The Rock is now bigger than Hulk Hoegan ever was!

[richaveli83]

False! Rock had the wrestling pedigree and was babied, they tried everything to push Rock, even when he failed they still spent money on Rock.

Get real

The Rock was in Roman Reigns territory in 1997. Shoved down fans throats until Vince did the intelligent thing and made him heel.

 

[richaveli83]

There is no fukking way you can sanely say Hulk Hogan is as famous as Rock in 2017

I think for The Rock was he's constantly in the public's eye with movies and t.v. shows. Before Hogan's comments were made public he really wasn't doing much outside of wrestling except his reality show on VH1.

 

[Waterproof]

The Rock was in Roman Reigns territory in 1997. Shoved down fans throats until Vince did the intelligent thing and made him heel.

The intelligent thing Vince done was told Ron Simmons to take him under his wings and Ron took him after that 2nd Generation Wrestling Star Rocky Maiva gimmick went nowhere, should him the ropes in brought him into The Nation of Domination

 

[richaveli83]

I hate hulk hogan and love the rock but this is untrue. Rock not touching hogan in his prime when it comes to popularity. Hogan was international before the internet. People getting tired of Dwayne already hopefully baywatch don't flop

They're not. His last movie made A LOT of money. Yeah it was a part of franchise but a lot of people went to see it because of him and the Fast and Furious movies really didn't start getting financially big until he showed up. Baywatch will probably flop or not be a huge success but I think it has more to do with the fact that the movie looks like garbage and nobody was asking for a Baywatch remake/movie.

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

ok u nikkas need o cut the bullshyt with this revisionist history like the rock was just so far behind in popularity compared to austin. From 97- 99 Austin was white hot and his momentum . The rock was #1b, and his popularity was already skyrocketing to the level of Austin who had been the undisputed top guy for 3 years. By 1999 The rock had already reached crossover success status and the world not just wrestling following his every move. 2000 and beyond he surpassed Austin by a stretch partly due to Austin leaving and then the heel turn nobody asked for. During the early 2000's The Rock became damn near a conglomerate within a conglomerate, regardless of wins, losses, Face or Heel. He was already at that stage where if his name was attached to it, people were interested and that was solely of the strength of his comedic timing, charisma, and ability to not only act but improvise and control the crowd in a way that has never been seen before or since. Even during what should have been a low period with the Hollywood Rock persona, He truned it into one of the most memorable runs of his career while also being the shortest. Who tried his damndest to sell Goldberg as a legitmate threat while being a chicken shyt douche-heel and the crowd still loved it. He played the arrogant bully during his program with The Hurricane still loved it.


Every time he came back from hiatus his popularity grew even with the younger viewers, who even if they diddnt initially care had to take notice of the effect he had on the older members of the crowds with them going ballistic. I love Austin but over time The Rock surpassed him and made that small gap become a fukking chasm in the grand scheme. But in the wrestling world he'll still be #1a/b depending on how you wanna argue. I'd still say both became bigger than Hogan despite being in the same stratosphere.

And miss me with the 'he was only super popular with the blacks' BS because it was white investors, directors, producers, and marketers who took notice and saw his potential to be a multi million brand. There was white fans in the crowd going ballistic along with every other race of die hard fans when his entrance music hit.

 

[MrFirst2doit]

Hogan was big but people saying he was MJ big are delusional or revising history....he's never reached the levels rock has... that's absurd

 

[Sypress]

In wrestling, no one is touching Hogan

in pop culture......thats a tough call

im leaning more towards The Rock cause most of his movies are blockbusters but I wasnt really around when Hogan peaked but i do remember back then

Hogan=Wrestling

I hate hate hate Hoegan... but he is the face of wrestling. No different than Tupac, Jordan, Gretzsky, etc. in their respective fields.

I feel like no one will ever get a standing ovation like this again

 

[James Dean]

And let's not get into their entrance music, Rock Original Rock Says was cool. But it never receives The Pop and world wide known as Hogan Real American. People used to lose their shyt during Hulkamania hey day, literally lose their minds.

Not only that after Hulk wins and they cue up Real American, the whole arena lose it, not one person in their seat, they screaming, Crying and shyt, Point the finger back at Hogan, it was a fukkin celebration, nobody leaving til the 2nd Curtain Call of Real American

Lol this is a super reach. Rocks theme is just as iconic. Literally just seen a breh enter his wedding to the damn thing.

Same can be said for Steve and the glass shatters.

 

[dh86]

How is this even a back and forth? Hogan was NEVER the most popular entertainer in the world, The Rock can say that he is and no one would bat an eye

That doesnt entail anything like it did in 1987

 

[Waterproof]

Hogan was big but people saying he was MJ big are delusional or revising history....he's never reached the levels rock has... that's absurd

Saturday Night Main Event was because of Hulk Hogan, late night prime time wrestling that filled the slot of Saturday Night Live when their seasoned ended.

Hogan drew 33 Million viewers for his match against Andre the Giant on NBC the highest rated Wrestling show in history

This is one year into Hulkamania, Rock in his prime ain't doing them numbers

 

[Waterproof]

Hulk had everybody ripping their shirts across the globe, kid's getting they Asses beat acrossed America for ripping their good shirts.

Athlete's today still ripping their shirts like Hogan.

Iconic shyt. LMAO

 

[Golayitdown]

We gotta see if Baywatch still makes a profit despite that 15% Rotten Tomatoes score before we declare Rock as bigger than Hogan in the mainstream. To kids born after 88, he's always been bigger than Hogan though.

Not to get on a tangent but most of my boys who watched wrestling left once Rock dipped the second time so he was always the top to young black kids.

Of all the movies he has starred in and records he has helped break in the past decade, Baywatch is the litmus test?

No lies were told. His character brought that series back to life singlehandedly

 

[Chris Cool]

Of all the movies he has starred in and records he has helped break in the past decade, Baywatch is the litmus test?




No lies were told. His character brought that series back to life singlehandedly

Vin diesel returning brought the series back to life. the rock was added to something already trending upward.

 

[R=G]

I think for The Rock was he's constantly in the public's eye with movies and t.v. shows. Before Hogan's comments were made public he really wasn't doing much outside of wrestling except his reality show on VH1.

It wouldn't matter. Before the Rock WM MATCH...nobody was talking about Hogan. Hogan Knows Best is damn near forgotten and last he was spoken of..he was off tangent on a racist rant where he had psychological problems with his daughter fukking tall rich black guys.

He opened a restaurant and he ain't been heard from since.

This could never be with the Rock because his splash on the mainstream is bigger and much more prominent. He's the biggest actor in the world. This isn't even close..its not even fair..Hogan was coming out to mediocre pops in 2014. Lol. Come on...

 

[Spyro]

I worked with this 19 year old last year who hadn't heard of either of them