wrestle in TNA, but if he does, I do think he'll lose to someone he feels could use the rub. My short list would be the guys hes high on, like Anderson, Wolfe, Styles, Angle, or DInero.

 

[X]

Holy FUCK you guys are so stuck in the past it's scary. Hogan has not even wrestled yet, nor does he have any plans to wrestle, and you're already starting threads asking if he'll ever lose and put someone else over? For fuck's sake the guy doesn't even plan on wrestling more than maybe once or twice in TNA.

 

[8five]

Part of the question is will he even wrestle a match if he doesnt wrestle clearly he wont lose which i notice i didnt include as part of my reasoning for answering no to my own question. This isn't me being synical about the new product but simply wondering into how and if hogan will book himself in the ring

 

[NSL]

I think the better guess is that he will never win a match in TNA. It's not in his contract that he has to wrestle, but he will at some point. I don't think it will be to put himself over as a "savior" at all. I'd bet he loses to Angle, putting Angle over as "the man" in TNA. Maybe he loses to Jarrett, giving him his share of ownership back. Maybe he loses to AJ, since everyone would love to see that match.

No matter what, I don't see him winning any matches...

 

[Mitch Henessey]

I have a feeling that some where down the line Hogan and Flair will wrestle each other again. It seems inevitable because Flair already hinted at this in a promo on Impact a little while ago.Anyway, I don't think Hogan will ever win a match in TNA because he really doesn't have ANYTHING to gain from a Win at this point in his career. If he loses to AJ or Kurt, it would help them out a lot because both of these guys are at the top in TNA right now, and getting a win against the biggest name in the business would make either one of them look like "the guy".

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

First of all, Hogan HAS said he will wrestle again, he's just not sure against who. Will he make a full-time in-ring comeback? Not a chance.

But as for him losing clean? I don't think he will wrestle a younger guy, so it doesn't really matter. He will not wrestle AJ, Wolfe, Morgan, Pope, etc., so he doesn't HAVE to lose. If he wrestles anyone, it would likely be Flair, Foley, Nash, Sting, someone like that, where if the storyline calls for it, he may win or lose. The only "current" talent he may lock up with would be Kurt Angle, and don't look for Hogan to go over in that one, he really likes Angle and I doubt even his ego would be big enough to blind him that badly into actually pinning Kurt.

 

[proofinlife]

First of all, Hogan HAS said he will wrestle again, he's just not sure against who. Will he make a full-time in-ring comeback? Not a chance.

But as for him losing clean? I don't think he will wrestle a younger guy, so it doesn't really matter. He will not wrestle AJ, Wolfe, Morgan, Pope, etc., so he doesn't HAVE to lose. If he wrestles anyone, it would likely be Flair, Foley, Nash, Sting, someone like that, where if the storyline calls for it, he may win or lose. The only "current" talent he may lock up with would be Kurt Angle, and don't look for Hogan to go over in that one, he really likes Angle and I doubt even his ego would be big enough to blind him that badly into actually pinning Kurt.

You're right in the fact that Hogan will wrestle only for that certain someone, but it sure as hell won't be a young guy, if it is... well I feel sorry for Hogan. All these young guys in TNA can run around that ring like lightning, and all the matches they have been used to for the last 7 years in TNA have been high pace, high action, high spots. Any one of these young guys who go up against him will have to work a visibly slower and less entertaining match in order to carry Hogan and make him look good. Hogan may be a master of storyline (which I hardly agree with), but that won't help him when he's sucking the life out of a match with a talent that everyone knows could LITERALLY run circles around him.

So yeah, the match will most definitely be against someone who is on the same level as him, such as Flair, Foley, Sting, Nash, even Angle (He can work a slow enough of a match to make it work with Hogan, as people have seen his work in WWE). Any one of these guys he probably would lose clean to, because he's lost to pretty much all of them before, but you can damned well guess that any of these young bucks Hogan will NOT allow himself to go under clean.

 

[saleh_hbk]

If Hogan was smart, and I think from past mistakes he will lose a couple of matches. He will only win in a match for example Muhammad Hasan kind of situation (weird but good example). BUT if he loses a match he will have to lose against someone that really deserves it, someone who isnt a risk and someone who is worthy of getting that HUGE push.

Losing to Hogan is like a ticket to heaven in a sense where the wrestler winning is worthy of carrying TNA.

And like I said, from many mistakes in the past, he will lose this time.

 

[klunderbunker]

.....the hell?

Hogan isn't even wrestling people. Why in the world are we talking about him losing at something he doesn't even do? Why not make a thread about AJ missing field goals in the Super Bowl? This is stupid to even argue. He's Hulk Hogan. If he gets int he ring then we'll talk about this. Until then what's the point in arguing stuff like this?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

If Hogan was willing to wrestle in Australia, in front of crowds just as small as the ones TNA has, then it stands to reason he'll do the same in TNA. After all, he's being payed a hell of a lot more and if he can wrestle Flair 6 times or so in a matter of weeks then he can wrestler at least 10 times in TNA over the course of a year.

 

[GenMe]

Im almost positive that Hogan will Wrestle.Maybe a tag team match against Pac and Hall.But i really dont know if he will lose that match.

And if he does hell it wont matter to me.Yeah hogan is great,But come on he is old just like Flair.And now i really dont care about them no more.