Oh, Hulk ...

[khawk20]

From the latest Observer...seems Dave read Hulk's book on the way over to the U.K.

 

Lots of stuff from his incredible rant against the "facts" (or lack thereof) in the book, but this absolutely made me LOL:

 

The stories about his schedule were the most incredible. He talked about wrestling 400 nights a year. He said the reason he could do it was because he would go back and forth to Japan such as wrestle on one day in MSG, the next day in Japan, fly back for Boston, then fly back to Japan, which never happened, but he claimed by doing so, because of the time difference, he was able to actually live 400 days in a year.

L-O-L. this thread will probably never die as long as Hogan is alive.

[Ronnie]

They were speaking about Hogan's "neck injury" at the hands of Undertaker on F4W Daily recently.

 

Alvarez was saying that he'd seen Hogan limp from a helicopter when there were only a couple of people (non-wrestling related) about to sell a scripted neck leg injury. Lance Storm responded that Hogan could be accused of working the boys too; he was sat with Flair and Undertaker once when they were discussing the Tuesday in Texas match in which Hogan scored that neck injury. (There's a slight time difference between 1974, as Hogan claimed, and 1991, the time of the incident, but it's Hogan, so let's not over-analyse.)

 

Apparently Hogan went into spasm in the ring and sought attention for his injury, and Undertaker was distraught at what he'd caused to happen. Flair backstage consoled him and told him that he needed to look on the monitor. All became clear when Undertaker saw the repeat; Hogan's head was eight inches clear of the canvas. Undertaker was doubly upset that Hogan caused him to think he'd injured him, when he was really BS-ing to protect his spot at the top of the card (since that newcomer "couldn't work" and injured a main-event guy).

 

Edit: Changed "neck injury" to "leg injury".

[sek69]

They were speaking about Hogan's "neck injury" at the hands of Undertaker on F4W Daily recently.

 

Alvarez was saying that he'd seen Hogan limp from a helicopter when there were only a couple of people (non-wrestling related) about to sell a scripted neck injury. Lance Storm responded that Hogan could be accused of working the boys too; he was sat with Flair and Undertaker once when they were discussing the Tuesday in Texas match in which Hogan scored that neck injury. (There's a slight time difference between 1974, as Hogan claimed, and 1991, the time of the incident, but it's Hogan, so let's not over-analyse.)

 

Apparently Hogan went into spasm in the ring and sought attention for his injury, and Undertaker was distraught at what he'd caused to happen. Flair backstage consoled him and told him that he needed to look on the monitor. All became clear when Undertaker saw the repeat; Hogan's head was eight inches clear of the canvas. Undertaker was doubly upset that Hogan caused him to think he'd injured him, when he was really BS-ing to protect his spot at the top of the card (since that newcomer "couldn't work" and injured a main-event guy).

 

It's funny how Hulk always seemed to try to undermine or sabotage the guy the company was trying to push as the new main guy (like how he overshadowed Savage and Warrior's title reigns), yet the one guy he went the furthest on by making him think he caused an injury due to sloppiness ended up the biggest star.

[El-P]

What a delusionnal piece of crap Hogan is... The 400 nights a year is just baffling. He doesn't realize it makes him look like a buffoon ? Taker's story is interesting too...

[jdw]

The rant is really long.

 

Of course it's Evil Hulk, so it's important to point out where he's full of shit. In contrast, Our Hero Ric got a nice free pass on his book... and Terry got kid gloves as well. Hulk's bullshit deserves to be pointed out, but a little consistant treatment with the Heros would be nice.

 

John

[Loss]

It does. That's why I have to ask why you don't crack on Hogan for looking old or "talking out of his ass" when he lies, in the same way you have Michaels, Flair, Funk, Race, and others in the past.

[Boondocks Kernoodle]

From Billboard, 5/21/95:

 

 

From his 2002 book:

 

[khawk20]

I don't know whether to be outraged or start loling uncontrollably after reading that.

[rovert]

Do people Stateside know who Jamie Bulger was? Out of all the lies that one was pretty shitty by the Hulk.

[Guest Slickster]

I guess he thought no one would ever find out about it.

[Ronnie]

In the April 19th WO Meltzer summarised Hogan's appearance on Stern thus:

 

(Edited for legibility -- paragraph breaks are wonderful things.)

 

On the first Hogan radio show, he claimed that Chris Kanyon called him all the time in WCW and was always confused about his sexuality. Given that Kanyon was adamant about keeping that aspect of his life secret (the only person he told was Jim Mitchell as best we can tell until a few months before he went public years after WCW folded and told a few of his closest friends), that sounds implausible.

 

Hogan also claimed the reason his movie career never took off was because a gay Hollywood producer came onto him when he was in his late 20s and he rebuffed him. In guess he must have watched that 20/20 episode in 1985 and channeled that he was Jim Wilson.

 

When he asked where TNA would be a year from now, he said he expected most of WWE’s audience moving to TNA.

 

He said he talked to Kerry Von Erich for 11 hours on a flight from Japan to Los Angeles and three days later Kerry Von Erich killed himself. Needless to say neither Hogan nor Kerry Von Erich were in Japan that week.

 

The funniest story he told is that his wife accused him of having an affair with Brutus Beefcake. He claimed that Beefcake stayed at their home after his parasailing accident and was getting a blowjob from a blond woman. Linda’s mom walked in and was convinced it was Hogan. Well, given that Hogan was pretty much bald by that time, and I don’t know that Beefcake would have gotten a blowjob from a 6-5, 280 pound woman with back and arms that big, that is hard to believe. Now the idea that when they were fighting Linda was psycho enough in arguments to accuse him of that, I can completely believe that. I’ve seen plenty of psycho women arguments in my time.

 

Also, when he bodyslammed Andre, he now tore his lat, his biceps and his quadriceps doing the slam. Luckily he didn’t read Bret Hart’s book or he’d have had a major stroke on the spot as well, but didn’t miss any dates because he was champion and you couldn’t miss dates.

 

He claimed when he worked for WWF in the 80s, he would do double-shots on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and doing 300 to 400 matches a year you could not have gotten through the schedule without doing steroids.

 

Hogan ended the show begging Howard Stern to give him this time slot weekly. The next day on Howard Stern’s show, the feedback was all positive.

[Dan]

From the 3-5-2007 WON:

 

He was back on with Bubba on 2/26. When Bubba told him he wasn't paying much attention to wrestling anymore because he likes UFC better, Hogan told him UFC was a "worked shoot." Bubba asked if he meant that the fights themselves were real but the hype was a work, Hogan disagreed and said, "Whatever, brother" and "wake up and smell the dogshit." When one of the producers who trains in MMA defended UFC as being real, Hogan said the guy would have no idea because he's never done a UFC match.

 

Hogan complained how radio program directors are ignoring Brooke's ballad, that MTV never got behind her, but that VH-1 has been a big help. They made a deal if all of Bubba's listeners vote her video on VH-1 up to No. 1, then Bubba gets to be featured in an episode of "Hogan Knows Best" and one of Bubba's sidekicks gets to date Brooke. When Bubba said he gets heat from the fans for always pushing Brooke's videos and Hogan never gives anything back to his fans, Hogan said, "Then don't vote for the motherfucking video. I don't give a shit."

 

Hogan again complained about not being on Wrestlemania, saying that Vince wanted to recreate everything from Wrestlemania III except his payday. When Bubba threw out the number $400,000 as the WWE offer for the show, Hogan responded, "probably." Bubba claimed he once saw Hogan open up a PPV check from Vince and wipe his ass with it and throw it down because he got more satisfaction doing that than cashing it. I somehow find that one hard to believe.

 

The next day Bubba went on Howard Stem to try and get over a story line that Hogan and Linda may divorce. When Bubba was on that show, he talked about his sidekick taking MMA and how he was becoming confrontational and argumentative. Stem thought MMA was a drug like ecstasy until Bubba corrected him said it was mixed martial arts. Bubba then called Hogan the next day telling him his Bubba Army had gotten Brooke's video up to No.6 on VH-1 and that he talked Stem into airing the single.

 

Hogan then talked about being the biggest drawing card of all-time (it all depends on how you look at the numbers, he drew bigger numbers for a longer period than any wrestler in history, but for peak numbers Austin was bigger). He said Austin and Rock had cool short runs, but he felt Andre would have been No.2 except times were different. Actually, while Andre was a great touring attraction in the 70s, his singular drawing power is way overrated. He did say he heard Austin made more merchandise money than he had, but he wasn't sure.

The part about turning down a six-figure payoff (if that's close to true) is pretty funny now.