Hulk Hogan "Hollywood" duds

[Ashy Larry]

Why is it that Hogan still had the Red/Yellow Hulkamania titantron while as a heel? And why was his attire at BFG his "F.U.N.B" attire with the white shirt and black jeans when he could have easily bypassed the nWo copyright and wear blank white boots with his lightning tights (this was done in the Showdown Legends Of Wrestling Video Game) along with the black and white beard. He looked more like Hollywood when him and Sting went after the Aces and Eights than his entire heel run there. It irks me that his TNA run could have been a lot better, it seems that they really didn't put much effort into him and made him look very low-budget. Him wearing his Immortal T-shirt over his lightning tights would have been better than that plain Impact Wrestling shirt over black jeans. Imagine him with the shades, boa, Immortal shirt/bandana, and lighting tights. He was more of an evil red and yellow Hogan than his Hollywood persona.

[Chip Chipperson]

TNA didn't seem to know what to do with Hulk Hogan even at the start of his run.

He debuted with the red and yellow tron but with nWo music and nWo colours. Why not boost the nostalgia by having Hulk come out in red and yellow with American Made or something similar with the cupping the ear etc etc. Would have been way cooler than nWo Hogan.

Not to get off topic but story lines never seemed to work either. First we had the "Abyssamania" and "Is Hogan a member of the nWo?". Hogan and the nWo is somewhat interesting as a sub story but nobody was ever going to get behind poor mans Kane as "Hulk's guy" you then have Hogan Vs Flair which could be interesting but not in 2010. Then of course the build up to Immortal and the heel turn for yet another "We're taking over story line".

TNA very quickly ruined Hulk in the eyes of their fans.

[Hit Girl]

TNA don't know what to do with anyone. Bringing in Hulk Hogan served little purpose, because he's a nostalgia act whose entire career footage is owned by a different company. Signing Hogan was as dumb as doing an ECW show, featuring no clips of ECW at all. TNA don't have an identity of their own. They are always trying to imitate. Even NXT, a WWE brand that's existed for a fraction of the time TNA has been around, has already crafted more of a unique identity than TNA.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 16, 2015 17:10:41 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

TNA don't know what to do with anyone. Bringing in Hulk Hogan served little purpose, because he's a nostalgia act whose entire career footage is owned by a different company. Signing Hogan was as dumb as doing an ECW show, featuring no clips of ECW at all. TNA don't have an identity of their own. They are always trying to imitate. Even NXT, a WWE brand that's existed for a fraction of the time TNA has been around, has already crafted more of a unique identity than TNA.

I was seriously convinced the first entrant into the TNA hall of fame was going to be Randy Savage. Who was there for like 2 weeks and had one match, where all he did was pin someone.

Of course they were smart and didn't (Or TNA couldn't get Savage's approval) and they announced Sting... which again the majority of his career and anything anyone remembers about him happened in a company TNA don't have the rights to mention or show.