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Topic	Scarlet Ranks 150 User-Nominated Wrestlers Part II
scarletspeed7 06/13/18 12:51:54 PM #108:	#51 - Hulk Hogan Nominated by: Anagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCxM-Zjfjk" data-time=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AE21-yZ8HQ" data-time=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWalFmERhY" data-time=" Hulk Hogan was both a good and a bad promo, a good and a bad wrestler, a good and a bad influence on the industry. But he's probably more influential on the business than anyone outside of Vinnie Mac. Its really hard to rank Hogan accurately, because his popularity was way above his abilities. And that's not to speak his in-ring abilities (which when compared to his contemporaries was quite poor). But somehow he had that magic ingredient that turns a mediocre, slow and selfish worker into the biggest star of all time. Sometimes its inertia, sometimes its a fad, and sometimes it's an ingredient that can't quite be quantified. This is the case, because if I had to rate Hulk Hogan just as a wrestler he would stop in the middle of the list (and thats being very generous, by giving much less importance to his technical skills), but his historical impact is undeniable. Its hard to imagine wrestling without Hulk Hogan. Who knows what would have happened without that character? Would Randy Savage have achieved such success and put WWF in the dominant position it was at the time? Still, giving Hulk Hogan #51 hurts like a chainsaw to the liver because I dont like him at all, but I have to acknowledge what he achieved. At the same time, I loved Hollywood Hogan. Hollywood Hogan was supposed to be this new, brutal heel version of Hulkster. The entire NWO storyline really could only function with Hogan in the main role. Nash and Hall were both thoughtful enough to recognize what a new style of heel could be, but it took Hogan to cement the unit as a formidable triumverate of greed and lawlessness. What people forget about Hollywood is that, at the height of his title reign, he reverted back to the old Hulk Hogan and yet got the exact same reaction. Hogan ended up becoming Hulk Hogan again in terms of personality, hotdogging for the crowd, flexing, putting himself over... but now the crowd saw his long-running self-centeredness for what it was. It was like, Hogan didn't turn heel. The crowd just woke up. He'd screwed Savage, Tugboat, Sid Justice... it went back all the way to the beginning of his WWF run. It's actually my favorite story arc out of WCW, and it's completely unintentional. But it works so well because there is a certain subtlety to it. The culmination of Hulkamania always needed to follow that old adage Harvey Dent uttered: "You either die a hero or live long enough to call yourself a villain." That's Hogan in a nutshell. I don't really want to speak on Hogan's not-so-recent racially charged comments, but they did factor into this ranking negatively. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer <cite>scarletspeed7 posted [p:903165851] in Scarlet Ra... [t:76598098]...</cite> <quote>#51 - Hulk Hogan Nominated by: Anagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCxM-Zjfjk" data-time=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AE21-yZ8HQ" data-time=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWalFmERhY" data-time=" Hulk Hogan was both a good and a bad promo, a good and a bad wrestler, a good and a bad influence on the industry. But he's probably more influential on the business than anyone outside of Vinnie Mac. Its really hard to rank Hogan accurately, because his popularity was way above his abilities. And that's not to speak his in-ring abilities (which when compared to his contemporaries was quite poor). But somehow he had that magic ingredient that turns a mediocre, slow and selfish worker into the biggest star of all time. Sometimes its inertia, sometimes its a fad, and sometimes it's an ingredient that can't quite be quantified. This is the case, because if I had to rate Hulk Hogan just as a wrestler he would stop in the middle of the list (and thats being very generous, by giving much less importance to his technical skills), but his historical impact is undeniable. Its hard to imagine wrestling without Hulk Hogan. Who knows what would have happened without that character? Would Randy Savage have achieved such success and put WWF in the dominant position it was at the time? Still, giving Hulk Hogan #51 hurts like a chainsaw to the liver because I dont like him at all, but I have to acknowledge what he achieved. At the same time, I loved Hollywood Hogan. Hollywood Hogan was supposed to be this new, brutal heel version of Hulkster. The entire NWO storyline really could only function with Hogan in the main role. Nash and Hall were both thoughtful enough to recognize what a new style of heel could be, but it took Hogan to cement the unit as a formidable triumverate of greed and lawlessness. What people forget about Hollywood is that, at the height of his title reign, he reverted back to the old Hulk Hogan and yet got the exact same reaction. Hogan ended up becoming Hulk Hogan again in terms of personality, hotdogging for the crowd, flexing, putting himself over... but now the crowd saw his long-running self-centeredness for what it was. It was like, Hogan didn't turn heel. The crowd just woke up. He'd screwed Savage, Tugboat, Sid Justice... it went back all the way to the beginning of his WWF run. It's actually my favorite story arc out of WCW, and it's completely unintentional. But it works so well because there is a certain subtlety to it. The culmination of Hulkamania always needed to follow that old adage Harvey Dent uttered: "You either die a hero or live long enough to call yourself a villain." That's Hogan in a nutshell. I don't really want to speak on Hogan's not-so-recent racially charged comments, but they did factor into this ranking negatively. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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