CSUMB84
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Post by CSUMB84 on Jun 2, 2009 22:19:07 GMT -5
I finished reading Bret Hart's book the other day and one part that jumped out at me was when Bret mentioned Vince had him and Hogan do a secret photo shoot for Summerslam 93 with Hogan and Bret playing tug-of-war with the WWF Championship belt and then standing face-to-face or as Bret said, Chest-to-face.
One of the things Bret mentioned was that one of the main reason's Hogan didn't want to drop the title to Bret or have the match was that Hogan knew he would have been boo'd out of the building by all of Bret's fans at the time.
Would you agree with that had this match happened?
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Post by biohazard on Jun 2, 2009 23:00:05 GMT -5
If he wasn't boo'ed out of the arena when he faced off with Warrior, he wouldn't have been against Hart. At the point Hogan faced both of them he was tops in terms of popularity, but Warrior was way bigger than Bret Hart was at those points.
It seems to me that Bret Hart always skews the truth and facts his direction.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 2, 2009 23:15:45 GMT -5
Bret and Hulk share more in common that just being ex-WWF champs. They both seem to have skewed perceptions of reality and they have always seemed to be too wrapped up in their personas.
Hulk's popularity was slowly diminishing by '93 but not nearly enough to get "booed out of the building" against Bret. Had SS '93 been in Canada, Bret would likely have gotten the majority of cheers and he might have gotten split cheers in the US by '95 or '96 after solidifying himself as a main eventer. But his claim seems, as the late Gorilla Monsoon would say, highly unlikely in my book.
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Post by carly1988 on Jun 3, 2009 0:11:15 GMT -5
He wouldnt have been boo'ed no, but it would've been very similar to Hogan-Warrior but on a smaller scale.
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Post by jfinnomore on Jun 3, 2009 2:00:41 GMT -5
Bret is my favorite wrestler but with that said he sorta likes to twist the truth in his favor as much as possible. i doubt hogan wold be booed but who really knows with Brets and Hogans egos in play.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 3, 2009 2:16:18 GMT -5
Bret is my favorite wrestler but with that said he sorta likes to twist the truth in his favor as much as possible. i doubt hogan wold be booed but who really knows with Brets and Hogans egos in play. I'd really like to know if Bret's story about Hulk refusing to shake hands in the locker room was true or an exhaggeration. Bret's prone to dramatize things but I don't have a hard time envisioning Hogan refusing to even turn around while Bret stood there with his hand out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2009 15:38:19 GMT -5
I doubt very much that Hogan would have been booed.......he was still very popular at that time.as I recall(might be wrong)the boos didnt appear until his WCW tenure was well under way
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hbkrules
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Post by hbkrules on Jun 3, 2009 18:34:16 GMT -5
I WAS AT THE SHOW, Hogan would not have been booed. He got the loudest pop of any wrestler i've heard in person since. He and Bret both would have received loud applause.
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Post by Chicago on Jun 3, 2009 19:07:23 GMT -5
I would tend to trust Bret's word over Hogan's, but I really doubt Hogan would have been booed had the two faced off at SummerSlam.
In fact, I believe Bret would have failed to meet Hogan's positive reaction from the crowd, but neither would have been perceived as the heel. I still wish we could have seen this match, but I enjoyed the Bret/Lawler feud and Doink as the substitute for Lawler at SS '93.
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Post by K5 on Jun 3, 2009 22:50:37 GMT -5
it would have been a near even split perhaps at best.
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Jun 3, 2009 23:06:19 GMT -5
Any match involving Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan is bound to be horrible. Bret wouldn't want to have to help carry Hulk, and Hulk would map the match down to his standards of working. It'd be another Ric Flair/Bret Hart title switch.
Good match in theory, horrible in execution.
Oh, and yeah, I think Bret's exaggerating just a bit.
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Post by LeighD on Jun 4, 2009 10:25:56 GMT -5
Even while Hogan's popularity was declining in 1993, I believe both he and Bret would have gotten equal amount of cheers.
I do wish this match had taken place as i have a hard time envisioning them wrestling each other. They don't seem like the kind of two that would mesh well in the ring, much like trying to watch Warrior vs. Bret.
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Post by Cass on Jun 4, 2009 20:47:58 GMT -5
I'd like to see the pictures, if they were anywhere. I remember it read that they took them here in Halifax.
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Post by CBT on Jun 4, 2009 20:54:45 GMT -5
Not to step on the toes of Hogan fans or Hart fans... but my unbiased opinion is Hart would have been booed, or at the very least he would have had a small margin of fan support that booed Hogan. He would not have more fan support.
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Post by WCWA Online on Jun 5, 2009 14:53:00 GMT -5
I WAS AT THE SHOW, Hogan would not have been booed. He got the loudest pop of any wrestler i've heard in person since. He and Bret both would have received loud applause. Hogan got the loudest pop of anyone at a show he wasn't on?
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Post by ToastMaster General on Jun 5, 2009 18:04:30 GMT -5
I, too, would like to see the Hogan-Hart picture for the abandoned SummerSlam '93 press material.
As for the question it would've been 50-50 in terms of cheers and boos for Hogan and Hart. Kinda like a Cena-Angle match was back in 05. The kiddies would've cheered for Hogan and the more smart, adult crowd would cheer for Bret. It would've made an awesome atmosphere.
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hbkrules
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Post by hbkrules on Jun 5, 2009 19:36:54 GMT -5
I WAS AT THE SHOW, Hogan would not have been booed. He got the loudest pop of any wrestler i've heard in person since. He and Bret both would have received loud applause. Hogan got the loudest pop of anyone at a show he wasn't on? After Hogan wouldn't lose to bret he agreed to lose to Yoko at KOTR 93 instead. That is the show I was referring too, sry for the misunderstanding.
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Post by MRR on Jun 7, 2009 15:01:03 GMT -5
In Detroit, not a chance! Hart should be thankful he got the feud with Lawler, because it was the most entertaining feud he has until 1997.
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Post by Patrick Bateman on Jun 7, 2009 15:44:57 GMT -5
In Detroit, not a chance! Hart should be thankful he got the feud with Lawler, because it was the most entertaining feud he has until 1997. What about his feud with Bob Backlund? Or his brother Owen? Or Big Daddy Cool Diesel? Bret had plenty of memorable feuds before 1997, and I can say this with not even being a fan of his.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 8, 2009 6:09:34 GMT -5
In Detroit, not a chance! Hart should be thankful he got the feud with Lawler, because it was the most entertaining feud he has until 1997. You didn't like the feud with Owen? That was a classic.
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