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In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American herobut he was really a jabroni the entire time.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hulk-hogan-racist-liar-scab-obit/
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Professional entertainer and wrestler Hulk Hogan poses as he speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
My 9-year-old self, uniformed in a Mets hat and Coke-bottle glasses, was a Hulkamaniac. Its embarrassing now for countless reasons. I first saw the man born Terry Bollea as Thunderlips in the 1983 classic Rocky III. He was improbably muscled, blond, and tan: pure kid catnip. I became a World Wrestling Federation fanatic and was glued to the Zenith as Hogan rapidly climbed the WWF ladder. In January 1984, Hogan completed a meteoric rise to defeat the Iron Sheik and avenge the Iran hostage crisis (seriously). That title match wasnt fake to me. It was as real as game 7 of the World Series, and when Hulk broke free from the Sheiks dreaded camel clutch and secured the pin, I jumped up and down so much that the people downstairs called up to complain.
What I did not know was that there was a real world at odds with this ecstatic experience. I did not know that the Iron Sheik, a former Olympic wrestler who was once a bodyguard for the shah of Iran, could have cracked Hogan in two. He even almost went off script to do so because he found Hogan to be, as the Sheik put it, a jabroni. It was all 1980s fake, as fake as Reagans jet-black hair.
Now that Hulk Hogan has died at 71, the media, top wrestling honchos, and particularly the Trump administration are verbosely mourning this leather-skinned mass of steroids and bile stuffed in spandex. The media is treating Hogans death like they are in on a bit. They praise Hulk Hogan for being an American hero while ignoring that Terry Bollea led an ugly, amoral life; that he was accused of abuse by both one of his wives and a daughter; that he was broadly loathed by generations of wrestlers; and that his final act involved shilling full-time for Donald Trump. Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar, which his prime-time appearance at Trumps Republican National Convention a natural fit.
It is gratifying, however, that last Thursday is, in addition to the day of Hogans death, the 10th anniversary of the National Enquirers publishing audio of Hogan going on an n-word-laden tirade. The coincidence is serendipitous, allowing the legions he harmed to remind people that many mourning this man are mourning a myth. His racism also matters because it dovetails with years of complaints made by Black wrestlers about both his treatment of them and his role as WWF co-owner Vince McMahons right-hand man, making sure they never got a shot at his top spot. (In fairness, many white and brown wrestlers have made the same claim.)
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Mike 03
(18,658 posts)a very young Black girl who had idolized Hulk Hogan until one day her mother told her (or someone else?) that Hulk Hogan "didn't like Black people," and it just broke her heart. That story and the way Stephanie told it was so poignant, just heartbreaking...
electric_blue68
(22,703 posts)I barely,rarely ever paid attention to WWF, so I didn't know stuff circulating about him.
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(51,190 posts)Orrex
(65,663 posts)Celerity
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Orrex
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EYESORE 9001
(28,643 posts)but not for much longer, I expect 🪦
Celerity
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Bev54
(12,692 posts)Celerity
(51,190 posts)obamanut2012
(28,673 posts)He is 100% why pro wrestlers have no union, and 90% why MMA fighters don't.
He was racist, misogynistic, homophobic and a terrible person.
I am not speaking ill of the dead, I am telling truth.
And, unlike him, and I guess you, I am nothing like what he was and "digging" will unearth nothing.
oh, and MIRT!
UTUSN
(74,986 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,343 posts)Ping Tung
(3,177 posts)But doing so thrilled young boys and one childlike president.
JMCKUSICK
(3,305 posts)I posted yesterday and I wasn't aware of a lot of this stuff in my younger years also.
kimbutgar
(25,681 posts)Hope hes enjoying burning in hell. But Hulk can you also put in a good word to Satan to take the orange pedophile President asap to hell with you?
slightlv
(6,202 posts)did anyone pop into the article about Linda Hogan and her book? The guy's last wife (as of his death) was named "Sky Daily?" If that doesn't sound like a stripper's name, I don't know what does! (LOL)
COL Mustard
(7,529 posts)"Melania Trump" sounds a lot more like a stripper's name!!!!
Celerity
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slightlv
(6,202 posts)ToxMarz
(2,512 posts)That's what passes for "character" to them.
H2O Man
(77,561 posts)Recommended.
When I read he died, I thought, "Who cares?" You answered that -- racists, liars, and scabs.
Gimpyknee
(428 posts)Just asking.
H2O Man
(77,561 posts)small children? Or than Charlie Manson loved spiders?
Just asking.
Gimpyknee
(428 posts)obamanut2012
(28,673 posts)Melon
(644 posts)Melon
(644 posts)Id say that is what you end up with here.
I looked it up and he has raised and donated millions to charity. He has his own charity called Dreamseekers for Native American youth. He granted over 200 wishes with make a wish. 200
thats incredible and knowing 200 children as a dying wish wanted to meet hulk hogan. If you go out and find pictures they arent just white kids. He was one of the top requested make a wish hosts when he was wrestling.
Anyway. Sometimes its easy to label someone for life from a minute or a day.
Gimpyknee
(428 posts)Melon
(644 posts)I sat with him and a Native American he was friends with and discussed his charity. If you look into it he did a lot of good for a lot of people. He was in a bad marriage and a bitter divorce and that carried through to his daughter. I wish I could erase many things I said during my own divorce.
Mr. Evil
(3,367 posts)Fuck him!
Aristus
(70,506 posts)In one of the descriptions of him in his death announcement, someone mentioned he had skin like a hot dog casing, and I laughed out loud at that perfectly apt summation.
As we say where I'm from:
"Day-um, he was a oggly sumbitch!"
B.See
(5,980 posts)I was beginning to wonder whether the world was experiencing total HH amnesia.
Melon
(644 posts)Down in South Carolina having drinks. This was 15 years ago. He was supporting or doing some type of charity work for American Indian youth and he had an official with that organization with him who was Indian. He spoke about it for the time he was there and I came away a fan. He hung out and drank beers and was not a loud boisterous wrestler, but just good guy. I probably wont go search for the alternative about him because he was truly a highlight of celebrities Ive met. Very well spoken and was truly passionate about the Indian kids he was raising money for. I never saw the other part said by his daughter.
I use to see Ric Flair a lot also. Ive heard he was a generous man but I saw only the hard drinking part.
LudwigPastorius
(13,056 posts)Here ya go!:
Maru Kitteh
(30,420 posts)Gimpyknee
(428 posts)Take some time to look and see how many charities Hogan supported. Google makes it easy to do. With a little effort it would have prevented you from making an ill informed statement.
leftstreet
(36,899 posts)
union busters and scabs are shyte
Maru Kitteh
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Renew Deal
(84,323 posts)But that one is untrue.
malaise
(287,260 posts)Rec
ificandream
(11,273 posts)My son and I, who were wrestling fans, saw him one time at a wrestling match but he didn't wrestle. His alliance with Peter Thiel and taking down Gawker really made me ill. The WWE is really praising him on their website now, though he was no model for young fans after all the stupid stuff he did.
Melon
(644 posts)Hulk Hogan was an absolute role model for kids. He gave a wholesome message and donated his time to charity. Your kids werent following Terry Bollea, they watched the character Terry created.
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we all watched wrestling in the late 80s. That was must see tv back then.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,589 posts)Doesnt erase demeaning an entire race or group of people. Sometimes entertainers do charity events for publicity not because they care. He wanted to body slam vice president Harris. I think we have a good idea about his character or lack of.
Pinback
(13,341 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(3,377 posts)He needed some Crepe Erase.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,852 posts)Though the last part of Hogan's was deplorable, if you know where to look, he didn't scratch the surface of what a few examples did.
Chris Benoit- killed wife, son, then himself.
Killer Karl Kox- He was a loyal klansman in real life to the end.
Dick Murdock- He was also a klansman. He conned Tony Atlas to a party only for I r him to find out it was a KKK party.