Hulk Hogan and the Hulkamania Thread

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I didn't grow up during Hulkamania (I was born in 1990). And being Swedish wrestling only shows up now and again on TV and isn't that big. But I managed to catch up on the Hulkamania era thanks to the OSW Review video pod. Boy was there some funky stuff going on back then,

Can recommend the OSW Review as well, very fun to listen to.
 
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I was never a big WWF kid when I was younger. I hated the WWF really until Attitude Era. I always preferred NWA, USWA and WCCW, then later on ECW, so I didn't catch much Hulk Hogan stuff until he came to WCW. Sure, I had seen all the WMs and all the PPVs really up into the 1990s, but when I became a fan around 1988-1989, by that point WWF was all goofy characters and I preferred the Ric Flair v. Terry Funk type feuds. Hogan was rarely on TV and NEVER would be on Prime Time, Challenge or Superstars unless he was doing some promo. He would only wrestle on free TV if it was a Saturday Night's Main Event. I found that off-putting.
 
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I was never a big WWF kid when I was younger. I hated the WWF really until Attitude Era. I always preferred NWA, USWA and WCCW, then later on ECW, so I didn't catch much Hulk Hogan stuff until he came to WCW. Sure, I had seen all the WMs and all the PPVs really up into the 1990s, but when I became a fan around 1988-1989, by that point WWF was all goofy characters and I preferred the Ric Flair v. Terry Funk type feuds. Hogan was rarely on TV and NEVER would be on Prime Time, Challenge or Superstars unless he was doing some promo. He would only wrestle on free TV if it was a Saturday Night's Main Event. I found that off-putting.
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WCCW fan eh? Were you in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the 80s? Or did it get rebroadcast elsewhere?
 
Watched it on ESPN in the late 80's. Up into the GWF days. Its hilarious reading up on the shinnanigans that would get pulled in these territories back then.
 
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Watched it on ESPN in the late 80's. Up into the GWF days. Its hilarious reading up on the shinnanigans that would get pulled in these territories back then.
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I heard rumors that Kerry Von Erich was quite the cat killer when he was coked out.
 
You mean literally or figuratively? I would believe either. The von Erich boys were supposed to be something else. They were like the white trash version of the Harts, only the Harts had all the talent and no charisma, but the von Erichs had all the chrisma and no talent.
 
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You mean literally or figuratively? I would believe either. The von Erich boys were supposed to be something else. They were like the white trash version of the Harts, only the Harts had all the talent and no charisma, but the von Erichs had all the chrisma and no talent.
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Yeah, I've heard two rumors. Once he gave a cat the Iron Claw and another time him and Kevin were playing with a sawblade at the Sportatorium and he threw it at it and killed it. The Harts were pretty fucked up too. David Hart knocked up an underaged girl when he was her substitute teacher.
 
There's a couple fucked up Harts, but Owen was a class act 100% from what I heard, a real good bro who took care of his family. Bret's bitchy but he seems like a good guy. David and Bruce are a couple of weirdos, though. But Stu Hart was a real disciplinarian. Fritz von Erich let his hillbilly sons be assholes. And fuck Kerry and Kevin if that story is true. I'm glad Kerry didn't get over when he was the Texas Tornado in the WWF. But they're all fucked up... Lawler was knee deep in jailbait for at least 30 years, but he never drank or smoked in his life (supposedly).
 
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Hogan was rarely on TV and NEVER would be on Prime Time, Challenge or Superstars unless he was doing some promo. He would only wrestle on free TV if it was a Saturday Night's Main Event. I found that off-putting.
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I liked it better that way. It added to his mystique, or whoever else happened to be champion before things started to change. I miss when PPV's actually felt special and a big deal. PPV's started to just feel like glorified RAW's when they went monthly.
 
In a way, but Attitude Era... PPVs were must see events about every month. Now, you can't even give them away. Just a bad product. NXT though... I can't wait for their next Takeover in February. I been meaning to catch Lucha Underground.
 
I always liked WCW more than the WWF during the Monday Night Wars because of the Luchadore six man tag matches that were PPV quality when most of the opening matches on Raw were squashes
 
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I miss the luchadores and the Cruiserweight matches! Just good wrestling... I used to love La Parka. What a gimmick, just flatten people with chairs.
 
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I miss the luchadores and the Cruiserweight matches! Just good wrestling... I used to love La Parka. What a gimmick, just flatten people with chairs.
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La Parka was dope, so was Super Calo, Psichosis, Rey Misterio, El Dandy, and Juvi. I remember there was always this white dude who threw down with the lucha six man tag matches. He had long blonde hair and this cheesy intro music. I wonder whatever happened to him ;)
 
I think he came from Canada, went to ECW and then went to the WWF and Rock buried him in his debut and no one heard from him again...
 
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The current product doesn't need more squashes, but one thing it SHOULD bring back from those days are local jobbers. Not having job guys means everybody gets parity booked and the lower card is just a mishmash.
 
ROH, NXT and Lucha Underground have been the American shows to watch for the last year or so, well LU only since it debuted.

Smackdown has been good for the last couple of weeks tho, but that's probably because of mania season.
 
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Yeah, I've heard two rumors. Once he gave a cat the Iron Claw and another time him and Kevin were playing with a sawblade at the Sportatorium and he threw it at it and killed it. The Harts were pretty fucked up too. David Hart knocked up an underaged girl when he was her substitute teacher.
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Were these two rumors from that big "Urban Legends of Pro Wrestling" list from back in the day?

If so, I'd take it with a grain of salt as, IIRC, a good chunk of those urban legends turned out to be proven false.
 
I remember him saying that he wrote Hulkster in Heaven after finding out that a make a wish kid who he had invited to come watch him wrestle at summerslam 92 had died and didn't make the show....despite Hulk not working Summerslam 92 at all since he was gone from the WWF at the time because of the steroids.
 
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