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RIP Hulk Hogan

flyingkiwiDK
flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,723
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Passed away today aged 71 
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  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    edited July 24
    Let’s try and keep any potential negative comments from this thread please.

    Arguably one of the biggest names in wrestling history ever. The heel turn at bash at the beach will never been forgotten in the history of the industry. Plus him body slamming Andre the Giant in front of 100k screaming Hulkamanicas. 

    RIP, brother. 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    Controversial figure these days perhaps but quite arguably one of the most famous and influential figures in the business.

    Wrestling would be very different today without him.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    ah man - a real part of my childhood gone there

    RIP
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,231
    Very good in Rocky 3

    RIP
  • greenwichred68
    greenwichred68 Posts: 277
    Sad news.Grew up watching Hulk Hogan.R.I.P HULKSTER!!
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    RIP. My sister worked with him years ago and said he was a lovely guy. She got me a signed picture that I've still got somewhere.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    RIP Hulkster
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,666
    Hogan Knows Best! RIP.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    RIP brother 
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,091
    edited July 24
    R. I. P.
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    RIP
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,148
    RIP.. Great entertainer. 
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    My first real interaction with the Hulk was in The Gremlins film.  RIP to a giant of the Sports Entertainment Industry.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    If you mention wrestling to me,it's his image that always pops in my head.
    Ledge
    RIP
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,219
    edited July 24
    Biggest name ever in wrestling. Without him it probably never gets broadcasted over here and maybe only ever stays regional in the states. RIP
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,015
    The word 'legend' is often overused but for him it absolutely applies. Easily the most iconic wrestler of all time and even if you had no interest at all in wrestling, you still knew who Hulk Hogan was.

    RIP.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    RIP
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,739
    What price he makes a miraculous recovery at the funeral, springs out of his coffin, cups his ear and then pins the vicar after a flying elbow off the lectern?

    RIP (maybe)
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,359
    Absolutely gutted. 

    Got in my car, playlist was on shuffle, Radiohead - High & Dry comes on, see the news on a flash news feed. I think that's the most a celebrity's death has ever hit me tbh. 

    I know he has gone down in a lot of people's estimations, but he is without a doubt a legend, probably one of the most recognisable people on the planet at one stage, and in my eyes the first real 'superstar' wrestler.

    Ozzy, Mads and now Hulkster all within a few weeks, rough. 

    Rest in peace Terry Gene Bollea
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,485
    RIP
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,270
    "You see, dude, I was meant to die about 10 years ago, brother, but Vince begged me to come back for one more run as the face of WWE. So I had to come and run a train on all those bad dudes, dude, and let the Hulkamaniacs get jacked up on some Hulk Hogan, brother, and just like when I lifted Andre up over my head, jack, Infront of 200,000 Hulkamaniacs, brother, you know I still got the Hulkamaniacs jacked on my shit, jack, and those dudes gave me so much noise, God himself said it's not your time, brother, so after that show, I gave my lucky towel to some kid, dude, and he grew up to be Bron Breakker, jack"

    Or some such other nonsense.

    RIP to one of the best Wrestlers to ever do it, he got the business and got it into the mainstream for a long time
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,015
    "When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside........."

    Even his entrance song was iconic as well.
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,547
    RIP. Great character 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited July 24
    He was an ultimate showman. Wrestlers take massive risks with steroids. I was never really into the wrestling but my younger brother was and I took him to the Excel Arena and watched Hogan v the Macho Man. It was a bit ridiculous in that Hogan was beaten to within an inch of his life but somehow recovered to win and it blew the roof off :smile: RIP.
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    Was THE wrestler when I watched it as a kid. A really iconic character. RIP
  • Jac_52
    Jac_52 Posts: 1,460
    RIP
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Driving through rural South Carolina and when the news broke, his walk out song ‘I am a real American’ was literally on every station! 

    Loved WWF back in the day. Even still got my VHS of No Holds Barred! 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Rest in peace brother 
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 964
    Legend of my childhood. Hulk and British Bulldog  were the big names in the primary school playground. 
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    RIP 

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