ChitownKnight
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Post by ChitownKnight on Dec 27, 2013 23:59:27 GMT -5
When he wasnt in the wwe? Was he mentioned as an all time great, or was piper or someone else regarded as the biggest star of the 80's?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 28, 2013 0:06:17 GMT -5
Andre.
It was always Andre 'til around 2002, when it was Hulk again.
Now it's Vince McMahon whenever Hogan's on the outs.
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Post by Kay Faban on Dec 28, 2013 0:06:36 GMT -5
I would say in a similar way rock is viewed now, as far as these parts go.
Nobody questioned he was the biggest star, but he had the detractors you'd expect.
Really, not a ton has changed for him perception wise, other than at the end of that run people still wanted dream matches for him.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Dec 28, 2013 0:07:10 GMT -5
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Post by Kay Faban on Dec 28, 2013 0:08:44 GMT -5
On wwe tv he was lampooned, but I was referring to boards like this and the magazines.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Dec 28, 2013 0:21:45 GMT -5
Hulk's rep was not that great among smarks. In fact, when I first started venturing back into fandom, I was surprised that the ire that smarks had for him had died down considerably.
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Post by isink on Dec 28, 2013 0:23:00 GMT -5
We didn't have boards like this during that time. We did have websites were you could view wrestler's real names, naked pictures of Sable and Kim Page, and unmasked photos of Kane, and Sting.
Boards, and chat rooms were full of A/S/L, and sharing wrestler's screen names and email's. Although I don't know anyone who has ever confirmed they were legit.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Dec 28, 2013 0:33:52 GMT -5
Hulkster viewed by the WWE 1995-2001:
-Huckster & Nacho Man Scketches
-Patterson & Brisco's Real American Schtick
-WWE Wrestlers joking that all of the WCW talent was over the hill.
-Often left out of the discussion when announcers talked about all time greats.
-"Surely the era of the superhero who tells you to say your prayers & eat your vitamins is Passe!" - Vince McMahon introducing the Attitude Era.
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Post by JTG Fan on Dec 28, 2013 0:36:10 GMT -5
We didn't have boards like this during that time. We did have websites were you could view wrestler's real names, naked pictures of Sable and Kim Page, and unmasked photos of Kane, and Sting. Boards, and chat rooms were full of A/S/L, and sharing wrestler's screen names and email's. Although I don't know anyone who has ever confirmed they were legit. Maybe not 96-99, but 00-02 definitely had message boards not unlike the FAN. I know because I was on them. |
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on Dec 28, 2013 0:42:48 GMT -5
About the same at The Rock after he stopped making apperances, but nowhere near as harsh as how they acted toward Warrior (A freaking DVD about how much he sucked).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2013 1:44:05 GMT -5
I mostly remember them tending to shill Andre and Snuka back in the day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2013 2:18:05 GMT -5
Ah, that weird time during the Attitude era where their biggest past stars were on bad terms or in WCW, so WWF hailed the bizarre combination of Andre, Jimmy Snuka, Freddie Blassie, Lou Albano, and Ernie Ladd as the greatest stars they ever had.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Dec 28, 2013 3:38:50 GMT -5
We didn't have boards like this during that time. We did have websites were you could view wrestler's real names, naked pictures of Sable and Kim Page, and unmasked photos of Kane, and Sting. Boards, and chat rooms were full of A/S/L, and sharing wrestler's screen names and email's. Although I don't know anyone who has ever confirmed they were legit. It wasn't a message board, but there was RSPW. |
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Post by kidglov3s on Dec 28, 2013 4:00:16 GMT -5
The Orange Goblin, the backstage politicker. Basically read what Scott Keith was writing, as that was a view shared by many online at the time. I never really bought into it, have to say I've always had a soft spot for Hogan, although I draw the line at him being a positive influence for TNA because I don't believe he was.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Dec 28, 2013 4:31:27 GMT -5
Ah, that weird time during the Attitude era where their biggest past stars were on bad terms or in WCW, so WWF hailed the bizarre combination of Andre, Jimmy Snuka, Freddie Blassie, Lou Albano, and Ernie Ladd as the greatest stars they ever had. They even issued a Jakks WWF Legends figures series in 1997 that consisted of only Andre, Snuka, Albano and Blassie. |
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Post by isink on Dec 28, 2013 16:01:13 GMT -5
When WWF bought WCW I remember discussing it on the original wrestlecrap boards.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 28, 2013 17:16:09 GMT -5
Mocked, ridiculously.
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Post by Sam Punk on Dec 28, 2013 21:28:59 GMT -5
Other than the occasional inside joke by the announcers, he wasn't mentioned at all.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 28, 2013 21:43:15 GMT -5
In the earlier days of the internet, or message boards, you tended to see people prove how smart they were by knocking Hogan. It really has died down as the need to prove your worth to talk wrestling subsided. The WWF mocked the shit out of him at the time, using hatchet men like Cornette and Ross to spill the venom.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 29, 2013 0:58:37 GMT -5
It always cracks me up how the WWF (and, by proxy, its hardcore fans) knocked WCW for having the "geriatric" Hogan as a main eventer in the late '90s.
Three months after Hogan returns to the WWF, he's WWF Champion again.
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