Where is Hulk Hogan's common sense?

[Ashy Larry]

He seemed intelligent in interviews up until 2005. Then he started spewing delusional stuff like the comments he's made about Savage and Warrior along with saying that Metallica contacted him. Are his brains that fried or does he just spew random stuff he knows nothing about. He mentioned Hart vs Austin being at WrestleMania 17 one time too. And why does he STILL wear hair extensions? He looks perfectly fine without them since there times in TNA where he didn't wear them. Without the extensions, he looks like 2002 Hogan. Now he's saying that he wants to wrestle again despite being unable to do a legdrop, does his insurance even cover that? I respect Hogan and his contributions, but I hate seeing him embarrass himself. It ruins his image that we all know and love.

[bluemeii]

The master taught him



Also it keeps him in the spotlight. Numerous people have said how it's like a drug, so he's just doing what he's gotta do to stay in people's minds.

Just my take on it anyway.

[Tiger Millionaire]

When you're that big of a celebrity, and you've lived on the road, probably did alot of drugs, and worked God knows how many matches, you tend to remember memories of memories as opposed to memories of actual events. You see it alot in older people, particularly people that have memory disorders. Hogan probably doesn't remember Wrestlemania 3 as much as he remembers telling the stories of the event, and adding bits and pieces of other stories.

Moreover, this is a guy that for so long has been in the public eye and has been successful doing it that he just wants to hold on to anything he can. And when you're as big of a celebrity as he was, and still is, you're insulated from alot of things that are common sense. I also think Hogan is from the last generation where there was a sense of kayfabe, and as they get older, they mix it up with real life, and don't know how to separate fantasy from reality. Ric Flair can't keep a marriage and behaves like a child, Roddy Piper was in a haunted house looking for Adrian Adonis's ghost, Warrior did and said too many nutty things to remember, Macho Man became a recluse.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

I was feading an old apter mag, from 2008 after Nick's accident, it said that back que Hulk was huge, in the 80s and 90s, he never discussed his personal life, there was a story of him being in a press conference and when someone asked him about his kids he stood up and left. Funny how he's been prostituting himself ever since.

[Deleted]

Any combination of:

A. Old age

B. Drugs (c'mon, WWE in the 80's, I doubt anyone was stone cold sober)

C. The past 8 or so years of his life driving him over the edge - Linda divorcing him and taking most of his money, Nicks accident etc.

D. Carnie mentality.

[Deleted]

At the bottom of the ocean with Andre the Giant and Trump Plaza

[Deleted]

Why is he doing it? So we can have five Hogan threads in a day at WWE Current. That's why. Hogan is on FAN brother and he was getting jelly I was getting more attention then him in off topic so he's trying to one up me

[mcstoklasa]

franticplanet.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/the-mad-lies-of-hulk-hogan/

[Virt McGirt]

Might be the best explanation so far:

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[Boo!]

Hogan's in Hogan's own little bubble. A lot of celebrities are the same. Wrestling is work for him. For us it seems outrageous nobody would know the Screw Job was Survivor Series 97 - for him it's probably like us trying to remember if Keith in the Accounting department had his 40th birthday on a Tuesday or Wednesday. How we view the industry may be different to how others inside see it. There was a Warrior interview once where he became a bit agitated at being asked if he remembered certain matches or events he was involved in. Hogan wasn't even with WWF at the time and was probably too busy having fun and earning Tunrer's money.

As for the delusion - he's a wrestler. I can count on one hand the number of wrestlers I've heard from in-depth outside of kayfabe who haven't seem like complete marks for themselves.

Combine that with the fact he's been very rich for most of his adult life and probably aloof from 'reality' since the mid 1980s - PLUS the standard 'dumb wrestler' thing and it explains a lot.

[Kevin Hamilton]

He's a carny. It's all he knows at this point, and since he can't do it physically any more, it's all he can bring to the table.

[Deleted]

It's clearly an act. If you watch his Comic Con appearance with Heyman and Bryan, he is very down to earth and answers questions very logically. Acting differently around TMZ is usually a calculated move regardless of who does it. At 60 with no chance of wrestling again, what else can he do? It's not like he can go out and live a normal life as he will be Hulk Hogan wherever he goes. Might as well keep his name out there. That's all he can do.

[Amazing Kitsune]

I think he just has fun with it and we take him too seriously.

[Amazing Kitsune]

"Well you know something, Mean Gene--me and my little buddy Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense after that no good giant Abraham Lincoln turned on the Americans at the Battle of Stalingrad, Brother!"

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Eh this isn't exactly new as Hogan as always made outlandish claims.

Hell I remember reading his first book and it felt like it was two steps away from Hogan claiming that he was one who tore down the Berlin wall by giving it the big boot.

[champviadq]

Sometimes, it's hard for some people to move on.

[Boo!]

Aug 22, 2014 11:00:34 GMT -5 champviadq said:

Sometimes, it's hard for some people to move on.

I read that as your avatar and Vince-style laughed

[Deleted]

2005 was nearly 10 years ago. He was old then, and older now. He also spent his life getting beaten up every day for decades. Yes, he's kind of crazy but it's easy to understand the why of it.

[Hit Girl]

Hogan has spent his entire life trying to work people. Naturally he has a carny mentality. When you add old age, the legacy of steroid abuse, and honest ignorance, it's no surprise he's full of shit, but I wouldn't want it any other way, because he's hilarious.

[fortknox]

I use to be able to laugh at Hulk's interview and say "Oh that Hulk". But, when John Graziano was paralyzed in a crash because his son was drag racing and drinking, and let's not forget John wasn't wearing a seltbelt, the interviews Hulk gave made me hate the man.

Let's see Hulk say John was a disturbed person and he must of angered God and the accident was his punishment and later say that John will soon be 100%, up and walking and be on Team Hulk.

Yeah sure Hulk the man only has part of his brain missing but, he'll be fine in no time.

Pretty much that was when I stop laughing at Hulk and wishing the man would pull his head out of his ass and shut the hell up.