Pro Wrestling
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Terrible week.
The Hulkster was never one of my absolute favourites ( even as a kid I found lots of his come from behind victories a bit silly ) but he absolutely changed Wrestling for the better.
Legend.
Superstar.
RIP
you missed out union snitch and racist.
Jesse Venture: I Wanted To Unionize Pro Wrestling, Hulk Hogan Ratted Me Out To Vince McMahon
Jesse Ventura wanted a better place for pro wrestling. Former Minnesota Governor was not surprised when he saw Hulk Hogan acting like a fool for former President, Donald Trump. In fact, he has known more about this kind of behavior from the former WWF Champion because when Ventura tried to make pro...
even Andre the Giant disliked him..
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Terrible week.
The Hulkster was never one of my absolute favourites ( even as a kid I found lots of his come from behind victories a bit silly ) but he absolutely changed Wrestling for the better.
Legend.
Superstar.
RIP
you missed out union snitch and racist.
Jesse Venture: I Wanted To Unionize Pro Wrestling, Hulk Hogan Ratted Me Out To Vince McMahon
Jesse Ventura wanted a better place for pro wrestling. Former Minnesota Governor was not surprised when he saw Hulk Hogan acting like a fool for former President, Donald Trump. In fact, he has known more about this kind of behavior from the former WWF Champion because when Ventura tried to make pro...
even Andre the Giant disliked him..
@Virgil if you’d taken more
steroidsvitamins and said your prayers as a kid like the Hulkster told you to you wouldn’t be so cynical -
The roids will eventually catch up with you.
Half of his contemporaries barely made 40. He actually did very well.
As Virgil alludes to there is a school of thought that Hogan was a bit of an arsehole but he changed wrestling. If it wasn’t for him they’d still be in bingo halls.
There was nothing like WWE in the 80s. Larger than life and just amazing to watch. The superstars drastically shortened their lives for our entertainment
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Terry was a piece of shit.
Hulk Hogan however WAS professional wrestling. He legitimised it, he gave it mainstream cred, and everything that came after was pretty much down to him.
Never my favourite, even in the 80s, and now in hindsight some of the shit he pulled was crap (in ring, as i said, Terry is a piece of shit and there is no denying that). But Hogan's legacy is locked in.That golden era is almost all gone (but seriously how the fuck is Rick Flair still alive?).
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@mariner4life said in RIP 2025:
Terry was a piece of shit.
Hulk Hogan however WAS professional wrestling. He legitimised it, he gave it mainstream cred, and everything that came after was pretty much down to him.
Never my favourite, even in the 80s, and now in hindsight some of the shit he pulled was crap (in ring, as i said, Terry is a piece of shit and there is no denying that). But Hogan's legacy is locked in.That golden era is almost all gone (but seriously how the fuck is Rick Flair still alive?).
Out of nostalgia earlier this year i semi watched a few of the old Wrestlemania's and Royal Rumbles from the late 80's and early 90's
You look up online and see how many of them are long since dead.
Shit Big Boss man died at 41 or so. -
@Virgil said in Pro Wrestling:
@mariner4life said in RIP 2025:
Terry was a piece of shit.
Hulk Hogan however WAS professional wrestling. He legitimised it, he gave it mainstream cred, and everything that came after was pretty much down to him.
Never my favourite, even in the 80s, and now in hindsight some of the shit he pulled was crap (in ring, as i said, Terry is a piece of shit and there is no denying that). But Hogan's legacy is locked in.That golden era is almost all gone (but seriously how the fuck is Rick Flair still alive?).
Out of nostalgia earlier this year i semi watched a few of the old Wrestlemania's and Royal Rumbles from the late 80's and early 90's
You look up online and see how many of them are long since dead.
Shit Big Boss man died at 41 or so.Rick Rude, Macho Man, Mr Perfect and Sid Vicious are my Mt Rushmore of pro wrestling. All gone.
Demolition, Legion of Doom, Powers of Pain and the British Bulldogs would be my Mt Rushmore of tag teams. LOD and BB not with us now…..
Yeah lots of people don’t have nice things to say about Hogan. They way he no sold Macho Mans elbow off the top rope and came back to win was an insult to Savage but obviously brand Hogan trumped everything.
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@MN5 said in Pro Wrestling:
The roids will eventually catch up with you.
Half of his contemporaries barely made 40. He actually did very well.
As Virgil alludes to there is a school of thought that Hogan was a bit of an arsehole but he changed wrestling. If it wasn’t for him they’d still be in bingo halls.
There was nothing like WWE in the 80s. Larger than life and just amazing to watch. The superstars drastically shortened their lives for our entertainment
Hogan, Savage, Dibiasi, the Harts Foundation. Axe and Smash, Roddy Piper, Rick Rude, Jake the Snake, the Ultimate Warrior. Lots I've missed I'm sure, but what a time to be alive and watching TV as a teenager in 1980s NZ
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@Bovidae said in Pro Wrestling:
The Ultimate Warrior was the man.
Very unpopular amongst his peers and couldn’t really wrestle.
Rick Rude ( who was a real life tough fluffybunny even by pro wrestling standards ) beat him up backstage apparently.
But an electrifying entertainer nonetheless the less.
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Warrior was a terrible wrestler. clearly insane dude. great fucking character though.
That first big WWF era is so fun to look back on. Rampant steroids. Clear recreational drug abuse. But just so fun and over the top. The promos were amazing, and for them alone Randy Savage was the king.
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@canefan said in Pro Wrestling:
@MN5 said in Pro Wrestling:
The roids will eventually catch up with you.
Half of his contemporaries barely made 40. He actually did very well.
As Virgil alludes to there is a school of thought that Hogan was a bit of an arsehole but he changed wrestling. If it wasn’t for him they’d still be in bingo halls.
There was nothing like WWE in the 80s. Larger than life and just amazing to watch. The superstars drastically shortened their lives for our entertainment
Hogan, Savage, Dibiasi, the Harts Foundation. Axe and Smash, Roddy Piper, Rick Rude, Jake the Snake, the Ultimate Warrior. Lots I've missed I'm sure, but what a time to be alive and watching TV as a teenager in 1980s NZ
Mr Perfect, Akeem, Big Boss Man, Brutus the Barber, Greg the hammer Valentine, Honky Tonk Man, Koko B Ware, Dusty Rhodes, Bad News Brown, Warlord and Barbarian…..
Don’t forget the slimy managers…..Jimmy Hart, Slick, Mr Fuji and the absolute GOAT Bobby the brain Heenan.
Getting home from school on a Friday and watching it ( Mum and Dad recorded it on VCR late on Thursday night ) is just one of those magic memories that I’ll never forget.
Being a scrawny fellow I was always worried bigger kids would powerslam, piledrive or DDT me though….. The struggle was real.
They may not ‘have tried the moves at home’ but the school yard was fair game.
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how can you miss out on these 2 local heroes as well..
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@mariner4life said in Pro Wrestling:
Warrior was a terrible wrestler. clearly insane dude. great fucking character though.
That first big WWF era is so fun to look back on. Rampant steroids. Clear recreational drug abuse. But just so fun and over the top. The promos were amazing, and for them alone Randy Savage was the king.
I just remember watching it late (friday nights?) i would have been 15 or 16 when it first gained popularity over here
And spending lunch breaks on the sports fields re-enacting the moves on my mates. Its amazing no one was badly hurt!
