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Post by Crazy Diamond on May 20, 2010 21:56:30 GMT -5
I didn't hate the Hogan from the cartoons, but when I saw him wrestle I was like "Damn, this guy sucks." It didn't help that he acted like a complete asshole despite being a face and I was never really into his flagwaving because it seemed phony. Then he came into WCW and they kept trying to make him look better than Sting who was my favorite wrestler at the time. He joined the nWo which didn't surprise me like it did most people because he was already a jerk as a face but unlike Nash and Hall he was lame. The guy looked older than my father and here he was ruining Jimmi Hendrix for me. Then he went back to the red and yellow and Sting had that stupid heel turn and there was a whole bunch of horrible crap after that. By 2002 I wanted him off my TV and I was ecstatic when Rock beat him because for some strange reason at the time I thought they were going to let Hogan win or do to Rock what he did to Goldberg.
If I hadn't seen Hogan's match against Muta a year later, watched him humiliate HBK at SS 2005, and gone back and seen his work from the 80s I would still be a rabid Hogan hater today. This might make me weird, but I like Hogan more as an adult then I ever did growing up.
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Post by Cretinous Humanoid on May 21, 2010 20:59:48 GMT -5
When he left the AWA.
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Post by Clarence "Showstealer" Mason on May 21, 2010 22:17:52 GMT -5
Approximately 3 seconds after his first match
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Post by The Tim Duncan Experience on May 21, 2010 23:06:33 GMT -5
Well me personally I actually got pissed when he started the whole Mr. America gimmick.....that and the Fingerpoke of Doom is what did me in with Hogan. Once it got to that point I was like man I hope I don't get to live through stuff like this for the rest of my life......Till Reign of Terror Triple H 2002-2004 and Superman Cena 2005-2006 knocked on my door. Those bastards!!!
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Post by Dynamite Kid on May 22, 2010 10:37:46 GMT -5
Never.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on May 22, 2010 10:42:43 GMT -5
Approximately 3 seconds after his first match I'm willing to bet the majority of the people saying stuff like this have little to no knowledge of Hogan's work outside of his Hulkamania stuff or the US in general.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on May 22, 2010 11:06:55 GMT -5
I kinda lost respect for his character when he started crying and complaining when he lost the belt to Andre. He was awesome before he changed his colors to red and yellow.
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Post by variable on May 22, 2010 20:43:23 GMT -5
I wasn't a Hogan guy growing up, he just seemed so boring.
I didn't like him much when he did the NWO thing. don't know why because I remember liking the wolf pack. I think I was just late to this party.
Hogan Knows Best made me think he was hilarious, he reminds me of my uncle when you're dealing with the 'actual dude' (still in front of a camera but didn't have to quite be that guy that he does in the wrestling world)
and now, I'd almost say I like him because I still find him funny, but the idea that he takes time away from up and comers really bugs me. so, I'd say now is the only time I actually have a negative feeling about him and am sick of him.
though at the same time I find him more entertaining now than I did when I was a kid. I just don't think he needs to be in front of the camera.
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Post by cobrafan on May 23, 2010 8:25:58 GMT -5
I never did like Hogan. Even as a kid in the 1980's I always thought he was corny and his good guy act didn't appeal to me in the slightest. His time in WCW made me dislike him even more as I didn't want to see the same routine there and when he turned heel it did little for me as well.
He was still the main focus of the show and it just got old. Instead of demolishing all the heels...he beat all the faces and rarely got any comeuppance from them. His return to WWE and debut in TNA has done nothing but make me despise him more and I just want to see him gone forever.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on May 23, 2010 23:12:50 GMT -5
Summer Slam where he came back to face Micahels.. had he just hung it up after that great title run prior... I'd probably have no complaints about Hogan. However, ever since then, my respect for him has plummeted with Hogan Knows Best, still wanting to win scripted matches and it seems he's going to kill TNA...
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Post by Alexander The So-so on May 24, 2010 4:17:53 GMT -5
I kinda lost respect for his character when he started crying and complaining when he lost the belt to Andre. He was awesome before he changed his colors to red and yellow. Hey, you can't blame him for that. They were IDENTICAL!!!!! IDENTICAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I started watching wrestling in the early 90's, so I liked Hulk Hogan even when most older fans were getting sick of him. I even followed him to WCW (him going there was what got me watching them in the first place), and was absolutely sad and enraged when he turned heel, and loved to hate him. I guess I truly got sick of him around 1998, when the payoff with Sting at Starrcade '97 didn't come around, and he was still dominating the scene without any strong face finally knocking him off his perch. A strong part of me still marked for his 2002 runs and subsequent WWE appearances, but at this point, he's kind of lost his luster; him being in TNA has not been strong enough to get me to watch them.
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Post by Kris Kobain on May 24, 2010 5:18:40 GMT -5
Approximately 3 seconds after his first match I'm willing to bet the majority of the people saying stuff like this have little to no knowledge of Hogan's work outside of his Hulkamania stuff or the US in general. I saw videos of him wrestling Stan Hansen in Japan and he still sucked.
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Post by SAJ Forth on May 25, 2010 16:25:53 GMT -5
Not so much sick, but very conflicted around 1995.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on May 25, 2010 18:24:34 GMT -5
The only time I ever got burned out on Hogan was during a lot of the nWo stuff in 1998, but not by much, since WCW's undercard was a nice alternative. I started watching around 1991, so I didn't have those 6 past years to get really sick of him.
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Post by The Genesis of KoOS on May 25, 2010 18:32:40 GMT -5
When I made my entrance into the World.
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Post by romafan87 on May 25, 2010 18:53:38 GMT -5
I don't think I was sick of him, but I definitely thought around 1995 in WCW that he was just doing the same things over and over again. They really ran him v. Flair, Vader, etc into the ground. One match we didn't get too often was Taskmaster v. Hogan which I think would have made a better match than Butcher v. Hogan.
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Post by mcstoklasa on May 25, 2010 19:04:33 GMT -5
I have always loved the Hulkster
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Post by Garee on May 25, 2010 19:14:35 GMT -5
When he kept showing up and winning titles he didn't deserve
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Post by mrrotten on May 25, 2010 20:38:51 GMT -5
From Day 1. Never liked him.
I was really pissed when he jumped right back up after Vader powerbombed him, like Vader just sneezed on him. I thought if he was going to get through the powerbomb, Hogan could of just stayed there, then when Vader went for the pin, Hogan could of put his foot on the rope, because I think he was close to the ropes when that happened.
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Post by repomanfan on May 25, 2010 22:01:57 GMT -5
By 92 Hogan was stale. Hollywood Hogan was his triumphant return.
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