Screw the politics and BS, and guess what? Hulk Hogan did what was right.

That is Hulk Hogan, and only because Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon MADE Hulk Hogan an attraction. People love to bitch about Hogan being a belt hog, but, it worked. It fucking worked. Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon (I give equal credit to both, neither could have done it without the other) brought wrestling into

That is Hulk Hogan, and only because Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon MADE Hulk Hogan an attraction. People love to bitch about Hogan being a belt hog, but, it worked. It fucking worked. Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon (I give equal credit to both, neither could have done it without the other) brought wrestling into the mainstream. That not only benefited the WWF, it eventually helped the NWA become WCW, and it even is helping TNA today. Without Hulk Hogan's belt hogging, if you want to call it that, you still probably have territory based wrestling, because Vince's goal of creating a global wrestling company would have most likely failed without a Hulk Hogan to be the face of the company.


You had me till you said this....I agree that Hulk Hogan was needed in the 1980's but don't get ahead of yourself.. VINCE did not Make Hogan.. if you want proof and links go here:
http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?p=1711743#post1711743

Basically Hogan was HUGE BEFORE WWF, Verne Gange made Hulkamania.. NOT Vince! All Vince did in the 1980's was STEAL talent from AWA... believe it or not most of the WWF wrestlers and talent came form AWA>. (Mr. Perfect, bobby the brain heenan, Rick Rude, Mean Gene, Hogan, (hell even flair (had to mention it)), Beefcake, demolition, Jesse Ventura, Scott Hall etc etc. Heck even in AWA there was Sgt Slaughter and Andre vs Hogan and in NJPW too but in WM III Vince states it was there first ever meeting lol lies!

Its public Knowledge that Hogan and Pat Patterson (Later Jerry Bisco and the Clique) had to show Vince the business and taught him what works and what doesn't. You give Vince a little to much credit.. besides without Hulkamania.. WWF would not be here today.. Vince loves to re-write history and people believe everything they read.. but here is the truth.

When did hulkamania start?

In 1981 in the AWA (proof)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQth0CDkfw0&feature=related

Now back to the topic at hand...

without Hulk Hogan there would prolly be no WWF, WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA.. if Wrestlemania 1 failed there would be no WWE now. (Remember Vince was going for broke) and Hulkamania was the attraction HOGAN is the one that made Wrestlemania popular.. And before people say .. it was Vince that made him an attraction... see below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxokO8CBonA

Yeah Vince bought the hottest talent of its time.. but it was the AWA that made Hogan.. not Vince. Hogan in the Legends of the AWA DVD even mentions this. His popularity in Rocky 3 helped it as well but it got him fired by the WWWF (Vince SR.) thus he was repackaged in AWA.

Hulkamania was born. Vince simply was a business man that had money at the right time. Hogan wanted to hold both NJ world titles and AWA.. but Vern would not allow it and wanted more cut into the merchindise of Hogan (he was HUGE!!) then Vince came in and bought him out from under Verne. That ended that..

Verne made more ICONS in this business than anyone.. and gets NO CREDIT. THAT is BS to me..he was the greatest talent scout ever.

here is a few of the names he made...

Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Curt Henning, Scott Hall, Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, Demolition, Rick Martel, Mean Gene, Bobby Heenan, Jesse Ventura, Beefcake, Nick Bockwinkle, Mad Dog Vachon, Dick the bruiser, Ray Stevens, The Nasty Boys, The Rockers (HBK and Marty Jannetty), Leon White, Larry Zbyszko, Madusa, Sherri, Eric Bischoff, Jerry lawler, Jushin thunder liger, Larry Henning, Wahoo McDaniel, Ken patera, Harley Race, Steve Regal, the Barbarian, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Dusty Rhoades, Stan Hansen, Jimmy Garvin, Nikita Koloff, Bobby Duncum, the Destruction Crew, Jim Brunzell (killer bees), Fabulous Freebirds, Kevin Kelly, Jerry Lynn, Buddy rose, the patriot, Paul Heyman, DDP, man this is getting too much to type but you get the point.. the list goes on and on....

(note* Ric Flair quit wrestling twice,.. each time it was Verne that got him to stay into wrestling as he saw something special in him. Two of the greatest wrestlers in the 80's.. Hogan and Flair would not have made it big if it was not for Verne.)

Verne is all but forgotten in todays day and age from the new gen of wrestling fans.. I just want to make sure he gets the respect and credit that Vince seems to have failed to give to him. And make sure that people remember and know his contributions for the business.

Verne was the Hulk hogan of the 50's-70's so I see what Hogan is doing now is what Gange did back then with the AWA. Thing is Hogan made the WWF and WCW relivant.. and I think he will do the same with TNA. Hogan's mind is great for the business and the hating people are going to be eating there words in the upcoming year. Don't under estimate Hogan and Bischoff..

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