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Old 07-24-2025, 12:44 PM   #1960
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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin View Post
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.
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.
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