Video: Hulk Hogan admits he should probably retire right now
by Geno Mrosko on Jan 24, 2012 9:27 PM EST
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But he won't because he still gets off on marks marking out for him (we're looking at you, Jesse Holland). When asked when is the time for Hulk Hogan to retire, he responded with:
"Probably now. But the fans are so great and it's so much fun that it's actually, it's a good time getting in there. Everything's calculated, you know you don't want to be diving off the top rope at 30 feet onto the concrete floor, so we'll pass on that move, maybe a little ear might be better to rile the fans up. But, you know, if you calculate things and you stay in good shape, you can last a little longer."
Yes, because there's nothing like a 58-year-old man with a perpetually broken back and no knees begging the crowd for a reaction with the same tired schtick he's been using since the early 1980s.
At least during this appearance he actually bothered to promote TNA, going so far as to deliver the old line about how the organization is "the number one wrestling company in the world" because they "focus on the wrestling." You know, the overbooked matches with no actual finishes.
Oh, Hulk.
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He'd retire, but he loves the spotlight and needs the money.
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He’d retire, but he loves the spotlight and needs the money.
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by *Californication* on Jan 24, 2012 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
Haha.
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by Cyclonejoker on Jan 25, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, Hulk
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 24, 2012 11:33 PM EST reply actions
Retire from what? He doesn’t wrestle. He’s out there being a glory hound and as long as he’s still packing the arenas high school gymnasiums with fans, why quit? I still like watching his “tired” shtick.
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by Jesse Holland on Jan 25, 2012 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
His "schtick"
is tired and he needs to go away. I admit I was a Hulkamaniac growing up. Can’t stand the guy now for all the same reasons that I cannot stand Paul Levesque ( I refuse to call him by his wrestling name). Being a glory hound and taking the spotlight fro younger up and comers jsut for your own satisfaction is detrimental to the business.
I understand the Hulkster having the same mentality of a rockstar.
In many ways, no one would never want to quit that lifestyle.
But pro wrestlers aren’t rockstars, they’re athletes, and for the sake of their own bodies, they have to hang it up when they’re past their prime.
by *Asterisk* on Jan 25, 2012 7:36 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Hogan rarely wrestles...
So I don’t see the harm in him wrestling once a month or whatever for the people who still do give a shit (certainly there are some).
And he does have a point; overbooked finishes or not, the wrestling is 10x better than WWE…not even close.
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Its quite a paradox..
On the one hand, as an above poster wrote, its embarassing to watch this 58-year-old man with no knees and plastic hips still trying to get the same crowd reactions he got in the 80s.
Then you see his face turn at the Victory Road PPV and he DID get an 80s crowd reaction!
I remember thinking to myself, “They still buy into this?”
We’ve already discussed his waning popularity in the early 90s a week or so ago (the crowd cheered when Sid threw him out of the Rumble, the crowd booed during his Taker feud, etc.)
Its astonishing how this formula seems to get over with the TNA fans, whom Dixie wants everybody to think are edgier and hipper than the WWE fans who still have bedtimes…
Doesn’t mean its justified, though. Superstar Graham could probably hobble out to the ring tomorrow and work the crowd as good as did back in ‘77. Doesn’t mean he should do it. :-p
by CAxlRose on Jan 25, 2012 2:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions
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