Hulkamania is running dead, brother!

"My mother always taught me to speak good of the dead. Hulk Hogan: he's dead. Good."

TDS is running wild on you, brother.

Always a bit surprising when a person like that spent his entire career around black and brown wrestlers and celebrities, but you find out he’s racist pond scum.

He was filming a Netflix documentary when he died.

Pretty sure that photo is a fake.

Assassin of joy.

Yeah, it's fake. The people are real, but the image of Hulk was superimposed over the background. I mean, I have no doubt he'd have been cool with it, he was a huge MAGA supporter, but he wasn't actually there as far as we know. Still, fuck Hulk Hogan.

"My Wheaties are on fire, brother!"

In his final days, Hulk Hogan was observed misquoting FF. Truly a despicable person.

So from looking at that sensationlist headline, she is still butt sore over the whole Gawker incident.

Its amazing how gullible you are with such obvious fake shit.

It’s desperation, not gullibility.

It's long, but it's a reasonable analysis from one of the most knowledgeable men in the business.

Yhep, that's my complicated feelings if I'd written 'em down.

After listening to that Jim Cornette podcast, and all the weird George Santos level lies Hogan told about his life, I'm not too busted up now.

Behind the Bastards did a six-part series on Vince McMahon. The only other people that they've done six-parters on were G. Gordon Liddy and Henry Kissinger (and with Kissinger they admitted that they had to leave out a lot so that they could focus on his worst atrocities). I don't have many kind thoughts for folks who continue to work for the WWE in light of all the shit that's come out and the fact that McMahon's wife is presently helping to dismantle the Department of Education.

I thought Cornette was more than fair considering his past clips on Hogan. Like him or not, Hogan is a big reason why pro wrestling went mainstream and became as popular as it is. I still remember his HOF induction. Ive never seen a person get that long of an ovation before he even had a chance to speak. Its sad that everything unravelled a few years after, but he had no one to blame but himself. His reputation had went so far South that he was actually booed by the wrestling crowd this past January at WWE first show on Netflix.

^ Also Vince dismantling the old territory system made it go mainstream and nationwide.

The old territorial system was going to go away regardless thanks to the rise of cable.. Georgia Championship wrestling was already nationwide on TBS and the first Starcade was a year before the first Wrestlemania. It was only a matter of time before Crockett started running his own events in those places.

You're... not much of a wrestling fan, are you?
Linda McMahon has had little to nothing to do with WWE for years. HHH and Stephanie McMahon were instrumental in originally forcing Vince OUT, and when he pushed his way back in, Stephanie quit. Then, when TKO purchased WWE, they pushed Vince out all over again. Eventually, Vince even sold all the stock he still had in WWE. Vince is as disconnected from the company now as he can be. Every executive that was loyal to him is someone HHH gave the boot to. Even the wrestlers that Vince was fond of, like Austin Theory, were buried like Kane in 2002. And then HHH rehired just about every wrestler Vince had fired for one reason or another in the previous few years.
So I wouldn't blame anyone who still works for WWE. The company as a whole has done everything possible to scrub Vince from its existence. Hell, I think only Chris Benoit had less of a chance of going into the WWE hall of fame than Vince.

Not to mention people aren't just going to walk away from a job that pays six figures or more. Let's get real here. Its also ironic that when Vince forced his way back in order to sell it, he sealed his own fate. That agreement with TKO gave him billions, but it came with giving up full control to someone else. When the Janel Grant news hit almost days later, he could no longer shield himself.

The first indication that I knew things had changed was when wrestlers like Randy Orton started using the term "pro wrestling" on TV. For years Vince had banned that and forced them to use "Sports Entertainment" instead because he thought it had a stigma to it. Then the sponsorships started appearing on the mat and frankly the product on TV got much better.

My interest in pro wrestling went away around the same time that the regional/territorial system did. I can't say I ever watched a match with Hogan or any of his contemporaries.

There were a few years in my teens that I watched wrestling...when it was still WWF. I remember Hulk Hogan, and Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Iron Sheik, Macho Man Randy Savage, etc.

It was the entertainment equivalent of junk food, and eventually it quit being of any interest to me.

No, why would I be a fan of an organization that has a history of covering up things like domestic abuse (possibly even a murder), forced their employees to take steroids, while refusing to pay for their medical care, even when there was a workplace injury, engaged in unfair labor practices, and union busting? That's the short list, BTW.

1. Rupert Murdoch has supposedly turned control of his remaining media empire to his kids and has almost nothing to do with the day-to-day operations. If he calls Lachlan and tells him he wants something on the front page of one of their newspapers, do you think Lachlan tells him no? Do you think that Linda would be told "No" if she wanted something? Remember, she's pals with the President, and he likes to throw his authority around.

2. Isn't one of the raison d'êtres of WWE that they can turn a hero into a heel, and then back into a hero? And do this multiple times with the same people? You just described Vince being booted out, coming back, then being booted out again. That's the script they run with their wrestlers all the time, isn't it? Oh, Vince sold his stock? Did he sell it on the open market? To a family member? Or to a shell corporation that he happens to own? Does he retain any control over some of the IP? Gene Roddenberry famously wrote lyrics to the TOS theme, and even though they were never used, because of that, he still got 50% of the royalties every time that theme was used. Any idea if Vince had a deal like that? Not with lyrics to the theme music, but had his name attached to some of the IP stuff so that any time it was used, he gets a cut.

3. How tied in was Hogan to WWE in recent years? He still show up at their events (on their dime)? Because it's been pretty well known for a while now that he was a garbage person, and when he left the WWE (then known as the WWF), he couldn't take his stage name with him and had to use some other moniker. So, was part of the deal to bring him back that he would get the rights to the name Hulk Hogan? Or did WWE retain the rights? Because if they retained the rights, and he did anything under the name "Hulk Hogan," they had to approve it. Which means they approved all the shit he did to promote Trump.

4. We all gotta pick the shit we won't put up with. This is one of mine. I see no value in an activity that promotes fake violence, while covering up for things like actual violence. YMMV. I'll never forget a friend trying to sell me on pro-wrestling by saying, "It's like a soap opera aimed at dudes!" Yeah, well soap operas are really shitty, IMHO, so that's not something I could ever care about. When you add in all the real-world damage it has done to actual human beings, that makes it even less appealing. Again, YMMV.

Oh, and Hulk's son is no prize, either. There'd not be a chance in hell that any kid of mine would be stopped once for DUI, let alone twice. Especially if the first instance turned someone into a vegetable. Hulk reportedly said that he hoped the victim in the first instance wouldn't be reincarnated as a POC.

Here's McMahon blowing out his quads.

IS this real?

NM already been answered

If you are referring to the Jimmy Snuka case, that mistake falls on the local police.

This is a straight up lie. Vince never told his athletes to take them. Those wrestlers were taking steroids long before they ever worked for the WWF and the court case proved this. Many athletes and actors were on the juice back then. They were in baseball, football, basketball and most actors you saw on the screen were juicing up. Steroids were very much a part of the culture at that time. You might as well stop watching all sports and movies if that's your standards.

Wrestlers were independent contractors, not employees. With the amount of money those guys were making they could have very easily paid for their own health care. Many chose not to , got addicted to various drugs mixed with alchohal and died young. That's on them, not the company that they once worked with for a brief 4-6 years of their lives.

But their contracts indentured them in exactly the same way as employees.
It was legal double-talk.
Everything else you say is suspect now.