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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
Perhaps we should have one thread for some people to hate on Terry, and another to memorialize the Hulk Hogan character, particularly pre-2000. Certainly all the fellas in here 40+ have reasonably good thoughts and memories on the latter. But ya, I get it, the person and character started to merge together in the last 20 years. But Im thinking back to the early days when this wasn’t the case.
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No denying that Hogan defined wrestling in the 1980s and early 1990s...then he managed to have a total comeback turning heal and joining the NWO.
The Andre the Giant, Macho Man, Warrior, and Earthquake storylines were legendary for me as a kid. Then in 1996, he ushers in a new era of wrestling with this heal turn:
We all knew it was fake, but the fans were crying, screaming, throwing trash and one even charged the ring:
Can't deny that Hogan was one of the all time great performers in wrestling.