[1992-03-21-WWF-Superstars] Interview: Hulk Hogan

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Hogan compares Sid to Jeffrey Dahmer. What is it with Jeffrey Dahmer comparisons this week?

[Kevin Ridge]

They are making the sell on possibly being Hogan's last match at WrestleMania. Comparing Sid to Dahmer was interesting. Standard Hogan promo otherwise.

[MikeCampbell]

How topical was Dahmer in 1992? That doesn't seem all that far removed from AW's Kobe Bryant reference.

[WingedEagle]

Hogan's standard promo about training, prayers & vitamins. And Dahmer. Its not clear clear from this that he's gone after Mania, which surprised me. I would've expected the hard sell on that much sooner.

[PeteF3]

Hogan's standard promo about training, prayers & vitamins. And Dahmer. Its not clear clear from this that he's gone after Mania, which surprised me. I would've expected the hard sell on that much sooner.

Sounds like something that came up between the taping and the voiceovers, as the "farewell match" talk only comes from Vince and Perfect in the booth. Afterward Vince clumsily wonders why Okerlund didn't broach the issue. Hogan actually deigns to talk about something else, as he brings up the angle earlier where Sid broke Virgil's nose against an exposed turnbuckle, and cuts a pretty decent heated promo vowing to punish Sid at WrestleMania.

[xlynwoodx]

Hogan comes across kind of delusional here. He doesn't recognize that Sid might have any sort of reason to be angry with him. He just calls Sid crazy, compares him to Dahmer and Manson, and spits out a bunch of catchphrases. No wonder people were turning on Hogan.

[garretta]

I don't get why Hogan should give a damn if Sid's angry with him or not. After all the things Sid's done since the Rumble- sending guys out on stretchers, threatening Beefcake, breaking Virgil's nose- Sid's clearly the villain here, regardless of what might have happened at the Rumble.

 

It may fit the anti-Hogan narrative that Hogan's just half a step away from turning into Hollywood circa 1997 about this time, but we as 2016 fans can't outright ignore the story Vince is trying to tell- immortal hero Hogan versus dastardly heel Sid- and make up our own just because we may hate Hogan and think Sid's cool. Sure, Hogan's pretty ham-handed here, and the Dahmer references may hit a little too close to home, but Hogan's still as right as rain and as pure as the driven snow here, whether we like it or not.

 

I can just picture Hogan running footage of the press conference back and forth while saying to himself, "Crazy look, crazy look, where have I seen it before? Yep, there it is at one minute and forty-two seconds."

 

One inexcusable blunder here: Vince should never have brought up the "last match" stuff before an interview that he knew was taped before the decision to send Hogan home had been made. He made Gene look like an incompetent fool for not asking Hogan about his retirement plans, and in fact all but called him one in the outro. Gene's still your main source of hype and information; why hang him out to dry like that, even unintentionally? Talk about the retirement stuff before or during the next match instead.