Thread: Who is your least favorite wrestler of all time?
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Old 09-16-2005, 01:14 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Pepsi Man
It was Hulk Hogan that went out there and did it. It's the "in" thing to insult the guys that step between the ropes and act as though they're all just buffoons that have nothing at all to do with their own success, but the truth is that Hogan was special.
I don't know what else to say...but simply no. Terry Bollea is a charismatic man. Yes he is the one who went out into the ring and performed, but this is an industry of promotion. It was Vince McMahon who made Hogan a star. It was Vince McMahon who made Austin a star. Any other WWE made Superstar was Vince McMahon's doing. Did Hogan go into the ring and made it happen? Yes. But without Vince McMahon, his vision of what professional wrestling could be, Hogan would have been just another terratory guy.

This is just something I have noticed about alot of people on these boards. You may have read what terratory wrestling was like, you may know what a big deal WrestleMania was, etc. etc. etc., But I think one of the biggest problem of people here is that they wern't fans of it back then. Ask ANY Wrestling History who made Hulkamania, and the answer will be Vince McMahon. Do you realise that McMahon Sr. has said that if he knew what Vincent K. was going to do with WWWF he wouldn't have sold it to him. It was McMahon who went through, raided all the big stars of all the promotions across America, and then created one company. Try to get this image. Back in 1999 Steve Austin was the hottest thing going, now think about if there were 30 to 40 WWFs running around, each one with their own Steve Austin, No here comes some Big Shot, offers each Steve Austin $X,XXX,XXX plus bonus. Now you have one company with 40 Steve Austin's...and then here comes Funaki, and this Big Shot pays all the Steve Austins of the world to lay down and do the 1-2-3 for Funaki. Does that mean that Funaki didn't go out there and wrestle? No. But Funaki probably didn't deserve to have all of the most over people in the world lay down for him. And that is what happened to Hogan. He beat all the greatest guys there were, and when someone goes around and beats everyone people either start chanting Goldberg, or they call them Hogan...

Now then, please tell me once more how it is that Wrestling was brought to the mainstream by Hogan, because I love to hear about how if it wern't for an overhyped, piss poor in ring performer, with mild mic skills, and some charisma guy we wouldn't have what we have now...
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