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Post by Jayman on Nov 27, 2018 20:19:12 GMT
Can't go with Hogan being shit. If you're younger, I get it. I was just never a Hulk Hogan kid/fan. I'm in my 30's so I remember watching him and I just always even as a kid found his "schtick" to be too cheesy and too cartoony for me. As a kid I gravitated more towards who I thought was "cool" and that to me was never Hulk Hogan. The way he cut his promo's I didn't like, the eat your vitamins and say your prayers crap I wasn't into. His matches were shit for me as well. I have always enjoyed the likes of Macho Man, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr Perfect etc. because at one point or another I thought they were cool and I enjoyed the matches that they had. I enjoy the athletic theater aspect of wrestling with good storytelling, good mic skills, and good in ring performances. I never got any of that from Hogan. I fully understand his importance to the WWE and the wrestling world. He's one of the biggest wrestling stars of all time. It's just I never liked him. It's just my own opinion that in that storyline with Shawn Michaels it was the only time I was ever interested in anything Hulk Hogan was doing. The only time I could have ever seen myself caring would have been the NWO but even then I just didn't like watching WCW or really anything that they were doing. At the time I already thought Hulk Hogan was too old and was watching the newer generation of guys. As big of a Macho Man fan that I was, I felt the same way in regards to him in WCW. Felt he was old and lost interest in the stuff he was doing. Just for the record, Shawn Michaels being my all time favorite and him recently coming out of retirement to wrestle again at 50 something years old, I didn't care to see that either. There gets to a point when a person is too old to be doing this stuff where I no longer enjoy it and no level of nostalgia is going to change that. I had that feeling when most of the guys went to WCW that they were too old and I was ready to move on. So I never got into the NWO. I was a DX kid to the point where I'd get suspended from school for wearing a DX shirt or telling a teacher to "suck it". They were the "cool guys" to me while the NWO in my mind resembled the "old guys" despite the fact that I liked Scott Hall and Kevin Nash but lost interest in them when they were paired with Hogan. I was never a fan personally, but he was the most awesome looking specimen to date in wrestling at that point and connected with the people. I think It was really the wwf itself that became cartoonish and catering more towards kids and not so much Hogan himself changing the things he was doing. His in ring work may not have been pretty to look at, but obviously it's not all about that. If you can get a building to explode by putting your hand up against your ear rather than doing all kinds of fancy moves, then that's a testament to the man. As far as what he did later in his career, then that's a whole other thing. But he reinvented himself and got himself over again when everybody counted him out. |
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