July 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Stew and Eddie Cross discuss the passing of Hulk Hogan on this date at the age of 71.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When they're not covering the sports world, they're talking about
the world or professional wrestling. It's Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Now.
Here's Stu Myrick. It is a special edition of Sports
Guys Talking Wrestling. Stu Myrik here joined on the phone
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by long time radio colleague, former combat sports expert Eddie Cross. Eddie,
how you doing still?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey? How's it going? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's going. We are doing this special Sports Guys Talking
Wrestling just you just had the regular weekly episode two
days ago, but this one we needed to do because
this morning. It is by the way, it is Thursday,
July twenty fourth, I believe, yes, July twenty fourth. The
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report came out TMZ first to report it around ten
am this this morning. Hulk Hogan has passed away at
the age of seventy one, apparently from a cardiac arrest.
Went into cardiac arrest, according to Clearwater Police. In Clearwater, Florida,
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police empts arrived at his house to find him unconscious.
They tried to revive him, put him on, put him
in the ambulance, sent him to the hospital. He was
pronounced dead moments later. It's a it. Well, it's interesting
this one. It's interesting because There had been rumors for
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the last few months about his failing health, but then
we would hear from his wife that he's not as
bad off as they're saying. And in fact, I think
it was yesterday Jimmy Hart, Mouth of the South, said, no,
Hogan's Helk's doing fine. He's he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, apparently that's the eighties, not to trust what Jimmy
Hart says.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, and that's the thing that's you know, that was
obviously that wasn't the case. I think it was Bubba
the Love Sponge, who you know, for a long time
was Hulk Cogan's best friend and then became an adversary.
Uh he was. He had mentioned that Hogan was having
healthy issues. There was talk of him being on his
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you know, on his deathbed, which I think his wife
kind of disputed that. But again, you know this, you know,
and and we always talk about, you know, celebrity deaths
in threes. He had Ozzy Osbourne, you know, and then
Malcolm Jamal Warner and now Hulk Hogan. Now it's and
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to think about Hulk Hogan, it is a very complicated legacy,
to say the least, To say the least it's it's
one of those things. They're they're you know, the last
ten to fifteen years have not been kind to him,
and he has been kind honestly, and I think and
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we'll get to that in a moment. But at the
same time, if you are a wrestling fan, it is
likely that you became a wrestling fan, especially if you
are of my age, mid fifties.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
My age late forties.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, it is it is likely that you became a
wrestling fan because of Hulkogan. His imprint, his impact on
professional wrestling cannot be measured. I mean, you look at
what he has done. He was trained by Hero Matsuda
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in the in the midle late seventies. In fact, Matsuda
broke his leg to see if he really wanted to
be a pro wrestler. He was working as a bassist
for a small rock band, small time rock band, but
he went through the training, competed in Championship wresting from Florida,
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competed in Memphis, competed in the AWA. In fact, he
was in the AWA when he made the appearance in
Rocky three with Sylvester Stallone and Mister T.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I didn't even realize that, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He was in the Aba Vern Ganya was not in
favor of it. He was not in favor of Hogan
being in that movie. And then Vince McMahon acquires Titan
Sports from his father. He wants to take the WWF
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at the time, he wants to take it nationally. He
needed a centerpiece to focus on. That's when Hulk Hogan
signed with the WWF in eighty three. Sure enough, January
eighty four, Hogan beats the Iron Chic for the WWF
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World Championship in Madison Square Garden and Iron she it was,
you know, that was a transitional championship reign. He had won.
You know, she could won it from Bob Becklan, but
that was just set up Hogan winning the title and
that was the birth of Hulkomania.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's hard to believe he won the belt first when
I was like six or seven. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Years forty one and a half years ago, what I know,
it's it's nuts. And from then on, I mean, he
took off like a rocket. He was the face of
pro wrestling. I mean, there were still some territories and
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Crockett was still running and Awa is still running and everything,
but it was if you mentioned pro wrestling to anybody,
especially those that did not know pro wrestling, the first
person that came to their mind was all Cogin, And
I would argue that might be the case today, if
it's not the Rock, if it's not the Rocket's old Cogin.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Now. For me growing up in South Texas, I became
a wrestling fan because of Von Erics. Yeah, and then
seeing NWA Slash WCW on TVs on Saturday's at six five. Yes, absolutely,
and WWS was something that would just you could sometimes
see you on like the weekends, I guess when they
had like Saturday Night's main event or something like that.
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It wasn't as prevalent on TV, but you still knew
who Cogan was.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, you did.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You would see him. Don't even get me started when
the Satday Morning cartoons came out.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, Lord, look at the Rock and Wrestling connection on MTV.
You know, it started out as Wendy Richter meeting the
Fabulous Mula for the women's title and then grew into
the brawl to sell it at all, settle it all,
and then then you know, blossom into that main event
for the very first WrestleMania with h Hogan, mister t
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taken on Rowdy Righty Piper, and mister wonderful Paul Loundorff.
But there was, you know, I mean, all the adversaries,
and Hogan was he was the perfect hero. He was
the superhero. He was the one that was gonna vanquish
the villains, whether it was Rowdy Rody Piper, whether it
was Earthquake, whether it was King Kom Bundy, Andre the
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giant who turned heel, and and let's not forget that
wrestling a three main event was not the first time
they had met. They had met four years earlier, and
the roles were reversed. Hogan was the heel and Andre
was the babyface. And Andre sold like crazy for Hogan.
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And you you hear the stories about was Andre going
to pass the torch because you know, Andrea was in
bad health. You know, he needed to get outher ring.
He promised to do this one final match, but it
still wasn't certain until the match happened. Hogan didn't really
know if Andrea was going to do business.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Because there's no one to lie who can make Andre
do something if you didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
True, absolutely, but he did. He did. There was the
story about when when they had when they had when
they decided to book the you know, Hogan and Iron
Chic at Madison Square Garden defending the title. There was
a story that there were territory promoters and vern Ganna
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may have been one of them that offered the Sheikh
something like ten thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars to break
Hogan's leg during the match. Really yes, And Iron Cheek
said no, he was. He was that honorable. He did
the job for hul Cogan. Yeah, but you look at it.
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Six times ww World Champion, six times WCW World Champion,
and let's not forget. So you know, he had his
running WWE WWF started to get steale. You started to
hear booze. So he decides to back away, go shoot
to shoot, Thunder and Paradise and then and then and
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then Eric Bischoff comes a calling, and before you know it,
Cogan has signed with WCW. And it started out you know,
the Red and Yellow, say your prayers, take your vitamins,
all that good stuff. In fact, he beats Rick Flair
for the WCW World title at I think it was
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it was in the summer. I want to say Great
American Bash or Bash at the Beach or something like that.
That's the turned right, it was ninety Well that's ninety six,
that's coming up. Yeah, that was ninety six, but it
was like ninety four ninety five. And and the funny
thing was there was an opportunity to have hok Hogan
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Rick Flair because if you look at wrestling in the eighties, yes,
Awa still had Nick bock Quinkle in its myriad of champions,
but in reality the two champions were Hokogan and Rick Flair. Yeah,
and there was a time when Flair was in the WWF.
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They tried they tried the match out at a house
show and didn't Apparently Vince didn't like the reaction, so
they never showed it on TV. Well, they gets WCW,
they immediately book it for a pay per view. Shaquille
O'Neals in Hogan's corner, Hogan drops the leg one, two three,
Hogan now is the WCW World Champion. And then ninety
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six rolls over and we had the outsiders, Kevin Nash,
Scott Hall, and they booked a six man tag four
Bash of the Beach in ninety six, steing Lex Luger
and Randy Mochelman Savage teaming up against Kevin Nash, Scott
Hall and a mystery partner.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Mystery partner.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Now there there have been married to stories. I think
the most reputable one will They wanted Sting to be
the third man and Sting said no, So again Eric
Bischoff goes to Hogan and convinces him. Sure enough, Hogan
comes down, drops the leg turns heel one of arguably
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one of the greatest heel turns in all of pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's gotta be the greatest, right.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
They Yeah, they formed the nWo, they formed the New
World Order, and they ruled WCW. Now, yes, the nWo
got stale, got bloated, all that good stuff, and then
you get to two thousand and one, Vince buys WCW,
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Hogan takes a break, and then Vince decides to bring
in the nWo to WWE because he needed and check poison.
So sure enough, here Hogan and Nash Hall, and it
leads up to that main event in or the Big
match at RUSSEMANI eighteen in Toronto, Hok Hogan or Hollywood
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Hogan taking on the Rock and the fans mid match
start to back ho Hogan, He's starting to hear the
cheers again, and all of a sudden, the rock is
now the heel.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, I think that may be the beginning of
a lot of the problems we have now with the
blurred lines between faces and heels.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, I mean, and it can be traced back to
to the end of You and even before that with
some of the things that Eric Bischoff would do on Nitro.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But but now it seems like people are just so
excited to cheer for people they've seen cheer for their memories. Yes,
they just forget.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, it's supposed to be a Hogan been one of.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The first ones aside from like, you know, just the
cool bad guy.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah. But Hogan eventually sheds the black and white, puts
the red and yellow back on, has another run Babyface.
He won he won the tag titles with Edge now
Adam Copeland and a w Old c forgot about that. Yeah,
won the tag titles there, I think. Didn't he win
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the tag titles with Flair? No, no, no, that was
Piper that was But nevertheless, so it had a run.
Then he goes to TNA Dixie Carter had had gotten
control of TNA. Want to make splash or here comes
Eric Bischoff, Hulk Cogan has a run in TNA. Some good,
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some bad mafia. Uh there was the main event. Mafia
was part of it. Yeah, but it was you know,
it was up and down. I don't think TNA. I
don't think TNA A got as much good out of
it as they thought they would.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I think they gave him, as it happened before, it
gave him a little too much control.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well and that and the other thing was Hogan was
getting older. His body was beat up, so he couldn't
he he couldn't wrestle as much as he used to.
There was I remember there was the match. I think
you I think you either him and Flair or him
and Sting, and Sting had to basically carry Hogan.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The fact that all three of those were in CNA just.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
At the same time, Yeah, at the same time.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Uh, you know it's so funny. Of course, you know,
alas think of you know, because we just saw Goldberg
wrestle his final match against Gunther on Saturday nights Man event,
and you gotta think about July ninety eight in the
Georgia Dome Hogan defending the title against Goldberg and Hogan
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you know, he sold, he put Goldberg over, and you
know that was probably, you know, I would say one
of the best matches in the run of w cw
oh easily easily. There was something like forty three thousand
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people in the Georgia Dome for that for it was.
It was a nitro. It was a Monday night tro.
It wasn't pay per view or anything like that. It
was just regular Monday nightro. So that crazy too, so
much so much. Two thousand and five gets inducted into
the ww Hall of Fame. Sylvester Stallone is the star
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of the Rocky movies. Of course, you know, co Star
inducted him. I mean, it's as I said, the the
the wrestling impact is immeasurable, you know, and it's it's
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just I mean, and these days are common, by the way.
I mean, who had on their Bengo card that Hulk
Hogan would pass away before Rick Flair.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, not a chance, dude, I mean like five times.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I mean not, you know. Besides that, Ric Flair is
like five years older. Yeah, all the living I mean,
the yeah, these stories and Rick Flair is still alive. Crazy.
It is like, yeah, I mean, it is just incredible. Now,
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as I said, in the last ten to fifteen years,
things got a little complicated. Let's say twenty fifteen was
a bad year for me. Yeah, yeh, because you had
not only a sex tape that got out where Hogan
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was having sex with the wife of his former friend
Bubba the Love Sponge, the sex tape gets out. There's
a company called Gawker, it was kind of like TMZ
that released the tape. Hulk Hogan sues Gawker, wins the lawsuit,
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and Gawker had to shut down. Yeah, so there was that.
And oh, by the way, Hulk Cogan was still married
to Linda.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think I actually died on the anniversary of that
coming out.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
With I don't remember. Oh, and they had two kids,
you know Brooke. Yeah. But then also in twenty fifteen,
there was an audio recording where Hogan it had something
to do with Brooke being seen with some basketball players.
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I think something like that. Whoever her boyfriend was her boyfriend.
Hogan was not happy with it. Hogan not only used
the N word repeatedly, he even mentioned on the tape
that he was quote racist to a point end quote.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let's say, oh, no, he worked with all these guys
and all these other wrestlers, like, yeah, two point to
a point let himself lose money.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, and that's the thing it was, you know, the
the audio recording has come out, Hogan gives gives an apology.
I don't think anybody really bought it. No ww Actually,
you know, they they kind of you know, released he
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was on a he was a Legends contract. W W
ended that contract. They basically backed away from Hogan.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And that's saying something because you know who Vince was.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, exactly, that's you know, that's the ironic thing, especially
nowadays with all the stories about Vince McMahon vance back
and away from Hogan. I mean it was to the
point they were they almost they almost did of Crispin
Waugh on where they almost erased everything.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Just like Hogan. If there's money to be made.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There's you know. That's the thing. Hogan comes back, as
I said, he attempts to apologize. Some exccept some don't heat,
but he is eventually welcomed back into the fold. And
then twenty twenty four rolls around Hell. Cogan makes the
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appearance at the Republican National convention.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He really did lean into it, didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
He, and through his support for Donald Trump on his
you know, his run to be elected president again.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And I got to wonder if at some point Holgan
just said, you know, what, the hell with it?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well, and that's and that's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Or did he just see that there's dollar signs over here,
so I may as well just lean into it because
half the world already thinks on this way anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, and that's the thing. So then fast forward to
January of this year, Monday Night, Raw makes its debut
on Netflix. They're at the end of It Dome in
Los Angeles. Oh yeah, And this was also when ww
started putting sponsors on the on the mat inside the ring,
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they announced that they had signed a deal with Real
American Beer, which was ho Cogan's beer. Sure enough, Raw
on Netflix. Here comes Holk Cogan with Mouth of South
Jimmy Art and the crowd there at the Into It
Dome boo him out of the building.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They let him have it, and I was so proud.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It was it was it was, Uh, it was pretty
pretty obvious their feelings towards the Halkster.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So, as I said, the last several years have made
his legacy complicated.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's like one of those things when you find out
someone's true colors, well you're a fan of him before,
and it's just really disheartened. What like, can't take that
very personally, and you just find out what if I
were to meet Hull Hogan, what he would be thinking
in his head about me?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, and that's and that's you know, and that is
something I saw. I saw something. It was from Mark
Henry wild Strong's man W W. Hall Famer, currently a
co host on the morning show at at the Zone
here here in Austin with my Carge, and he he
you know, he put he put down some eloquent words basically,
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you know he I think he was able to separate
Hulk Hogan the wrestler from ho Cogan the person, or
Hull Hogan the wrestler from Terry bole of the person. Yeah,
and and I think that's part of what may have
to be done right now.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's not easier with people that have worked it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And it's not Oh, you know, he treated me fairly.
So when I hear that, I'm surprised and I don't
know how to take it. So I can try and
separate it, but those are the just looked at it
from afar. It's slapping the face.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It is it really is. It's it's you know, like
you said, it's disheartening, especially you know, watching him as
a kid. Mhm. And I mean I believed in Hulk Hogan.
Say your prayers, take your vitamins. Yeah, believe in yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Mornings with the Junkyard Dog and the cartoon.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Absolutely who you know, by the way, if you ever
followed the Junkyard Dog was one of the most beloved
individuals in RUSS going back to his days in Mid South.
He was. I mean, he was truly an icon in
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Mid South wrestling. And you think about you know, talking
about in Louisiana, you know, you know he was. He
was so loved and then put that up against Hok Hogan,
who at that time and at that time we didn't
know none of this is no right. He was. He
was the hero.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But now some people if you go back and look
at someone like a like Jesse the Buddy Ventura, it
would tell you he knew way back in the day
that Hogan was a slade ball because when they when
Jesse tried to unionize the wrestlers with Hogan that went
to events and told him about it and basically righted
him out and ruined the whole thing. Oh yeah, day
Russells are still like independent contracts.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
No love lost between Jesse the Body and Hok Hogan.
Bobby Heenan was the same way. I mean a lot
of what Bobby would say on air, obviously that was
in character, that was him being the weasel. But apparently
there were some bad feelings. There was even, you know,
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before he passed away, the macho man, Randy Savage, Apparently
there was some there was something between them, like there
was a you know it was and I you know it.
It's rumor and it's pro wrestling, so you kind of
have to there's some that you have to you could see,
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but some of it you might have to take it
with a grain of salt, or maybe it wasn't as
extreme as what they what was said. All in all,
it is it's a sad day for wrestling because one
of our heroes has passed away. At the same time,
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it's a it's an exercise. It's an interesting time to
reflect on how someone can be so beloved and then
with you know, when they show what many believed to
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be his true colors. That beloved feeling goes away.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And that's when you really remember that wrestlers are actors.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, that's and that's the thing that's you know,
and that's what I've heard forever. Wrestlers are always working. Yeah,
you know, it's it is it is a it is
a it is a something to something to remember. I
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think obviously there have been lots of posts about Hogan
passing away on social media. In fact, I saw something,
Uh it was actually it was from Ric Flair. As
soon as I pull it up.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Let's see, Uh, Cogan lent him money when he was
down at some point.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
This was from Rick Flair today quote. I am absolutely
shocked to hear about the passing of my close friend
Hulk Hogan. Hulk has been by my side since we
started in the wrestling business. An incredible athlete, talent, friend
and father. Our friendship has meant the world to me.
He was always there for me, even when I didn't
ask for him to be. He was one of the
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first to visit me when I was in the hospital
with a two percent chance of living. He prayed by
by bedside. Hulk also lent me money when Reid was sick, Hulkster,
no one will ever compare to your to you rest
in peace, my friend. And so that's from the nature boy.
As I said, there are so many people that have shared,
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you know, I mean, and it's and it's on the wrestling.
And as I said, we can mourn the passing of
the wrestler and the hero the character. Yeah, yes, that's
and I think that's what That's what I that's what
I will do, is more in the passing of a wrestler,
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the passing of a hero, an iconic individual. I you know,
I would say arguably the most iconic individual in pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's hard argue.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's hard. Yeah, I mean there there might be I
could count on one hand the individuals that might come close.
Seen a maybe Flair, the Rock. I think that's it. Yeah,
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I think that's it. It was also you know, one
of the one of the ironic one of the ironic
things is that you know, you look at how Hogan
wrestled in the eighties. It's it's not like today. He
didn't do a lot of moves of flips and stuff.
It was pretty basic. But back then that's what worked.
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The ironic thing is he he did work in New
Japan Pro wrestling. He worked in NOOKI. I want to
say he worked a couple others. He he did, he
did some stints in New Japan and apparently that's where
you could see his skill really come out, was in
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his runs in New Japan.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, the Evince wasn't known for dumbing people down.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Well, it was. It was it was a safe basic
and and people say that even today, it's not you
know that it's a there is a w W style
to work a match as opposed to what you see
in ae W or TNA or Major League Wrestling or
anywhere else or you know, on the indies. It's like
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I said, it's it's a it's a sad day for
wrestling that a wrestling hero is is no longer with
us h And I think that's I don't want to
underplay what he did over the last ten to fifteen
years because he was not a good person.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, and I can say without any hold back that
he died for me ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Okay, then that might be that might be a yeah, yeah,
that might be a way to look at it. So
condolences go to his family, his friends. Uh, it's gonna
be interesting. So califelwer Alley Club, who you know, they
are a wonderful organization that helps wrestlers you know that
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may be in need. Uh, They're going to have their
reunion in I think three weeks in Las Vegas. I'm
sure there will be lots of Hull Cogan stories going around.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh you know, they got to be working on a
couple of different packages for SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yes, oh, yes, we will see. We will see the
highlight packages. I would bet there are probably something. It's Thursday,
so TNA runs tonight. I bet they try to insert
something tonight on Impact regarding his TNA run. And as
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I said, I mean whatever you whatever you think of
the Huk Cogan of the last ten to fifteen years,
you cannot deny that a lot of us are wrestling
fans because of Hogan.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
And for that the industry has never seen.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
And I and for that, I'll be grateful for what
he did in the in the in the in the business.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
And as I say, had a TV show named after
his show. Say that again, w c W and a
TV show.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah yeah, Thunders, yeah, Thunder under Paradise. Yeah, they
were doing thunder right well. And and that's another thing.
So he and Bischoff were going to do this Real
American Freestyle promotion and they were trying to get it
off ground. I think they had already innounced an event
sometime in August and now.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And I have to think that a lot of the
a lot of the hiding that they were doing about
his health was due to trying to finish closing that deal.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You gotta wonder if Fox Station would have jumped on
board if Hogan wasn't there that. I don't think anyone
jumps on board like that.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, that is a distinct possibility. And and you know
it was. I was lucky enough to be a part
of an interview with Eric Bischoff a couple of weeks
ago on the Mark Hooke Show, and you know, and
and Eric didn't mention anything about health issues with Hulk.
He you know, he talked about the real Real American
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Freestyle and what they want to do with it, but
he didn't mention anything about Hogan's health issues or anything
like that. So again, this was if you believe the rumors,
then it's not that surprising, but still a sad day
in the world professional wrestling Hulk Hogan passing away at
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the age of seventy one. Again condolences to his family,
his friends, and wrestling fans worldwide on the passing of
Hull Cogan. Eddie, I appreciate you joining me, man. It
was good. Good hear your perspective on it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He's a home while I'm away.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Absolutely, absolutely, that will do it for this special edition
of Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. We be back next week
with the SummerSlam preview, but for now, I'm Stu Marek
for Eddie Cross, I'm Stu Marek. Thanks so much for
joining us and we will see you at the matches.
When they're not covering the sports world, they're talking about
the world or professional wrestling. It's Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Now.
Here's Stu Myrick. It is a special edition of Sports
Guys Talking Wrestling. Stu Myrik here joined on the phone
(00:24):
by long time radio colleague, former combat sports expert Eddie Cross. Eddie,
how you doing still?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey? How's it going? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's going. We are doing this special Sports Guys Talking
Wrestling just you just had the regular weekly episode two
days ago, but this one we needed to do because
this morning. It is by the way, it is Thursday,
July twenty fourth, I believe, yes, July twenty fourth. The
(01:00):
report came out TMZ first to report it around ten
am this this morning. Hulk Hogan has passed away at
the age of seventy one, apparently from a cardiac arrest.
Went into cardiac arrest, according to Clearwater Police. In Clearwater, Florida,
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police empts arrived at his house to find him unconscious.
They tried to revive him, put him on, put him
in the ambulance, sent him to the hospital. He was
pronounced dead moments later. It's a it. Well, it's interesting
this one. It's interesting because There had been rumors for
(01:48):
the last few months about his failing health, but then
we would hear from his wife that he's not as
bad off as they're saying. And in fact, I think
it was yesterday Jimmy Hart, Mouth of the South, said, no,
Hogan's Helk's doing fine. He's he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, apparently that's the eighties, not to trust what Jimmy
Hart says.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, and that's the thing that's you know, that was
obviously that wasn't the case. I think it was Bubba
the Love Sponge, who you know, for a long time
was Hulk Cogan's best friend and then became an adversary.
Uh he was. He had mentioned that Hogan was having
healthy issues. There was talk of him being on his
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you know, on his deathbed, which I think his wife
kind of disputed that. But again, you know this, you know,
and and we always talk about, you know, celebrity deaths
in threes. He had Ozzy Osbourne, you know, and then
Malcolm Jamal Warner and now Hulk Hogan. Now it's and
(02:56):
to think about Hulk Hogan, it is a very complicated legacy,
to say the least, To say the least it's it's
one of those things. They're they're you know, the last
ten to fifteen years have not been kind to him,
and he has been kind honestly, and I think and
(03:19):
we'll get to that in a moment. But at the
same time, if you are a wrestling fan, it is
likely that you became a wrestling fan, especially if you
are of my age, mid fifties.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
My age late forties.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, it is it is likely that you became a
wrestling fan because of Hulkogan. His imprint, his impact on
professional wrestling cannot be measured. I mean, you look at
what he has done. He was trained by Hero Matsuda
(04:06):
in the in the midle late seventies. In fact, Matsuda
broke his leg to see if he really wanted to
be a pro wrestler. He was working as a bassist
for a small rock band, small time rock band, but
he went through the training, competed in Championship wresting from Florida,
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competed in Memphis, competed in the AWA. In fact, he
was in the AWA when he made the appearance in
Rocky three with Sylvester Stallone and Mister T.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I didn't even realize that, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
He was in the Aba Vern Ganya was not in
favor of it. He was not in favor of Hogan
being in that movie. And then Vince McMahon acquires Titan
Sports from his father. He wants to take the WWF
(05:02):
at the time, he wants to take it nationally. He
needed a centerpiece to focus on. That's when Hulk Hogan
signed with the WWF in eighty three. Sure enough, January
eighty four, Hogan beats the Iron Chic for the WWF
(05:24):
World Championship in Madison Square Garden and Iron she it was,
you know, that was a transitional championship reign. He had won.
You know, she could won it from Bob Becklan, but
that was just set up Hogan winning the title and
that was the birth of Hulkomania.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's hard to believe he won the belt first when
I was like six or seven. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Years forty one and a half years ago, what I know,
it's it's nuts. And from then on, I mean, he
took off like a rocket. He was the face of
pro wrestling. I mean, there were still some territories and
(06:12):
Crockett was still running and Awa is still running and everything,
but it was if you mentioned pro wrestling to anybody,
especially those that did not know pro wrestling, the first
person that came to their mind was all Cogin, And
I would argue that might be the case today, if
it's not the Rock, if it's not the Rocket's old Cogin.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Now. For me growing up in South Texas, I became
a wrestling fan because of Von Erics. Yeah, and then
seeing NWA Slash WCW on TVs on Saturday's at six five. Yes, absolutely,
and WWS was something that would just you could sometimes
see you on like the weekends, I guess when they
had like Saturday Night's main event or something like that.
(06:58):
It wasn't as prevalent on TV, but you still knew
who Cogan was.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, you did.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You would see him. Don't even get me started when
the Satday Morning cartoons came out.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yes, Lord, look at the Rock and Wrestling connection on MTV.
You know, it started out as Wendy Richter meeting the
Fabulous Mula for the women's title and then grew into
the brawl to sell it at all, settle it all,
and then then you know, blossom into that main event
for the very first WrestleMania with h Hogan, mister t
(07:30):
taken on Rowdy Righty Piper, and mister wonderful Paul Loundorff.
But there was, you know, I mean, all the adversaries,
and Hogan was he was the perfect hero. He was
the superhero. He was the one that was gonna vanquish
the villains, whether it was Rowdy Rody Piper, whether it
was Earthquake, whether it was King Kom Bundy, Andre the
(07:53):
giant who turned heel, and and let's not forget that
wrestling a three main event was not the first time
they had met. They had met four years earlier, and
the roles were reversed. Hogan was the heel and Andre
was the babyface. And Andre sold like crazy for Hogan.
(08:18):
And you you hear the stories about was Andre going
to pass the torch because you know, Andrea was in
bad health. You know, he needed to get outher ring.
He promised to do this one final match, but it
still wasn't certain until the match happened. Hogan didn't really
know if Andrea was going to do business.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Because there's no one to lie who can make Andre
do something if you didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
True, absolutely, but he did. He did. There was the
story about when when they had when they had when
they decided to book the you know, Hogan and Iron
Chic at Madison Square Garden defending the title. There was
a story that there were territory promoters and vern Ganna
(09:08):
may have been one of them that offered the Sheikh
something like ten thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars to break
Hogan's leg during the match. Really yes, And Iron Cheek
said no, he was. He was that honorable. He did
the job for hul Cogan. Yeah, but you look at it.
(09:30):
Six times ww World Champion, six times WCW World Champion,
and let's not forget. So you know, he had his
running WWE WWF started to get steale. You started to
hear booze. So he decides to back away, go shoot
to shoot, Thunder and Paradise and then and then and
(09:56):
then Eric Bischoff comes a calling, and before you know it,
Cogan has signed with WCW. And it started out you know,
the Red and Yellow, say your prayers, take your vitamins,
all that good stuff. In fact, he beats Rick Flair
for the WCW World title at I think it was
(10:21):
it was in the summer. I want to say Great
American Bash or Bash at the Beach or something like that.
That's the turned right, it was ninety Well that's ninety six,
that's coming up. Yeah, that was ninety six, but it
was like ninety four ninety five. And and the funny
thing was there was an opportunity to have hok Hogan
(10:43):
Rick Flair because if you look at wrestling in the eighties, yes,
Awa still had Nick bock Quinkle in its myriad of champions,
but in reality the two champions were Hokogan and Rick Flair. Yeah,
and there was a time when Flair was in the WWF.
(11:05):
They tried they tried the match out at a house
show and didn't Apparently Vince didn't like the reaction, so
they never showed it on TV. Well, they gets WCW,
they immediately book it for a pay per view. Shaquille
O'Neals in Hogan's corner, Hogan drops the leg one, two three,
Hogan now is the WCW World Champion. And then ninety
(11:31):
six rolls over and we had the outsiders, Kevin Nash,
Scott Hall, and they booked a six man tag four
Bash of the Beach in ninety six, steing Lex Luger
and Randy Mochelman Savage teaming up against Kevin Nash, Scott
Hall and a mystery partner.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Mystery partner.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Now there there have been married to stories. I think
the most reputable one will They wanted Sting to be
the third man and Sting said no, So again Eric
Bischoff goes to Hogan and convinces him. Sure enough, Hogan
comes down, drops the leg turns heel one of arguably
(12:20):
one of the greatest heel turns in all of pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
It's gotta be the greatest, right.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
They Yeah, they formed the nWo, they formed the New
World Order, and they ruled WCW. Now, yes, the nWo
got stale, got bloated, all that good stuff, and then
you get to two thousand and one, Vince buys WCW,
(12:46):
Hogan takes a break, and then Vince decides to bring
in the nWo to WWE because he needed and check poison.
So sure enough, here Hogan and Nash Hall, and it
leads up to that main event in or the Big
match at RUSSEMANI eighteen in Toronto, Hok Hogan or Hollywood
(13:12):
Hogan taking on the Rock and the fans mid match
start to back ho Hogan, He's starting to hear the
cheers again, and all of a sudden, the rock is
now the heel.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, I think that may be the beginning of
a lot of the problems we have now with the
blurred lines between faces and heels.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Well, I mean, and it can be traced back to
to the end of You and even before that with
some of the things that Eric Bischoff would do on Nitro.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But but now it seems like people are just so
excited to cheer for people they've seen cheer for their memories. Yes,
they just forget.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, it's supposed to be a Hogan been one of.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The first ones aside from like, you know, just the
cool bad guy.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah. But Hogan eventually sheds the black and white, puts
the red and yellow back on, has another run Babyface.
He won he won the tag titles with Edge now
Adam Copeland and a w Old c forgot about that. Yeah,
won the tag titles there, I think. Didn't he win
(14:22):
the tag titles with Flair? No, no, no, that was
Piper that was But nevertheless, so it had a run.
Then he goes to TNA Dixie Carter had had gotten
control of TNA. Want to make splash or here comes
Eric Bischoff, Hulk Cogan has a run in TNA. Some good,
(14:45):
some bad mafia. Uh there was the main event. Mafia
was part of it. Yeah, but it was you know,
it was up and down. I don't think TNA. I
don't think TNA A got as much good out of
it as they thought they would.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I think they gave him, as it happened before, it
gave him a little too much control.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well and that and the other thing was Hogan was
getting older. His body was beat up, so he couldn't
he he couldn't wrestle as much as he used to.
There was I remember there was the match. I think
you I think you either him and Flair or him
and Sting, and Sting had to basically carry Hogan.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
The fact that all three of those were in CNA just.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
At the same time, Yeah, at the same time.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Uh, you know it's so funny. Of course, you know,
alas think of you know, because we just saw Goldberg
wrestle his final match against Gunther on Saturday nights Man event,
and you gotta think about July ninety eight in the
Georgia Dome Hogan defending the title against Goldberg and Hogan
(16:08):
you know, he sold, he put Goldberg over, and you
know that was probably, you know, I would say one
of the best matches in the run of w cw
oh easily easily. There was something like forty three thousand
(16:29):
people in the Georgia Dome for that for it was.
It was a nitro. It was a Monday night tro.
It wasn't pay per view or anything like that. It
was just regular Monday nightro. So that crazy too, so
much so much. Two thousand and five gets inducted into
the ww Hall of Fame. Sylvester Stallone is the star
(16:51):
of the Rocky movies. Of course, you know, co Star
inducted him. I mean, it's as I said, the the
the wrestling impact is immeasurable, you know, and it's it's
(17:13):
just I mean, and these days are common, by the way.
I mean, who had on their Bengo card that Hulk
Hogan would pass away before Rick Flair.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, not a chance, dude, I mean like five times.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I mean not, you know. Besides that, Ric Flair is
like five years older. Yeah, all the living I mean,
the yeah, these stories and Rick Flair is still alive. Crazy.
It is like, yeah, I mean, it is just incredible. Now,
(17:56):
as I said, in the last ten to fifteen years,
things got a little complicated. Let's say twenty fifteen was
a bad year for me. Yeah, yeh, because you had
not only a sex tape that got out where Hogan
(18:19):
was having sex with the wife of his former friend
Bubba the Love Sponge, the sex tape gets out. There's
a company called Gawker, it was kind of like TMZ
that released the tape. Hulk Hogan sues Gawker, wins the lawsuit,
(18:41):
and Gawker had to shut down. Yeah, so there was that.
And oh, by the way, Hulk Cogan was still married
to Linda.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think I actually died on the anniversary of that
coming out.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
With I don't remember. Oh, and they had two kids,
you know Brooke. Yeah. But then also in twenty fifteen,
there was an audio recording where Hogan it had something
to do with Brooke being seen with some basketball players.
(19:15):
I think something like that. Whoever her boyfriend was her boyfriend.
Hogan was not happy with it. Hogan not only used
the N word repeatedly, he even mentioned on the tape
that he was quote racist to a point end quote.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let's say, oh, no, he worked with all these guys
and all these other wrestlers, like, yeah, two point to
a point let himself lose money.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, and that's the thing it was, you know, the
the audio recording has come out, Hogan gives gives an apology.
I don't think anybody really bought it. No ww Actually,
you know, they they kind of you know, released he
(20:12):
was on a he was a Legends contract. W W
ended that contract. They basically backed away from Hogan.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And that's saying something because you know who Vince was.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, exactly, that's you know, that's the ironic thing, especially
nowadays with all the stories about Vince McMahon vance back
and away from Hogan. I mean it was to the
point they were they almost they almost did of Crispin
Waugh on where they almost erased everything.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Just like Hogan. If there's money to be made.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There's you know. That's the thing. Hogan comes back, as
I said, he attempts to apologize. Some exccept some don't heat,
but he is eventually welcomed back into the fold. And
then twenty twenty four rolls around Hell. Cogan makes the
(21:15):
appearance at the Republican National convention.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
He really did lean into it, didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
He, and through his support for Donald Trump on his
you know, his run to be elected president again.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And I got to wonder if at some point Holgan
just said, you know, what, the hell with it?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well, and that's and that's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Or did he just see that there's dollar signs over here,
so I may as well just lean into it because
half the world already thinks on this way anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, and that's the thing. So then fast forward to
January of this year, Monday Night, Raw makes its debut
on Netflix. They're at the end of It Dome in
Los Angeles. Oh yeah, And this was also when ww
started putting sponsors on the on the mat inside the ring,
(22:12):
they announced that they had signed a deal with Real
American Beer, which was ho Cogan's beer. Sure enough, Raw
on Netflix. Here comes Holk Cogan with Mouth of South
Jimmy Art and the crowd there at the Into It
Dome boo him out of the building.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They let him have it, and I was so proud.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It was it was it was, Uh, it was pretty
pretty obvious their feelings towards the Halkster.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So, as I said, the last several years have made
his legacy complicated.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's like one of those things when you find out
someone's true colors, well you're a fan of him before,
and it's just really disheartened. What like, can't take that
very personally, and you just find out what if I
were to meet Hull Hogan, what he would be thinking
in his head about me?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, and that's and that's you know, and that is
something I saw. I saw something. It was from Mark
Henry wild Strong's man W W. Hall Famer, currently a
co host on the morning show at at the Zone
here here in Austin with my Carge, and he he
you know, he put he put down some eloquent words basically,
(23:44):
you know he I think he was able to separate
Hulk Hogan the wrestler from ho Cogan the person, or
Hull Hogan the wrestler from Terry bole of the person. Yeah,
and and I think that's part of what may have
to be done right now.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's not easier with people that have worked it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And it's not Oh, you know, he treated me fairly.
So when I hear that, I'm surprised and I don't
know how to take it. So I can try and
separate it, but those are the just looked at it
from afar. It's slapping the face.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It is it really is. It's it's you know, like
you said, it's disheartening, especially you know, watching him as
a kid. Mhm. And I mean I believed in Hulk Hogan.
Say your prayers, take your vitamins. Yeah, believe in yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Mornings with the Junkyard Dog and the cartoon.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Absolutely who you know, by the way, if you ever
followed the Junkyard Dog was one of the most beloved
individuals in RUSS going back to his days in Mid South.
He was. I mean, he was truly an icon in
(25:10):
Mid South wrestling. And you think about you know, talking
about in Louisiana, you know, you know he was. He
was so loved and then put that up against Hok Hogan,
who at that time and at that time we didn't
know none of this is no right. He was. He
was the hero.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
But now some people if you go back and look
at someone like a like Jesse the Buddy Ventura, it
would tell you he knew way back in the day
that Hogan was a slade ball because when they when
Jesse tried to unionize the wrestlers with Hogan that went
to events and told him about it and basically righted
him out and ruined the whole thing. Oh yeah, day
Russells are still like independent contracts.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
No love lost between Jesse the Body and Hok Hogan.
Bobby Heenan was the same way. I mean a lot
of what Bobby would say on air, obviously that was
in character, that was him being the weasel. But apparently
there were some bad feelings. There was even, you know,
(26:14):
before he passed away, the macho man, Randy Savage, Apparently
there was some there was something between them, like there
was a you know it was and I you know it.
It's rumor and it's pro wrestling, so you kind of
have to there's some that you have to you could see,
(26:36):
but some of it you might have to take it
with a grain of salt, or maybe it wasn't as
extreme as what they what was said. All in all,
it is it's a sad day for wrestling because one
of our heroes has passed away. At the same time,
(26:59):
it's a it's an exercise. It's an interesting time to
reflect on how someone can be so beloved and then
with you know, when they show what many believed to
(27:19):
be his true colors. That beloved feeling goes away.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And that's when you really remember that wrestlers are actors.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I mean, that's and that's the thing that's you know,
and that's what I've heard forever. Wrestlers are always working. Yeah,
you know, it's it is it is a it is
a it is a something to something to remember. I
(27:56):
think obviously there have been lots of posts about Hogan
passing away on social media. In fact, I saw something,
Uh it was actually it was from Ric Flair. As
soon as I pull it up.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Let's see, Uh, Cogan lent him money when he was
down at some point.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
This was from Rick Flair today quote. I am absolutely
shocked to hear about the passing of my close friend
Hulk Hogan. Hulk has been by my side since we
started in the wrestling business. An incredible athlete, talent, friend
and father. Our friendship has meant the world to me.
He was always there for me, even when I didn't
ask for him to be. He was one of the
(28:42):
first to visit me when I was in the hospital
with a two percent chance of living. He prayed by
by bedside. Hulk also lent me money when Reid was sick, Hulkster,
no one will ever compare to your to you rest
in peace, my friend. And so that's from the nature boy.
As I said, there are so many people that have shared,
(29:08):
you know, I mean, and it's and it's on the wrestling.
And as I said, we can mourn the passing of
the wrestler and the hero the character. Yeah, yes, that's
and I think that's what That's what I that's what
I will do, is more in the passing of a wrestler,
(29:29):
the passing of a hero, an iconic individual. I you know,
I would say arguably the most iconic individual in pro wrestling.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That's hard argue.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's hard. Yeah, I mean there there might be I
could count on one hand the individuals that might come close.
Seen a maybe Flair, the Rock. I think that's it. Yeah,
(30:05):
I think that's it. It was also you know, one
of the one of the ironic one of the ironic
things is that you know, you look at how Hogan
wrestled in the eighties. It's it's not like today. He
didn't do a lot of moves of flips and stuff.
It was pretty basic. But back then that's what worked.
(30:31):
The ironic thing is he he did work in New
Japan Pro wrestling. He worked in NOOKI. I want to
say he worked a couple others. He he did, he
did some stints in New Japan and apparently that's where
you could see his skill really come out, was in
(30:55):
his runs in New Japan.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, the Evince wasn't known for dumbing people down.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Well, it was. It was it was a safe basic
and and people say that even today, it's not you
know that it's a there is a w W style
to work a match as opposed to what you see
in ae W or TNA or Major League Wrestling or
anywhere else or you know, on the indies. It's like
(31:27):
I said, it's it's a it's a sad day for
wrestling that a wrestling hero is is no longer with
us h And I think that's I don't want to
underplay what he did over the last ten to fifteen
years because he was not a good person.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, and I can say without any hold back that
he died for me ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Okay, then that might be that might be a yeah, yeah,
that might be a way to look at it. So
condolences go to his family, his friends. Uh, it's gonna
be interesting. So califelwer Alley Club, who you know, they
are a wonderful organization that helps wrestlers you know that
(32:21):
may be in need. Uh, They're going to have their
reunion in I think three weeks in Las Vegas. I'm
sure there will be lots of Hull Cogan stories going around.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh you know, they got to be working on a
couple of different packages for SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yes, oh, yes, we will see. We will see the
highlight packages. I would bet there are probably something. It's Thursday,
so TNA runs tonight. I bet they try to insert
something tonight on Impact regarding his TNA run. And as
(33:03):
I said, I mean whatever you whatever you think of
the Huk Cogan of the last ten to fifteen years,
you cannot deny that a lot of us are wrestling
fans because of Hogan.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
And for that the industry has never seen.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
And I and for that, I'll be grateful for what
he did in the in the in the in the business.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
And as I say, had a TV show named after
his show. Say that again, w c W and a
TV show.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh yeah yeah, Thunders, yeah, Thunder under Paradise. Yeah, they
were doing thunder right well. And and that's another thing.
So he and Bischoff were going to do this Real
American Freestyle promotion and they were trying to get it
off ground. I think they had already innounced an event
sometime in August and now.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And I have to think that a lot of the
a lot of the hiding that they were doing about
his health was due to trying to finish closing that deal.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
You gotta wonder if Fox Station would have jumped on
board if Hogan wasn't there that. I don't think anyone
jumps on board like that.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, that is a distinct possibility. And and you know
it was. I was lucky enough to be a part
of an interview with Eric Bischoff a couple of weeks
ago on the Mark Hooke Show, and you know, and
and Eric didn't mention anything about health issues with Hulk.
He you know, he talked about the real Real American
(34:46):
Freestyle and what they want to do with it, but
he didn't mention anything about Hogan's health issues or anything
like that. So again, this was if you believe the rumors,
then it's not that surprising, but still a sad day
in the world professional wrestling Hulk Hogan passing away at
(35:08):
the age of seventy one. Again condolences to his family,
his friends, and wrestling fans worldwide on the passing of
Hull Cogan. Eddie, I appreciate you joining me, man. It
was good. Good hear your perspective on it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He's a home while I'm away.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Absolutely, absolutely, that will do it for this special edition
of Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. We be back next week
with the SummerSlam preview, but for now, I'm Stu Marek
for Eddie Cross, I'm Stu Marek. Thanks so much for
joining us and we will see you at the matches.
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