💥 "Hulk Hogan Iceberg: Dark Secrets The Brother Didn't Want Revealed"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For decades, Hulk Hogan has been a larger than life
hero to millions and a lightning rod for controversy. His
life has been painted in gold and glory, but beneath
the surface, shadows twist around his legacy. From whispered conspiracies
and occult accusations to secrets of power connections and scandals
that shook pop culture. Hogan's story is laced with dark

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corners the spotlight was never meant to reach. In this video,
we'll pour back the curtain and dive deep into the eerie,
unsettling secrets of Hulk Hogan, the ones that you are
never supposed to hear. This is the definitive Hulk Hogan
Iceberg and was starting off at the tippity top of
the Iceberg Tier six, with our first entry on Tier

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six being Hulkogan's death and the reaction. On July thirty one,
twenty twenty five, Hulkogan real name Terry Blair, died at
his clear Water, Florida home. He collapsed following the therapy
session after returning from the hospital. The official cause was
heart attack. It was later revealed that he had also
been battling leukemia weeks earlier. Rumors had swore that he

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was already on his deathbed, rumors that were publicly denied
at the time. But the mystery filled chatter ended in tragedy,
and suddenly the mortal one was gone. The reaction to
his death was as divided as his legacy. While many
fans mourned the loss of one of wrestling's most iconic figures,
others reacted with outright celebration, posting marking messages, memes, and

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disrespectful comments to them, Hogan wasn't a hero, but a
man whose controversies outweighed his contributions. What perfectly encapsulates this
is the situation with WWE star Chelsea Green as she
found herself at the center of a firestorm. She said
this during an interview just hours after his death.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I mean polarizing political views aside. He was an absolute
icon and if it weren't for Hulkgan, there are many
of us in the wrestling industry that would absolutely not
be here.

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She also followed up with a tweet sending condolences to
Halk Hogan. What followed hit hard. Fans accused her of
glossing over his more controversial sides. Chelsea Green tried to
clarify the situation by saying that a stance on racism
is unwavering, and she apologized if her words felt dismissive,
but the backlash intensified. She received harassment, death threats, and

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ultimately stepped away from social media entirely. Hogan's death didn't
just mark the death of an error. It reopened old wounds,
dredged up past controversies, and turned grief into a battleground.
Even in passing, his presence continues to ignite fierce divides,
and up next we have the tape leaks and racist rant.

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It's a scandal that changed everything. In twenty twelve, the
world was blindsided when a fornication tape featuring Halk Hogan
and Heather Clem, the wife of his best friend, Bubba
the Love Sponge, leaked online. What made it worse was
the alleged source, Bubba himself, who reportedly had an open
arrangement with his wife and supposedly gave Hogan permission, all
while secretly recording the act. The footage ripped away the

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all American hero VERNERHLK. Hogan had spent decades building Overnight
Though Mortal I became Late Night comedy fodder and his
image reduced to a punchline. What leagud here in twenty
twelve was just the tape itself, as The real damage
came three years later in twenty fifteen, when audio from
that same tape resurfaced, and it was far darker than

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anyone expected. On it, Hogan was heard using the N
word repeatedly, voicing disgust at his daughter Brooke dating a
black man. The fallout was immediate and brutal. Wwe erased
him from their Hall of Fame, scrubbed his name from
their website, and all but acted like Hulk Hogan never existed.
In the space of a few minutes of leaked footage

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and audio, the man who told kids to say their
prayers and eat their vitamins had become one of wrestlings,
in fact pop culture's most polarizing figures, and for many,
there was no going back. The silver lining in this
is that Hogan did sue Grka, the company who released
his tape, and the jury ordered Gorka to pay Hogan
one hundred and fifteen million dollars. So despite his reputation

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being tarnished, his pockets were heavy and up next we
have the many lies of Hulk Hogan. This could be
an iceberg by itself, but here's a rapid fire tripped
through all the Hulkster's most outrageous tall tales and the
receipts that tear them down. Hogan once claimed that at
a wrestling show at Wembley Stadium, he stood with Michael
Jackson and Mister T for maker Wish Kids, hugged the

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Dying Child, and later recorded a tribute album produced by
Simon Cowell. The problem WWE only held one show in
Wembley Stadium and that was SummerSlam ninety two, and Hogan
wasn't even there on the card, and there's also no
record of Michael Jackson or Mister T being there as well.
The next lie that Hogan said was that Mike Tyson
was supposed to box him, but he pulled out of

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the fight because he was too scared to fight him.
There's no boxing records, promoter notes, or Tyson interviews backing
this up, and I think everyone knows that Peak Mike
Tyson wasn't afraid to fight anyone. And the next lie
is that Hogan sat next to carry von Air on
a plane from Japan to America. Before his death. This
was a lie because Carrie's last match was in Dallas

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six days before he stood in Texas, and if you
check the records, Carrie hadn't been to Japan in a
long long time because he was fighting a myriad of
legal issues. The next lie is that he claimed that
he was the first choice for the George Foreman Girl,
and it was actually supposed to be called the Hulk
Hogan Girl. Hogan says that he missed the call because
he was picking up his kids. Even if this is true,

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endorsement deals of that scale aren't decided in a single
phone call. The next lie that Hulk Hogan said is
that he was the first wrestler to ever use entrance music,
which is just a complete lie because there's so much
proof of wrestlers before him using entrance music. The next
lie is that he was scouted by the Yankees and Reds.
Hogan did love baseball when he was younger, but neither
MLB team as a scouting report, draft note, or press

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mention of trying to scout Hogan. Scouts back then would
have been local, and Hogan's own high school baseball record
doesn't indicate pro level play. The next lie is that
he discovered Kevin Owens and NX. Owens was already a
decorated indie star with a decade long career before NXT.
Hogan wasn't in WWE at the time, so his I
spotted him story doesn't add up. The next lies that

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he said that he wrestled four hundred days in a year.
Hogan claimed that because he constantly flew between Japan and America,
the time zones added extra days. This is just mathematically
impossible because even with Japan trips and most you'd squeeze
in a handful of double show days. And the next
lies that he outranked John Belushi after WrestleMania two, while

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WrestleMania two was in nineteen eighty six and John Belushi
died in nineteen eighty two. The next lies that Elvis
Presty was a fan. This is just not true, because
Hogan made his professional wrestling debut on ten August nineteen
seventy seven, and just six days later, on sixteen August
nineteen seventy seven, Elvis Presty died. Hogan wasn't even famous

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at that point, as he only really started to take
off around seventy nine. They sow so many more lies. Next,
we have bood at last appearance on January sixth, twenty
twenty five, Netflix First Monday Night Raw two and a
half hours in Halkogan's iconic music Real American hit, and
Hogan strode out with Jimmy Hart, but instead of nostalgia,

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he got a tidal wave of booze. Hogan congratulated WWE
on the Netflix deal and then leaned hard into a
pitch for his Real American beer, name dropping the brand
and trying to spin the moment into an ad read.
But the crowd keeps on getting louder and louder, drowning

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him out with booze. This segment limps to a close
under NonStop jeers, a brutal reminder that the Mortal One
couldn't sell the crowd on Real American when Halka Mania
itself isn't selling anymore. And up next we have Hulk
Hogan Band from AW. While WWE eventually forgave Hulk Hogan
for his racism and quietly brought him back, AW has

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made it clear he's not welcome. The ban isn't just symbolic.
AW president Tony Kahan stated it outright in twenty twenty.
During the nationwide unrest that year, Hogan's ex wife Linda
posted a racist tweet claiming that African Americans weren't civilized
because they were looting. Kahn quickly responded saying, you've now
joined your husband in being banned from all aw shows. Congratulations.

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The message was blunt. Aw waned no association with either
of them. Unlike WWE, which timed Hogan's return for damage
control and nostalgia, pops aw has kept the door locked.
In their world, Hogan isn't just controversial, He's permanently persona
non grada. Aw even ignored Hulk Hogan's death with much
backlash from fans, but eventually they got around to it

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and up next we have erased from WWE two K fifteen.
In WWE two K fifteen, Hulk Hogan was featured as
a DLC in the Path of the Warrior showcase, but
in twenty fifteen, after the racist audio leaked, two K
pulled Hogan from the game entire He vanished from the store,
and for a short time, even players who had paid
for him couldn't re download the content. Fans were furious.

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Not only was a paid d LC yanked without warning,
but there were no refunds. It was as if Hogan
had been wiped from existence and you just lost your money.
Hogan wouldn't return to the two K series until WWE
two K twenty, but for many players, the eratio left
a sour taste that went beyond the scandal. And up
next we have Hulk Hogan sues w CW. Bash at

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the Beach two thousand saw Double j Jeff Jarreed defend
his WCW championship against Hulk Hogan. For one reason or another,
Hulk Hogan and Vince Russo refused to let Geoff Jared
win and they were determined to put the wall title
back on Hogan. All three parties then agreed that jareded
would ultimately lie down in the ring and let Hogan
pin him, and that's exactly what they did, much to

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the shock and anger of the fans. It looked extremely unprofessional,
and later in the night, Vince Russo got on the
mic and began to quote unquote shoot on Hogan. He
claimed that nobody would see Hogan and WCW again, while
also booking about between Jeff Jarrett and Booker t later
that night for the now vacant WCW World Championship. Hogan's
short match with Jeff Jarrett was Hogan's last match in

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w CW. Hogan, who claimed to be unaware of Vince
Russo's promo, later sued WCW for millions of dollars for
defamation of character for the unplanned promo. WCW entered one
of the craziest lawsuits ever, focused on character, perception and booking.
The court case turned into the jury having to decide
if Russo was talking about the person Terry Blair or

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the Hogan character. An official ruling in favor of Russo
and WCW came years later, after the company no longer existed,
and up next we have Hulk Hogan admits to using royds.
In nineteen ninety four, Vince McMahon went on trial in
the United States versus McMahon accused of supplying illegal royds
to WWE restors. Hogan, no longer with WWE and working

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for WCW, took the stand as the star witness. He
was protected by immunity, but he had denied using roids
for years. For over a decade, Hogan insisted he never
touched royds. In court, he admitted the truth he'd been
abusing them for fourteen years, first for injuries, then simply
to maintain his physique. He claimed that Vince McMahon never

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supplied or requested he take them, helping McMahon dodge a
conviction that would have landed him in prison. The admission
shattered the superhero image of Hogan that he had built
in the nineteen eighties in a world that was still
more naive about performance enhancing drugs. The confession felt like betrayal.
Vince walked free, but Hogan walked away, forever changed, a
hero who had just pulled back the curtain on his

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own myth and up next, we oft Hulk Hogan kills TNA.
TNA had a solid secondary spot in wrestling behind WWE
when Hulk Hogan joined the promotion. Dixie Carter had paid
Hogan a lot of money and gave him power to
make change. As he vowed to compete with WWE like
he did in w CW, Hogan ruined any good will
he had in his first month when marking. The fans

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were being unhappy with some of his changes, like changing
the sick sided ring to a four sided ring. TNA's
entire history before Hogan was trashed by him. His error
caused a lot of negative declines that the promotion is
still recovering from today. Throughout the time Hogan was in TNA,
they were getting a lot of bad press, with news
regularly breaking off, wrests being underpaid, and numerous stars being

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frustrated with the states of the company. Responding to the
low morale, Impact Boss Dixie Carter held a big staff
meeting where she basically gave them the old My Way
or the Highway speech, and she told the rest is
that if they didn't like the way things were being
done in Impact, then they could leave. Baffingly, Dixie aired
the meeting on the following episode of Impact. Dixie would

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go hard for Hogan up until he's run with the
company ended. Hogan's contract with TNA ran out in twenty thirteen,
with Hogan being written off of the show by having
him quit on screen. While that sort of thing is
common in wrestling shows, the execution was outrageous, with Hogan
trying to leave up the entrance ramp while a desperate
Dixie Carter held onto the Hulkster's legs begging him to stay.

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Of course, Hogan denied her and dragged Dixie as he
walked up the aisle. It was an embarrassing segment that
was reportedly the result of Hogan's contractually mandated creative control.
And up next we have the first ever IWGP Champion.
Before Hogan was decked in red and yellow in the WWE,
he had a fairly substantial run in New Japan Pro Wrestling,
where he quickly became one of the best foreign acts

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in Japan under Antonio Inoki. Well WWE fans often joke
about Hogan's limited entering style punch, big boot, and leg drop,
his time in New Japan Pro Wrestling revealed a very
different side to the Hulkster. In Japan, Hogan adapted to
the country's more hard hitting, technically driven style, incorporating sub missions,
chain wrestling, working longabouts, and even selling for opponents in

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ways unheard of in his American work. Fans watching at
the time saw a wrestler who could genuinely hang with
Japan's best. In nineteen eighty three, New Japan introduced the
IWGP League, with the winner of the tournament becoming the
first ever IWGP heavyweight Champion. The final so Hogan and
Inok battled it out in front of thirteen thousand fans
in the Suma Hall. During the match, Inoki stood on

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the ring apron holding himself by the ropes. When Hogan
looked to hit the axe Bomber, which was his finishing
move in Japan, he clattered Inenochi with it and the
landing was harder than expected. Tumbling to the outside, Inoki
fell to the ground, hitting his head hard with the
metal guard rail and getting knocked out clean. The Young
Lions rushed over to the new japan founder whilst the
ref started his count in the ring. Antonio Inoki was

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actually supposed to win the match, but because of this
unfortunate incident, Hulk Hogan was crowned the first ever IWGP
Heavyweight Champion by accident due to a count out victory.
Hulkogan then went on to hold the title for a year,
and Inok was the one who took it off of him.
And up next we have Hogan riped shirt for Trump.
At the twenty twenty four Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,

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Holkogan stepped into the political arena with full Halkomania flare.
He ripped off his shirt to reveal a Trump Vaan's top,
and he tore it in a speech, calling Donald Trump
a real am Maria and hero, complete with Trump Amania
chance and cheers from the MAGA crowd. And while the
people in that building were cheering that night, not all
wrestling fans were cheering. A large segment of the fan base,

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especially liberals, felt deep disappointment. Hogan, already controversial for past scandals,
had now aligned himself politically to the right, and that
triggered a wave of intensified backlash among those who saw
him endorsing a polarizing figure and now moving down the
iceberg into Tier five. With our first entry on Tier

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five being Hulk and Linda's messy divorce after twenty four
years together, Hulk Hogan's marriage to Linda ended in a
public and brutal divorce in two thousand and seven to
two thousand and nine. Linda foiled this divorce after discovering
that Hogan had an affair with a close friend of
their daughter, Brooke, which ultimately blew their marriage apart. Linda

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walked away with over seventy percent of their liquid assets,
forty percent ownership of these companies, three million dollars in property,
and more This left Hogan with approximately thirty percent of
the shared wealth. The personal fallout was worse than financial,
because Linda later caught Hogan a fornication addict and accused
him of prolonged cycles of lying and abuse, even going

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as far to accuse him of domestic abuse and attempted murder.
The fallout didn't just end in court. The reality TV
show Hogan Knows Best collapsed amid the scandal and the
family fractured. And up next we have Hogan stole superstar
Billy Graham's gimmick. Before Hulk, Hogan found the legendary Halcomania
persona that would define an error. He ran through a

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series of forgettable gimmicks. Some of these were Terry Boulder
and the Super Destroyer, when he wrestled under a mask
and at one point even wore a cape in an
attempt to stand out. None of it truly clicked though.
By the early nineteen eighties, Vince McMahon was taking the
WWF national and needed a top baby face who could
push Resting into the mainstream, someone who could be the

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face of the company, an appeal beyond the Resting bubble.
That's where the transformation began. He picked Hogan, but he
needed more the blueprint superstar Billy Graham. The superstar Billy
Graham was flamboyant, tanned, and jacked, referring to his arms
as Python's long before Hogan. He also used brother a
lot in his promos and rocked loud Ti die gear.

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It sounds familiar, right, sounds a lot like Hawk Hogan.
Hogan didn't just take inspiration, he lifted the entire style
and reworked it into a superhero. In the eighties, vincement
Man wanted Billy Graham to be his top star, but
he was ahead of his era as he was getting
up there in age, and he was also booked as
a heel, so he went with Hogan, while keeping Graham's
style and catchphrases, but flipping the script into a patriotic

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all American icon. And up next we have the Hogan
and Undertaker Tombstone. In nineteen ninety one, during Honkogan's match
against the Undertaker at Survivor Series, the ending spot was
supposed to be safe, Paul Barret distracted Hogan. Undertaker hit
the Tombstone pile driver on a chair, and Hogan's head
was never meant to touch the chair, but things went wrong.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
I give the Tombstar sooners my knees hit.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I hear oh, oh.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
You got me brother.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Hogan implied that his neck had been hurt by the Undertaker,
and backstage rumors spread that Hogan was yelling for someone
to call his wife and kids, claiming that he was
in severe pain. The story rattled Mark Callaway, who thought
he had just injured the company's biggest star. Six days later,
Hogan conveniently won the title back from the Undertaker at
Tuesday in Texas. Many people believe that this was Vince

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McMahon's way of punishing the young dead Man. Undertaker admitted
that the incident shook his confidence until Shane McMahon reassured
him that Hogan's head never even touched the mat. When
Callaway eventually watched the match back, the truth was obvious.
Hogan's neck was perfectly safe. He confronted Hogan directly, who
then changed his story, but the Undertaker saw right through it,

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and up next we have the Fingerpoke of Doom. Just
one week off, the Goldberg Streak was entered by Kevin
Nash and a Cattle prod wc W pron one of
the worst matches ever in wrestling history. They decided to
end any interest in ano rivalry between the nWo wolf
Pack and the nWo Hollywood. New WCW head booker and
WCW World Champion Kevin Nash booked himself in a mash

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defending his title against Hollywood Hogan. This could have been
a huge pay per view main event that saw the
two sides of the same faction alive and a storyline
that could have gotten the company months and months of
storytelling opportunity. Instead, the pair got into the ring and
stood face to face. Hogan then simply poked Nash in
the chest, causing the seven foot tall champion to throw
himself to the ground and allow himself to get pinned.

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This moment was so ridiculous and damaging, and to make
matters worse, on the orders of Eric Bischoff, announced that
Tony Shavani revealed that Mankind would be winning the WWF
Championship on the taped edition of Monday Night Raw, airing
simultaneously on the USA Network. The plan was intended to
dissuade viewers from changing the channel, but it backfired immensely,
with nearly a million wrestling fans switching from WCW Monday

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Nitro to Monday Night Raw to watch the universally love
to mcfoley become a world champion for the first and
up next we have Hulk Hogan runs for President. It
was November ninth, nineteen ninety eight on w CW Nitro.
The screen opens with shots of Mount Rushmore, the Capital,
and the Statue of Liberty. The crowd was confused until
Hollywood Hulk Hogan walks out, flanked by Secret Service agents,

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patriotic balloons everywhere, and mean Gene Okerland holding a mic
in one dramatic moment. Hogan then announced he's running for
president in two thousand, with Eric Bischoff as his campaign manager.
Fast forward to Thanksgiving week and Hogan's on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno and doubles Down. He announces not
just his entering retirement, but that he's transitioning into a
real life presidential run. Without skipping a beat, he pitches

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a flat tax platform. Then the segment ends, and then
Hogan disappears, only to return to w CW about a
month later and was never heard of again. The cheap
tactic for attention was obviously a publicity stunt, and it
made Hogan look bad when returning to resting, And up next,
we have Hulk Hogan's Main Event video game. When Hulk
Hogan's Main Event dropped for Xbox three six Deconnect in

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twenty eleven, it was marketed as the ultimate chance to
step into the ring with the Halkster's guidance. In reality,
it became infamous as one of the worst wrestling games
ever made. Instead of actual wrestling gameplay, matches devolved into
a clunky just dance routine, copying on screen poses to
execute the same limp moves over and over again. The

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connect censor often failed to read movements, meaning punches flew
into thin air or didn't register at all. To make
matters worse, you could even play as Hulk Hogan himself,
a baffling choice for a game with his name plastered
on the cover. With barebone's content, repetitive gameplay, and frustrating
motion controls, Hulk Hogan's Main Event became a cautionary tale
of celebrity licensed games gone wrong, remembered more for broken

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mechanics than body slams. And up next, we have Hulk
Hogan's Rock and Wrestling. In nineteen eighty five at the
height of Hulkamania, WWF tried to expand Hogan's reach beyond
the ring with an animated series called Hulk Hogan's Rock
and Wrestling. It featured a cartoon version of Hogan and
other other wrestlers like Andre the Giant, Roddy Piper, and
Junkyard Dog, though none of the actual wrestlers voiced their

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own characters. Instead, professional voice actors played exaggerated versions of them,
while the real wrestlers appeared only in live action skits
between episodes. The show tried to merge wrestling's wild personas
with Saturday Morning cartoon antics, but critics found it shallow
and repetitive. Storylines usually boiled down to Hogan and his
friends foiling the heels over the top schemes, all while

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pushing to say your prayers in each your vitamin's narrative.
Despite poor reviews, was rating success among kids, but it
didn't last. After just two seasons, Rock and Wrestling was
quietly canceled in nineteen eighty six. Today, it's remembered less
Wort's plots and more as a relic of how far
WWF was willing to go to make Hogan a cross
media icon. And up next we have Hogan invited to

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be Metallic as bassist before Alkamania. Huck's first love wasn't wrestling,
it was music. Since his teenage years, He'd been playing
bass guitar, performing in various local bands throughout his young
adult life. This is truth in that part of his story.
Hogan was genuinely active in the music scene before stepping
into the ring, but the truth stopped there. Hogan once
claimed that before Metallica hit it big, the band approached

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him to join as their bassist. According to Hogan, he
even tried out for them and could have been part
of rock history if he accepted their offer. The reality,
Metallica members Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield publicly shot down
the story and the same that had never happened and
they never met Hogan. For many fans, it was just
another chapter in Hogan's long history of exaggerating self mythologizing.

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But a little bit of truth gets buried under a
mountain of lies. And up next we have Hogan versus
Warrior two. When The Ultimate Warrior debuted on WCW's Monday
Nitro in the summer of ninety eight, wrestling fans were
buzzing as one of Rustling's most mysterious and exciting characters
was back in the big leagues off the two years away,
and because in nineteen ninety the Ultimate Warrior and Hank
Hogan put on one of the best WWF matches of

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all time, they were looking forward to Hog, Hogan and
The Ultimate Warrior's program together in w CW. However, their
program was very lackluster. The feud between the two got
sillier and silly as time went on, as The Ultimate
Warrior would make frequent and rambling appearances, and one time
he once appeared in a mirror taunting Hogan, who was
the only one who could see him, despite Eric Bischoff

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also being in the room. This was just cringe to watch.
As things got more stupid, fans cared less and less,
but they were set for a rematch at w CW's
Halloween Havoc in nineteen ninety eight. This match was the
Drizzling Shift. Though everything about this fight was ridiculous. There
was way too much darling, the wrestling was embarrassingly awful,
and the finish was an all time disaster. Not that

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Dave Malta's opinion matters, but he gave this match as
low as possible, rating negative five stars. Years later, Eric
Bischoff even admitted that it was one of the worst
matches he'd ever seen in wrestling. And up next we
have Hogan's acting career flop Hulk. Hogan's true cinematic peak
arguably came before his resting superstardom, in nineteen eighty two's
Rocky three, where he stole the scene as Thunderlips the

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Ultimate Male. It was loud, over the top and a
perfect fit for Hogan's persona. But while Rocky three put
him on Hollywood's radar, he hadn't yet fully broken into
the mainstream, and his later attempts to do so would
prove far rockier. His first real starring role came in
nineteen eighty nine's No Holts Barred, a w w F
flavored action flick meant to pad his persona into Hollywood. Instead,

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critics skewed it. Hogan had zero emotional range and moments
that required anything beyond raw brute force flopped. It felt
more like a w w F cameo stretched into feature length.
Beyond that, his forays into family comedy, sci fi, and
hero flicks like Suburban Commando, the Nanny, and Santa with
Muscles all tanked in the box office. Hogan never truly

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found a great genre that fit, and the rolls were
often too flat for his larger than life presents to carry.
Hogan's Hollywood run became a cautionary tale. What walks in
the ring doesn't always work under the bright lights of
the silver screen. Next, we have Hogan kills Jesse Ventura's
union plan. In nineteen eighty six, just a year after
WrestleMania put WWF on the map, Jesse the Body, Ventura

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decided that it was time for wrestlers to protect themselves.
There were no real health benefits, no pensions, and no
real safety net for performers. Despite the company's booming success,
Ventura believed that WrestleMania, too, was the perfect leverage point
to demand change, pushing for a union that could negotiate
better pay and safer working conditions. Many wrestlers quickly supported
the idea. Hogan was friends with Ventura and supposedly agreed

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that they should be a union in wrestling, but then again,
Hogan's a snake. The plan to make a union never
got that far because once Hogan caught window of the movement.
He went straight to Vince McMahon. Vince moved quickly, calling
the wrestlers one by one and threatening their jobs if
they supported Ventura's proposal. The message was clear. Unionizing was
career death. Whatever Hogan's motives were, like loyalty to Vince,

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self preservation, or pure politics, the result was this. The
union was dead before it began, and now we're moving
down the iceberg into Tier four, with our first entry
on tier four being the fallout with his daughter Brooke Hogan.
While Hogan's public life may have been riddled with controversy,

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some of his deepest fractures have been within his own family,
particularly with his daughter Brooke. Once the centerpiece of Hogan
Knows Best and a public defender of her father during
the twenty fifteen racism scandal, Brook's relationship with the Hulkster
has since collapsed. According to her reports, Brook and Hogan
had a massive falling out years ago, so severe that
she cut both of her parents out of her life entirely.

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By twenty twenty five, she hadn't spoken to her father
in years, and even kept the birth of her twins
a secret from him. She skipped his wedding to his
third wife, Sky Daily, openly stating that she needed space
from her family to heal. Brooke has alleged years of emotional, mental,
and even physical abuse during her upbringing, though she placed
most of the blame on her mother. Still, her silence

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towards her father speaks volumes, especially considering how fiercely she
once defended him. To day, Brooks seems to be content
living her life far away from the shadow of Halcomania,
sharing glimpses of her family on social media while leaving
the Holkster firmly in a past. The wounds are so deep,
in fact, that Brooke did not even attend her father's funeral,
as it was a complicated death for her. This just

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shows how much their relationship is strained even in death.
And up next youre of Hogan's beef with bread Heart.
In the annals of resting grudges, few are as long
running or bitter as the rivalry between Hulk Hogan and
Brett Hart. At WrestleMania nine in nineteen ninety three, Bredhart
lost the w w F Championship to Yoko Zuna, only
for Hogan to sweep into the rings seconds later and

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win the title himself. Many saw it as Hogan deliberately
sabotaging Brett's push, and Heart believed that Hogan had betrayed him.
Heart still blames Hogan for derailing his career, and Hogan,
on the other hand, says since that moment, bred Hart
hated his guts. Hogan has said though, that for a
brief moment when Hot joined WCW in their late nineties,
they were cordial with each other, but when that era ended,

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any piece between them evaporated once more. Over the years,
jabs have been traded in interviews and up next to
you have Halkogan bowed in his own hometown at WrestleMania
thirty seven. At WrestleMania thirty seven in twenty twenty one,
Halkogan returned to his hometown of Tampa, Florida. Not as
a competitor, though, but as a co host along Titus O'Neil.

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On paper, it should have been an easy pup, the
local hero standing under the spotlight of WWE's biggest stage,
but when Hogan stepped out, the ovation ever came. Instead,
a wave of booze rolled across the stadium, drowning out
any attempt at fanfare. The contrast was striking Titus O'Neil

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received warm cheers, while Hogan was met with open hostility.
The crowd's reaction wasn't just a random mood swing. It
was a public reminder that many fans still hadn't forgiven
or forgotten Hogan's passed racist remarks and other offscreen controversies.
And up next we have Marvel versus Hulk Hogan. For
many years, Terry Bellair wrestled under the name Hulk Hogan,

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even billing himself as the Incredible Hulk Hogan at times.
But in nineteen eighty four, his rising fame in WWF,
combined with these budding Hollywood ambitions, caught the attention of
Marvel Comics legal team. They believed the name was a
little too close to their green skin superhero in Purple Pants,
also named the Incredible Hulk. Rather than take them to court,

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Marvel and WWE struck a deal. Marvel would license the
name Hulk Hogan for twenty years in exchange for a
slice of the pie zero points zero zero nine percent
of all of Hulk Hogan's merchandise sales, plus one hundred
dollars for every match that he wrestled in. By the
time Hogan jumped to w CW nineteen ninety four, the
Marvel issue was no longer a problem. According to a Bishoff,

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Hogan and Marvel had reached a new agreement allowing him
to use the name Halk Hogan in wrestling related environments
without owing Marvel at dime. In other words, by then
the Hawlkster truly owned Hulk Hogan. And up next we
have Benjamin Shelton. Hulk Hogan was promoting his Real American
Freestyle Wrestling venture earlier this year. He name dropped people
like brock Lesner, Kurt Angle, and Shelton Benjamin. The problem

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is he got it completely backwards and he called him
Benjamin Shelton a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Great guys like Courent Angle and brock Lesner, you know,
the Benjamin Shelton. There's some really tough guys, really crazy.
Rustler was like, I got brock Lesner right after you
left the UFC. I got him first. I got a
current Angle when his eyeballs used to roll back like
a shark and ain't come out for me, you know,
Benjamin Shelton. All these different guys that I've had the
opportunity to see adapt our business.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
That slip sparked immediate backlash. Shelton Benjamin didn't just shrug
it off. He took to social media and ripped into
Hogan with blistering honesty. The Herd Syndicate, including MVP, jumped
in on it too, calling Hogan a pathological, lying piece
of human excrement. In best Hogan fashion, he was once
again trying to elevate himself by associating with others, but

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this time it blew up in his face. An up
nextpey out of his beef with Sean Michaels. On paper
Hulk Hogan and Sean Michaels at SummerSlam two thousand and
five was built as a dream match two of restling's
biggest names finally colliding. In reality, it was less of
a clash of legends and more of a clash of egos.
From the start, the two couldn't see eye to eye.
Hogan insisted that Michael's turned heel for the program, something

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that Sean was reluctant to WWE went along with Hogan's demand,
but Sean made it clear that he wasn't thrilled his
heel turned barely lost beyond the match. Originally, the plan
was for a trilogy of bouts, but Hogan refused, leaving
only one encounter. Backstage tensions bled into the performance itself.
During the match, Michael's famously oversaw nearly every one of

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Hogan's moves to absurd extremes, bouncing, flailing, and tumbling around
the ring like a cartoon character. It was part protest,
part parody, and a not so subtle message about how
he felt working with Hogan. The Dream Match ended up
being more infamous than iconic, remembered less for its entering
action and more of a public display of two legends
refusing to play nice. And up next, we have Hogan

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in Legends of Wrestling too. In the video game Legends
of Resting Two, Hulk Hogan wasn't just the cover star,
he was the endgame boss. In career mode. If you
chose someone besides the Hulkster, you couldn't even step into
the ring with him until the final stages, and when
you finally did, Hogan was so absurdly overpowered it bordered
on impossible. He was basically o p and players lamented

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of having to beat Hogan. For many Hogan lived up
to the unplayable nickname, not because of missing data of bugs,
but because the game made him practically untouchable. And up
next we have the Hogan versus Sting at starkad nineteen
ninety seven disaster. One of the hardest feuds in pro
resting history was Sting during his Crow phase taking on
the nWo. He focused on the figurehead of the nWo,

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Hollywood Hogan, and for many months w c W teased
a confrontation between the two. The bout finally took place
at Stark nineteen ninety seven, where Hogan would put the
w CW World's Heavyweight Championship on the line. Sting and
Hogan faced each other in what turned out to be
a fairly straightforward restling match until something went wrong. Hogan
had Sting with his trademark move and went for the pinfall.

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According to w CW referee Nick Patrick, he was supposed
to make a lightning fast three count. However, when Patrick
counted Sting's shoulder to the mat, he went at a
normal speed. The result was Hogan cleanly pinning the hero Sting.
On national live television, the announced team would assert that
the count was lightning fast, even though fans could clearly
see it was not. Patrick was then replaced by an

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interim referee, Brett Hart, who declared Sting the winner after
Hogan tapped out to the Scorpion deathlock. A year of
build up was ruined and the mystiq of the Stinger
was gone in an instant. All of this was because
the finish was changed due to the Hulk's grade of
control clothes that had ruined them the entire match. Brehard
also looked like a tool. It made the good guys
look like idiots who just served to put Hogan over

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even more. It also caused huge damage to WCW's reputation,
and up next we have Hogan saves WrestleMania one's main
event from Mister T. WrestleMania one was make or break
for WWE. The entire future of the company rested on
the success of the night and its main event, Hulk
Hogan and Mister T versus Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff.
But according to Hogan himself, the main event almost fell

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apart before the bell. In multiple interviews, Hogan claims that
Mister T got cold feet. The a team star known
for his tough guy image, apparently started second guessing everything
he was worried that taking bumps, selling offense, or just
being in a worked match might hurt his reputation. According
to Hogan, mister T was getting really sketchy and nervous.
It didn't help that mister T allegedly had a backstage

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confrontation with Doctor d David Schultz at a house show beforehand,
which only made things worse. Schultz never want to hold back,
may have rattled mister even more. Hogan, of course claims
that he was the one who talked mister T down
and convinced him to go through at the match. It
might be true very much embellished or a flat out lie.
And up next we have Hulk Hogan calls w w

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Championship a toy. In nineteen ninety three, Hogan was fresh
off of his fifth WWF Championship win at WrestleMania nine,
but instead of basking in the glow of Vince McMahon's spotlight,
Hogan took the title to Japan and publicly buried it.
At Resting Dontaku in nineteen ninety three, Hogan faced the
Great Muta in a dream match WWF Champion versus IWGP
Heavyweight Champion, and winner takes all Hogan won with the

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Japanese finishing move, the ax Bomber, but it was his
postmatch comments that sent shockways back to the United States.
Speaking to the Japanese press, Hogan dismissed the very belt
he just defended, calling the WWF Championship just a toy,
a trinket on a Christmas tree. He declared the IWGP
belt the real prize, claiming that it would prove New

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Japan and Hulk Hogan were the greatest partners in the world.
The comments were meant to endear him to the Japanese audience,
but to Vince McMahon there were an act of betrayal.
He was the man that Vince had built into the
face of the company, openly disrespecting the company's top prize.
Within a month of returning to the States, Hogan dropped
the WWF Championship back to Yokozuna at King of the
Ring nineteen ninety three and never wrestled for the company again.

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By the end of the year, Hogan was gone, heading
to WCW, and his infamous toy Bolt Comet remained one
of the most glaring examples of the hulkster biding the
hand that fed him and now we're moving down the
iceberg into Tier three, with our first entry on Tier
three being Hogan sued for his son Nick's car crash.

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In August of two thousand and seven, Hulk Hogan's son Nick,
was behind the wheel of his father's Toyota Supra when
reckless driving changed a life forever. At just seventeen, Nick
already had a dangerous record, multiple speeding tickets, points on
his license, and even a car fire incident, but that
night in Clearwater, Florida, will be the one that defined him.
Racing through the streets at high speed, Nick lost control,

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slamming into a palm tree. His passenger, twenty two year
old U S Marine John Graziano, suffered catastrophic brain injuries,
leaving him in need of a round the clock medical
care for the rest of his life. The horror didn't
end with the crash. Leaked jail house phone calls between
Nick and Hulk painted the Hulkster in a damning light
as he appeared to a shift blame towards Graziano for

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not wearing a seat bolt. Rather than take accountability for
his son's actions, the Graziano family sued both Nick and
Hulk and the belairs were ordered to cover the staggering
lifetime costs of John's care. In Mail of two thousand
and eight, Nick was sentenced to eight months in jail,
four years of probation, five hundred hours of community service,
and a three year driving ban. He served five months

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behind bars before being released. For many, the scandal cemented
a darker view of Hulk Hogan's parenting and character, and
while Nick eventually tried to rebuild his life, even marrying
adult film actress Tana Leah Don't look that Up, trouble
seemed to follow him. In November of twenty twenty three,
who was arrested again, this time for driving under the influence.

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And I'm next to you have Hogan's beef with mcfody.
Behind the scenes, mckfody and Hulk Cogan never saw eye
to eye and it all came to head in two
thousand and two through some interviews.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
I would probably say I've trained more in the last
week than mcfoley's trained in thirty years.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
You know, I went ahead.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
While mcfoley was sleeping and eating cheeseburgers and Eminem's I
was in the gym working out a workout two hours
a day. I've been doing it for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
It depends on where.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
You want to be.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
The early bird ain't no worm.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Well what do you say, ze bug? You yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
That bothers me more than I imagine it was for Hulk
Hogan to say that, I think is a lie. And
I think if Hulk Hogan were to have wrestled me
in his career that he would sound more or less
like a whiny girl in a film saying not so
fast and not so hard because he didn't like the contact.

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So the reason I'm at out early and he's around
there when he's forty nine years old, did I put
out and I gave people that their money's worth? He
did in the different ways. Great entertainer, but at the
same time, you didn't have to apologize to your friends
for watching a Nick Foley match. And sometimes I know
when I was on the Larry King Show and they
were watching Hulk in action, it was it was embarrassing

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for me to be considered to be in that same
profession as he was because his stuff was so obviously weak.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
And up next you have Stone Cold refuses to work
Halk Cogan at WrestleMania eighteen. There is no plan for
WrestleMania eighteen wasn't Haul Cogan versus Sting, It was Hogan
versus Stone Cold Steve Austin. Vince McMahon wanted the ultimate
clash of errors, and Hogan was fully on board, even
willing to put Austin over, but Austin fed out, refused
to work with Hogan and instead worked Scott Hall at

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WrestleMania eighteen. For many years, Hogan never understood why Austin refused,
and a backstage incident at the two thousand and six
Hall of Fame only deep intentions between Hogan and Austin. However,
according to Jim Ross, Austin believed that their styles were
oil and water and that the chemistry simply wasn't there.
Austin wasn't interested in just having a good match. He
was obsessed with having a great match, and Hogan wasn't

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on his personal list of ideal opponents. Jero even admitted
that Austin might have been wrong, but by the time
the dust settled, the match was dead, and instead The
Rock stepped in and Hogan versus Austin became one of
restling's greatest what ifs, and up next year, Hulk Hogan
saves a teenage girl in Tampa. In January of twenty
twenty four, a teenage girl in Tampa, Florida survived a

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terrifying rollover crash thanks to an unlikely rescuer. Hogan, driving
home from dinner with his wife's Sky Daily and friend
Jake Rosk, saw another car clip the girl's vehicle, sending
it flipping over without hesitation. Hogan and Rask ran to
the wreck and they pulled the goal out. Hogan revealed
on X and in order to pull the girl out
without a knife, he improvised using a ballpoint pen from

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Indian Rocks Christian School to deflate the airbag and pull
it to safety. Police confirmed that the girl suffered many
minor injuries, a lucky outcome in a potential horror show
and up next to have the real reason why the
Mister America gimmick ended. In two thousand and three, Halcogan
debuted a brand new persona in WWE. The Masked Mister
America was a tongue in cheek gimmick, with Mister America

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denying that he was really Hogan. Even though it was
blatantly obvious at first, it was played for laughs. With
Mister America, feuding with Vince McMahon and teeming with fan favorites,
but behind the scenes tensions were rising. Hogan became unhappy
with these payoffs and started pushing for more money to
continue the gimmick. Negotiations with the WWE turned sour, and
soon Hogan refused to appear unless he got more money.

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Vince McMahon responded in the most WWE way possible, firing
Mister America on screen. To drive the point home, WWE
aired unseen dark match footage showing Mister America unmasking, proving
to the audience that it had been Hogan all along.
It was a KFE firing that doubled as a very
real end to Hogan's WWE run at that time. And
up next to you have Hulk Hogan and Mike League Wrestling.

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Back in nineteen eighty seven, far before modern fighting games
and online modes, Hulk Hogan starred in the first ever
WWF licensed video game, Micro League Wrestling. He was the
cover star for this game. This turn based strategy title
debut on the Commodore sixty four and Atari st later
hitting Amiga and PC Slash Dos in nineteen eighty nine.

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Instead of real time button mashing, players selected from a
menu of actions like body slam or leg drop and
watch animated sequences play out. You couldn't directly control Hogan, instead,
digitized stills from actual matches played between your choices. Matches
could run for ten, twenty, or even sixty minutes, depending
on how you strategized. At a time where video games

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were pixelated and slow paced, Hogan's face and his rivalries
powered one of the earliest interactive experiences with pro wrestling fans.
It wasn't flashy, but it planted the seat for the
immersive wrestling games that we have today and reminded everyone
that the Hulkster was the business, even in crude digital form.
And up next time you have the Iron Chic almost
purposefully breaks Hulk Hogan's legs. Long before WrestleMania became the

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juggernaut it is today, Halk Hogan's rise was being fought
for behind the scenes, and according to one of wrestling's
darkest rumors, someone didn't just want to stop Hogan's push.
They allegedly tried to cripple it permanently. Back in the
early nineteen eighties, Hogan was on fire in the Awa.
The fans loved him, and the money was there, but
Vern Garie, the traditionalist running the show, refused to put

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the belt on Hogan. Ganye didn't like his style and
he didn't believe that he deserved to carry the company,
so Hogan jumped ship. He then went to WWF and
Vince McMahon made him the face of the brand. WrestleMania
was on the horizon and Hogan was about to change
restling forever. But all of this rubbed Ganye the wrong way,
so much so that, according to multiple sources, including the

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Iron Chik himself, Vern Garnie offered the Iron Chic one
hundred thousand dollars to break Hulk Hogan's leg during their
match at Madison Square Garden before WrestleMania won to make
sure to squash Halkamania. Iron Chic decline and the match
went on its plan. In Hogan's career exploded and helped
Next You Have the Pasta Mania flop. In nineteen ninety five,

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at the height of Hogan's fame, the Hawkster decided it
was time to branch out the Square Circle and into
the food court. His big idea an Italian themed fast
food joint that opened inside Minnesota's Mall of America during
Labor Day weekend, perfectly time to coincide with the debut
episode of w CW's Monday Nitro. On Nitro's historic first broadcast,
Hogan cut an over the top promo from inside his restaurant,

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declaring that he had pasta Mania running through his brain.
The restaurant's gimmick was a mix and match between pasta
menu dishes like Beef stroganov Pasta Mexicana and children's meals
shaped like Hogan himself like the Hulcaronia and Cheese and Holkio's. Unfortunately,
Pastamania was a flop between questionable branding and lackluster food reviews,

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with lots of people calling the food mid. The restaurant
closed within a few months. Today, Pastamania lives on as
one of wrestling strange as side hustles, often mentioned in
the same breath as Hogan's other failed products like the
Hulkster Burgher's Hogan Energy and the Thunder Mixer. And up next,
we have Randy Savage giving Hulk Hogan a black eye
before WrestleMania nine conspiracy theory. After stepping away from the

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ring at WrestleMania eight. Hulk Hogan made his big return
a year later at WrestleMania nine, teeming with Brudhus Beefcake
against Money, Inc. But when Hogan showed up, fans noticed
something strange.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
He had a.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Nasty black eye. The KFE explanation was that Ted Divarsi
paid off some thugs to rough Hogan up before the match,
but the official story from Hogan himself was that he
got into a jet ski accident. But of course there's
a conspiracy theory that says otherwise. According to the rumor,
Randy Savage punched Hogan in the face after finding out
that Miss Elizabeth had left him due to Linda Hogan's influence.

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Some even speculate that Hogan and Elizabeth were secretly having
an affair, and when Savage found out, he gave Hogan
the black eye himself. The truth has never been confirmed,
but to this day, fans still debate what really happened.
And now we're moving down the iceberg into Tier two,
with our first entry on Tier two being Hogan takes

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in brother's child. To w CW fans, Horace Hogan was
often dismissed as Halk Hogan's real life nephew, a mid
carter spot who seemed more about bloodline than talent, but
behind the scenes, his life was marked by devastating loss.
Horace's mother, Martha Alfonso, was murdered in nineteen eighty six
by a boyfriend in a brutal crime that left the

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family shattered. That same year, Hulk Hogan's real life brother,
Horace's father, Alan Belaia, died of a drug overdose at
just thirty eight years old. Hogan later revealed that there
were rumors tying Alan's death to a biker gang, but
in truth, Alan was simply in desperate need of help
and no one was there to save him. In the aftermath,
Hogan took Horace and his two sisters into his home,

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raising them while working and crueling ww's schedule. He admitted
that he was already in serious physical pain from the road,
but couldn't walk away from resting, not with three kids
depending on him. By the time Horace landed in w CW,
many fans swam as just another beneficiary of nepotism. Few
realized that his career was also the product of Hogan's
promise to protect the last pieces of his late brother's

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family and up next, we have the Brook Hogan lotion controversy.
In the mid two thousands, Hulk Hogan found himself at
the center of one of the strangest controversies of his career,
and it didn't happen in a resting ring. Paparazzi photos
surfaced off Hogan on a beach rubbing oil over his
daughter Brook's rear and inner thighs while she lay face
down in a tight bikini. The images spread like wildfire online,

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with many fans calling the scene disturbingly suggestive. The backlash
only intensified when Hogan later tweeted assumed in shot of
Brook's legs with the caption Brook's legs as if admiring
them in a way that felt less fatherly and more objectifying.
The IWC pounced, speculating endlessly and noting how Brooke at
that age looked almost identical to Hogan's ex wife Linda.

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While most likely nothing sinister was intended, the optics were
undeniably uncomfortable. The incident became a lasting piece of IWC gossip,
remember less for what it truly was, and more for
how in settling it looked, and how quickly the resting
wall turned it into a storm, and up next we
have the coke allegations. By now it's publy acknowledge that
Hulk Hogan's body has been through hell, multiple surgeries, chronic

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back pain, and years of damage in the ring. He's
been open about abusing painkillers and alcohol, but there's another
darker accusation that followed him for decades that he was
also a heavy cocaine user. Hogan's longtime rival, The Ultimate Warrior,
would pour gasoline on the fire Terry.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
You truly are a dope d I mean you have
been into getting high and doing dope for years. There
are days, Terry where you do do nothing but sit
around and store coping.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Whether true or not, the rumors have persisted. Cementing themselves
is one of the many shadows hanging over the Hulkster's career.
We have the Jake the Snake and Hulk Hogan Snake
Pit segment. There's an infamous segment that hasn't been seen
since the nineteen eighties, but it's become legendary. Hulk Hogan
and Jake the Snake Roberts were originally set to feud
over the WWF Championship and to kick things off Jake

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invited Hogan to his talk segment, the Snake Pit for
an interview. During the segment, Roberts compared Hogan's arms to
pythons and then suddenly dropped them with a DDT, setting
the stage for their feud. But things didn't go as planned.
The crowd exploded not for Hogan, but for Roberts. Vince McMahon,
who was watching closely, panicked seeing the fans cheer the

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heel instead of his top baby face and champion. McMahon
reportedly pulled the plug on the feud immediately. As a result,
WWE shlved the segment and the footage has never officially
been released. While Hogan and Roberts would go on to
wrestle several times in eighty six and eighty seven, that
original Snake Pit segment has never surfaced. And up next

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we have Harley Race pulls out a gun on Hulk Hogan.
In the midnightnineteen eighties, Vince McMahon's national expansion was cheering
apart the old resting territory system, and Halk Hogan was
the face of that movement. While it made him a megastar,
it also made him a target. A few were more
furious than the NWA's World's Heavyweight champion, Harley Race, whose
Kansas City territory was directly threatened by WWE's arrival. In

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nineteen eighty four, on the eve of a WWE show
in Kansas City, Harley reportedly broke in, tried, or at
least threatened to burn the ring down. Words spread backstage
that Race wanted Hogan dead, and while Hogan was taking
a bathroom break, he heard Davy Boy Smith yell that
Harley had arrived. When Hogan stepped out of the bathroom,
there was Race pointing a gun a nine millimeter, directly

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at him. Harley allegedly told Hogan that he wanted to
blow his knee caps off, but he spared him off,
the deciding that they might work together some day. Some
accounts even claimed that Harley punched Hogan as well. Whatever
the exact details were, every retailing agrees Harley Race pulled
a gun on Hulk Hogan. By nineteen eighty six, Race
had joined WWE and the two even worked matches together,

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but the story remains one of the wildest reminders of
how dangerous it was to invade a rival territory in
the eighties. Especially when the man on the other side
was Hardy Race and I'm next to you have hul Hogan
chokes out a TV host In the build up to
the very first WrestleMania, just five days before the event,
Hulk Hogan appeared on a talk show called Hot Properties,

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hosted by comedian Richard Belzer. Belzer, known for a sarcastic tone,
repeatedly insisted that Hogan and mister T demonstrate a restling
move on him. His attitude was that wrestling was fake,
a dangerous opinion to voice during the KFAE heavy era
of the nineteen eighties. Hogan and mister T initially resisted,
clearly uncomfortable with the idea of breaking character exposing the

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business on live television, but Belzer wouldn't let it go.
He kept pushing, and eventually Hogan gave in. What followed
was no demonstration. Hogan legitimately locked Belzer into a front
chin lock and applied real pressure. Within seconds, Belzer was choked, unconscious,
collapse limped to the studio floor, smacking his head hard
as he landed. The moment was caught live on camera

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and left the audience stunned. Bulzer later sued haulk Hogan
for five million dollars, citing serious personal injury. The case
was eventually settled out of court, but the incident has
since become a legendary cautionary tale in wrestling. And up
next we have the Randy Savage dis track on Hulk Hogan.
If you're looking for the absolute wildish chapter and wrestling beef,
It's gotta be the Marchraman Randy Savage dropping a rap

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dis track on Hulk Hogan and Yes it's absurd as
it sounds. In two thousand and three, Savage released a
hip hop album called Be a Man under Big Three Records.
The lead single, be a Man was a full on
disc directed squarely at Hogan, and Savage didn't hold back.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
Coward is that you?

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Hogan?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
In the song, he said lines like your movies went
straight to video and you're a coward, HAULK Hogan. It
wasn't just a novelty act. Savage insisted in interviews that
he's feud with Hulk Hogan was real, that the song
was genuine expression, not parody. And up next we have
the Brudhus Beefcake and Hulk Hogan's Secret gay affair conspiracy theory.
Hulk Hogan and Brudus Beefcake were known to be close

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friends both inside and outside of the wrestling world. Their
friendship dated back to the early days of their careers,
and they were often seen working together in promotions like
WWE and WCW. Because of their long standing camaraderie and
Beefcake's frequent appearances in Hogan related storylines, some speculated about
the nature of their relationship, leading to rumors that they

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were in a secret homo relationship. These rumors got inflamed
by Hulk Hogan's ex wife, Linda in a twenty eleven
memoir Wrestling the Hulk My Life Against the Ropes, where
she accused Hogan and Buddhist Beefcake being in a gay relationship.
Hogan vehemently denied the accusations, and it turns out that
he was telling the truth because Linda later came out

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and said that she actually lied about the accusations, and
she even apologized the Hulkster for making them up. And
now we're moving down the iceberg into Tier I, with
our first entry on Tier I being the Hulk Hogan
and the Satanic Panic Connection. In the early nineteen eighties,

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America was gripped by a moral hysteria that came to
be known as Satanic panic. It began in small town
whispers and tabloid headlines, stories of hidden cults, subliminal messages,
and secret rituals said to lurk behind every corner. By
the nineteen nineties, this paranoia had reached a fever pitch.
Was during this fevered climate that halk Hogan exploded into
the mainstream. His image, the Golden Tan, the crucifix chain,

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the larger than life charisma was marketed to children like
a gospel train. Sayr prayers in each of vitamins became
a sermon, and halk Hogan became the fastest spreading movement
in Resting history. To some religious zealots at the time,
it all looked too calculated. They claimed that Hogan was
a false messiah, a manufactured idol sent to corrupt the
youth under the guise of morality. Whispers compaired the rise

(56:00):
of Halcomania to the anti Christ prophecy and revelation, a
charismatic figure who wins the hearts of the masses before
leading them astray. The accusations grew stranger like the hulksters
hidden hand gestures during promos, occult imagery in WWF merchandise,
and even claims that Halk Hogan's iconic theme song carried
coded messages when played backwards, mirroring the same accusations aimed

(56:21):
at rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest. A
handful of fringe newsletters insisted that Vince McMahon's WWF was
part of a wider entertainment plot to spiritually numb America's children,
just as critics had said about MTV and Saturday Morning cartoons.
No proof was ever found, but in this point in time,
consumed by satanic panic, the idea that wrestling's biggest star

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could be part of the conspiracy didn't seem too far
fetched to the most paranoid among them. And up next
we have Hulk Hogan, essays a reporter. Hulk Hogan is
no stranger to lawsuits and scandals, and in nineteen ninety six,
a woman named Kate Kennedy accused Hogan of sa The
alleged assault occurred just two days before for the launch
of w CW's Monday Nitro program in September of nineteen

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ninety five. Kennedy was a publicist for Hogan's failed restaurant
endeavor called Pastamania. She alleged that she met Hulk at
the Marriott Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota to talk business. During
the course of their meeting, Hogan allegedly became rough with
Kate Kennedy and allegedly forced his member into her mouth.
According to Hogan, Kennedy's lawyers sent legal papers to his

(57:27):
home demanding that a written apology be published in USA Today,
complete a sexual rehabilitation class, and lastly pay her one
million dollars. Hogan then went on to sue Kate Kennedy
and her attorney, accusing them of extortion. The case was
eventually settled out of court, and no details were ever
at least about the settlement. What we do know is

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the scandal nearly ended his marriage to his wife, Linda.
He admitted that the scandal affected his marriage severely and
it was never the same after that. And up next
we have Hulk Hogan was CIA in the shadowy corridors
of conspiracy law. Some say Hulk Hogan wasn't just restling's
big a star, that he was a carefully engineered psychological operation,
handpicked and cultivated by the CIA. Wrestling offered the perfect cover.

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In the mid eighties and nineties, Hogan traveled the globe
under the guise of spreading Halcomania, Japan, the Middle East, Europe,
and the Caribbean, slipping past borders without a second glance.
While fans saw him slamming giants in the ring, theorists
claimed that his real work was done in back rooms,
hotel suites, and quiet dinners with contacts whose names never
made the programs. The cover goes deeper in the most

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extreme version of this theory, Terry Blair was a constructed identity,
possibly part of a witness protection like program for a
government asset, and he was rewarded with a resting career
that would mask his tra activities. And then there's the scandals,
viewed here not as career killers but deliver it moves
in a larger game, the bubb with the Love sponge
stape leak. According to this theory, Hogan knew exactly what

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he was doing, planting an image so lurid, so scandalous
it will corrupt and distract the masses, keeping them talking
about smut instead of secrets, and also the leak racist comments.
In twenty fifteen, Conspiracists say that this was another calculated release,
part of a broader CIA effort to inflame racial tensions
in America that will ultimately lead to a race war

(59:14):
between white and black people. The model not just in
resting history, but in the shadowy files of intelligence agencies,
where real matches are fought far from the bright lights
of the Ring and up nexture of Hulk Hogan invited
to Bohemian Grove. For decades, whispers about the Bohemian Grove
have circulated through conspiracy circles, but unlike many conspiracy theories,

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this one has been proven real. Bohemian Grove was a sprawling,
heavily guarded two thousand and seven acre campground hidden deep
within Monte Rio, California. Every July, some of the most
popular people in the world would gather there, from fortune
five hundred CEOs to people in politics, to world bankers
and Hollywood icons and military leaders. The official line is

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that it was a private retreat for networking and relaxation,
but the imagery, the rituals, and the secrecy have made
it infamous. The most shocking piece of evidence came in
two thousand, when independent journalist Alex Jones managed to sneak
into the grove with a hidden camera. What he filmed
was something out of a nightmare, a ritual known as
the Cremation of Care performed in front of a massive,
forty foot stone idol resembling an owl said by some

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to represent the ancient god Moloch. We won't get too
deep into who Molik is, but it's extremely demonic, and
across various historical accounts, worship of Moloch was considered to
be one of the most depraved practices ever recorded. So
where does Hulk Hogan come in. According to persistent rumors
in the Resting Underworld, sometime during the nineties, Hogan allegedly
received a discreet invitation to attend the Bohemian Growth Gathering.

(01:00:44):
Whether it was a genuine gesture or symbolic welcome into
a deeper circle is unknown. What is said by those
who claim to have seen the correspondence is that Hogan
did not go. Maybe it was scheduling, maybe it was discomfort,
or maybe just maybe he understood the weight of what
such a place represented and chose to steer clear. For
many conspiracy theorists, Hogan's invite is chilling because of what

(01:01:06):
it suggests that professional wrestling, with its blend of mass
influence isn't as far removed from elite social engineering as
people think. Wrestling stars, especially ones as globally recognized as Hogan,
are cultural influencers, and influencers are valuable to those who
gather in secrecy behind guarded gates and help. Next we
have Hulk. Hogan's nWo was an Illuminati syop. When all

(01:01:28):
Cogan dropped the red and yellow and embraced the black
and white of the New Old Order in nineteen ninety six,
wrestling fans were shocked. But to conspiracy theorists, the name
alone New Old Order wasn't just an edgy faction title.
It was a direct nod to one of the most
infamous theories of our time, that a secret elite cabal
is putting to unite the globe under one authoritative government.

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The New Old Order doctrine in conspiracy law is about control,
the dismantling national sovereignty, collapsing economies, and creating a single
ruling class that dictates every aspect of human life. To
those already steeped in that worldview, Hogan, Hall and Nash
were just playing heels. They were the symbolic frontmen of
an agenda whispered about for decades. The fact that WCW

(01:02:09):
chose the name wasn't seen as coincidence. It was seen
as predictive programming, basically hiding in the plain sight, telling
you exactly what they're doing. And then there's the hand sign,
the nWo two sweet gesture. This is publicly explained as
the wolf's salute, which is used by a far right
Turkish group, but skeptics saw something else, unmistakable devil horns.

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To those looking deeper, the nWo storyline was more than
just edgy marketing was a psychological operation. In the language
of propaganda, a syop aims to influence emotions, attitudes, and
behaviors on a mass scale, often by blurring the line
between entertainment and ideology. By turning resident's most beloved hero
into its most notorious villain and making that villain cool,

(01:02:52):
the nWo trained audiences to embrace a shift in moral
alignment without even realizing it. Psychologically, the nWo oh represented
something more on selling the glamoration of rebellion without morality.
There weren't honorable heroes fighting for justice. They were arrogant, manipulative,
and self serving. Yet the crowds couldn't get enough. The
demand for the villains grew louder than for the good guys,

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shifting the moral center of the wrestling itself was if
the audience had been seduced learning to adolize the outlaws,
and Hogan was the perfect spearhead for that shift. Hogan
now stood draped in black, spitting venom at fans who
once adored him. It's almost like how Lucifer was an
angel once and then fell to become the devil. Now
Hogan was using his charisma to lead people into the shadows.

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