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Post by Janitor From Mars on Jul 18, 2010 0:27:59 GMT -5
I was like "WTF? Booooo!!!" when I saw it happen.
I had a friend who was a huge hulkamaniac and he was crushed. LOL.
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Post by Das Einhorn on Jul 19, 2010 3:23:05 GMT -5
I was always a huge WWF fan and only really watched WCW occasionally. So when Hall and Nash showed up I marked huge for them. Then when Hulk Hogan walked down the isle that night... some part of me knew. And good lord was it a doozy while it lasted.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jul 19, 2010 9:45:57 GMT -5
I actually wasn't watching at the time, I'd drifted away during '94-'96.
It wasn't until I saw an advert for WCW/nWo Revenge (or World Tour, can't remember) and being surprised to see him all in black with the black & blond beard.
Catching up with what I'd missed was quite weird. "THAT'S Sting? And that's MARCUS ALEXANDER BAGWELL?!? The dorky guy who tags with 2-Cold Scorpio?"
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Post by Trent Valentine on Jul 19, 2010 12:32:13 GMT -5
I was 15 at the time..just starting high school. didn't see the PPV...But I heard about it the next night. My older brother told me that Hogan had gone evil and sided with Hall and Nash..I just didn't believe him. I thought he was bullshitting me...then when Hall Nash..and Hogan came out dressed in black..my worst fear came true. A hero that I looked up to when I was a kid had turned to the dark side.
To me he was wrestling's Superman. He always did the right thing. He fought for what was right. He represented all that was good and pure in wrestling today. We all worshiped Hogan. We watched his cartoon show every Saturday Morning, We bought his toys, we watched his movies, We watched him vanish monsters who scared the crap out of us like Earthquake, Sid Justice, Sgt Slaughter and others.
...It all washed away with one Legdrop. It's something that I'll never forget.
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 19, 2010 13:59:41 GMT -5
Pure shock...since I didn't hear about it until the next night on Nitro.
He made it work though.
Though why couldn't his match with Sting at Starrcade 97 be more like this match, but without the bad ending?
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Post by soultsukino on Jul 19, 2010 14:10:21 GMT -5
I was 15 at the time and was spending the summer at my grandmother's house. Unfortunately her cable didn't get TNT so I didn't hear a thing about it until the next Saturday. When they showed what had happened I was like "wait....what?" and thought to myself that it was going to be very interesting. Little did I know just how big it would become
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Post by Paul on Jul 19, 2010 14:17:28 GMT -5
I beleive i have related this story before, but i was 16 at the time and heard the news the next day on the school bus. I definately marked out. I never saw it coming. As a side note I think this was the first time they referred to Hall and Nash by name on tv. when my friend told me theire names i thought it was Haul (ala hauling a diesel truck) and Ash (for whatever reason i thought this was Hall's name) This in my 16 yr old mind made the tag team name: Haul N Ash. Yes like Haulin a$$. aww russo would of been proud. I actually like that set of names a lot better than their real names that they went with.
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Post by spaceship on Jul 19, 2010 16:45:16 GMT -5
It wasn't mind blowingly shocking, but it was still cool as hell. I guess I was getting used to shocking turns by then or something. Maybe I was stupid, but back in 1994, when Tatanka turned out to be the real sell out, and Brutus Beefcake revealed as the masked man who was attacking Hulk Hogan, shocked me more.
I had heard a rumor Lex Luger was the third man. I started to believe it, when he got injured in a weak way, during the match.
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Post by bigsplash on Jul 20, 2010 8:44:44 GMT -5
I remember after watching Wrestlemania 12 I decided it was time to stop watching wrestling.
I figured I went out in a high note with watching WM12 and that I was getting too old for it (I was 12 at the time). Think I'm pretty sure that the gimmicky nature of 1995 turned me off from wrestling a bit.
I also watched WCW at that time. I never ordered their PPVs, but did watch WCW Saturday Night almost every week, and Nitro sometimes.
Anyway, after that I stopped paying attention. It actually worked well for a few months. But then I heard about Hall showing up on Nitro and started to watch WCW to see what the hell was going on.
I knew about the Bash main event, but I didn't see the PPV live. This was back before the internets were running wild, so before school that day I picked up the NY Daily News. They usually actually posted the results of PPVs in the sports section that day.
When I read the main event and saw that HOGAN was the third man, I was shocked and a bit hearbroken. Never figured Hulk himself would ever turn.
Then I watched that night and the rest was history. It wasn't until about 2 years ago that I finally stopped watching wrestling.
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Post by jeffrodigital on Jul 20, 2010 22:03:37 GMT -5
i grew up loving hogan. i was 16 at the time and had drifted in and out of wrestling since like 92. started watching wcw weekly with the nwo arriving.
didnt watch the ppv but saw what happend on nitro the next night and it was surreal. shock, anger, sadness and just all around awe were the feelings. watching hogan, the ultimate good guy siding with the ultimate bad guys and being pelted with garbage is something ill never forget.
anyone who says they saw this coming is lying. its like when you watched the 1st saw movie and that one guy, we all have a friend like this, says "i knew he wasnt dead!" yea right.
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