Post by Hemmeorrhage on Jan 28, 2007 23:05:31 GMT -5
Board crashed so i'll repost it.
The road to Wrestlemania has begun and it looks like Hogan will once again show up at Wrestlemania because that is where the spotlight shines the brightest. I have broken the Bio up into smaller sections for easier reading.Here is a biased biography of Hogan. My sourcesare reputable if you can find them.
Here is my Biased Biography on Hulk Hogan.
1977-1982: Hogan began his wrestling career as the masked "Super Destroyer". Apparently, the booker of that regional federation was not impressed with Hogan's face. Hogan wrestles under various names appearing in many independent organizations throughout the U.S.A. and Japan. Hogan also does brief stints in the NWA, AWA, Japan and the then WWWF.
1983: Vince Mcmahon decides to go national with the WWF. Vince needs a wrestler that he can base the organization around. After a long reign as champion, Bob Backlund loses the WWF belt to the Iron Sheik in somewhat controversial fashion. After careful consideration, Mcmahon decides that Hulk Hogan is the "chosen one" by default. Who else was going to launch the WWF expansion? Jim Neidhart? King Kong Bundy? Andre The Giant was already over the hill. Besides, Vince needed someone sober for all the media appearences. Vince's expansion plan is helped greatly by Hogan's appearence in Rocky 3 as Thunder Lips.Rumor has that Hogan wanted the character to keep the name Hulk Hogan and threatened to enforce the creative control clause in his contract over movie writer Sylvester Stallone. Hogan is reminded that clauses in his WWF contract do not apply to the movie and the movie resumes its filming schedule. The exhibition match between Hogan(Thunderlips) and Rocky ends with an apparent double disqualification that is never fully explained. The original finish called for Rocky to knock out Hogan(Thunderlips). However, the script was edited on set because Hogan lacked the "acting skills" required to lay down on his back for longer than 2 seconds. According to an assistant director of Rocky 3 who didn't watch pro wrestling, "We couldn't get the shot of him knocked out for the ten count. Hogan would lay down on his back and the director would yell ACTION. 2 1/2 seconds later Hogan would pop up and start shaking his head and his fists like he was convulsing. Sometimes he would keep shanking for two or three minutes after the director yelled CUT. He would point at the director and yell out "you". I thought it was a medical condition like a back spasm or something. It turns out he was just some ahole. After 100 or so takes we just changed the script."
The road to Wrestlemania has begun and it looks like Hogan will once again show up at Wrestlemania because that is where the spotlight shines the brightest. I have broken the Bio up into smaller sections for easier reading.Here is a biased biography of Hogan. My sourcesare reputable if you can find them.
Here is my Biased Biography on Hulk Hogan.
1977-1982: Hogan began his wrestling career as the masked "Super Destroyer". Apparently, the booker of that regional federation was not impressed with Hogan's face. Hogan wrestles under various names appearing in many independent organizations throughout the U.S.A. and Japan. Hogan also does brief stints in the NWA, AWA, Japan and the then WWWF.
1983: Vince Mcmahon decides to go national with the WWF. Vince needs a wrestler that he can base the organization around. After a long reign as champion, Bob Backlund loses the WWF belt to the Iron Sheik in somewhat controversial fashion. After careful consideration, Mcmahon decides that Hulk Hogan is the "chosen one" by default. Who else was going to launch the WWF expansion? Jim Neidhart? King Kong Bundy? Andre The Giant was already over the hill. Besides, Vince needed someone sober for all the media appearences. Vince's expansion plan is helped greatly by Hogan's appearence in Rocky 3 as Thunder Lips.Rumor has that Hogan wanted the character to keep the name Hulk Hogan and threatened to enforce the creative control clause in his contract over movie writer Sylvester Stallone. Hogan is reminded that clauses in his WWF contract do not apply to the movie and the movie resumes its filming schedule. The exhibition match between Hogan(Thunderlips) and Rocky ends with an apparent double disqualification that is never fully explained. The original finish called for Rocky to knock out Hogan(Thunderlips). However, the script was edited on set because Hogan lacked the "acting skills" required to lay down on his back for longer than 2 seconds. According to an assistant director of Rocky 3 who didn't watch pro wrestling, "We couldn't get the shot of him knocked out for the ten count. Hogan would lay down on his back and the director would yell ACTION. 2 1/2 seconds later Hogan would pop up and start shaking his head and his fists like he was convulsing. Sometimes he would keep shanking for two or three minutes after the director yelled CUT. He would point at the director and yell out "you". I thought it was a medical condition like a back spasm or something. It turns out he was just some ahole. After 100 or so takes we just changed the script."
