This was the territory days, a lot of the country didn't know what the fukk a WWF was, but they knew Hulk Hogan. If you studied the Vince McMahon 1984 takeover you'd see Hulk being sent to the expansion cities like LA, Phoenix, Chicago, Minneapolis that WWF wasn't in. WWF got there because of Hulk Hogan.
The Rock is now bigger than Hulk Hoegan ever was!
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This was the territory days, a lot of the country didn't know what the fukk a WWF was, but they knew Hulk Hogan. If you studied the Vince McMahon 1984 takeover you'd see Hulk being sent to the expansion cities like LA, Phoenix, Chicago, Minneapolis that WWF wasn't in. WWF got there because of Hulk Hogan.
The rock is the bigger star but when you ask a non wrestling fan the first name to come to mind when they think of pro wrestling, it's Hogan name that comes up
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
Forget about Romney or Obama. How about Hulk Hogan for President? Don’t laugh too hard, it almost happened.
With tonight marking a historic day in American politics, I thought it would be fitting to look at professional wrestling's more important run to presidency, or maybe not.
Much of the buzz surrounding the 2012 race between current President Barack Obama and Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is how close of a race this might be, perhaps the closest since the 2000 election.
For those who lived through 2000, you will recall the craziness surrounding the Presidential Race. Between Electoral College/popular vote discrepancies, recounts and hanging chads, the whole process was nothing more than a circus
There was only one man who could’ve made the whole showdown more of a circus: Mr. America himself, Hulk Hogan.
On the Thanksgiving edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hogan, then with World Championship Wrestling, announced his retirement from professional wrestling and the next step in his historic, legendary career, President of the United States of America.
Yes, Hulk Hogan was putting himself in the race for US President.
The retirement lasted all of one month before Hogan came back to win the title against Kevin Nash and reform the New World Order in what many consider the night WCW began its death march.
Surprisingly enough, the Presidential candidacy did not end there. Hogan went on CNN’s Larry King Live in June of 1999 and stated that Time Warner had been urging him to run for president of the United States:
It's something that's not out of the question, because with everybody having a different agenda and everybody owing everybody something in the political arena, it would be nice to have somebody that could put America first. ... The way I look at it, if Jesse Ventura could become governor of Minnesota, I mean I basically beat Jesse at everything he's done anyway in his life, so I might as well run for the president.
Hogan and then-WCW president Eric Bischoff were not joking. They even pointed to a poll in Atlanta that showed if Hogan went against Bill Clinton and Al Gore he would have garnered 61 percent of the votes
The country was in need of someone who would put America first and by god, that man was going to be Hulk Hogan!
Could Hogan have actually won the election? By 1999, I would say there was no chance. Had he run 10 years earlier during the peak of Hulkamania, he may have had a fighting chance.
The Rock always behind Hogan, LMAO
Even The Rock Hollywood Gimmick was biting The Immortal Hollywood Hulk Hogan
If Hulk wanted to Run for President during Hulkamania peak years he would of got further than Rock
HacksawJimThuggin
All Star
This. But wrestling wise? fukk no. shyt, Stone Cold's wrestling prime popularity > The Rock's. Couldn't go anywhere without seeing Austin 3:16 shirts on grown ass men. I've actually never seen anyone wearing The Rock's wrestling memorabilia in real life.
But The Rock is the biggest action hero on the planet right now, so if you're counting that, then of course he's bigger.
Golayitdown
Veteran
Nothing draws 33 million viewers at the same time anymore besides the superbowl.
First of all you're talking free tv when the majority of america didn't even have cable and there was no internet and vcr's cost hundreds of dollars.
Neither I or my friends have paid to watch a live wrestlemania in almost 10 years. It's on the net within minutes of it's ending.
How can you even bring that up as a benchmark of comparison when the factors are so disparate ?
Breh Obama
First Breh President. Coli Prophet.
@Waterproof look breh we all understand that you're not all the way there mentally.
We understood that with your first post.
We get it. You're slow. Telling us over and over again isn't going to automatically help you become smarter.
We understood that with your first post.
We get it. You're slow. Telling us over and over again isn't going to automatically help you become smarter.
I can't think of a single other man currently living who is more popular than The Rock.
And definitely not a wrestler who has ever been able to attain even a portion of the popularity that The Rock has now.
And definitely not a wrestler who has ever been able to attain even a portion of the popularity that The Rock has now.
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
nikka is UPN free t.v.? Is the CW free t.v.? Wasn't Smackdown on UPN and CW? Did Rock Wrestled on Smackdown when they was on Free t.v.? Now cut that bullshyt out I just threw your weak premise out to The bushes
And you Damn right it was no internet so it sold by the word of mouth and Hogan being larger than life, That was Hulkamania peaking.
For all the movies, internet, social media hype even when he was peaking in wrestling The Rock never have 33 Million viewers Tune in to watch him.
Hulk did it at a time when it was more harder to get publicity
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Nah.
1. The Rock
2. Hulk Hogan
3. John Cena.
4. Ric Flair
Andre the Giant for his time-period, but nah.
Let rock say ****** and see what happens to his popularity tho
The rock is half black dumbass you forgot old black wrestler rocky Johnson is his father
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
Shut the fukk up it ain't my fault that your dumbass can't word your title correctly.
I bytch you out in your own thread, everytime you post some stupid idiotic bullshyt like he want to Run for President, what about Hogan, I shut your bytch down.
Here's the facts The Rock was never popular than Hulkamania peak years
Bob Loblaw
Superstar
Breh Obama
First Breh President. Coli Prophet.
You grumpy old ass nikka go sip on some prune juice. Don't forget your tube of Bengay
Devil Plisken…CMS
Veteran
Old ass nikka can't let go of them "good ole days"
If
I hate hate hate Hoegan... but he is the face of wrestling.No different than Tupac, Jordan, Gretzsky, etc. in their respective fields.
Hogan changed the way American consumed wrestling