Rip Hulk Hogan

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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I’m more familiar with the ‘World of Sport’ wrestlers of the 1960s. Mick McManus, Jackie Pallo, Billy Two Rivers, Steve Logan, Kendo Nagasaki, Ricky Starr, Adrian Street etc etc. Live on Saturday afternoons from places like Batley Town Hall where, very often, the biggest danger to their life & limb was a handbag swinging granny sitting ringside should they stray nearby :hehe:

An honorary mention must go to 'Johnny Kwango'.
It was an era when there were very few black people involved in the sport/entertainment business.
He was a ballet dancer, an accomplished Jazz drummer and pianist and later appeared on stage and screen.
He used to take helluva beating against the ropes in the corner, I'd be thinking to myself "move away, do something" :hehe:
... then he'd do his trademark headbutt!

You could only imagine how racist places like Bately community centre or Macclesfield sports hall could be back then. But Johnny brought them onside, everyone was rooting for him to win. :thumbup:

[the other bob wilson]

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Kent Walton:thumbup:

He’d always begin with something like “Welcome grapple fans”.

[JamesWales]

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WWF/ WWE is one of those things, like Game of Thrones or Harry p1ssing Potter that I have never watched more than two minutes of on my life.

But he stepped out of that and was a genuine global name. 71 is no age nowadays and he seemed full of life

[Harry Lime]

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So soon after Norman Tebbit.
I can barely handle the grief

[bobh]

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WWF/ WWE is one of those things, like Game of Thrones or Harry p1ssing Potter that I have never watched more than two minutes of on my life.

But he stepped out of that and was a genuine global name. 71 is no age nowadays and he seemed full of life

I really, really hope you are correct with that statement - I was 71 two weeks ago :old:

[Elwood Blues]

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I really, really hope you are correct with that statement - I was 71 two weeks ago :old:

I was 71 back in March, Bob.

So far so good.

And unlike Hulk Hogan I survived my Cardiac Arrest ( will it really be 3 years ago in August?)and the ICD in my chest should kick start me me if it happens again

[blue matt]

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I was 71 back in March, Bob.

So far so good.

And unlike Hulk Hogan I survived my Cardiac Arrest ( will it really be 3 years ago in August?)and the ICD in my chest should kick start me me if it happens again

I guess you havent done the amount of 'roids that hulk did

[NYCBlue]

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WWF/ WWE is one of those things, like Game of Thrones or Harry p1ssing Potter that I have never watched more than two minutes of on my life.

But he stepped out of that and was a genuine global name. 71 is no age nowadays and he seemed full of life

If you haven't read the Harry Potter books or seen Game of Thrones you've missed out.

[Elwood Blues]

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I guess you havent done the amount of 'roids that hulk did

It may just have been that there was no one with him to do CPR .

I luckily collapsed while giving my wife her medication,so she screamed for my son upstairs who started CPR within a couple of minutes.

Had it been 5 minutes before or later I would have been in my living room alone watching TV and probably no one would have realised I had collapsed until too late

[bobh]

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I was 71 back in March, Bob.

So far so good.

And unlike Hulk Hogan I survived my Cardiac Arrest ( will it really be 3 years ago in August?)and the ICD in my chest should kick start me me if it happens again

I'll see your Cardiac arrest and raise you a stroke ( when I was 44 :yikes: ) and prostate cancer at 61.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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Ive seen on X it seems his mistakes are defining his legacy which imho is a massive shame

What mistakes?

[blue matt]

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