HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN doesn't bump for anybody and when he does it isn't worth crap. His best opponent in ECW would have been SPIKE DUDLEY so that all he would have to do is his little kick kick punch leg drop routine and never have to sell a single shot.
God this continuous 'argument' disgusts me every time I hear it.
Okay, say it with me folks: Hogan is better than he gets credit for.
Seriously, say it, and realize it for the fact that it is. If you go only by the way promoters have had him wrestle in America, then that's all you're going to do is parrot the same excuse for why Hogan gets badmouthed so much in his performances when compared to someone such as say Ric Flair. 'Oh, he only does four moves! Oh, he only does four moves!', squawk!
Seriously, if you have never seen a Hogan match in Japan where he's allowed to actually show what he can do, for the love of God, do NOT keep pissing and moaning about the way the promoters tell the guy to wrestle, geez.
Plus, Bret may have been a technical wizard, but you can't say he didn't have a certain set of moves that he did in almost EVERY WWF match he had because I would honestly laugh at you right in your face. Aside from the Sharpshooter, he often did the Reverse Russian Legsweep, the elbow from the second rope, clotheslines, and dropkicks. Later, when he turned heel, he added a figure four from the ringpost and phased out the excessive use of dropkicks.
Sounds like a dreaded 'five moves of doom' to me. The same thing people cry about Hogan and/or Cena doing in their matches. Flair is even guilty of it, especially today, where most of his offense is based around knife edge chops, kicks to someone's leg, the (usually) failed attempt to go to the top rope, the flair facedrop, and the figure four. <--- Once again, five moves of doom. And guess what, you see those in ALMOST EVERY MATCH HE IS IN.
Undertaker? Throat thrust, big boot, some form of clothesline, the Old School, and the Tombstone/Last Ride/Chokeslam.
Kane? Virtually the same combination as Undertaker minus the Old School and the Last Ride.
RVD? Well, considering the so-called 'Safe Style' his repetoire has been all but totally NEUTERED. His five moves of doom involves a monkey flip, rolling thunder, some kind of high risk turbuckle move, then a martial arts punch or something, and the five star frog splash.
Tommy Dreamer? ....Does he even HAVE signature moves? The poor guy gets squashed every time he goes out there these days that I don't even know if he has a FINISHER.
Mick Fley? Let's see, double underhook DDT, some move where he runs his entire body into the opponent, forearm shots, Socko, and occasionally the Tree of Woe.
Regal? Mostly forms of uppercuts, the STF, those brass knuckles sometimes, occasionally grinding his elbow into someone's skull,. and stomping people's faces or upper body.
London and Kendrick are the only people right now in ANY of the three brands under the WWE umbrella who don't seem to have a set of moves I can think of off the top of my head that most people don't already use as part of their regular arsenal. They just do them faster.
RKO? ..Headlock, chinlock, backbreaker, bodyslam/suplex, RKO.
Edge? See Orton but replace Backbreaker with occasional use of the Impaler DDT, and the RKO with the Spear.
HBK? Flying forearm followed by kipup, flying elbow from the top rope, Sweet Chin Music, occasionally the Sharpshooter, and every now and then a moonsault.
Simply put, these people whom everyone seems to tout in some way or another as being better than Hogan because they don't do a certain set of moves in virtually every match they're in...do a certain set of moves in virtually every match they're in. It's like saying the sun doesn't rise every day, regardless of whether or not we can see it.
Hogan was and has always been a power wrestler in the US and the American promoters, namely Vince McMahon and later Eriuc Bischoff, saw him as someone who should only use power moves. So that's what he did. In Japan, they allowed him to use a much larger moveset, and in fact expected it. And again, people somehow believe that this somehow m,akes these people better wrestlers than Hogan. Granted, this is what many people have been exposed to and have never seen his work in Japan. Most people believe Hogan never lets his feet leave the ground. But Hogan has taken and given many more moves than three punches, a foot and a legdrop. he uses bodyslams. He uses suplexes (at least three variations of them have been used by the Hulkster), he uses moves like the Axe Bomber. He's even used a powerbomb once or twice that I seem to recall. Even I, and I am an admitted lifelong Hogan mark, have NEVER seen Hogan go higher than the second rope for turnbuckle attacks, and I was absolutely FLABBERGASTED at the idea that Hogan was capable of doing an Enzugiri.
So again, folks, don't keep parroting that same old wives tale. Every wrestler these days has at least some set of moves, regardless of the size of the set, that they do in virtually every match. That's because this is how promoters tell them to wrestle. Hogan is no different here. And he truly IS a lot better than he gets credit for.
To the moderators, let me say that if this comes off flame-ish, I apologize, as it was not my intent to flame, but I was just plain getting sick and tired of hearing that same argument against Hogan over and over and over again, when it can be applied to virtually anyone in the WWE and even many in the old WCW who have since joined WWE, yet everyone seems to think it only applies to Hogan.
