Rip Hulk Hogan

[Elwood Blues]

The famous wrestler has passed away at the age of 71

[Underhill1980]

RIP, a massive part of my childhood.

[Coyote]

What is going on, first Ozzy, now Hogan?

RIP, not a good human being but integral to wrestling's success and made wrestling what it was today.

[splott parker]

What is going on, first Ozzy, now Hogan?

RIP, not a good human being but integral to wrestling's success and made wrestling what it was today.

How dare you forget the main one of the week…..Joey Jones!!!!!

[ToTaL ITK]

Lost my respect!!! when he started sucking Trumps mushroom. RIP tho.

[splott parker]

Lost my respect!!! when he started sucking Trumps mushroom. RIP tho.

Aye, a death is a sad thing but, basically, he was a bit of a knob.

[jon1959]

Aye, a death is a sad thing but, basically, he was a bit of a knob.

I know he's described as a professional wrestler - but doesn't that just mean an actor (or stunt man)?

Whatever - he was no Big Daddy!

[splott parker]

I know he's described as a professional wrestler - but doesn't that just mean an actor (or stunt man)?

Whatever - he was no Big Daddy!

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

[bobh]

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

I remember those
And the commentator believed it was all real! (or said it was).
I recall an interview with Giant Haystacks who said that once a dear old granny stabbed his leg with a knitting needle!

[William Treseder]

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

What was it with old Grannies? They’d be sweet old ladies through the week, but turned vicious on a Saturday afternoon.
They were like Wrestling casuals !

[splott parker]

I remember those
And the commentator believed it was all real! (or said it was).
I recall an interview with Giant Haystacks who said that once a dear old granny stabbed his leg with a knitting needle!

Kent Walton

[Tuerto]

I know he's described as a professional wrestler - but doesn't that just mean an actor (or stunt man)?

Whatever - he was no Big Daddy!

Easy, Easy, Easy........

[Wales-Bales]

RIP Terry

[BLUETIT]

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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

Sophia Gardens on a Friday night

[blue matt]

one of the all time great WWE / WCW / NWO wrestler ( or entertainer ) if not the greatest, Ive seen on X it seems his mistakes are defining his legacy which imho is a massive shame

I visited his store in clearwater, he wasnt around, but I once met him in Las Vegas and got a ' hey Brother " from him, this was during him NWO days

I grew up watching WWF on VHS tapes from a mate who has Sky, I then blagged my mum into getting Sky, we couldnt afford it really, but she made it happen, just so I could watch WWF ( and a few of the dubious Scandinavian / German late night channels ) My brother and myself have to give up our Christmas gifts in credit to pay for the dish, I remember it was just under £300, of Course she still got a few gifts for us, but our " big gift " was the dish

he was involved in some of the biggest and best " fights " with all the organisations

RIP Hulkster from a young hulkamaniac Matt

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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

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"
... 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.

[the other bob wilson]

Kent Walton

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

[JamesWales]

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]

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

[bobh]

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

[Elwood Blues]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 ) and prostate cancer at 61.