20 votes

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan dead at 71

7 comments

  1. [3]
    Wafik
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    Mixed feelings. I loved the Hulk as a kid, but learned later in life how terrible of a human he was. If all you cared about was entertainment, then the world lost one of those.

    Mixed feelings. I loved the Hulk as a kid, but learned later in life how terrible of a human he was. If all you cared about was entertainment, then the world lost one of those.

    18 votes
    1. Sodliddesu
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      My feelings as well. Won't celebrate it but Hulkamania did run wild...

      My feelings as well. Won't celebrate it but Hulkamania did run wild...

      9 votes
    2. OBLIVIATER
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      Don't meet your heroes (or follow them on twitter)

      Don't meet your heroes (or follow them on twitter)

      3 votes
  2. an_angry_tiger
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    No mixed feelings for me, screw you hulk! Bad person.

    No mixed feelings for me, screw you hulk! Bad person.

    9 votes
  3. [2]
    Whitewatermoose
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    I believe the saying “Don’t ever meet your heroes” or “don’t ever meet the celebrities” in real life applies to Hogan. As a 1980’s and 1990’s kid though, I will say without Hogan and Flair...

    I believe the saying “Don’t ever meet your heroes” or “don’t ever meet the celebrities” in real life applies to Hogan.

    As a 1980’s and 1990’s kid though, I will say without Hogan and Flair wrestling would probably not even be remotely the same product today.

    4 votes
    1. hairypotter
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      It might be different, like wrestlers might have gotten healthcare :) https://www.thesportster.com/wwe-hulk-hogan-killed-jesse-ventura-plan-pro-wrestling-union-vince-mcmahon/ That being said, I...

      It might be different, like wrestlers might have gotten healthcare :) https://www.thesportster.com/wwe-hulk-hogan-killed-jesse-ventura-plan-pro-wrestling-union-vince-mcmahon/

      That being said, I never witnessed the glory days of Hogan, so it's easy for me to have no mixed feelings here.

      4 votes
  4. AugustusFerdinand
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    To use a wrestling phrase, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the heel.

    To use a wrestling phrase, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the heel.

    3 votes