Hulk Hogan Dies At 71

[Boss Rock]

13 minutes ago, Boss Rock said:

There were some folks who were taking Tony Khan and AEW to task for not saying anything about Hogan, which isn't entirely surprising given TK has been adamant AEW would have nothing to do with him. And while it is strange they gave a platform to Sabu who also said racist things, I appreciate the fact he stuck to his guns and didn't feel the need to say anything about Hogan.

Nevermind, Schiavone actually addressed Hogan's death on Collision.

[David Mantell]

Jim and Brian came up with quite a good balanced piece.

[flyonthewall2983]

That funeral is going to be tense

[El-P]

I wonder if he got creative control on that one. 

Lance Storm with the usual based take (as they say) : 

 

[David Mantell]

On 7/28/2025 at 1:10 PM, David Mantell said:

Jim and Brian came up with quite a good balanced piece.

Follow up video.  Artwork shows Jim being offered a Hulk Hogan gingerbread man by the Cat In The Hat

 

 

[The Thread Killer]

As is usually the case when he does an obituary segment, I thought Cornette’s coverage of Hogan’s death was historically accurate, insightful and remarkably even handed, especially considering the fact that Hogan became a Trump guy over the past couple of years, and we all know how much Cornette loves Trump. I usually assume that if anything comes up that involves Trump on even a peripheral level, Cornette is going to totally lose his shit and start screaming profanities.

What I found especially humourous was the follow up piece. The response to Cornette’s podcast about Hogan pretty much encapsulates Pro Wrestling tribalism and overall online discourse in general nowadays. On one hand, he had people that were angry he wasn’t more complementary towards Hogan and wasn’t just blindly praising the guy, and on the other hand, he had people that were irate that he even mentioned Hogan at all because they think his name should be blotted from the history books.

Cornette sounded legitimately flabbergasted at the two totally divergent responses he was getting to the exact same segment. I had to wonder if he doesn’t pay attention when he uses Twitter, and I had to laugh at the irony that he has been one of the people who has helped contribute to the almost toxic levels of tribalism that exist in Pro Wrestling fandom right now.

You helped create the zombies, Jimbo. Don’t act surprised when they bite you.

[El-P]

21 hours ago, The Thread Killer said:

I had to laugh at the irony that he has been one of the people who has helped contribute to the almost toxic levels of tribalism that exist in Pro Wrestling fandom right now.

You helped create the zombies, Jimbo. Don’t act surprised when they bite you.

To keep on with the zombi analogy, Cornette really is the patient zero of toxic podcast host nurturing a crowd of hating sycophants.

Meanwhile, this :

[ohtani's jacket]

Cornette's podcast was better than the drivel everywhere else. 

[sek69]

24 minutes ago, El-P said:

Back to Hogan, the latest stuff about Brooke's record deal contract is batshit insane.

The craziest part is that it wasn't even necessary to do that either. Her music, while it honestly wasn't terrible, was about a decade behind the times of what was popular so it was going to be a case of a problem solving itself sooner than later. It wasn't like he was snuffing out a potential Taylor Swift in the making. 

[El-P]

5 minutes ago, sek69 said:

The craziest part is that it wasn't even necessary to do that either. Her music, while it honestly wasn't terrible, was about a decade behind the times of what was popular so it was going to be a case of a problem solving itself sooner than later. It wasn't like he was snuffing out a potential Taylor Swift in the making. 

The fact he passed on the infamous letter at Christmas is legit sociopathic behaviour. Who would do such a thing ? 

Now Bubba (the Love Sponge, not the other grifter) apparently said it was to put money on Paul Wight as a boxer project or something (a Bischoff idea no doubt), but the chronology don't add up. So much crazy shit already uncovered and probably more to come (the Scientology stuff ?).

[Blehschmidt]

Can this guy please go back to making 72 posts a day about French and British wrestling that I can ignore, instead of showing his ignorance in threads I actually have interest in reading the discourse in?

[JRH]

In one of Hogan's final interviews, he actually put over Toni Storm:

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/hulk-hogan-really-likes-toni-003620291.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFuF-xaFByedFK1kXY-DKOZKL1yE8m5MixnqR22-jD1ENdocu17o1exCFFP-BNGeRiEV5Zi-tNFewskB5Fu0qYIDGtGMabGNWiuZz8ygDycaf_haufGuNg8Es_sKAivyTSm1t0TYhnx41lr_uDSrcZFJmfFrAWoN9u22EIJsx3AI

[WingedEagle]

1 hour ago, Blehschmidt said:

Can this guy please go back to making 72 posts a day about French and British wrestling that I can ignore, instead of showing his ignorance in threads I actually have interest in reading the discourse in?

That got a pop. Those threads went from a fun resource into a family text chain you can't unsubscribe from.

[The Thread Killer]

Ugh, didn’t we already beat this topic to death in the Cornette Podcast thread, and the “Cancellation of Jim Cornette” thread, and the NWA Power thread?

[El-P]

1 hour ago, WingedEagle said:

That got a pop. Those threads went from a fun resource into a family text chain you can't unsubscribe from.

😂

One hell of a 1-2 punch these two posts.

[David Mantell]

10 hours ago, The Thread Killer said:

Ugh, didn’t we already beat this topic to death in the Cornette Podcast thread, and the “Cancellation of Jim Cornette” thread, and the NWA Power thread?

*Shrug* all I did was post a video then all hell broke loose.

But yeah, I'm for getting back on topic -Hogan being dead.

This was his funeral:

Some unintentional humour from the AI commentary.  Not sure either how many "little Hulkamaniacs" are 60 in 2025.

 

[sek69]

As someone who was 6 years old when Hulk first won the belt, most of the first generation little Hulksters are in their mid to late 40s now. I was always under the spell of Macho Madness myself, but I still remember one of my classmates in grade school showing up one day with a HULKAMANIA shirt autographed by the man himself (there was a house show at the Igloo that weekend) and he was royalty for the day. 

[David Mantell]

38 minutes ago, sek69 said:

As someone who was 6 years old when Hulk first won the belt, most of the first generation little Hulksters are in their mid to late 40s now. I was always under the spell of Macho Madness myself, but I still remember one of my classmates in grade school showing up one day with a HULKAMANIA shirt autographed by the man himself (there was a house show at the Igloo that weekend) and he was royalty for the day. 

Yes, 60 year olds would already have been 16 in 1981 when Hogan went babyface in the AWA.

I'm 51 and was 12  going on 13 when I first saw Hogan (Jan 87, the MSG lumberjack match Vs Savage from 9 months earlier).  Like I think I've already said. I just thought he was an American version of Big Daddy. 

[ohtani's jacket]

Hogan was off making a movie when I began watching wrestling. Macho was the guy for the first few weeks that I watched it. I vividly remember the angle where they reintroduced Hogan. This was right before SummerSlam '88. I remember DiBiase saying that Hogan had crawled out from under the rock he was hiding under. I missed out on WrestleMania III and The Main Event and didn't watch them, or WrestleMania IV, until sometime later. I was into the Mega Powers, though, and the absolute peak of wrestling in my country was the Mega Powers exploding and the lead-in to WrestleMania V. I kind of fell into wrestling and comics around the same time. I think wrestling came first and then comics, but that was a formative year. 

 

[ohtani's jacket]

I suppose, in many ways, I wouldn't have become a wrestling fan without Hogan. Territorial wrestling had died out in New Zealand when I was a small child and was no longer on television. The WWF became hot in Australia before New Zealand. I remember I had an uncle who lived in Australia who came back to NZ for the first time in like 15 years, and we were sitting in my grandmother's living room on the night he returned and he wanted to watch two things, Married with Children and WWF Superstars. That was the first time I saw wrestling. I clearly remember watching Hacksaw Jim Duggan hit Andre the Giant with his 2x4 on the episode I watched. Then it blew up at school and was massive for about a year until Ninja Turtles took off. We had the Apter mags and various non-WWF wrestling tapes, but I don't believe I would have been exposed to wrestling if not for Hogan. Folks always talk about the WWF going national. They actually went global. 

[David Mantell]

1 hour ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Hogan was off making a movie when I began watching wrestling. Macho was the guy for the first few weeks that I watched it

He got a movie done, sure,but his main order of business at that time was changing Brooke's diapers* for Linda. Same with Warrior's reign and Nick's diapers*. And yup he got a movie done that time too. Savage reign #1 and Warrior were both basically Paternity Leave Cover champions.

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(* we call them "nappies" over here)

[David Mantell]

4 hours ago, ohtani's jacket said:

I suppose, in many ways, I wouldn't have become a wrestling fan without Hogan. Territorial wrestling had died out in New Zealand when I was a small child and was no longer on television. 

I can see that was a lot of fans' experience. I had (still have) a territorial scene to which to attach .

I turned on Big Daddy at about six years old after even cool villains I liked such as Yasu Fuji and Grand Vladimir lost to him. Perhaps if I'd been part of the Hulkamania generation I'd have pretty soon defected to a good interesting heel like Savage or Hennig.  I would definitely have cheered if Ax and Smash with Fuji had worked him over.  Even at 16 I kind of thought Warrior did a public service by winning WM6!

[ohtani's jacket]

1 hour ago, David Mantell said:

I can see that was a lot of fans' experience. I had (still have) a territorial scene to which to attach .

I turned on Big Daddy at about six years old after even cool villains I liked such as Yasu Fuji and Grand Vladimir lost to him. Perhaps if I'd been part of the Hulkamania generation I'd have pretty soon defected to a good interesting heel like Savage or Hennig.  I would definitely have cheered if Ax and Smash with Fuji had worked him over.  Even at 16 I kind of thought Warrior did a public service by winning WM6!

Wrestling went off the air in New Zealand in early 1991 after a bunch of complaints that kids were copying the moves. As a result, I never saw the tail end of Hulkamania in real time. I only saw it later on VHS. I do remember once I finally got access to WCW thinking that Hogan's act was fairly lame, but then he became the Wood and was relevant again. At no point was he as bad as Big Daddy, though. That's a slight. 

[David Mantell]

7 hours ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Wrestling went off the air in New Zealand in early 1991 after a bunch of complaints that kids were copying the moves.

Happened in a few places eg Israel circa 1995, shut down by local  moral guardian Dafna Lemish.  Not in Britain though, AFAIK Mary Whitehouse left wrestling alone. The Mae Young/puppies incident was after her time anyway.

[David Mantell]

6 hours ago, ohtani's jacket said:

At no point was he as bad as Big Daddy, though. That's a slight. 

Yeah. Hulk was protected (mainly by his own politicing) but it never reached the point of him hever being shown in any serious peril that Max C booked his brother into.

Still, both were pompous lead good guy characters that made you long to see the bad guys win for once.

I remember learning about Hogan as a heel with Blassie and thinking it kind of made sense since Daddy had been a villain teaming with Haystacks in 1975-1977 and before that as "Battling Guardsman" Crabtree 1972-1974.