I was literally just watching a Youtube video about the jazz fusion movement and Chuck Mangione last night. How did the algorithm know? It's not something that I would normally watch or come across.
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The man lied so much about so many things that no one believed him when he said he was dying.
Like many in wrestling he will leave a checkered legacy for people to look at. Probably the single biggest draw of all time and most important driver of wrestling popularity at the time wrestling was most popular, pushing it beyond "territory" popularity and making it an international entertainment behemoth. He made others rich just by being on the card. On the flip side, he was a racist ####head who was a corporate stooge that would always put his self-interest above all.
I don't think he will be missed, but his contribution to wrestling will never be deniable.
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lol I remember James being asked about this and just laughing and saying no that didn't happen...Less Claypool, Jason Newstead, Hulk Hogan
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.
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.
See Blaster's post. Sums it up well. Even the 40+ can separate his greatness as a wrestler and his greatness at being a piece of #### person.
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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.
