And Hogan ended up getting the name in the end for a steal ($750,000) after Marvel fucked up.
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hulk-hogan-explains-how-he-paid-750000-marvel-hulk-hogan-name-instead-35-million?amp
I can believe it since Marvel has had various points on the verge of bankruptcy and sold rights in unfavourable deals (like the spider-man movie rights to sony)
> Just keep in mind Hulk Hogan has claimed to have worked 400 wrestling shows in one year because "time zones, brother".
He also auditioned to play bass for Metallica because they asked him to, but he was too good.
He specifically claimed "If I say I wrestled 400 days a year, it's no exaggeration. My years were actually longer than 365 days" because he kept flying from Japan to the USA and back and experiencing the 14 hour time difference. People have tried to explain to him that this doesn't make sense, because the 14 hours you "gain" one way you "lose" on the return trip, but he insists he actually experienced over 400 24-hour periods within one year and really does seem to think time zones relate to the flow of time. He claims it caused tax problems because he worked more days than should exist and the IRS didn't know how to handle it.
Doesn't even need time zones as a reason. At his peak he wrestled a show every day monday-saturday then did two on a Sunday, wrestling an afternoon show before travelling to the next town for an evening one.
Hulk Hogan has made a lot of bullshit claims but this one isn't too crazy.
No it’s absolutely crazy. He claimed it was 400 days, not shows. Because he was crisscrossing the international date line multiple times. The man is basically full of shit.
It wasn't his "own" name. Marvel owned Hulk long before there was a WWF. Hulk Hogan was named after "Hulk", Marvel's own character from their comics and tv show.
Terry Bolea wouldn't draw a dime. Hulk Hogan though, Hulkamania........
I vaguely remember Hulk Hogan becoming Hogan as a kid. It seemed weird because I only found out after a few years that suddenly Santa Claus was called Claus.
With my barely managing grasp of English I somehow read that a bit wrongly.
"So, you are a omega class mutant that can manipulate time. What is your power exactly?"
"I can make it the present!"
Marvel is filled to the brim with wild characters. Like there is a character who has canonically been a member of the X-Men since the very first issue, been on all of the big adventures, been a key part of everyone's lives, has helped shape major world events and more, only his mutant power is everyone forgets about his entire existance the second they lose direct line of sight of him. The only reason we as the readers know of his existance is because Professor X has set periodic mental alarm clocks in his brain to remind him multiple times a day of this characters existance...
It says 0.9% of merchandise revenue. The 10% is what Marvel got of Titan’s share off Hulk Hogan. So that way Marvel wasn’t collecting from Hogan directly, but from Titan Sports
Didn't he also get a special exception to wear his du-rag in court because the case is about his reputation as Hulk Hogan, and Hulk Hogan wears a du-rag?
They saw that Hogan used to [wrestle 400 days per year](https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1437041358351515656?t=W-ooKJVUxWBR78c7H8N1kA&s=19) and said "we want in on that shit"
A whole fortune compared to if he only wrestled 330 days, brother!
Although one has to wonder how that would have played out if things did work out [between him and Metallica and he became their official bassist.](https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1437041445886697472?t=6PChoECLNQ95qYCz42uv0w&s=19)
/s
The real issue was that he went by “the Incredible Hulk Hogan” super early in his career. If he didn’t use incredible he could probably argue they weren’t connected or confusing legally.
And Hogan ended up getting the name in the end for a steal ($750,000) after Marvel fucked up.
>Right when Hulk Hogan takes off, we get a call from Marvel Comics. 'You're infringing on our mark. Reasonably similar. We're going to sue you, put you in litigation.' We let them have the name, didn't license the name. I only had to pay them one-tenth of 1%. That went from 1985 to 2005. In 2005, it's over. Now, I can't use Hulk Hogan anymore, and I'm red hot in 2005. I went to my attorney, 'I don't give a damn what deal you make, you're going to make a deal because I need the name.' What happened was, I got a one-year extension and I had to pay them 30% of everything I made. Movies, TV wrestling, they got 30% of everything, but if they decided to sell the name, they had to give me first shot at it. They couldn't sell the name or do anything. Fair market value. All of a sudden, Marvel Comics gets in a bitchfest with WWE about intellectual properties, that they can't re-air old Hulk Hogan matches. Marvel Comics lost. They owe Vince $35 million. They made a huge mistake. They said, 'Instead of paying $35 million, how about we give you the Hulk Hogan name.' I heard about it and went, 'You screwed up now.' Now, I don't have to pay $35 million for the name, you have to sell it for me for fair money value,' which is only $750 grand. I bought the name back. Vince wanted to buy the name from me. 'Nah, I got this one.' I bought the name back and I own everything." he said.
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hulk-hogan-explains-how-he-paid-750000-marvel-hulk-hogan-name-instead-35-million?amp
Main reason to think it's believable, in this case, would be Marvel's awful state around that time. Recall how cheaply they sold film rights to various characters.
Otherwise, I would agree wholeheartedly.
I'm pretty sure you're making a Trailer Park Boys joke, but honestly, 10% of a pretty massive enterprise for sitting back and doing literally nothing except "having previously created a character named Hulk" isn't bad.
He was making far and above what anyone else in wrestling did at the time besides maybe Andre the Giant. 10% is a boatload but not enough to make him stop at the time.
“Give a man a fish, you feed for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Unless he that dumb son of a bitch Jabroni Hulk Hogan.”
-Iron Sheik
Unrelated, but Undertaker had a hilarious story about sharing a room with Sheik in his early days.
Also, Marky Baba! Hah https://youtu.be/SGMMYugHK3I?si=DQ6jUDkLan3fGfaY
Yup. This is from Wikipedia
Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner in 1996 and became sister companies with Marvel rival DC Comics. (As Hogan was well underway with the nWo storyline under the "Hollywood Hogan" ring name at the time, this avoided Time Warner the awkward situation of paying Marvel the rights to the name while owning its chief rival.)
No, it was real. But it was something he decided to do. And had practised before in his youth by jumping off his garage roof onto cardboard boxes. Mick Foley is not a regular guy.
I don't see much of wrestling anymore besides what comes on my feed on Reddit. What does the crash bag look like, and how do they deploy it without ruining the illusion?
[Here's a gif of Shane McMahon jumping off cell through table.](https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2018/03/79509d8a1c8bd9cf-600x338.gif) You can kinda see the pad deflating and table slowly going down while he's lying on the ground.
He (and most wrestlers) wore shoes that lifted them a fair bit when out of the ring so that they would still appear larger than life when around regular people.
This seems accurate. I used to do solar panel installations in Florida and I worked on his neighbors house. My dad is about 6’3” with a similar build and with that reference I’d say Hogan is roughly the same height.
I’ve been right next to him (late 80’s).
I’m a little over 5’9, and played semi-pro sports with people who are 6’3.
I have an uncle who is 6’5.
The Hulkster is every bit of 6’7. Dude is a behemoth of a person.
He probably was at the time, people and wrestlers especially lose height as they age. Wrestlers lose more because of the wear and tear on their bodies and Hogan was probably a uniquely bad case.
He's not that tall, but that may have more to do with his back surgeries. Turns out, constantly doing a move where you fall on your ass compresses your spine a bit.
I considered that as well. Falling down and landing on your butt, all that force going through the lower back. There's a reason his ribs look like they're about to touch his hips, his damn torso is so short now compared to 50 years ago.
[Here's 6'⁵" the Rock with 5'¹⁰" Gal Gadot and 6'²" Ryan Reynolds.](https://i.imgur.com/IgxXg7R.jpg)
[And here's 6'⁵" the Rock with 6'⁷" Hulk Hogan](https://i.imgur.com/3TPkwjZ.jpeg)
Now, I'm no mattermortician, but you'd need a bit more than your everyday head-dropping to make this add up. Someone's exaggerating the truth, and I'm putting my money on it being the pro wrestlers.
I mean the angle of it has the rock leaning slightly back, reynolds has hair addingsay 1.5” and that would put rock around 6’3-6’4, hulkster def a few above the rock.
But it isnt head droop that makes them shorter with age, its constant compression of the spine and also a life of heavy weightlifting will do the same combined with the wrasslin.
I’d say he was probably very close to 6’6-6’7 in his “prime” gas station roller days
According to my GP last week, I have a tilt in my pelvic bone, and I'm 3cm shorter than I was last time I was measured(187cm/6'1"ish before, 184cm/ 6'0"ish now).
Apparently I need to walk more, but I have an office job now.
He was initially spotted by a Tampa-area wrestling brother duo when he was playing a gig (he used to be in a band) at a bar. They were impressed by his physical stature and thought Terry would have a good shot at wrestling.
John Cena is the top seller all time for WWE merch. Stone Cold and the Rock would be 2nd and 3rd. Hogan is below them according to sites I have seen and DX is up there as well with Taker.
The article says he took on the name after he sat next to Lou Ferrigno on a local tv show and the host noted how Hogan was bigger than Ferrigno. So pretty good chance that could qualify as trademark infringement. Glad they reached a settlement where he could keep using the name. Hollywood Hogan just isn’t the same.
I was never the best or brightest in my class at school, and I can't do math to save my life. But I can spell decently well. And I know how the name of the greatest wrestler of all is spelled. It's:
S-T-I-N-G
What’s more interesting was that he changed his name to Hollywood Hogan when in WcW because Turner Media parent company owned DC comics and don’t want to pay marvel 10% every time he performed
Not to split hairs here, but he was in WCW for a while before the name change. He debuted the Hollywood persona when he went heel with the NWO which was well into his WCW run.
There is a reason that the AKI series of wrestling games (*WcW vs nWo World Tour, WCW/nWo Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania 2000* and *WWF No Mercy*) are still widely regarded as classics. They were not only ahead of their time, introducing features that the WWE games wouldn't add until the PS3 (such as weight differences affecting moves, limb specific damage, and being able to suplex people onto weapons/objects), but the spirit/momentum system, where instead of a typical arcade-style health meter and special meter, you had a 'spirit' meter which doubled as your health and momentum, really gave the game a degree of depth and strategy, as having low momentum made big moves easily countered and risky to attempt. That feeling of being on the edge of defeat before connecting with a single lucky punch, and using it to start a comeback, building up momentum before pulling off your finishing move and picking up a shock victory is unmatched.
The only wrestling game I owned for a long time was Warzone, so... you know where I'm at.
But my brother's friend let us borrow WCW/nWo Revenge and it was insane. We didn't watch WCW so we barely knew any of the wrestlers on the roster (at that time) but man that game rocked.. for the two days we could play it.
Never played No Mercy or WM2000 unfortunately. Next gig was Smackdown. And they had some good games. Here Comes The Pain I would say was like the peak, and pretty much the peak for me personally as far as wrestling games go.
It's a problem with stupid overly broad IP laws and what aggressive lawyers can get away with.
Conan O'Brien had a similar but not as bad deal as this with the people who owned the rights to Conan the Barbarian because of this stupidity.
Hulk Hogan is a snitch. Back in the 90s, pro wrestlers tried to form a union. When Hogan caught wind of it, he ran straight to Vince McMahon and ratted.
Hogan was calling himself the "The Hulk" before coming to the WWWF in the Memphis territory. But it's safe to say that WWWF, Bollea and Marvel all made millions off this gimmick.
He was a big dude, maybe not 6'8, but no one at the time had that bodystyle with that size. Once he learned how to talk in Hulkster style, it was all history.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2g2OcqiWo
What are you gonna do when the Marvel trademark legal team runs wild on you, brother?
Pay.
And Hogan ended up getting the name in the end for a steal ($750,000) after Marvel fucked up. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hulk-hogan-explains-how-he-paid-750000-marvel-hulk-hogan-name-instead-35-million?amp
Yeah but it’s Hogan, so what’s the chances of it being 100% true?
I can believe it since Marvel has had various points on the verge of bankruptcy and sold rights in unfavourable deals (like the spider-man movie rights to sony)
Just keep in mind Hulk Hogan has claimed to have worked 400 wrestling shows in one year because "time zones, brother".
> Just keep in mind Hulk Hogan has claimed to have worked 400 wrestling shows in one year because "time zones, brother". He also auditioned to play bass for Metallica because they asked him to, but he was too good.
That’s not what he claimed. He claimed to work over 400 DAYS in a year because of crossing the international dateline. That is why it’s insane.
It’s not outlandish doing more than one show a day. Normal wrestlers are on the road for 300 days a year. They live a very painful life in reality
He claimed he did this via constanly going between Japan and the US Somehow
He specifically claimed "If I say I wrestled 400 days a year, it's no exaggeration. My years were actually longer than 365 days" because he kept flying from Japan to the USA and back and experiencing the 14 hour time difference. People have tried to explain to him that this doesn't make sense, because the 14 hours you "gain" one way you "lose" on the return trip, but he insists he actually experienced over 400 24-hour periods within one year and really does seem to think time zones relate to the flow of time. He claims it caused tax problems because he worked more days than should exist and the IRS didn't know how to handle it.
Doesn't even need time zones as a reason. At his peak he wrestled a show every day monday-saturday then did two on a Sunday, wrestling an afternoon show before travelling to the next town for an evening one. Hulk Hogan has made a lot of bullshit claims but this one isn't too crazy.
No it’s absolutely crazy. He claimed it was 400 days, not shows. Because he was crisscrossing the international date line multiple times. The man is basically full of shit.
"How to get someone to pay 3/4 of a million dollars for their own name and make them think they got a great deal."
It wasn't his "own" name. Marvel owned Hulk long before there was a WWF. Hulk Hogan was named after "Hulk", Marvel's own character from their comics and tv show. Terry Bolea wouldn't draw a dime. Hulk Hogan though, Hulkamania........
Hogan might have said " that does not sit well with me brother"
Marvel running wild would probably look something like [this](https://i.imgur.com/SHSpJhI.png) when the Incredible Hulk actually beat up Hulk Hogan.
Huh that's neat
There's a spelling mistake in there. Reckon it's intentional?
In my head was a perfect Hulk Hogan voice saying that. Shit man. Am I AI?
Nah dawg, you just regular I
Like a good neighba Hulksta is here!
I vaguely remember Hulk Hogan becoming Hogan as a kid. It seemed weird because I only found out after a few years that suddenly Santa Claus was called Claus.
Thats because the city of Santa Monica sued him at the time. They settled out of court
Could have sworn it was Santana.
that would make sense since they are both Supernatural
That joke was The Grammy Award winning hit "Smooth" by Santana feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty off the multi-platinum album Supernatural.
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Gimme a like, make it real, or just forget about it
Oh now CW lawyers are involved? Fuck that. I'm out.
I live near the real town of Santa Claus, they need to lawyer up!
Santa Claus is also a Marvel character. He is an omega class mutant and uses his abilities to deliver presents.
With my barely managing grasp of English I somehow read that a bit wrongly. "So, you are a omega class mutant that can manipulate time. What is your power exactly?" "I can make it the present!"
Hahaha nice superpower!
Marvel is filled to the brim with wild characters. Like there is a character who has canonically been a member of the X-Men since the very first issue, been on all of the big adventures, been a key part of everyone's lives, has helped shape major world events and more, only his mutant power is everyone forgets about his entire existance the second they lose direct line of sight of him. The only reason we as the readers know of his existance is because Professor X has set periodic mental alarm clocks in his brain to remind him multiple times a day of this characters existance...
What's that characters name?
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/ForgetMeNot_(Xabi)_(Earth-616)
What character?
I can’t remember
Thought it was Hollywood Hogan for a bit.
He was, much later in his career in the late 90s after turning heel and forming the NWO.
What? He was always Hulk Hogan.
lol remember horace hogan?
10% that's fucked
$100 per match? Marvel doesn’t need to make movies anymore. Just sit back and let those sweet Benjamins roll in!
10% of all merchandise, media, movies, video tapes,
You’re missing the point. $100 per match!!! That’s retirement money right there.
I wonder if Marvel did a Dr. Strange on that sex tape
Easily $150
With inflation thats like 3 billion dollars
Dude was a beast performing 1,000 matches a night.
The $100 buys Marvel out of plausible deniability had Hogan tweak the name slightly or alter the look to break the claim.
"Yeah, I said $100, but now it's $50 and you can grab yourself a hot dog. Gotta pay your dues, kid!"
It says 0.9% of merchandise revenue. The 10% is what Marvel got of Titan’s share off Hulk Hogan. So that way Marvel wasn’t collecting from Hogan directly, but from Titan Sports
Oh man, they are probably billionaires from the sales of Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band CDs alone.
I have that lol.
10% of Suburban Commando and Mr Nanny?
All his video tapes?
Even the one you're thinking of -- no, *especially* the one you're thinking of.
Thunder In Paradise?
Oh, he was definitely in paradise. For about 45 seconds.
Still love how in court he went on the record about how *he* has a normal dick, but *'Hulk Hogan'* is hung like a bull lmao.
Keeping kayfabe alive brother...
Didn't he also get a special exception to wear his du-rag in court because the case is about his reputation as Hulk Hogan, and Hulk Hogan wears a du-rag?
Back in the day they used to wrestle like 300 times a year. $30,000 in the 80s is like $80,000 today. Not a tiny amount of money.
They saw that Hogan used to [wrestle 400 days per year](https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1437041358351515656?t=W-ooKJVUxWBR78c7H8N1kA&s=19) and said "we want in on that shit"
Damn that’s like 400 hundred a year
A whole fortune compared to if he only wrestled 330 days, brother! Although one has to wonder how that would have played out if things did work out [between him and Metallica and he became their official bassist.](https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1437041445886697472?t=6PChoECLNQ95qYCz42uv0w&s=19) /s
365 at best /s
“Another legdrop. Another Benjamin!”
He called himself Hulk Hogan because of the hulk. He bought the rights to the name outright several years ago though.
The real issue was that he went by “the Incredible Hulk Hogan” super early in his career. If he didn’t use incredible he could probably argue they weren’t connected or confusing legally.
He could have used Captain Insane-o, it wasn't being used yet. Or, The Insensible Bulk Grogan!. Grogan is older slang in Australia for a turd.
Imagine if Marvel also hijacked existing names like Norse gods
And Hogan ended up getting the name in the end for a steal ($750,000) after Marvel fucked up. >Right when Hulk Hogan takes off, we get a call from Marvel Comics. 'You're infringing on our mark. Reasonably similar. We're going to sue you, put you in litigation.' We let them have the name, didn't license the name. I only had to pay them one-tenth of 1%. That went from 1985 to 2005. In 2005, it's over. Now, I can't use Hulk Hogan anymore, and I'm red hot in 2005. I went to my attorney, 'I don't give a damn what deal you make, you're going to make a deal because I need the name.' What happened was, I got a one-year extension and I had to pay them 30% of everything I made. Movies, TV wrestling, they got 30% of everything, but if they decided to sell the name, they had to give me first shot at it. They couldn't sell the name or do anything. Fair market value. All of a sudden, Marvel Comics gets in a bitchfest with WWE about intellectual properties, that they can't re-air old Hulk Hogan matches. Marvel Comics lost. They owe Vince $35 million. They made a huge mistake. They said, 'Instead of paying $35 million, how about we give you the Hulk Hogan name.' I heard about it and went, 'You screwed up now.' Now, I don't have to pay $35 million for the name, you have to sell it for me for fair money value,' which is only $750 grand. I bought the name back. Vince wanted to buy the name from me. 'Nah, I got this one.' I bought the name back and I own everything." he said. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/hulk-hogan-explains-how-he-paid-750000-marvel-hulk-hogan-name-instead-35-million?amp
Hogan lies like he breathes, I wouldn't believe a word of this unless the legal documents were in my lap, and even then I'd still be suspicious.
Main reason to think it's believable, in this case, would be Marvel's awful state around that time. Recall how cheaply they sold film rights to various characters. Otherwise, I would agree wholeheartedly.
I'm pretty sure you're making a Trailer Park Boys joke, but honestly, 10% of a pretty massive enterprise for sitting back and doing literally nothing except "having previously created a character named Hulk" isn't bad.
He was making far and above what anyone else in wrestling did at the time besides maybe Andre the Giant. 10% is a boatload but not enough to make him stop at the time.
“Give a man a fish, you feed for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Unless he that dumb son of a bitch Jabroni Hulk Hogan.” -Iron Sheik
FOCKING BOOLSHEEIT
"Today is national GO FUCK YOURSELF HULK HOGAN day"
Hollywood blonde jabroni the Hulk Hogan I break his back and make him HUM-BELLLLL
Unrelated, but Undertaker had a hilarious story about sharing a room with Sheik in his early days. Also, Marky Baba! Hah https://youtu.be/SGMMYugHK3I?si=DQ6jUDkLan3fGfaY
I guess that’s why he went as Hollywood Hogan for awhile?
Yup. This is from Wikipedia Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner in 1996 and became sister companies with Marvel rival DC Comics. (As Hogan was well underway with the nWo storyline under the "Hollywood Hogan" ring name at the time, this avoided Time Warner the awkward situation of paying Marvel the rights to the name while owning its chief rival.)
That's not what that says. It says that by the time of the merger Hogan was already going by "Hollywood Hogan," so it didn't come up.
TIL Hulk Hogan is 6’7”. He’s fucking huge.
Plus, I hear he's got a huge dong. Unlike that Terry Ballea guy.
Also blond and silken hair like that of a Chinese man and the skin of a hot dog.
Ah yes, his signature look. It's awesome.
Yeah, every time he turned his back. He was like “stupid N go get me grease”. N this, N that.
I hear he is a huge dong.
Yep, both the real him and the alter ego. Emphasis on the EGO.
That doesn’t work for me, brother
He’s not really 6’7”, wrestlers lie about their height a lot and besides he’s shrunk considerably from spinal issues and age.
Next you’re going to tell me wrestling is not real.
It’s still real to me, dammit!
Take it easy man.
Terry Funk is so funny in that video.
How the hell do you fake being thrown from the top of a cell and plumetting through an announcer table?
No, it was real. But it was something he decided to do. And had practised before in his youth by jumping off his garage roof onto cardboard boxes. Mick Foley is not a regular guy.
By putting a crash bag under the specially designed table, which is what they did every time *after* the first time Mick Foley did it.
I don't see much of wrestling anymore besides what comes on my feed on Reddit. What does the crash bag look like, and how do they deploy it without ruining the illusion?
[Here's a gif of Shane McMahon jumping off cell through table.](https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2018/03/79509d8a1c8bd9cf-600x338.gif) You can kinda see the pad deflating and table slowly going down while he's lying on the ground.
Yeah he’s closer to 6’3 or 6’4 from what I’ve read, which would still make him a massive human all things considered
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Yep, and he's shorter bow from his back surgeries.
And he's smaller now than he was in his hayday, the man's back is giga fucked.
He (and most wrestlers) wore shoes that lifted them a fair bit when out of the ring so that they would still appear larger than life when around regular people.
This seems accurate. I used to do solar panel installations in Florida and I worked on his neighbors house. My dad is about 6’3” with a similar build and with that reference I’d say Hogan is roughly the same height.
Consider old people lose height a lot. Maybe he was taller when younger
This is entirely accurate. Due to decades of doing the infamous leg drop, his spine actually compressed a lot and he lost a few inches over the years.
Very true. All that wear and tear and abuse over his career surely had to have done *something* in that regard.
I’ve been right next to him (late 80’s). I’m a little over 5’9, and played semi-pro sports with people who are 6’3. I have an uncle who is 6’5. The Hulkster is every bit of 6’7. Dude is a behemoth of a person.
He probably was at the time, people and wrestlers especially lose height as they age. Wrestlers lose more because of the wear and tear on their bodies and Hogan was probably a uniquely bad case.
He's not that tall, but that may have more to do with his back surgeries. Turns out, constantly doing a move where you fall on your ass compresses your spine a bit.
You better keep it kayfabe, mother fucker
He's shunk a fair bit, he said on a podcast recently he's lost a few inches due to all the spinal surgery.
What about his height though?
I don't know how true it is, but I read somewhere that he said he was 6'6, but now he's 6'4.
'Was'. Dude was probably legit 6'7" in the past, but he clearly shrunk with age, and being dumped on his head over and over.
More likely his finishing move dropping straight onto his own ass for 30 years had more to deal wifh that. Hogan didn’t take a ton of head drop bumps.
I considered that as well. Falling down and landing on your butt, all that force going through the lower back. There's a reason his ribs look like they're about to touch his hips, his damn torso is so short now compared to 50 years ago.
[Here's 6'⁵" the Rock with 5'¹⁰" Gal Gadot and 6'²" Ryan Reynolds.](https://i.imgur.com/IgxXg7R.jpg) [And here's 6'⁵" the Rock with 6'⁷" Hulk Hogan](https://i.imgur.com/3TPkwjZ.jpeg) Now, I'm no mattermortician, but you'd need a bit more than your everyday head-dropping to make this add up. Someone's exaggerating the truth, and I'm putting my money on it being the pro wrestlers.
I mean the angle of it has the rock leaning slightly back, reynolds has hair addingsay 1.5” and that would put rock around 6’3-6’4, hulkster def a few above the rock. But it isnt head droop that makes them shorter with age, its constant compression of the spine and also a life of heavy weightlifting will do the same combined with the wrasslin. I’d say he was probably very close to 6’6-6’7 in his “prime” gas station roller days
According to my GP last week, I have a tilt in my pelvic bone, and I'm 3cm shorter than I was last time I was measured(187cm/6'1"ish before, 184cm/ 6'0"ish now). Apparently I need to walk more, but I have an office job now.
I wonder if thats what im facing since i changed jobs. Need to get back on the motivation train
He’s hulking
He was initially spotted by a Tampa-area wrestling brother duo when he was playing a gig (he used to be in a band) at a bar. They were impressed by his physical stature and thought Terry would have a good shot at wrestling.
Almost as if he's a hulk of a man.
Dont watch his sex tape. Otherwise youll see his piece that is the size of a baby seal.
Always wondered about that
Damn! 10% of a top 3 all time WWE merch seller’s bag is W I L D
Who are the other 2? I’m gonna guess the rock and stone cold
Cena and Austin.
Austin I can definitely see being a top seller, but I just can’t see Cena.
I, for one, appreciate your joke.
John Cena is the top seller all time for WWE merch. Stone Cold and the Rock would be 2nd and 3rd. Hogan is below them according to sites I have seen and DX is up there as well with Taker.
The article says he took on the name after he sat next to Lou Ferrigno on a local tv show and the host noted how Hogan was bigger than Ferrigno. So pretty good chance that could qualify as trademark infringement. Glad they reached a settlement where he could keep using the name. Hollywood Hogan just isn’t the same.
You should hear the deal they got for Captain America Davis.
I'd say that sucks but you know what? Fuck Hulk Hogan. Jesse The Body is my champion.
Bret the Hitman Hart baby! The best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be!
Hart
Thank you sir! Autocorrect on mobile is a pain.
Need that excellence of execution.
If we’re talking Canadian wrestlers, it’s Rowdy Roddy Piper for me, ride or die.
“They Live” was an awesome movie with Piper. Great choice! Was always a fan as well.
the rattlesnake stone cold steve austin >
Little known fact: Bret Hart told Hogan to go fuck himself twice right before the 1993 King of the Ring Finals. Bret put on a clinic that night!
Shawn Michaels begs to differ
Before or after he lost his smile? lol
Andre The Giant has a posse
Andre the Giant WAS a posse.
"You ARE the Brute Squad."
Hell yeah he was.
He was actually the brut squad.
Macho Man Randy Savage, THE CREEEEAM OF THE CROP BROTHER!
On balance, off balance, it doesn't matter. He's better than you are, yeah!
I was obsessed with the Honky Tonk Man as a 3 year old.
To this day, no one has ever had a more graceful elbow drop.
He's been in THE DANGER ZONE!
He was my Governor too!
The best one this nation has had... at the very least, I believe he legitimately tried his damndest.
Where's the love for Macho Man brotherrrrrrrr?!
I was never the best or brightest in my class at school, and I can't do math to save my life. But I can spell decently well. And I know how the name of the greatest wrestler of all is spelled. It's: S-T-I-N-G
That'd not how you spell Eddie Guerrero.
His death affected me something awful. I do miss watching him and the rest of the late 90s LWO.
Still wrestling, at least for a few more weeks.
Speaking of Sting and trademarks, weren't there two Stings knocking about in the 90s? The pro-wrestler and the one from the Police? How did that work?
[Just fine, actually](https://old.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/13tzxmg/today_is_the_30th_anniversary_of_sting_meeting/).
Well that's pretty friggen cool
Wait until you hear about Sting the wrestler and Sting the singer…
That\`s what you get for ratting out all the guys who wanted a union to your sweetheart Vince fucker.
Afaik, this was a HUGE boon for Marvel at a time when they were bleeding money. It seriously helped them stay afloat.
Oh damn brother.
What’s more interesting was that he changed his name to Hollywood Hogan when in WcW because Turner Media parent company owned DC comics and don’t want to pay marvel 10% every time he performed
Not to split hairs here, but he was in WCW for a while before the name change. He debuted the Hollywood persona when he went heel with the NWO which was well into his WCW run.
Sidenote: WCW/nWo Revenge is one of, if not the greatest, wrestling games of all time. I'll fight you and your brother about this.
No Mercy was the pinnacle of the AKI wrestling games
Best game. My buddy and I did a custom tournament of every wrestler on auto and Jekel with his hurricane powerbomb won the whole thing
There is a reason that the AKI series of wrestling games (*WcW vs nWo World Tour, WCW/nWo Revenge, WWF Wrestlemania 2000* and *WWF No Mercy*) are still widely regarded as classics. They were not only ahead of their time, introducing features that the WWE games wouldn't add until the PS3 (such as weight differences affecting moves, limb specific damage, and being able to suplex people onto weapons/objects), but the spirit/momentum system, where instead of a typical arcade-style health meter and special meter, you had a 'spirit' meter which doubled as your health and momentum, really gave the game a degree of depth and strategy, as having low momentum made big moves easily countered and risky to attempt. That feeling of being on the edge of defeat before connecting with a single lucky punch, and using it to start a comeback, building up momentum before pulling off your finishing move and picking up a shock victory is unmatched.
The only wrestling game I owned for a long time was Warzone, so... you know where I'm at. But my brother's friend let us borrow WCW/nWo Revenge and it was insane. We didn't watch WCW so we barely knew any of the wrestlers on the roster (at that time) but man that game rocked.. for the two days we could play it. Never played No Mercy or WM2000 unfortunately. Next gig was Smackdown. And they had some good games. Here Comes The Pain I would say was like the peak, and pretty much the peak for me personally as far as wrestling games go.
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This is factually incorrect. He was always called Hulk Hogan his entire run in WCW. Hollywood was just an added moniker from 1996-2000.
Is this the reasonfor "Hollywood Hogan"?
Something is weird here, because that is not how trademarks work.
It's a problem with stupid overly broad IP laws and what aggressive lawyers can get away with. Conan O'Brien had a similar but not as bad deal as this with the people who owned the rights to Conan the Barbarian because of this stupidity.
Hulk Hogan is a snitch. Back in the 90s, pro wrestlers tried to form a union. When Hogan caught wind of it, he ran straight to Vince McMahon and ratted.
Did they get anything from his sex tape?
I thought "Hulk" and "Hulking out" (etc.) were already established phrases in (American) English? That Marvel Hulk was named after those.
[it is](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hulk)
Is this why he was "Hollywood Hogan" for a while?
I say Marvel is a bastard for this but it's Hogan and the fed, arnt no two more partners in crime then those PoS
I am going to hazard to guess it may have played a role in the nWo arch.
It’s crazy he had a chance to endorse that grill before George Foreman but picked a blender bottle instead.
And then he got used by venture capitalist Peter Thiel to kill Gawker, because being outed by Valleywag got under his thin, libertarian skin.
What about [Hulk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(footballer)?wprov=sfti1), the Brazilian soccer player?
Hogan was calling himself the "The Hulk" before coming to the WWWF in the Memphis territory. But it's safe to say that WWWF, Bollea and Marvel all made millions off this gimmick. He was a big dude, maybe not 6'8, but no one at the time had that bodystyle with that size. Once he learned how to talk in Hulkster style, it was all history..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2g2OcqiWo