Hulk Hogan: amazing wrestler or something worse?

I dont think many people are going to disagree Hulk has a lot of pride, and was generally unwilling to put over numerous superstars during his peak years. However, wrestling definitely would look a lot different today without Hulk. The world-wide popularity he brought to the sport and to wrestlemania changed the landscape of the industry and made it into a national organization, not some small regional promotion that was the norm for 20 years prior.

alot of younger fans fail to see how popular hogan truly was.. the man was amazingly popular and bigger then the rock, stone cold, cena you name it. Hulk hogan WAS wrestling. the man was larger then life... EVERYONE knew who hulk hogan was.. and the man can wrestle... look at alot of his japan matches.. he wrestled completly different there then in america. yeah he could pull his swing and say no.. this guy does not go over...but... would you want people to take you out of your spot too? lol He think he was just scared... yeah he should share but none of us,.. can say we wouldn't hog the spotlight..... as none of us have ever been in his spot... it could be so orgasmic,.. you'd not want to give up that spot..

Alot of younger fans don;'t seem to realize wrestling have different styles.. not just what guys like D-bry, aj styles, punk, ect do. it kinda gets on my nerves when younger fans say.. oh, they can't wrestle,.. just because they do not wrestle thatsyle...

There was plenty of selling with Hogan, but it all came from Vince McMahon. Vinny Mac convinced a generation of kids (and a percentage of adults) that seeing a bodybuilder constantly no-selling and doing the same basic moves over and over was something special.

Every wrestler's success is due in part to the company/companies for which he worked as well as the era in which he existed. However, in Hogan's case, this is much more pronounced. Hogan was never close to being the commodity on his own as he was with the WWF machine behind him. But you simply can't convince him of that.

I think its fair to say Hogans ego matches up to his sucess and popularity.did he do dastardly deeds?yes of course but in all honesty he WAS wrestling for 14 years lads......

no wrestler hit the mainstream like Hogan did.he had his own Sat morning cartoon......

Hogan sucked in the ring but his sausage skin, blonde chinese hair was everywhere. he put wrestling on the map.

1984, Slaughter sold out MSG. His feud with Iron Sheik made him huge. He became the 2nd biggest face of the company (at the time) only when they (WWF) pushed Hogan and Hogan became the WWF champion.

That's the thing with this thread; how much of his success does Hogan owe to McMahon?

At no point in his career was Sgt. Slaughter as big as Hulk Hogan. Yeah Slaughter was awesome, but he was nowhere near as big as Hogan... and yeah Hogan no sold things sometimes. That was part of his superhero gimmick thing. Cena does it, Rock and Austin have no sold at times and the Undertaker's gimmick is basically he doesn't feel pain and doesn't have to sell. All the big names have done it. Hogan was the biggest thing in wrestling.

Says the guy who the other day claimed that Jim Neidhart was the greatest pound for pound wrestler of all time.

How am I trolling? You're quite clearly the troll here.