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Post by blissfan4life on Mar 19, 2018 12:26:45 GMT -5
While "funny" it just shows what an unprofessional jerk HBK can be. Or at least you could say that if it wasn't planned. Hogan is a business man. Not the smartest, but not the dumbest. He had to have known what was going to be the plan. To each his own I guess, Its Hogan's own fault for not playing ball. |
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Apr 4, 2018 0:02:30 GMT -5
While "funny" it just shows what an unprofessional jerk HBK can be. Or at least you could say that if it wasn't planned. Hogan is a business man. Not the smartest, but not the dumbest. He had to have known what was going to be the plan. To each his own I guess, Its Hogan's own fault for not playing ball. HBK should've known better seeing as how he was with the company over a decade earlier and watched Hogan do a similar thing to Bret. That whole exchange between those two as well as Yokozuna from Wrestlemania IX to King of the Ring didn't benefit anybody. Bret never got a rematch and was out of the title picture for a year. Yokozuna did get the belt back from Hogan, but the way he lost it in the first place really hurt his momentum and he didn't regain any credibility winning it back with that insulting "exploding camera" finish. Got off track there. Apologies, but that whole situation still irks me for how short-sighted it was for the sake of giving Hogan a totally meaningless run with the belt. I like both guys in Hogan and HBK, but it is hard to feel bad for either on the same note. Both had massive egos and loved the backstage politics. |
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Post by blissfan4life on Apr 4, 2018 6:42:47 GMT -5
To each his own I guess, Its Hogan's own fault for not playing ball. HBK should've known better seeing as how he was with the company over a decade earlier and watched Hogan do a similar thing to Bret. That whole exchange between those two as well as Yokozuna from Wrestlemania IX to King of the Ring didn't benefit anybody. Bret never got a rematch and was out of the title picture for a year. Yokozuna did get the belt back from Hogan, but the way he lost it in the first place really hurt his momentum and he didn't regain any credibility winning it back with that insulting "exploding camera" finish. Got off track there. Apologies, but that whole situation still irks me for how short-sighted it was for the sake of giving Hogan a totally meaningless run with the belt. I like both guys in Hogan and HBK, but it is hard to feel bad for either on the same note. Both had massive egos and loved the backstage politics. Eh at that point, HBK wasn't the 90's tantrum throwing ass so I highly disagree. |
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Post by aggressiveperfector on Apr 4, 2018 16:58:21 GMT -5
Did Shawn feel slighted? Obviously. Did Shawn have the right to feel that way? Maybe. He might have felt "Well Hogan has this match and goes on his way tomorrow night, and I'm still here" but I was talking to a wrestler about this match after the match years ago and he pointed out that you DON'T go into business for yourself. ESPECIALLY for such a high profile match with months of build up.
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Post by K5 on Apr 4, 2018 17:55:49 GMT -5
Did Shawn feel slighted? Obviously. Did Shawn have the right to feel that way? Maybe. He might have felt "Well Hogan has this match and goes on his way tomorrow night, and I'm still here" but I was talking to a wrestler about this match after the match years ago and he pointed out that you DON'T go into business for yourself. ESPECIALLY for such a high profile match with months of build up. exactly. rather Shawn was happy or not with how things were booked, thousands of people paid money to see that event and were excited for that match and he attempted to sabotage it. definition of unprofessional. |
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Apr 4, 2018 18:21:33 GMT -5
To make things more interesting, this was the perfect point in time where it could have been Hollywood Hulk Hogan and the New World Order vs. Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels and D-Generation X. The feud could have really heated up to the point where it starts as Face vs. Face, then turns Heel vs. Heel, and finally the Dream stable war!!
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Post by Glorydaysofwrestling on Apr 5, 2018 8:44:51 GMT -5
Always thought hbk was ridiculous in this match. The dude was a locker room cancer. I still wish it was him who left for WCW with his friends. The whole business and the wwe would be so different.
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Apr 17, 2018 23:26:52 GMT -5
Did Shawn feel slighted? Obviously. Did Shawn have the right to feel that way? Maybe. He might have felt "Well Hogan has this match and goes on his way tomorrow night, and I'm still here" but I was talking to a wrestler about this match after the match years ago and he pointed out that you DON'T go into business for yourself. ESPECIALLY for such a high profile match with months of build up. The other side of that argument is that many full-timers in the locker room at the time didn't like the fact that Hogan, a 50 year-old part timer, was allowed to go over a main-eventer on the current roster. While I'm sure that HBK's motivation was more personal than philosophical, we've heard that sentiment about returning legends ad nauseam since then. |
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Post by Papi Joker on Apr 18, 2018 1:55:19 GMT -5
any time any 50+ or celeb comes in and gets on Main Event the locker room ain't happy... except when it's Triple H everyone is like "GOOD MATCH BOSS!!!"
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Post by ~ Cymru ~ on Apr 19, 2018 6:46:33 GMT -5
I remember reading something that said there were gonna be a series of matches, Hogan was booked to go over in match 1, then HBK in match 2, leading to a final show down. Hogan didnt like the idea of doing more than 1 match, he wanted a one and done deal, which is why HBK did all the overselling.
Obviously HBK and Hogan can give their own accounts of what happened, I doubt they'd slam eachother and cause bad press for WWE. So I dont know if we'll ever get the truth, just two ego's doing what 2 ego's do.
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Post by PJ on Apr 19, 2018 8:09:02 GMT -5
Regardless of either of their perspectives on what happened HBK was 100 % in the wrong. They are both professionals who were being paid to put on a match to entertain the audience who paid their hard earned money to see them. Vince had to have approved the match. And they needed to go out and execute it to the best of their ability and HBK went out and pulled that. Very unprofessional to act like he did. Was it funny? Sure, but the audience didn’t buy tickets to see someone making a mockery out of it.
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Post by Nivro™ on Apr 22, 2018 12:25:45 GMT -5
Michaels crapped on others his entire career. Any time he got shut down by someone else he completely deserved it.
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Post by 666erickana on Apr 26, 2018 6:19:24 GMT -5
So the last wwe match of hogan was versus orton in 2006 ?
For hbk, he will be a jerk till the end, the only difference after 2000, he was placed in a way that he willmbe happy , facing hhh or with hhh, winning most of his matches, except against taker. So during the matchnvs hogsn, we learned finally that he never changed. I never liked hbk, but i respect to eay he wrestle. People dont change
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Post by Zigzag on Apr 29, 2018 9:37:16 GMT -5
So the last wwe match of hogan was versus orton in 2006 ?For hbk, he will be a jerk till the end, the only difference after 2000, he was placed in a way that he willmbe happy , facing hhh or with hhh, winning most of his matches, except against taker. So during the matchnvs hogsn, we learned finally that he never changed. I never liked hbk, but i respect to eay he wrestle. People dont change Yep. I was there, too. Flew all the way from South FL, just to say I finally saw Hogan in a WWE ring. Now I can say I saw the final WWE matches of both Hogan, as well as Flair. |
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on May 1, 2018 0:50:31 GMT -5
So the last wwe match of hogan was versus orton in 2006 ? And it was the same crap as Hogan going over HBK at SS '05. I've never liked Orton, but he was in his prime. Hogan has just suffered another leg injury (by falling off of his couch, IIRC) and he was having severe mobility problems. Yet somehow Hogan still won. I don't know whether to blame Vince, Hulk, or both of them, but that's ridiculous booking. |
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