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Immortal...The Hulk Hogan Story · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan Terry gen Boleia August eleventh, nineteen fifty three
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  Speaker 1: to July twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, better known by
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  Speaker 1: his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler
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  Speaker 1: and media personality. He wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation
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  Speaker 1: WWF now WWE, World Championship Wrestling WCW, Total NonStop Action
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling TNA, New Japan Pro Wrestling NJPW, and the American
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling Association a d WAY. Known for his showmanship, large physique,
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  Speaker 1: and his trademark blonde horseshoe, mustache and bandanas, Hogan was
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  Speaker 1: widely regarded as one of the greatest and globally most
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  Speaker 1: recognized wrestling stars of all time. He won multiple world
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  Speaker 1: championships across companies, most notably being a six time WWF champion.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan began his wrestling career in nineteen seventy seven and
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  Speaker 1: achieved global stardom after joining the World Wrestling Federation in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. His persona as a heroic all American
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  Speaker 1: helped usher in the nineteen eighties professional wrestling boom, during
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  Speaker 1: which he headlined eight of the first nine editions of
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  Speaker 1: the WWF's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, and also regularly headlined
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event. His first runs Sane as WWF
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  Speaker 1: champion lasted one thousand, four hundred and seventy four days,
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  Speaker 1: the third longest in the belt's history, and he was
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  Speaker 1: the first wrestler to win back to back Royal Rumbles
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety in nineteen ninety one. In nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: Hogan joined WCW, winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times.
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  Speaker 1: His reinvention as the villainous Hollywood Hogan and leadership of
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  Speaker 1: the New World Order nWo stable revitalized his career and
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  Speaker 1: played a major role in the success of the Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night War wrestling boom of the late nineteen nineties. He
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  Speaker 1: headlined WCW's annual flagship events Arcade three times. Hogan returned
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  Speaker 1: to the WWF in two thousand and two after its
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  Speaker 1: acquisition of WCW, winning the undisputed WWF Championship for his
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  Speaker 1: then record equalling sixth reign before departing in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and three. He was inducted into the WWEE Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame in two thousand and five and inducted a second
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  Speaker 1: time in twenty twenty as a member of the reformed
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  Speaker 1: n WO. Outside of wrestling, Hogan starred in films such
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  Speaker 1: as Rocky Three, No Holds Barred, and Suburban Commando, and
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  Speaker 1: in television shows including Hogan Knows Best and Thunder in Paradise.
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  Speaker 1: He also fronted the Wrestling Boot Band, whose sole record,
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Rules, reached number twelve on the Billboard Talk Kit
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  Speaker 1: Audio chart in nineteen ninety five. Several controversies damaged Hogan's
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  Speaker 1: public image. In nineteen ninety four, he admitted to using
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  Speaker 1: anabolic steroids since nineteen seventy six, a helping stop a
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  Speaker 1: wrestler's unionization effort. In twenty twelve, the media company Gawker
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  Speaker 1: published portions of a sex tape in which Hogan was
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  Speaker 1: heard using racial slurs. Hogan sued Gawker, which was found
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  Speaker 1: liable and subsequently declared bankruptcy. Despite this legal victory, Hogan's
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  Speaker 1: reputation has been described as permanently tarnished, a view reflected
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  Speaker 1: in the mixed public reaction to his death in July
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Early life, Hogan was born in Augusta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: on August eleventh, nineteen fifty three, the son of construction
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  Speaker 1: form in Pietro Peter Bolea and home maker and dance
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  Speaker 1: teacher Ernice Ruth. Hogan was of Italian, Panamanian, Scottish and
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  Speaker 1: French descent. His paternal grandfather, also named Pietro, was born
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty six in Sigliano, Province of Vercelli in Piedmont.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan had an older brother named Alan, who died at
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  Speaker 1: the age of thirty eight from a drug overdose when
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  Speaker 1: he was one and a half years old. His family
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  Speaker 1: moved to Port Tampa, Florida. As a boy, he was
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  Speaker 1: a pitcher in Little League baseball. Hogan attended Robinson High School.
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  Speaker 1: He began watching professional wrestling at sixteen years old. While
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  Speaker 1: in high school, he revered Dusty Rhodes, and he regularly
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  Speaker 1: attended cards at the Tampas Sporratorium. It was at one
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  Speaker 1: of those wrestling cards where he first noticed superstar Billy
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  Speaker 1: Graham and began looking to him for inspiration. Since he
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  Speaker 1: first saw Graham on TV, Hogan wanted to match his
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  Speaker 1: inhuman look. Hogan was also a musician, spending a decade
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  Speaker 1: playing fretless bass guitar in several Florida based rock bands.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to study at Hillsborough Community College and
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  Speaker 1: the University of South Florida. After music gigs began to
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  Speaker 1: get in the way of his time in college, he
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  Speaker 1: dropped out of the University of South Florida. Eventually, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: and two local musicians formed a band called Ruckus in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six. The band soon became popular in the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay region. During his spare time, Hogan worked out
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  Speaker 1: at Hector's Gym in the Tampa Bay area, where he
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  Speaker 1: began lifting. Many of the wrestlers who were competing in
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  Speaker 1: the Florida region visited the bars where Ruckus was performing.
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  Speaker 1: Among those attending his performances were Jack and Gerald Briscoe.
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  Speaker 1: Impressed by Hogan's physical stature, the brisco brothers asked Hiro Matsuda,
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  Speaker 1: the man of trained wrestlers working for Championship Wrestling from
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  Speaker 1: Florida c w F, to make him a potential trainee.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy six, the two brothers asked Hogan to
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  Speaker 1: try wrestling. Hogan eventually agreed. At first, Mike Graham, the
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  Speaker 1: son of c w F promoter Eddie Graham, refused to
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  Speaker 1: put Hogan in the ring. According to Hogan. He met
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  Speaker 1: Graham while in high school and the two did not
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  Speaker 1: get along. After Hogan quit Rucus and started telling people
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  Speaker 1: in town that he was going to be a wrestler,
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  Speaker 1: Graham finally agreed to accept the brisco brother's request. During
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  Speaker 1: the first session in training, Matsuda broke Hogan's leg. After
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  Speaker 1: ten weeks of rehab, Hogan returned to train with Matsudah
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  Speaker 1: and blocked him when he tried to break his leg again.
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  Speaker 1: Professional wrestling career early years nineteen seventy seven to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy nine. In mid to nineteen seventy seven, after training
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  Speaker 1: for more than a year with Matsudah, the brisco Brothers
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  Speaker 1: dropped by Matsuda's gym to see Hogan. During this visit,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Briscoe handed Hogan a pair of wrestling boots and
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  Speaker 1: informed him that he was scheduled to wrestle his first
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  Speaker 1: match the following week. In his professional wrestling debut, Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Graham booked him against Brian Blair in Fort Myers, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: on August tenth, nineteen seventy seven, in the c WF.
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  Speaker 1: A short time later, Hogan don damask and assumed the
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  Speaker 1: persona of the Super Destroyer, a hooded character first played
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  Speaker 1: by Don Jardine and subsequently used by other wrestlers. Hogan
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  Speaker 1: eventually could no longer work with Matsuda, whom he felt
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  Speaker 1: was an overbearing trainer, and left CWF after declining an
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  Speaker 1: offer to wrestle for the Kansas City Circuit. Hogan took
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  Speaker 1: a hiatus from wrestling and managed the Anchor Club, a
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  Speaker 1: private club in Coco Beach, Florida, for a man named
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  Speaker 1: Whitey Bridges. Eventually, Whitey and Hogan became close friends and
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  Speaker 1: opened a gym together. The gym became known as Whitey
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  Speaker 1: and Terry's Olympic Gym. Soon after, Hogan's friend at Leslie,
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  Speaker 1: later known as Brutus Beefcake, came to Coco Beach to
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  Speaker 1: help Hogan and Bridges manage both the Anchor Club and
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  Speaker 1: Whitey and Terry's Olympic Gym in his spare time. Both
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  Speaker 1: he and Leslie worked out in the gym together, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually Beefcake developed a muscular physique. Hogan was impressed by
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  Speaker 1: Beefcake's physical stature and became convinced that the two of
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  Speaker 1: them should wrestle together as tag team partners. Depressed and
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  Speaker 1: yearning to return to wrestling, Hogan called superstar Billy Graham
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy eight with hopes that Graham could find
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  Speaker 1: out a job wrestling outside of Florida. Graham agreed, and
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  Speaker 1: Hogan soon joined Louis Tillot's Alabama territory. Hogan also convinced Leslie,
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  Speaker 1: who had yet to become a wrestler, to come with
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  Speaker 1: him and promise to teach him everything he knew about
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  Speaker 1: the sport. In Alabama, Hogan and Leslie wrestled as Terry
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  Speaker 1: and Ed Boulder, known as the Boulder Brothers. These early
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  Speaker 1: matches prompted a rumor among wrestling fans, who were not
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  Speaker 1: aware of the inner workings of the wrestling business that
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  Speaker 1: the two really were brothers, as few people actually knew
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  Speaker 1: their real names outside of immediate friends, family, and the
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  Speaker 1: various promoters the two worked for. After wrestling a show
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  Speaker 1: for Continental Wrestling Association c WA in Memphis, Jerry Jarrett,
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  Speaker 1: the promoter for the c w A, approached Hogan and
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  Speaker 1: Leslie and offered them a job in his promotion for
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars a week. This was far more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five dollars a week they would
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  Speaker 1: make working for Tillott. Hogan and Leslie accepted this offer
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  Speaker 1: and left Tillot's territory. During his time in Memphis, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: appeared on a local talk show where he sat beside
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  Speaker 1: Lou f Riigno, star of the television series The Incredible Hulk.
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  Speaker 1: The host commented on how Hogan, who stood six foot
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  Speaker 1: seven inches and weighed two hundred and ninety five pounds
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  Speaker 1: with twenty four inch biceps, actually dwarfed the Hulk. Watching
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  Speaker 1: the show backstage, Mary Jarrett noticed that Hogan was actually
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  Speaker 1: bigger than Ferigno, who was well known at the time
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  Speaker 1: for having large muscles. As a result, Hogan began performing
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  Speaker 1: as Terry the Hulk Bowlder and sometimes wrestled as Sterling Golden.
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  Speaker 1: On December first, nineteen seventy nine, Hogan won his first
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  Speaker 1: professional wrestling championship, the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship Northern Division,
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  Speaker 1: recognized in Alabama and Tennessee, when he defeated Bob Roup
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  Speaker 1: in Knoxville, Tennessee. He dropped it in January nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: to Bob Armstrong. He briefly wrestled in the Georgia Championship
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling GCW territory from September through December nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 1: as Sterling Golden World Wrestling Federation nineteen seventy nine to
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. In the fall of nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 1: former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk introduced Boleia to
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  Speaker 1: WWF owner promoter Vincent J. Mc mahon, who was impressed
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  Speaker 1: with his charisma and physical stature. M c mayhan, who
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  Speaker 1: wanted to use an Irish name, gave him the last
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  Speaker 1: name Hogan, and also wanted him to dye his hair red.
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  Speaker 1: Bullia claims his hair was already beginning to fall out
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  Speaker 1: by that time, and he refused to die it, simply
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  Speaker 1: replying i'llbe a blonde Irish Blea wrestled his first match
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  Speaker 1: in the w w F under the ring name Hulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan by defeating Harry Valdez on the November seventeenth episode
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  Speaker 1: of Championship Wrestling. He made his first appearance at Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden on December seventeenth, nineteen seventy nine, defeating Ted
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  Speaker 1: di Biase after a bear hug. After the match, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: thanked Dbiase for putting him over and told him that
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  Speaker 1: he owed him one a favor he repaid. During Diabiasse's
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  Speaker 1: second run with the company in the late nineteen eighties
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  Speaker 1: and early nineteen nineties as the Million Dollar Man, McMahon
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  Speaker 1: gave Hogan former tag team champion Tony Altemar as chaperone
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  Speaker 1: and guide. At this time, Hogan wrestled Bob Backland for
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  Speaker 1: the w W Championship, and he started his first big
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  Speaker 1: feud with Andre the Giant, which culminated in a match
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  Speaker 1: with Andrea at Shay Stadium in August nineteen eighty. During
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  Speaker 1: his initial run as a villain in the WWF, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: was paired with Classy Freddy Blassi, himself a villainous wrestler
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  Speaker 1: turned manager New Japan Pro Wrestling nineteen eighty to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five. In nineteen eighty, Hogan began appearing in New
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  Speaker 1: Japan Pro Wrestling JPW, where Japanese wrestling fans nick named
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  Speaker 1: him Issu Ban Number one. Hogan first appeared on May thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty while he was still with the WWF. He
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  Speaker 1: occasionally toured the country over the next few years, facing
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  Speaker 1: a wide variety of opponents ranging from Tatsumi Fujinami to
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  Speaker 1: Abdullah the Butcher. When competing in Japan, Hogan used a
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  Speaker 1: vastly different repertoire of wrestling moves, relying on more technical,
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  Speaker 1: traditional wrestling holds and maneuvers as opposed to the power
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  Speaker 1: based brawling style American fans became accustomed to seeing from him.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, Hogan used the axe Bomber, a crooked arm
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  Speaker 1: lariat as his finisher in Japan instead of the running
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  Speaker 1: leg drop that was his standard finisher in America. Hogan
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  Speaker 1: still made appearances for the WWF, even unsuccessfully challenging Pedro
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  Speaker 1: Morales for the Intercontinental Championship on March twenty sixth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one. On June second, nineteen eighty three, Hogan became
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  Speaker 1: the first International Wrestling Grand Prix IWGP tournament winner and
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  Speaker 1: the first holder of an early version of the IWGP
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship, defeating Antonio Innoki by knockout in the finals
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  Speaker 1: of a ten man tournament. Since then, this championship was
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  Speaker 1: defended annually against the winner of the IWGP League of
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  Speaker 1: the Year until it was re placed by current IWGP
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  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship that is defended regularly Hogan and Innok also
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  Speaker 1: worked as partners in Japan, winning the MSG Madison Square
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  Speaker 1: Garden Tag League tournament two years in a row in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two and nineteen eighty three. In nineteen eighty four,
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  Speaker 1: Hogan returned to NJPW to wrestle Anok to defend the
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  Speaker 1: early version of the IWGP title. After Innok one in
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  Speaker 1: the finals of the IWGP League, becoming the new number
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  Speaker 1: one contender to the championship, Hogan lost the match and
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  Speaker 1: title belt by countdout thanks to inference from Riki Choshu.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan also defended his WWF World Heavyweight Championship against Seji
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  Speaker 1: Sekaguchi and Fujinami, among others, until ending his tour in
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  Speaker 1: Nagoya on June thirteenth, losing to Anoki via count out
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  Speaker 1: in a championship match for the early version of the
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  Speaker 1: IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Hogan was the only challenger in the
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  Speaker 1: history of that title that didn't win the tournament to
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  Speaker 1: become the number one contender to the championship. American Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: Association nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty three, after accepting
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  Speaker 1: an offer to work on the film Rocky three, a
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  Speaker 1: decision Vincent J. Mc mahand disapproved of and subsequently chose
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  Speaker 1: to release Hogan from the promotion for Hogan made his
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  Speaker 1: debut u and in the American Wrestling Association a Boaugh
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  Speaker 1: owned by Verne Gangney. In August nineteen eighty one, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: started his OBBAW run as a villain with Luscious Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Valiant as his manager. This did not last long, however,
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  Speaker 1: as the AWA fans fell in love with Hogan's presence
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  Speaker 1: and Hogan became the top fan favorite of the AWA,
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  Speaker 1: battling the Heenan family and Nick Bockwinkle. Hogan's turn as
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  Speaker 1: a fan favorite came at the end of July nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one, when, during a television taping that aired in August,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Blackwell, after suffering a pinfall lost to Brad Rangons,
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  Speaker 1: began beating down Rangons and easily fighting off anyone who
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  Speaker 1: tried to run in for the save. Hogan ran in,
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  Speaker 1: got the upper hand, and ran Blackwell from the ring.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan was eventually victorious in his feud with Blackwell, and
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  Speaker 1: by the end of nineteen eighty one gained his first
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  Speaker 1: title matches against Bockwinkle. In March nineteen eighty two, Hogan
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  Speaker 1: defeated Bockwinkel and his manager Bobby Heenan in a non
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  Speaker 1: title handicap match in the International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan went on to repeatedly challenge Bockwinkle for the AWA
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  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship, with the matches generally ending in disqualifications.
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  Speaker 1: In April nineteen eighty two feed Backwinkle and was declared
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  Speaker 1: the new AWA World Heavyweight Champion only four the decision
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  Speaker 1: to be overturned by AWA President Stanley Blackburn due to
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  Speaker 1: the use of a foreign object during the match. Hogan
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  Speaker 1: left the AWA in November nineteen eighty three. Hogan reportedly
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  Speaker 1: did this by sending his notice that he was quitting
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  Speaker 1: via a letter to gangne Gagne thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: prank from another promoter until he realized Hogan was not
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  Speaker 1: showing up for a WA shows. Return to WWF nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three to nineteen ninety three. Rise of Holkama Nia
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty four. After purchasing the
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  Speaker 1: company from his father in nineteen eighty two, Vincent K
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  Speaker 1: mc mahon had plans to expand the territory into a
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  Speaker 1: nationwide promotion, and he handpicked Hogan to be the company's
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  Speaker 1: showpiece attraction due to his charisma and name recognition. Hogan
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  Speaker 1: made his return at a television taping in Saint Louis, Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: on December twenty seventh, nineteen eighty three, defeating Bill Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: On the January seventh, nineteen eighty four episode of Championship Wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: Hogan confirmed his fan favorite status for any WWF fans
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  Speaker 1: unaware of his late nineteen eighty one babyface turn by
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  Speaker 1: saving Bob Backland from a three way assault by the
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  Speaker 1: Wild Samoans. Hogan's turn was explained simply by Backland, He's
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  Speaker 1: changed his ways. He's a great man. He's told me
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna have Blassie around. The storyline shortcut was
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  Speaker 1: necessary because less than three weeks later, on January twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: Hogan won his first w w F World Heavyweight Championship,
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  Speaker 1: pinning the Iron Sheik, who had Blassy in his corner
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  Speaker 1: in Madison Square Garden. The storyline accompanying the victory was
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  Speaker 1: that Hogan was a last minute replacement for the Sheikh's
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  Speaker 1: original opponent, Bob Backland, and became the champion by way
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  Speaker 1: of being the first man to escape the camel clutch
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  Speaker 1: the iron Sheek's finishing move. Immediately after the title win,
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  Speaker 1: commentator Guerrilla Monsoon proclaimed Holkomania is here. Hogan frequently referred
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  Speaker 1: to his fans as Holkomaniac's in his interviews and introduced
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  Speaker 1: his three demandments, training, saying prayers, and eating vitamins. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: a fourth demandment, believing in one's self, was added. During
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  Speaker 1: his feud with Earthquake in nineteen ninety, Hogan's ring gear
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  Speaker 1: developed a characteristic yellow and red color scheme. His ring
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  Speaker 1: entrances involved him ritualistically ripping his shirt off his body,
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  Speaker 1: flexing and listening for audience cheers in an exaggerated manner.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of Hogan's matches during this time in involved
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  Speaker 1: him wrestling heels who had been booked as unstoppable monsters,
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  Speaker 1: using a format which became near routine. He delivered steady offense,
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  Speaker 1: but would eventually lose momentum, seemingly nearing defeat. After being
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  Speaker 1: hit with his opponent's finishing move, he got a sudden
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  Speaker 1: second wind, fighting back while feeding off the energy of
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  Speaker 1: the audience, becoming impervious to attack, a process described as
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  Speaker 1: hulking up his signature maneuvers pointing at the opponent, later
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by a loud u from the audience shaking his
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  Speaker 1: finger to scold him. Three punches, an Irish whip, the
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  Speaker 1: big boot, and running leg drop followed, insuring victory. In
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, similarities between Hogan's character and that of
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  Speaker 1: the Incredible Hulk led to a quick claim deal between
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  Speaker 1: Titan Sports, Marvel Comics, and himself, wherein Marvel obtained the
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  Speaker 1: trademarks Hulk, Hogan, Hulster, and Hulcomania for twenty years, and
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  Speaker 1: Titan agreed to no longer refer to him as Incredible,
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  Speaker 1: nor simply Hulk, or ever dress him in purple or green.
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  Speaker 1: Marvel also subsequently received point zero nine percent of reportable
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  Speaker 1: gross merchandise revenue associated with Hogan one hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 1: each of his matches, and ten percent of Titan's portion
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  Speaker 1: of his other earnings under this name, or ten percent
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  Speaker 1: of the earnings if Titan held no interest. This extended
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  Speaker 1: to WCW, whose paaring company Turner Broadcasting System, merged with
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  Speaker 1: Time Warner in nineteen ninety six and became sister companies
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  Speaker 1: with Marvel rival d C Comics, as Hogan was well
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  Speaker 1: under way with the ENWO story line under the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Hogan ring name at the time. This avoided Time Warner
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  Speaker 1: the awkward situation of paying Marvel the rights of the
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  Speaker 1: name while owning its chief rival. In a story in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight's Marvel Comics Presents Number forty five, a
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  Speaker 1: wrestler resembling Hogan was tossed through an arena roof by
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  Speaker 1: the Incredible Hulk because he picked the wrong name. International
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  Speaker 1: Renown nineteen eighty five to nineteen eighty eight. Over the
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  Speaker 1: following year, Hulk Hogan became the face of professional wrestling
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  Speaker 1: as Vince mc mount expanded the WWF into mainstream pop
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: culture through the Rock and Wrestling Connection on MTV. This
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: period saw large increases in viewing attendants, television ratings, and
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: pay per view bys. Hogan was the main attraction at
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: the first WrestleMania, held on March thirty first, nineteen eighty five,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: where he teamed with actor and wrestler Mister t to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: defeat Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mister Wonderful Paul Orndorf. Hogan
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: made multiple successful title defenses throughout nineteen eight and in
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the fall. He occasionally wrestled in tag team matches with
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: the Machines as Hulk Machine under a mask copied from
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: NJPW's Gimmicks super Strong Machine. At WrestleMania three in nineteen
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: eighty seven, Hogan defended his title against Andre the Giant,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: who had been promoted as undefeated in the WWF for
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. In the months leading up to the event,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: a storyline was introduced in which Hogan was awarded a
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: trophy for being champion for three consecutive years. Shortly afterward,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Andre received a slightly smaller trophy for his undefeated streak.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: During the segment, Andre walked out while Hogan. While also
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: appearing on The Tonight Show and having his own CBS
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Saturday Morning cartoon titled Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling, Hogan,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: as the premier WWF icon, headlined seven of the first
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: eight WrestleMania events. He also co hosted Saturday Night Live.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: On March thirtieth, nineteen eighty five, at and Tea reported
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that the nine hundred was speaking on an episode of
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Piper's Pit. Andre appeared with manager Bobby the brainheenan turning
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: heel and challenging Hogan to a title match at WrestleMania three.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: The match was promoted as one of the biggest in
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: wrestling history at the event. Hogan successfully defended the title
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: by body slamming the five hundred twenty pound Andre, winning
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: the match with the leg drop. Hogan was named the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: most requested celebrity of the nineteen eighties for the Make
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: a Wish Foundation children's charity. He was featured on the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: covers of Sports Illustrated, the first and as of twenty
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: twenty five, only professional wrestler to do so, TV Guide
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and People Magazines number information line he ran while the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: WWF was the single biggest nine hundred number from nineteen
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: ninety one to nineteen ninety three. Hogan continued to run
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a nine hundred number after joining World Championship Wrestling WCW
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the Mega Powers one thousand, nine hundred and eighty eight
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to one thousand, nine hundred and eighty nine. Hogan lost
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the WWF title to Andre the Giant on the main
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: event one after a confusing set up involving the Million
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Dollar Man, Tedy Biase and referee Earl Hebner, who secretly
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: replaced his twin brother the real referee. After Andre delivered
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a belly to belly suplex on Hogan, Hebner counted the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: pin even though Hogan's shoulder was off the mat. After
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the match, Andre gave the title to DiBiase as part
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of their deal. However, WWF president Jack Tunney ruled that
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a title couldn't be sold, so the championship was vacation
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: for the first time ever. At WrestleMania four, Hogan entered
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a tournament to win the vacant title. He and Andre
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: both got buys into the quarter finals, but their match
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: ended in a double disqualification. Later, Hogan helped stop Andre
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: from interfering in the final match, which allowed Randy Savage
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to beat Die Biasse and win the championship. Afterwards, Hogan, Savage,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and manager Miss Elizabeth formed a partnership known as the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Mega Powers, feuding with the Megabucks and the Twin Towers
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the year. By the end of
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, the Mega Powers had begun to fall
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: apart after Savage grew jealous of Hogan and suspected romantic
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: tension between Hogan and Miss Elizabeth. At the nineteen eighty
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: nine Royal Rumble, Hogan accidentally eliminated Savage while trying to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: get rid of another wrestler. Soon after, at the main
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: event IWO, during a tag match against the Twin Towers,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Savage accidentally knocked down Elizabeth. Hogan took her backstage for help,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: leaving Savage alone in the ring. When Hogan returned and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: asked for a tag, Savage slapped him and walked out.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Hogan finished the match and won on his own. After
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the match, Savage attacked Hogan backstage, breaking up the partnership
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and officially starting their feud. This culminated at WrestleMania five,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: where Hogan defeated Savage to win his second WWF World
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. Final WWF Championship reigns and Steroid Scandal nineteen
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: eighty nine to nineteen ninety three. During Hogan's second reign
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: as champion, he starred in the film No Holds Barred,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: which was the inspiration of a feud with Hogan's co
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: star Tom Luster Junior, who appeared at wrestling events as
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: his film character Zeus. The duo would fight multiple times
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: across the country during late nineteen eighty nine, including tag
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: team matches at SummerSlam and at the No Holds Barred
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: pay per view, with Hogan winning each match. Hogan also
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: defeated Savage to retain the WWF Championship in their official
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania rematch on October tenth at the London Arena. Hogan
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: would to go to win the nineteen ninety Royal Rumble
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Match before losing to Intercontinental Champion The Ultimate Warrior in
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a title versus title match at WrestleMania six on April first,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. Hogan soon became embroiled in a heated feud
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: with a four hundred and sixty eight pound Earthquake, who
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: had crushed Hogan's ribs in a sneak attack on The
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: brother Love Show in May nineteen ninety. On television, announcers
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: explained that Bo Hogan's injuries and his wrestle Mania six
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: loss to Warrior took such a huge toll on his
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: fighting spirit that he wanted to retire. Viewers were asked
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to write letters to Hogan and send postcards asking for
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: his return, and would receive a postcard sized picture autographed
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: by Hogan as a thank you. Hogan returned by SummerSlam,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and he dominated Earthquake for several months in a series
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of matches across the country seventy five. His defeat of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: this overwhelmingly large foe prompted Hogan to add a fourth demandment,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: believing in yourself, led to him becoming known as the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Immortal Hulk Hogan. In January nineteen ninety one, Hogan became
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the first wrestler to win two Royal Rumble matches in
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a row. At that year's Royal Rumble at WrestleMania seven,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Hogan defeated Sergeant Slaughter for his third WWF championship. In
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the fall of nineteen ninety one, Hogan was challenged by
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Rick Flair, the former NWA World Heavyweight Champion who recently
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: arrived in the WWF. The challenge went unmet as Hogan
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: lost the WWF Championship to the Undertaker at Survivor Series.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Jack Tunney immediately granted Hogan a rematch at This Tuesday
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in Texas six days later, which Hogan won. Flair interfered
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in both matches, resulting in the championship once again being
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: declared vacant. It was decided that the winner of the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two Royal Rumble match would also be declared
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the new WWF Champion, Hogan entered in the number twenty
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: six spot, but failed to regain the championship as he
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was eliminated by friend Sid Justice. In turn, Hogan helped
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: cause Sid's elimination, leaving Flair as the winner and new
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: w w F champion. Hogan and Sid subsequently made up
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and teamed together on Saturday night's main event thirty against
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Flair Undertaker, but during the match, Sid abandoned Hogan, starting
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a feud. At WrestleMania eight, Hogan defeated Sid via disqualification
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: due to interference by Sid's manager, Harvey Whippleman. At this time,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: new sources began to allege that George was Ahorian, a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: doctor for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, had been selling
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: steroids illegally to wrestlers in general and Hogan in particular.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Hogan appeared on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to deny the allegations. Due to intense public scrutiny, Hogan
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: took a leave of absence from the company, later saying
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: that the steroid problem at the time was horrible. That's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the kind of stuff most guys did before breakfast. Hogan
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: returned to the w w F in February nineteen ninety three,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: helping out his friend Brutus Beefcake in his feud with
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Money and corporate ded Erwin R. Schuster and the Million
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Dollar Man Ted Di Biase, and officially renaming themselves the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Mega Maniacs, taking on Money Ink's former manager, the Mouth
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of the South, Jimmy Hart. At WrestleMania nine, Hogan and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Beefcake lost by disqualification to Money Inc. In a match
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: for the WWF Tag Team Championship. Later that night, Hogan
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: won his fifth WWF Championship by pinning Yokozuna in an
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: impromptu match only moments after Yokozuna had defeated Brett Hart
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: for the championship. Hogan reportedly used his influence to have
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the finish of WrestleMania changed the weekend of the events
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: so he would be champion during an upcoming international and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: de facto farewell tour. At the first annual King of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the Ring pay per view on June thirteenth, Hogan defended
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the WWF Championship for the first time this reign in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a rematch against Yo Kazuna. Yokozuna kicked out of Hogan's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: signature leg drop and scored the pinfall win. After Hogan
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: was blinded by a fireball shot by a Japanese photographer
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: actually a disguised Harvey Whippleman, the victorious Yokozuna proceeded to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: give Hogan a Banzai drop. This was Hogan's last WWF
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: pay per view appearance until two thousand and two, as
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: both he and Jimmy Hart were preparing to leave the promotion.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Hogan and continued his feud on the International House Show
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: circuit with Yokozuna until August nineteen ninety three. After that,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Hogan sat out the rest of his contract, which expired
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: later that year, before he lost the belt to Yokozuna.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: On May third, nineteen ninety three, Hogan returned to NJPW
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: as WWF Champion and defeated IWGP Heavyweight Champion The Great
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Muta in a dream match. At Wrestling Dantaku. Hogan wrestled
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: against Muta again, this time under his real name Kigi
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Muto on September twenty sixth, nineteen ninety three. Hogan also
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: wrestled the hell Raisers with Muta and Masihirochono as his
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: tag team partners. His last match in Japan was on
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: January fourth, nineteen ninety four, at Battlefield, when he defeated
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Tatsumi Fujinami World Championship Wrestling nineteen ninety four to two thousand,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Champion nineteen ninety four to nineteen ninety six.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Starting in March nineteen ninety four, Hogan began making appearances
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: on WCW television as interviewer Gene Okerland, who was now
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: at WCW employee, visited him on the set of Thunder
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in Paradise episodes. Hype then built over whether Hogan should
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: remain with Thunder in Paradise or join w CW ni
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to wrestle Rick Flair. On June eleventh, nineteen
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: ninety four, Hogan officially signed with Ted Turner's World Championship
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Wrestling WCW in a ceremony that was held at Disney
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: MGM Studios. The next month, with Jimmy Hart as his manager,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Hogan won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in his debut match,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: defeating Rick Flair in a dream match at Bash at
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the Beach. Hogan continued his feud with Flair, who defeated
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: him by count out on the Clash of the Champions
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: twenty eight. Thus Hogan retained the title, which culminated in
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a steel cage match with Flair's career on the line
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and Mister t as the special guest referee that Hogan won.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Hogan's fame helped WCW to increase their popularity in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: numbers of PPV in ratings, but WCW was centering the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: bookings around Hogan and many of his friends. Hogan headlined
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: w CW's premier annual event, Starcad Starkad Triple Threat in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: December nineteen ninety four by defeating his real life friend
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: The Butcher for the title, a decision that received criticism.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: His next feud was against Vader, retaining the title at
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: super Bowl five and defeating him in a non title
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: leather strap match at Uncensored. Hogan's feud with Vader culminated
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: in a steel tis cage match for the title at
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Bash at the Beach, where Hogan won by escaping the cage.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The October ninth, nineteen ninety five broadcast of Nitro was
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Hogan's first appearance in an all black attire. Hogan feuded
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: with the Dungeon of Doom, which led to a war
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Games match at Fall Brawl, where Hogan's team Lex Luger
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Randy Savagen's Sting won. Hogan's reign as WCW World Heavyweight Champion,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: which at four hundred and sixty nine days, is the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: longest in the title's history, ended when he lost the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: WCW World Heavyweight Championship to The Giant at Halloween Havoc
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: via disqualification. Following the controversial loss, which was due to
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a contract clause, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship became vacant
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and a new champion was to be crowned in a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: sixty man three ring Battle Royal at World War Three,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: where The Giant cost Hogan the title. This led to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a steel cage match between Hogan and the Giant at
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Super Brawl six, where Hogan won to end their feud.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: In early nineteen ninety six, Hogan reformed the Mega Powers
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: with Randy Savage to feud with the Alliance to end Holkomania,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: which culminated at Uncensored in a doomsday cage match that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Hogan and Savage won. New World Order nineteen ninety six
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety nine at Bash at the Beach on
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: July seventh, during a six man tag team match pitting
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the outsiders Kevin Nash and Scott Hall against w c
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: W loyalists, Hogan interfered and attacked Randy Savage on behalf
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of Hall and Nash, thereby turning heel for the first
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: time in nearly fifteen years. After the match, Hogan delivered
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a promo accosting the fans in w c W for
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: underappreciating his talent and drawing power, and announcing the formation
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: of the New World Order. En Woe. The new stable
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: gained prominence in the following weeks and months. Hogan grew
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a beard alongside his famous mustache and dyed at black,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: traded his red and yellow garb in for black and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: white clothing, often detailed with lightning bolts, and renamed himself
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Hulk Hogan, often shortened to Hollywood Hogan. Hogan won
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: his second w c W World Heavyweight Championship at Hogwilde
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: on August tenth by defeating the Giant for the title.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: He spray painted En Woe across the title belt, scribbled
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: across the name plate, and referred to the title as
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the En Woe Title. Hogan then started a few lex
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Luger after Luger and the Giant defeated Hogan and Dennis
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Rodman in a tag team match at Bash at the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Beach on July thirteenth, nineteen ninety seven. On the August
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: fourth episode of Nitro, Hogan lost the title to Lex
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Luger by submission. Five days later, at Road Wild on
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: August ninth, Hogan defeated Luger to regain the WCW World
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. Hogan then lost the title to Sting in
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a match at Starkad on December twenty eighth. In the match,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: WCW's newly contracted Brett Hart accused referee Nick Patrick of
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: fast counting a victory for Hogan and had the match
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: restarted with himself as referee. Sting later won by submission
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: after a rematch the following night on Nitro, where Sting
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: controversially retained the title, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship became vacant.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Sting went on to win the vacant title against Hogan
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: at super Brawl eight on February twenty second, nineteen ninety eight,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and Hogan then developed a rivalry with former friend and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: recent Ennuo recruit Randy Savage, who had just cost Hogan
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the title match at Super Brawl by hitting him with
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a spray can. The feud culminated in a steel cage
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: match at Uncensored on March fifteenth, which ended in a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: no contest. Savage took the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Sting at Spring Stampede on April nineteenth, while Hogan team
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: with Kevin Nashed take on Roddy Piper and The Giant
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in the first ever batmtch. Hogan betrayed Nash by hitting
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: him with the bat and then challenged Savage the following
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: night on Nitro for the world title. In the no
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: disqualification match for Savage's newly won title, Nash entered the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: ring and hit a power bomb on Hogan as retribution
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: for the attack the previous night, but Brett Hart interfered
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: moments later and jumped into attack Savage and preserved the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: victory for Hogan, who won his fourth WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Nash's attack on him signified a split of the n
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: WOE into two separate factions. Hogan's became NUO Hollywood and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Nashes became nWo Wolfpack. That feuded with each other for
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the remainder of the year. Hogan defended the title until
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: July of that year, when WCW booked him in a
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: match against newcomer and then WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Goldberg,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: who had yet to lose a match in WCW. Late
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in the match, Hogan was distracted by Karl Malone, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Goldberg pinned Hogan to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: on the July sixth episode of Nitro. Hogan spent the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: rest of nineteen ninety eight wrestling celebrity matches. His second
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: tag team match with Dennis Rodman pitted them against Diamond Dallas,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Page and Karl Malone at Bash at the Beach on
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: July twelfth, and at Roade Wild on August eight. He
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and Eric Bischoff lost a page in Jay Leno thanks
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to interference from Kevin Eubanks. Hogan also had a critically
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: panned rematch with The Warrior at Halloween Havoc on October
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, where his nephew Horace aided his victory. On
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Hogan officially announced his retirement from professional wrestling, as well
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: as his candidacy for President of the United States. Campaign
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: footage aired on Nitro of Hogan and Bischoff holding a
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: press conference, making it a pure legitimate Both announcements were
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: false and made as publicity stunts to draw some of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the hype of Jesse Ventura's Minnesota gubernatorial win back to him.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: After some time off from w CW, Hogan returned on
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the January fourth, nineteen ninety nine episode Nitro two challenged
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Kevin Nash for the w CW World Heavyweight Championship, which
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Hogan won for the fifth time. The match ended controversially
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: known as the finger Poke of Doom. The match saw
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Hogan poke Nash in the chest with his index finger,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: prompting Nash to theatrically throw himself onto the mat and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: allow Hogan to pin him. The victory marked the reunion
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of both annimal factions in to one villainous group. The
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: incident had negative ramifications for WCW as a whole, with
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: some wrestling journalists crediting it as the beginning of the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: company's ultimate downfall. Final years in WCW nineteen ninety nine
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to two thousand, Hogan lost the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to Rick Flair at Uncensored in a steel Cage First
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Blood match. Later, Hogan was severely injured in a Texas
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Tornado match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship featuring him
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Diamond Dallas, Page, Flair, and Sting. At Spring Stampede. On
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the July twelve episode of Nitro, Hogan made his return
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: as a face for the first time in three years,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and accepted an open challenge from Savage, who had won
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Bash at the Beach
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the night before. In a tag team match by pinning
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Kevin Nash thanks to interference from Nash, Hogan defeated Savage
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to win his sixth and final WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: On August ninth, nineteen ninety nine, Hogan defeated Nash at
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Road Wilde to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. At
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Fall Brawl on September twelfth, Hogan retained the championship against Sting.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: On October twenty fourth, at Halloween Havoc, Hogan was to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: face Sting for the w c W World Heavyweight Championship
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Hogan came to the ring in street clothes, laid down
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: for the pin, and left the ring. Hogan was then
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: convinced by newly hired headbooker Vince Russo to take time
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  Speaker 1: off with no clear return date, despite reservations. Hogan later
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: commented on the match, those were whack times. That was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the old Russo and the old me. It was all stupid.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: In two thousand, Hogan feuded with the cruiserweight Billy Kidman.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Their feud had negative reception, being voted as the worst
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: feud of the year by readers of the Wrestling Observer newsletter.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: According to Bischoff, Hogan didn't want to work with Kidman,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: but he wrestled him to increase the morale of the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: roster since many wrestlers though they would not have an opportunity.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: In w CW at Bash at the Beach on July ninth,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: he was involved in a controversial segment. Hogan was scheduled
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to challenge Jeff Jarrett for the w c W World
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship. Before the match, there was a backstage dispute
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: between Hogan and Russou. The match ending was changed to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a work shoot, where Jarrett laid down for Hogan and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Hogan disparaged Russo and the company on the microphone afterwards.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Moments later, Russo came to the ring and said this
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: would be the last time fans would ever see that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: piece of shit in a WCW ring, whilst revealing Hogan's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: creative control clause in his contract giving Hogan final say
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on any storyline decisions. As a result, Hogan filed a
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: defamation of character lawsuit against Russo soon after, which was
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: eventually dismissed in two thousand and two. Russou claims the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: whole thing was a work, and Hogan claims that Russou
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: made it a shoot. Eric Bischoff agreed with Hogan's side
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of the story when he wrote that Hogan winning and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: leaving with the belt was a work and that he
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and Hogan celebrated after the event over the success of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the angle, but that Russou coming out to fire Hogan
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: was an unplanned which led to the lawsuit filed by Hogan.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It was the last time he was seen in WCW
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: post WCW Endeavors two thousand and one. In the months
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: following the eventual demise of WCW in March two thousand
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and one, Hogan underwent surgery on his knees in order
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: for him to wrestle again. As a test, Hogan worked
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a match in Orlando, Florida, on November fourteenth for the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: e Excitement Wrestling Federation x WF promotion run by his
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: longtime manager Jimmy Hart. Hogan defeated Kurt Henigan this match
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and felt healthy enough to accept an offer to return
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to the WWF in February two thousand and two. Two
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: second return to w w F WWE two thousand and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: two to two thousand and three at No Way Out.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: On February seventeenth, two thousand and two, Hogan returned to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the WWF as a heel, returning as leader of the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: original En Woe with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. The
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: three got into a confrontation with The Rock and cost
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Stone Cold Steve Austin a chance at becoming the undisputed
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: w w F Champion against Chris Jericho in the main event.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: The NWOE feuded with both Austin and The Rock, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: on the February eighteen episode of Raw, Hogan accepted The
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Rock's challenge to a match at WrestleMania eighteen. On March seventeenth,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: where Hogan asked Hall and Nash not to interfere, wanting
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to defeat the Rock by himself. Despite the fact that
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Hogan was supposed to be the heel in the match,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the crowd cheered for him heavily. The Rock cleanly won
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the contest and befriended Hogan at the end of the bout,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: helping him fight off Hall and Nash, who were upset
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: by Hogan's conciliatory attitude. After the match, Hogan turned faced
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: by siding with the Rock, though he continued wearing black
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and white tights for a few weeks after WrestleMania eighteen
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: until he resumed wearing his signature red and yellow tights.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: During this period, the Hulk Rules logo of the nineteen
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: eighties was redone with the ten Hulk still rules, and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Hogan also wore the original Hulk Rules attire twelve years
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: earlier when he headlined WrestleMania six at the same arena
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in the SkyDome. For a time, he was still known
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: as Hollywood Hulk Hogan, notably keeping the Hollywood Hogan style
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: blonde mustache with black Beard while wearing Hulkamania like red
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and yellow tights and using the Voodoo Child entrance theme
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: music he'd used in WCW. On the March twenty five
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: episode of Raw, Hogan was drafted to the SmackDown brand
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: as part of the inaugural draft lottery. On the April
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: four episode of SmackDown, Hogan began a feud with Triple
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: H and then defeated Triple H for the Undisputed WWF
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Championship at Backlash on April twenty first. Two weeks later,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: WWF changed its name to WWE, hence Hogan was the
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: final WWF champion and the first at ww champion. On
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: May nineteenth, at Judgment Day, Hogan lost the w B
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Unisputed Championship to the Undertaker. After losing a number one
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: contender match for the WWE Undisputed Championship to Triple H.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: On the June sixth episode of SmackDown, Hogan began feuding
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: with Kurt Angle, resulting in a match between the two
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: at the King of the Ring on June twenty third,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: which Angle won by submission. On the July four episode
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of SmackDown, Hogan team with Edge to defeat Billy and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Chuck and capture the w W Tag Team championship for
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the first time. They celebrated by waiving the American flag
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: as the overjoyed audience sang along to Hogan's theme song,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Real American. They lost the belts to the UnAmericans, Christian
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and Landstorm at Vengeance on July twenty first. In August,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Hogan was used in an angle with Brock Lesner, culminating
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: in a main event singles match on the August eight
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: episode of SmackDown, which Lesner won by technical submission. Lesner
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: became only the second w W wrestler to defeat Hogan
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: by submission after Kurt Engel. Following the match, Lesner continued
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to beat on Hogan, leaving him bloody and unconscious in
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the ring. As a result of Lesner's assault, Hogan went
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: on hiatus until early two thousand and three, shaving off
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: his black Beard and dropping Hollywood from his name. In
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: his return, Hogan battled the Rock, who had turned heel
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: once again at No Way Out on February twenty third,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and lost and defeated m c mahon at WrestleMania Unteen
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: on March thirty in a street fight build a twenty
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: years in the making. Hogan's next storyline had MacMahon forcing
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Hogan to sit out the rest of his contract, leading
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to him debuting the masked Mister America character. On the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: May one episode of SmackDown, Mister America debuted on a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Piper's Pit segment. Mc mahon appeared and claimed that Mister
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: America was Hogan in disguise. Mister America shot back by saying,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I am not Hulk Hogan brother. The feud continued through May,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: with a singles match between Mister America and Hogan's old
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: rival Rowdy Roddy Piper at Judgment Day on May eighteenth,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a match Mister America won. Mister America's last WWE appearance
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: was on the June twenty sixth episode of SmackDown, when
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Big Show and the World's Greatest tag team Charlie Hass
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and Shelton Benjamin defeated Brock Lesner, Kurt Engle, and Mister
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: America in a six man tag team match. After SmackDown
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: went off the air, Mister America unmasked to show the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: fans that he was indeed Hogan, putting his finger to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: his lips, telling the fans to keep quiet about his secret.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: The next week, Hogan quit w WE due to frustration
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: with the creative team. On the July three episode of SmackDown,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: mc mayhon showed the footage of Mister America unmasking as
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Hogan and fired him, although Hogan had already quit in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: real life. It was later revealed that Hogan was unhappy
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: with the payoffs for his matches after his comeback under
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the Mister America gimmick second return to MGPW two thousand
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and three. Hogan returned to NJPW in October two thousand
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and three when he defeated Masahiro Chono at Ultimate Crush
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: two in the Tokyo Dome. Shortly after Hogan left WWE,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Total NonStop Action Wrestling TNA began making overtures to Hogan,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: culminating in Jeff Jarrett, co founder of TNA and then
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: NWA World Heavyweight Champion, launching an on air attack on
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Hogan in Japan after the Chono match. The attack was
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a precursor to Hogan battling Jarrett for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at TNA's first three hour
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: pay per view. Due to recurring knee and hit problems,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Hogan did not appear in TNA third return to WWE
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five to two thousand and seven. On
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: April second, two thousand and five, Hogan was inducted into
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the WWE Hall of Fame Class of two thousand and
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: five by actor and friend Sylvester Stallone. At WrestleMania twenty
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: one on April third, Hogan came out to rescue Eugene,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: who was being attacked by Mohammed Asan and Kosro Davari.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: The build up to Hogan's Hall of Fame induction and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: preparation for his WrestleMania angle was shown on the first
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: season of Hogan Knows Best. Next next night, on RAW,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Hassan and Dive came out to confront an assault fan
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: favorite Seawn Michaels at Backlash on May one, Hassan and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Dvari lost to Hogan and Michaels. Hogan then appeared on
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: July fourth episode of Raw as a special guest of
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Carlito on his talk show segment Carlito's Cabana. After being
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: asked questions by Carlito concerning his daughter Brooke, Hogan attacked Carlito.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Kurt Engel then also appeared making comments about Brook, which
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: further upset Hogan, who was eventually double team by Carlito
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and Engle, but was saved by Shawn Michaels. Later that night,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Michaels and Hogan defeated Carlito and Angle in a tag
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: team match. During the post to match celebration, Michaels performed
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the Sweet Chin music on Hogan and walked off. The
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: following week on Raw, Michaels appeared on Piper's pit and
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: challenged Hogan to face him one on one for the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: first time. Hogan appeared on Raw one week later and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: accepted the challenge. The match took place at SummerSlam on
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: August twenty first, which Hogan won. After the match, Michaels
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: extended his hand to him, telling him that he had
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: to find out for himself, and Hogan and Michaels shook
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: hands as Michaels left the ring to allow Hogan to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: celebrate with the crowd. Prior to Wrestle MANYI twin two
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: in April two thousand and six, Hogan inducted friend and
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: former announcer Mean Gene Okerland into the WWE Hall of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Fame Class of two thousand and six. Hogan returned on
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Saturday Night's main event thirty three with his daughter Brooke.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: During the show, Randy Orton flirted with Brooke and later
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: attacked Hogan in the parking lot. He later challenged Hogan
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to a match at Summer Slam on August twentieth, which
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Hogan won. This was Hulk Hogan's final match wrestling for
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the WWE, although he had negotiations for a match against
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: John Cena at WrestleMania twenty five, which ultimately fell through
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Memphis Wrestling two thousand and seven. During this time, Hogan
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: was invited to join Memphis Wrestling to face Jerry Lawler.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: The match was promoted for months, but on April twelve,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, Lawler announced that WWE would not
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: let him participate, as his contract do to his appearances
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: on NBC affiliated shows like Raw prevented him from appearing
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on VH one, where Hogan's reality show Hogan Knows Best aired.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Lawler was replaced by Paul White, and Hogan defeated White
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: at the PMG Clash of Legends event on April twenty seventh,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, using his trademark body slam and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: leg drop. Hulk Oucamania let the battle begin two thousand
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: and nine. On November twenty first, twenty four, twenty six,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and twenty eight, Hogan performed in an independent wrestling tour
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: across Australia titled Hulkamania. Let the Battle Begin. The main
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: event of each show was a rematch between Hogan and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Rick Flair, with Hogan winning each match. Total NonStop Action
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Wrestling two thousand and nine to twenty thirteen Dixie Carter's
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: business partner two thousand and nine to twenty ten. On
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, two thousand and nine, it was announced
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that Hogan had signed a contract to join TNA on
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a full time basis. The footage of his signing and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the press conference at Madison Square Garden following it were
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: featured on the October twenty nine episode of Impact. On
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: December fifth, Hogan announced on Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC's The
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Ultimate Fighter that he would make his official TNA debut
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: on January fourth, twenty ten, in a special live three
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: hour Monday night episode of Impact to compete with w
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: w e's Raw, which featured the return of Brett Hart.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: On the January four episode of Impact, Hogan debuted, reuniting
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: briefly with former MO partners Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Sean Waltman, the latter two of whom made their returns
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to the company. He refused to join them for a
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: full fledged reunion of their group, claiming it's a different time,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and stuck to his business relations with Bischoff, who made
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: his appearance to declare that the two of them would
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: flip the company upside down and everyone would have to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: earn their spot. Hogan also encountered T and A founder
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett on the broadcast, appearing via video wall and
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: interrupting Jarrett's company success speech, stating that Carter was instrumental
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to the company's survival and that, just like the rest,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Jarrett would have to earn his spot in TNA. On
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the February eighteen episode of Impact, Hogan took Abyss under
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: his wing and during this sequence gave him his Hall
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of Fame ring and claimed it would make him a
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: god of wrestling. Hogan made his in ring return on
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the March eight episode of Impact, teaming with Abyss to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: defeat A J. Styles and Rick Flair when Abyss scored
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: a pinfall over Styles. Afterward, the returning Jeff Hardy saved
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Hogan an Abyss from a beat down by Styles Flair
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: and Desmond Wolf. The storyline became a Team Flair versus
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Team Hogan situation, with Jarrett and the debuting Rob Van
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Dam joining Team Hogan and Beer Money, James Storm, and
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Robert Rude and Sting joining Team Flair. At Lockdown on
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: April eighteenth, Team Hogan, Hulk, Hogan, Abyss, jaf Jarrett, Jeff Hardy,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and Rob Van Dam defeated Team Flair, Rick Flair, Sting,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Desmond Wolf, Robert Rude and James Storm in a lethal
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: lockdown match Immortal twenty ten to twenty eleven. On the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: June seventeen episode of Impact, Hogan's alliance with Abyss came
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to an abrupt end when Abyss turned heel. Abyss later
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: claimed that he was controlled by some entity that was
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: coming to TNA. The next month, Hogan worked with Bischoff,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett, and Samoa Joe against Sting and Kevin Nash,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: who claimed that they knew that Hogan and Bischoff were
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: up to something. During this time, Abyss went on a rampage,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: attacking Rob Van Dam to the point that he was
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: forced to vacate the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and eventually
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: put his hands on TNA president Dixie Carter, which led
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: to her signing the paperwork presented by Bischoff that would
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: have Abyss fired from TNA Following his match with Van
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: dam at Bound for Glory on October tenth, Hogan was
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: set to wrestle with Jarrett and Joe against Sting Nash
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: and DiAngelo de Naro at Bound for Glory, but was
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: forced to miss the event due to a back surgery.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: He made an appearance at the end of the event
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: and helped Jeff Hardy win the vacant TNA World Heavyweight
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Championship and aligning himself with Hardy, Bischoff, Abyss, and Jarrett,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: turning heat feel in the process. On the October fourteen
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: episode of Impact, it was revealed that Bischoff had tricked
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Carter and the paperwork she had signed a week earlier
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: were not to release Abyss, but to turn the company
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: over to him and Hogan. Meanwhile, Bischoff's Hogan's new stable,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: now known as Immortal, formed an alliance with Rick Flair's Fortune.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Dixie Carter returned on the November twenty five episode of
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Reaction informing Hogan and Bischoff that a judge had filed
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: an injunction against the two on her behalf over not
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: having signatory authority, indefinitely suspending Hogan from TNA. During his absence,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Hogan underwent a potentially career ending spinal fusion surgery on
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: December twenty first. Hogan returned to TNA on the March third,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: twenty eleven episode of Impact, declaring himself as the new
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: owner of TNA. Having won the court battle against Dixie
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Carter in April, he began hinting at a possible return
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: to the ring to face the TNA World Heavyweight Champion Sting.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: On the May twelve episode of the newly renamed Impact Wrestling,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Hogan lost control of the program to Mick Foley, who
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: revealed himself as the network consultant who had been causing
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: problems for Immortal ever since Hogan and Bischoff took over
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the company. This angle was cut short three weeks later
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: when Foley left TNA. During the following months, Hogan continued
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to interfere in Sting's matches, costing him the TNA World
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship first at Hardcore Justice on August seventh, recruiting
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Kurt Angle to a Mortal in the process on the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: September one episode of Impact Wrestling, and finally at No
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Surrender on September eleventh. On the September fifteenth episode of
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Impact Wrestling, Sting defeated Immortal member Rick Flair to earn
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the right to face Hogan at Bound for Glory on
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: October sixteenth. On October fourth, it was reported that Hogan
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: had signed a contract extension with TNA after feigning retirement
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: from professional wrestling. Hogan accepted the match at Bound for
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Glory on the October sixth episode of Impact Wrestling, while
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: also agreeing to hand t and A back to Dixie
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Carter should Sting win the match. Hogan was defeated by
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Sting at Bound for Glory, ending his storyline as the
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: president of TNA. After the match, Immortal attack Sting, but
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Hogan turned on Immortal and helping Sting, turning face in
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the process. On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: wearing his trademark Yellow and Red, again, admitted to his
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: mistakes and put over Sting for winning feud with Aces
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and eight two thousand and twelve to two thousand and thirteen.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: During t Anda's tour of the United Kingdom. On January
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty twelve, Hogan returned to the ring at
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: house shows in Nottingham and Manchester, where he, James Storm
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and Sting defeated Bobby Rude, Bully Ray, and Kurt Angle
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: in a six man tag team main event at both events,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the latter of which was Hogan's final match. Hogan returned
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: to Impact Wrestling on February second, when he was revealed
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: as Garrett Bischoff's trainer. On the March twenty ninth episode
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: of Impact Wrestling, Hogan returned and accepted Sting's offer to
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: replace him as the new general manager. In July, Hogan,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: alongside Sting, began feuding with a mysterious group of masked
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: men who had dubbed themselves the Aces and Eights. The
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: group's attack on Hogan on the July twelve episode of
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Impact Wrestling was used to write Hogan off television as
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: he was set to undergo another back surgery. In November,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Hogan moved into a storyline with Bully Ray after Austin
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Ares revealed a secret relationship between Ray and Hogan's daughter
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Brooke after seeing them kissing in a parking garage on
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the December twenty episode of Impact Wrestling. Hogan suspended Ray
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: indefinitely on the January third, twenty thirteen episode of Impact Wrestling.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: The following week on Impact Wrestling, after Ray saved Brook
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: from a kidnapping by the Aces and Eights, Brooke accepted
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  Speaker 1: his marriage proposal. Despite Hogan's disapproval, he still walked Brook
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  Speaker 1: down the aisle for her wedding on the next episode
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  Speaker 1: of Impact Wrestling, during which Ray's groomsmen Taz interrupted and
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: revealed himself as a member of the Aces and Eights,
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  Speaker 1: leading the group to attack Hogan, Ray, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the groomsmen. On the January thirty one episode of
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  Speaker 1: Impact Wrestling, Hogan reinstated Ray so he could take on
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  Speaker 1: the Aces and Eights. Hogan named Ray the number one
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  Speaker 1: contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the February
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  Speaker 1: twenty one episode of Impact Wrestling. At Lockdown. On March tenth,
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  Speaker 1: Ray betrayed Hogan after Aces and Eights helped Ray defeat
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Hardy win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and Ray
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: revealed himself as the president of the Aces and Eights.
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  Speaker 1: Following Lockdown. Hogan blamed Sting for Ray winning the title,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: as it was Sting who encouraged Hogan to give Ray
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the title shot. Sting returned and saved Hogan from an
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: attack by Aces and Eights on the April twenty five
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  Speaker 1: episode of Impact Wrestling. The following week on Impact Wrestling,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Hogan and Sting reconciled their differences. On the October three
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan refused an offer from Dixie
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Carter to become her business partner and quit. This was
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  Speaker 1: done to officially write Hogan off as a result of
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: his contract expiring with TNA. Fourth returned to w w
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  Speaker 1: E two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and fifteen.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: On February twenty fourth, twenty fourteen, on Raw, Hogan made
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  Speaker 1: his first w w E interring appearance since December two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven, to hype the WWE network. On the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: March twenty four episode of Raw, Hogan came out to
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: introduce the guest appearances of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joe Manganiello.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: This was to promote the guest's new film, Sabotage at
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania XXX. In April twenty fourteen, Hogan served as the host,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: coming out at the start of the show to hype
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: up the crowd. During his promo, he mistakenly referred to
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the Superdome, the venue the event was being held at,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: as the Silverdome, which became the subject of jokes throughout
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the night. Hogan was later joined by Stone Cold Steve
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Austin in the Rock and they finished their promo by
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: drinking beer together in the ring. Later in the show,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Hogan shared a moment with Mister T Paul Orndorff and
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Roddy Piper in a reference to the first WrestleMania. On
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: February twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, Hogan was honored at Madison
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Square Garden during a WWE Live event dubbed Hulk Hogan
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Appreciation Knight, with a special commemorative banner hanging from the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: rafters honoring his wrestling career and historic matches he had
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: in the arena. Hogan then appeared on the March twenty
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: third episode of Raw, where he and Snoop Dogg got
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: the better of Curtis Axel, who was promoting Axelmania. On
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: March twenty eighth, Hogan posthumously inducted Macho Man Randy Savage
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  Speaker 1: into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of twenty fifteen.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: The next night, at WrestleMania thirty one, Hogan, Scott Hall,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: and Kevin Nash representing the ENO, interfered in the Sting
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Triple h match on behalf of Sting, where they battled
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Degeneration XDX members Billy gunn X, Pac Road Dog and
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Shawn Michaels. Racism scandal and departure. In July twenty fifteen,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: National Inquirer and Radar Online publicized an anti black rant
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: made by Hogan on a leaked sex tape recorded in
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. In the recording, he has heard
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: expressing disgust with the notion of his daughter dating a
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: black man, referenced by repeated use of the racial slernigger.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Hogan also said that he was a racist to a point.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Once the recordings went public, erupting in a media scandal,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Hogan apologized for the remarks, which he said at his
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: language that is offensive and inconsistent with his own beliefs.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: On July twenty fourth, WWE terminated their contract with Hogan,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: stating that they are committed to embracing and celebrating individuals
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: from all backgrounds. However, Hogan's lawyer said Hogan chose to
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: resign a day prior. WWE removed almost all references to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Hogan from their website, including his listing as a judge
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: for Tough Enough, his merchandise from WWE Shop, and his
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: entry from its WWE Hall of Fame page. His DLC
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: appearance from ww two K fifteen was taken down from sale,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: and his character was cut from the then upcoming WWE
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: two K sixteen game during development. In response to the controversy,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Mattel stopped producing Hogan action figures, while Hogan's merchandise was
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: taken down from online stores of Target, Toys, r US,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and Walmart. On July twenty eighth, Radar Online reported that
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Hogan had also used homophobic slurs on the leak sex tape.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Days later, it was reported that Hogan had used racist
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: language in a two thousand and eight call to his
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: then imprisoned son Nick, and also said that he hoped
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: they would not be reincarnated as blackmails. Hogan gave an
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: interview with ABC on August thirty first, in which he
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: pleaded forgiveness for his racist comments, attributing these to a
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: racial bias inherited from his neighborhood while growing up. Hogan
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: said that the term nigger was used liberally among friends
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: in Tampa. Former neighbors disputed this reaction from African American wrestlers.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Three black wrestlers who worked in the WWF and WCW
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: with Hogan made supportive comments. Virgil commented, Hogan has never
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: given me a reason to believe he is a racist,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: while Dennis Rodman said he most certainly is not a racist,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and Kamala added I do not think Hogan meant harm
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: by saying that Hogan is my brother until he decides
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: not to be. Other black wrestlers working in the WWE
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: made different comments. Mark Henry said he was pleased by
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: w w e's no tolerance approach to racism response and
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: that he was hurt and offended by Hogan's manner and tone.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Booker t said he was shocked and called the statements unfortunate.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Upon his return to the company in twenty eighteen, Hogan
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: talked to all the wrestlers backstage to apologize. Several African
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: American wrestlers, including the New Day Titus O'Neill, Mark Henry, Shelton,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Benjamin and JTG doubted the sincerity of Hogan's apology due
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: to Hogan warning wrestlers to be mindful about being recorded
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: without their knowledge during his apology. Instead of addressing his comments,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Henry stated, he thinks it's going to go away, that
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be that dark cloud over his career.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I offered to say, hey, let's do a tour of
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: the black colleges in law schools and explain what happened.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to do that. Fifth return to WWE
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen to twenty twenty five. On July fifteenth, twenty eighteen,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Hogan was reinstated into the ww Hall of Fame, despite
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: no prior official statements suspending him. Hogan made his on
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: screen return on November two, twenty eighteen, as the host
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of Crown Jewel. On January seventh, twenty nineteen, Hogan returned
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: RAW to present a tribute to mean Jen Oakerland, who
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: had died five days prior. During the following years, Hogan
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: appeared on several WWE events, like the twenty nineteen and
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Hall of Fame ceremonies, where he inducted Brutus
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: beef Cake in twenty nineteen and was inducted for a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: second time as part of the New World Order with
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Sean Waltman. In twenty twenty,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: he also hosted the thirty five and thirty seven editions
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: of WrestleMania along with Alexa Bliss and Titus O'Neill, respectively.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: He also participated at Crown Jewel twenty nineteen, where he
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: was the captain of a team opposing Rick Flair's team.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: In January twenty twenty five, Hogan made his final appearance
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: at a Prefecttional wrestling event during the Raw debut on Netflix,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: where alongside Jimmy Hart, he cut a promo advertising his
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: real American beer. Hogan was heavily booed by the crowd,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: which received widespread coverage in the media. Tributes and legacy,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Hogan has been described as one of the largest attractions
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: in professional wrestling history and a major reason why Vince
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: mc mahone's expansion of his promotion worked. Wrestling historian and
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: journalist Dave Meltzer stated that you can't possibly overrate his
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: significance in the history of the business, and he sold
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: more tickets to wrestling shows than any man who ever lived.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Fellow wrestler Cody Roads has said numerous times that Hogan's
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Wrestle to Mania eighteen match with The Rock is the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: greatest match in wrestling history and that it epitomized what
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: professional Fellow WWE Hall of Fame member Brett Hart was
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: repeatedly critical of Hogan's wrestling abilities, including in twenty twenty
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: one saying that he didn't know a headlock from a
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: headlamp and that he was very limited. Hart had previously
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: referred to Hogan as a hero to fans and previously
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: complimented Hogan's look. You look at Hulk Hogan, Okay, unbelievable look,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: six feet eight inches with the twenty four inch pythons.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: It's an incredible look. When he walks in the room,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: the whole room stops like you see it. He has
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: got like legs stuck on his shoulders. His arms are
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: as big as somebody's legs. Hogan himself had previously said
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: he is number two behind Rick Flair, who he said
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: is the greatest wrestler of all time. Chris Jericho said
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: on his podcast in twenty twenty three that Hogan was
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: a better worker than Flair. In his experience, Hogan is
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: a better worker than Flair. For me, I always had
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: amazing matches with Hogan because he knew exactly who he
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: was as a baby face, as a heel, whatever. He
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: was so great, he knew his audience. He didn't do
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: anything he didn't have to. It was one of my
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: favorite times in my career. On February twenty, twenty nineteen,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: it was announced that Chris Hemsworth would portray him in
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: a biopic directed by Todd Phillips. However, in twenty twenty four,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Phillips announced the film had been scrapped. Following Hogan's death
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: on July twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, many wrestlers paid
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: tribute to Hogan on social media, such as The Rock,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: The Undertaker, John Cena, Triple h Rick, Flair, Kine Sting,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Kurt Angle, The Miz, and Matt Hardy. Promotions like WWETNA
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and WA, n JPW and AW also remembered him. Hogan
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: was also remembered by people outside pro wrestling, like actor
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Sylvester Stallone, UFC president Dana White, and US President Donald Trump.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: The July twenty fourth, twenty twenty five episode of TNA
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: impact would be dedicated to Hogan. On the July twenty fifth,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five episode of WWE SmackDown, which aired on
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the USA Network, Hogan was honored with a ten bell
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: salute and a tribute show. In NJPW based in Japan,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Hogan would also be given a ten bell salute as
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: well as a tribute ceremony during the sixth night of
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the G One Climax thirty five tournament on July twenty sixth,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. In AW, Hogan would be honored on
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: the July twenty sixth, twenty twenty five episode of AW Collision,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: which aired on former WCW Nitro network TNT, with a
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: tribute from former WCW commentator Tony Schiavone. A tribute video
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: and another ten bell salute would be given to Hogan
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: on the July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five episode of
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: WWE Raw. He would also receive a ten bell salute
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: on the July twenty ninth, twenty twenty five episode of
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: w W NXT. On July thirty first, twenty twenty five,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared August first, twenty twenty five
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: as Hulk Hogan Day for the State. In Hogan's memory.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Dessantus also declared for the flags at the Florida State
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Capital to be flown at half staff on August first.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: At the same time, many sources noted his complicated legacy
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: due to his backstage politics, his racial comments, and his
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: support for Donald Trump. Hogan suffered numerous health problems, particularly
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: with his back, since retiring as a wrestler, following years
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: of heavy weight training and jolting as a wrestler. After
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: the procedures failed to cure his back problems, Hogan underwent
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: traditional spinal fusion surgery in December twenty ten, which enabled
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: him to return to his professional activities. In January twenty thirteen,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Hogan filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Laser Spine
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Institute for fifty million dollars, saying that the medical firm
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: persuaded him to undergo a half dozen unnecessary and ineffective
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: spinal operations that worsened his back problems. He claimed that
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the six procedures he underwent over a period of nineteen
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: months gave him only short term relief. In addition, the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Laser Spine Institute used his name on their advertisements, which
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Hogan claimed was without his permission. The Laser Spine Institute
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: shut down into twenty nineteen. In July twenty twenty five,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Brook Hogan stated that Hogan's health was declining by twenty
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: twenty three, and that he had undergone numerous surgeries by
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: this point in time. Close friends Jimmy Hart and Eric
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Bischoff noted a rapid decline in Hogan's health following his
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five neck fusion surgery. Hart shared that
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Hogan avoided visitors to prevent infection, while Bischoff recalled Hogan's
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: sounding weak and expressing embarrassment over his condition. Hogan died
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: at his home in Clearwater, Florida, on July twenty fourth,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, at the age of seventy one. His
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: official cause of death was acute myocardial infarction, known as
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: a heart attack. His medical records later revealed he had
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: been battling chronic lymphystic leukemia and atrial fibrillation.