https://youtu.be/ xgV3HFcGPkw - Hulk Hogan v Sting: WCW Nitro, 1995-11-20
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Thursday, April 7, 2022
The Rock, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan kick off WrestleMania 30
The joke in this video is that Hulk Hogan called the New Orleans stadium the name of the Detroit stadium in which a Wrestlemania was held and both Stone Cold and The Rock pick up on it and rib Hulk Hogan for the mistake.
https://youtu.be/KWe99KqmdLY
Friday, June 19, 2020
I Remember This
The other day, I returned to the "Wrestling with Wregret" channel on Youtube because I hadn't watched one of his videos in a while. The video I watched recapped when Roddy Piper was in WCW. As I watched the video, I realized that while I think I remember a lot of things, I don't actually remember as much as I think I do.
What I mean by that is I remember watching WCW weekly, especially during this era of WCW and I know I paid attention to what I was watching. In my defense, during this epoch of when I watched WCW, I would watch it while I was often trying to also keep pace with the events that were happening in rival organization WWE (then called the WWF) on a different channel. All of that is to say that I realize many details about Piper's tenure that are included within the video were familiar, but I wouldn't have been able to state them without seeing the video.
Some examples of this are that while I remembered that Piper showed up at a PPV to confront Hulk Hogan, I didn't remember the name of the PPV when he did so. While I remembered some of the promos that Piper ranted about, such as remembering that Piper confronted Eric Bischoff on an episode of WCW and then had been beaten down in an ambush by the nWo members, I didn't remember that it was Piper who revealed that Eric Bischoff had been secretly working with the nWo behind the scenes. Up until that point, Bischoff had appeared to be not on the side of the nWo.
I realize those are nuances to the overall storyline regarding Piper and the nWo. It's not like I didn't remember Piper was the main "face" (good guy) going up against the main "heel" (bad guy) Hulk Hogan. I also realize that there were a lot of hours of pro wrestling that I watched - I can't even guestimate how many hours of WCW, TNA, WWE, & ECW TV I have watched, which doesn't even include the hours of pro wrestling I have watched on YouTube. I can't expect myself to keep it all straight as it's so much like a soap opera with characters coming in to storylines and then, eventually, moving out of storylines. I love it, don't get me wrong, but I acknowledge I am not going to retain every episode and every wrestling move I see and every promo a wrestler says in or out of the squared circle. I just wanted to write about what I was thinking about when I watched the Roddy Piper in WCW video.
What I mean by that is I remember watching WCW weekly, especially during this era of WCW and I know I paid attention to what I was watching. In my defense, during this epoch of when I watched WCW, I would watch it while I was often trying to also keep pace with the events that were happening in rival organization WWE (then called the WWF) on a different channel. All of that is to say that I realize many details about Piper's tenure that are included within the video were familiar, but I wouldn't have been able to state them without seeing the video.
Some examples of this are that while I remembered that Piper showed up at a PPV to confront Hulk Hogan, I didn't remember the name of the PPV when he did so. While I remembered some of the promos that Piper ranted about, such as remembering that Piper confronted Eric Bischoff on an episode of WCW and then had been beaten down in an ambush by the nWo members, I didn't remember that it was Piper who revealed that Eric Bischoff had been secretly working with the nWo behind the scenes. Up until that point, Bischoff had appeared to be not on the side of the nWo.
I realize those are nuances to the overall storyline regarding Piper and the nWo. It's not like I didn't remember Piper was the main "face" (good guy) going up against the main "heel" (bad guy) Hulk Hogan. I also realize that there were a lot of hours of pro wrestling that I watched - I can't even guestimate how many hours of WCW, TNA, WWE, & ECW TV I have watched, which doesn't even include the hours of pro wrestling I have watched on YouTube. I can't expect myself to keep it all straight as it's so much like a soap opera with characters coming in to storylines and then, eventually, moving out of storylines. I love it, don't get me wrong, but I acknowledge I am not going to retain every episode and every wrestling move I see and every promo a wrestler says in or out of the squared circle. I just wanted to write about what I was thinking about when I watched the Roddy Piper in WCW video.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Thursday, October 29, 2015
PW Update
Just because I don't spend as much time sitting & analyzing the athletes in the WWE (and other professional wrestling organizations) doesn't mean I am not at least peripherally aware of what is happening. On 10/25, there was the 2015 edition of the WWE's "Hell in a Cell" PPV. I didn't watch it.
I did watch enough bits and pieces of Monday Night Raw to learn that Roman Reigns is the next challenger to current champion Seth Rollins. Yaaawwwnnn. I've seen that match before; I've seen this feud before and all I can wish for is some twist to not make it so booorrriinnngggg because I would much rather see wrestlers that are new to each other - perhaps Kevin Owens feuding with Sheamus & Bad News Barrett to the extent that Owens needs to find a fellow wrestler that he can depend upon to make the save. Not a tag team partner - that's been done before. This would be as loose of an alliance as possible. Perhaps Cesaro, who also has a history with Sheamus & BNB, keeps on getting double teamed. Owens comes out, not to make the save, but to get a piece of the two of them (perhaps he received a beatdown earlier in the night and was "supposedly" taken to the hospital) so he comes running out to get revenge. Cesaro and him team up for a two-person-flipping-a-third wrestler over move - whatever its technical name is - and Cesaro looks surprised that they worked well together. Cesaro can still be aligned with a known Owens enemy - Neville - but perhaps Neville is also taken out and Owens actually breaks his typical "not fighting" routine and gets involved. It doesn't have to be a face turn for Owens; perhaps he becomes a tweener like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
I digress.
Bleacher Report doesn't see Owens being used in the way I described above. This article proposes a Dean Ambrose v. Owens feud.
Meanwhile, another article speculates on who is going to be aligned with Undertaker / Kane at the next PPV - Survivor Series - that is in November.
One final interesting professional wrestling note is that Hulk Hogan's WCW contract from 1998 has been posted to the Internet. It's absolutely mind-boggling!
I did watch enough bits and pieces of Monday Night Raw to learn that Roman Reigns is the next challenger to current champion Seth Rollins. Yaaawwwnnn. I've seen that match before; I've seen this feud before and all I can wish for is some twist to not make it so booorrriinnngggg because I would much rather see wrestlers that are new to each other - perhaps Kevin Owens feuding with Sheamus & Bad News Barrett to the extent that Owens needs to find a fellow wrestler that he can depend upon to make the save. Not a tag team partner - that's been done before. This would be as loose of an alliance as possible. Perhaps Cesaro, who also has a history with Sheamus & BNB, keeps on getting double teamed. Owens comes out, not to make the save, but to get a piece of the two of them (perhaps he received a beatdown earlier in the night and was "supposedly" taken to the hospital) so he comes running out to get revenge. Cesaro and him team up for a two-person-flipping-a-third wrestler over move - whatever its technical name is - and Cesaro looks surprised that they worked well together. Cesaro can still be aligned with a known Owens enemy - Neville - but perhaps Neville is also taken out and Owens actually breaks his typical "not fighting" routine and gets involved. It doesn't have to be a face turn for Owens; perhaps he becomes a tweener like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
I digress.
Bleacher Report doesn't see Owens being used in the way I described above. This article proposes a Dean Ambrose v. Owens feud.
Meanwhile, another article speculates on who is going to be aligned with Undertaker / Kane at the next PPV - Survivor Series - that is in November.
One final interesting professional wrestling note is that Hulk Hogan's WCW contract from 1998 has been posted to the Internet. It's absolutely mind-boggling!
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Not the American Way
On July 4, 2015, I posted about Hulk Hogan being listed as one of the most patriotic professional wrestlers of all time. If you had told me on that day that by August 1, Hulk Hogan would be 100% removed from the WWE website and have his contract terminated because of a report in the National Enquirer that he used the racist N-word in a private conversation, I doubt I would have believed you. Yet, here I am, on August 1, 2015, posting about how Hulk Hogan has been removed from all things WWE.
Using what certainly must be my "super power" of "seeing and being able to understand multiple perspectives of the same idea / issue, " I know with 100% certainty that if I call an African-American the N-word, it is an insult. Not only is it not okay for a white person to use that word, it is an insult that drudges up years of heartache, grief, and anger. Of course, if I were African-American, I would be able to call fellow African-Americans the n-word. White man can't; black man can't. In the era of wanting to be treated equally and such, there appears to be a double standard. While I'm certain I could write about it, I haven't done sufficient research so it will not be composed today.
So, back to Hulk Hogan using the n-word, I see three reasons why I'm willing to give the Hulkster a tiny bit of slack. To summarize, he said this 1) in a private conversation, 2) recorded 8 years ago, and 3) it was the National Enquirer who broke the news makes me really sad. In reverse order, when I was growing up, the National Enquirer was a tabloid garbage publication. I believe the only reason for its existence today is that - to this day - it is placed near the checkout line of grocery stores with bloviated headlines about Elvis Presley being seen alive or UFO sightings. I hardly call those two examples headlines that belong in a "real" news publication. Second, the conversation was 8 years ago. I know that on Wednesday, August 01, 2007, I was a different person than I am now. I suspect that Hulk Hogan was a different person back then as well. How many people have been known as racists, only to at some point in their life see the error and evil in their thinking? Hulk Hogan's apology and public statements cannot change the past. So, yes, he said those things 8 years ago and I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't believe those words now. Third, this was a private conversation he was having about his daughter. That's a breach of trust and its sickening to me that a private conversation made public has caused the downfall of an icon.
In a similar vein, one of my all-time favorite comedians has been dragged through the mud after 43 women have now come forward with stories about how he first drugged and second sexually assaulted each woman. That's not the way I really want Bill Cosby to be remembered. I'd rather see him as Heathcliff Huxtable - America's favorite dad on "The Cosby Show" on Thursday nights at 7 PM. When I think about Bill Cosby now, though, I feel sickened. I, once again, "see all views of an issue" like this. Sexual assaulting a woman is never - EVER - okay. NEVER. In no way do I believe Bill Cosby acted like the icon husband and family man he portrayed on television. I'm sure I'm not the only person to see the irony. Over the years, Bill Cosby has been an outspoken critic of how African-American males have not treated women properly. He has been an outspoken critic of how rap music has made disrespecting women part of its appeal. He was an outspoken critic of Eddie Murphy - per one of his comedy concerts - for using the f-word and cursing as part of his routine. Going back even further, during his own standup act, he described not using curse words and "sounding like an idiot" because of self-censoring. Just with those examples alone, Bill Cosby could easily be seen as a hypocrite. All of that, plus the way his wife and his friends must feel now. In public and, certainly, in private, they have supported him, not believing the reports. Now, they've found out that he lied.
There was a time when I longed to be as well-known as Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby. I fantasized about playing in a band that would tour the world. This fictional band would play a concert in Cedar Rapids and the crowd would chant my name "Han - Son! Han - Son!" and I would bask in the spotlight and smile. After reading about the downfall of Hogan and Cosby, I'm quite certain I am satisfied to work where I work, to be married to whom I am married, and to be the father to whom I am the father as opposed to the opposite, which would be to have your past mistakes in the spotlight.
Using what certainly must be my "super power" of "seeing and being able to understand multiple perspectives of the same idea / issue, " I know with 100% certainty that if I call an African-American the N-word, it is an insult. Not only is it not okay for a white person to use that word, it is an insult that drudges up years of heartache, grief, and anger. Of course, if I were African-American, I would be able to call fellow African-Americans the n-word. White man can't; black man can't. In the era of wanting to be treated equally and such, there appears to be a double standard. While I'm certain I could write about it, I haven't done sufficient research so it will not be composed today.
So, back to Hulk Hogan using the n-word, I see three reasons why I'm willing to give the Hulkster a tiny bit of slack. To summarize, he said this 1) in a private conversation, 2) recorded 8 years ago, and 3) it was the National Enquirer who broke the news makes me really sad. In reverse order, when I was growing up, the National Enquirer was a tabloid garbage publication. I believe the only reason for its existence today is that - to this day - it is placed near the checkout line of grocery stores with bloviated headlines about Elvis Presley being seen alive or UFO sightings. I hardly call those two examples headlines that belong in a "real" news publication. Second, the conversation was 8 years ago. I know that on Wednesday, August 01, 2007, I was a different person than I am now. I suspect that Hulk Hogan was a different person back then as well. How many people have been known as racists, only to at some point in their life see the error and evil in their thinking? Hulk Hogan's apology and public statements cannot change the past. So, yes, he said those things 8 years ago and I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't believe those words now. Third, this was a private conversation he was having about his daughter. That's a breach of trust and its sickening to me that a private conversation made public has caused the downfall of an icon.
In a similar vein, one of my all-time favorite comedians has been dragged through the mud after 43 women have now come forward with stories about how he first drugged and second sexually assaulted each woman. That's not the way I really want Bill Cosby to be remembered. I'd rather see him as Heathcliff Huxtable - America's favorite dad on "The Cosby Show" on Thursday nights at 7 PM. When I think about Bill Cosby now, though, I feel sickened. I, once again, "see all views of an issue" like this. Sexual assaulting a woman is never - EVER - okay. NEVER. In no way do I believe Bill Cosby acted like the icon husband and family man he portrayed on television. I'm sure I'm not the only person to see the irony. Over the years, Bill Cosby has been an outspoken critic of how African-American males have not treated women properly. He has been an outspoken critic of how rap music has made disrespecting women part of its appeal. He was an outspoken critic of Eddie Murphy - per one of his comedy concerts - for using the f-word and cursing as part of his routine. Going back even further, during his own standup act, he described not using curse words and "sounding like an idiot" because of self-censoring. Just with those examples alone, Bill Cosby could easily be seen as a hypocrite. All of that, plus the way his wife and his friends must feel now. In public and, certainly, in private, they have supported him, not believing the reports. Now, they've found out that he lied.
There was a time when I longed to be as well-known as Hulk Hogan and Bill Cosby. I fantasized about playing in a band that would tour the world. This fictional band would play a concert in Cedar Rapids and the crowd would chant my name "Han - Son! Han - Son!" and I would bask in the spotlight and smile. After reading about the downfall of Hogan and Cosby, I'm quite certain I am satisfied to work where I work, to be married to whom I am married, and to be the father to whom I am the father as opposed to the opposite, which would be to have your past mistakes in the spotlight.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Pro Wrestling and American Pride
This article proposes that if there was an actual plan to carve a mountain into four professional wrestling faces, these are the four faces that would be carved:
From the same website, this article lists the 5 most patriotic professional wrestlers:
Hello? Anyone remember the professional wrestler "The Patriot" from the WWE?!? This is the article's reasoning behind Cena's inclusion: "Rusev, a Bulgarian wrestler that had been dedicating his matches to Vladimir Putin, entered WrestleMania 31 as the United States Champion. John Cena not only won the title at that show, he also became the first WWE wrestler to pin him." If this hadn't just happened, I truly doubt Cena would be even mentioned.
Oh well. America is a great country because we are all free to disagree with people that have a different opinion.
- Steve Austin
- John Cena
- Hulk Hogan
- Bruno Sammartino
From the same website, this article lists the 5 most patriotic professional wrestlers:
- Hulk Hogan
- Sgt Slaughter
- Hacksaw Jim Duggan
- Lex Luger
- John Cena
Hello? Anyone remember the professional wrestler "The Patriot" from the WWE?!? This is the article's reasoning behind Cena's inclusion: "Rusev, a Bulgarian wrestler that had been dedicating his matches to Vladimir Putin, entered WrestleMania 31 as the United States Champion. John Cena not only won the title at that show, he also became the first WWE wrestler to pin him." If this hadn't just happened, I truly doubt Cena would be even mentioned.
Oh well. America is a great country because we are all free to disagree with people that have a different opinion.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Bring Up the Past
Okay... At last year's Wrestlemania, Ric Flair, shown below, "retired" from professional wrestling following a multiple month build up where multiple stars tried to defeat him. The stipulation was that if Flair lost a match, he was done. He wrestled Shawn Michaels @ WM and won, launching a feud between him and Batista. Flair made at least one appearance on an edition of Monday night Raw after the Monday after WM but, after that, he has been off of WWE programming, though occasionally mentioned by the announcers. Why is any of this relevant? Well, I am reading reports that Hulk Hogan has created a professional wrestling tour where he and Flair will wrestle in the main event. There are also rumors that Hulk Hogan will show up on TNA, the only professional wrestling organization that is directly competing with WWE.
I saw the above poster and thought, you know what? That poster has it right. If Flair's body authentically cannot handle the wear and tear anymore, then he should retire and be done. Seriously. What the hell?
I saw the above poster and thought, you know what? That poster has it right. If Flair's body authentically cannot handle the wear and tear anymore, then he should retire and be done. Seriously. What the hell?
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