Pro Wrestling Will Never Have an Icon Like Hulk Hogan Again

Name: Pro Wrestling Will Never Have an Icon Like Hulk Hogan Again
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T17:16:12+00:00
Duration: 6 min 57 s
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Description: On Thursday's edition of Felger and Mazz, the guys reacted to the passing of wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan, at the age of 71. While discussing the legacy of the in-ring wrestler, James Stewart makes the case that the industry will never see a superstar like Hogan again.

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On Thursday's edition of Felger and Mazz, the guys reacted to the passing of wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan, at the age of 71. While discussing the legacy of the in-ring wrestler, James Stewart makes the case that the industry will never see a superstar like Hogan again.

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00:00of hulk hogan what's his real name jimmy terry belaya right belaya terry belaya terry belaya

00:07at 71 years old jimmy stewart is our uh resident wrestling guru jimmy your thoughts

00:12i didn't see it coming although uh bubba the love sponge uh who used to a radio show down

00:18in tampa with hulk um can i just stop one second because i've heard you say this a couple different

00:22times bubba the lunch love sponge if i'm not mistaken didn't hogan have an affair with his

00:28wife that's correct yes yes and they're still best buds uh they are not oh okay go ahead but

00:33because he's mobbed up with the people in tampa he had been uh putting out tiktoks that uh hulk hogan

00:39was on his deathbed and had been for a little while and uh tmz says that he passed away this

00:44morning due to cardiac arrest um but uh hulk is an iconic figure sports illustrated cover uh the rocky

00:53three movie uh just transcended from pro wrestler to television superstar iconic figure and it's it's

01:04the last few years there have been some really bad stories about him so you've got this great iconic

01:11television talent who may have been a bad person so it's it's i'm conflicted i feel for my childhood

01:17because it got me into pro wrestling i love pro wrestling um but hulk hogan the last few years

01:23there are some bad stories out there about him i mean he was so so much a part of my childhood that

01:28in this case if you need a guy to overlook problematic things i'm your guy like hogan to

01:32me was all those things that jimmy said and such i think to me one of the most the five most famous

01:37people of the 1980s and it wasn't just about wrestling he became this crossover star and some of

01:42those events i went to at the boston garden which you were probably also at jimmy uh wrestling a heavyweight

01:47title matches against killer khan uh kamala uh you know something mr wonderful paul orndorff

01:53rowdy rowdy piper andre the giant at wrestlemania 3 is a big one macho man randy savage just all these

01:59iconic moments and matches and the the big detail about hogan is he was the mega good guy of the the

02:07mid to late 80s and then as hulkamania was kind of fading out in the mid to late 90s he became the

02:13ultimate bad guy for a different company and still like drew big money uh was part of the wrestling

02:19war that was in the late 90s just iconic and to be a great bad guy and a great good guy on camera

02:27it's just it's something that pro wrestling uh will never see again right the heel turn in the 90s too

02:34is also like i loved him as childhood like right the you know what do they call them baby faces jimmy

02:38like the baby face like the good guy good guy like eat your vitamins the pythons and he took a lot of

02:44vitamins brother oh yeah slam and andre loved all that but the heel turn when he goes to the nwo

02:48was hysterical and then that also got me back into wrestling so i was just going to say jimmy correct me

02:55if i'm wrong but didn't he sort of lead the the new era or the modernization of pro wrestling

03:03absolutely he he came uh he was wrestling for vince mcmahon senior when it was the worldwide

03:09wrestling federation uh he got cast he got asked by sylvester stallone to do the rocky three movie

03:16vince senior didn't want him to do it because he's a pro wrestler he went he did the movie the son vince

03:22mcmahon jr took over the company took over the wwf and because he wanted to make it more sports

03:28entertainment he wanted the glitz the glamour the rock and roll so here comes hulk hogan american

03:34hero beats the iron sheet iron chic for the world championship and at the same time that there's the

03:40cable boom and pay-per-view and live events and hulk is on the cover of sports illustrated it was just

03:47like the perfect sequence of events and he had that look like and he had the charisma and he involved

03:53the crowd he just had everything that you're looking for for a larger than life tv character

03:58and that's the legacy of hulk hogan uh the pro wrestler yeah he looked like i mean he had the

04:02look of a california beach body oh yeah yeah right so but i to me like i remember him as being the

04:09kind of guy that changed it forever you know he was sort of because again wrestling used to be

04:14saturday mornings with a bunch of guys running around in their underwear for crying out loud still

04:19is brother and then all of a sudden bruno sammartino who looked like my grandfather like there was

04:24they didn't have the look that hogan had like i i felt like this is going to sound corny murray

04:29but he like brought black and white into color yeah you know what i mean it was like it was like the

04:34colorization of the movie industry he had just completely added all this color and excitement and

04:41you know to me that's what he was like and look i jimmy i don't know all the bad stories that you do i know

04:47some of them but uh a lot of it's not great he's a massive massive figure though in in uh the world

04:54of wrestling anyway and entertainment for that man and if i were to ask any one of you like name me a

04:58pro wrestler most people out on the street hulk hogan first name that comes to mind i'd agree and

05:03that's the that's the iconic i can't stress enough that cover of sports illustrated with hulk hogan

05:09when sports illustrated was a mega publication that was a big groundbreaking moment

05:14and hulk hogan getting on the tonight show uh johnny carson david letterman arsenio hall all

05:21these big pop culture uh iconic television shows really and he had the promo and he involved the

05:28people and you felt it he did the same match every night but there was something about the hulk up

05:34the shaking the three fists the point the boot the leg drop that just and the posing hogan must pose

05:41and it was just something about that that drew a bunch of wrestling fans and pop culture people

05:47to hulk hogan and made him the icon that he is and boy do i feel like a ghoul because what did i say the

05:52other day after we talked about aussie and things work in threes brother malcolm jamal warner aussie

05:57and now hulk hogan so the uh the rocky three scene is uh thunder lips yeah yeah is about as much fun

06:05as you can have in a movie scene as possible i mean uh for guys my age anyway 13 years old 1982 and

06:13rocky and thunder lips in the ring was that was about as much fun as i could have watching a movie

06:21uh at that time that i could possibly remember so that's what i remember him for but either way it's

06:28another huge giant passing whether you're a wrestling fan or not whether you're a heavy metal fan or not

06:34these are figures that uh transcended what they did and they did it for a long long period of time

06:41at an elite elite level and if you don't respect it you got something wrong with you whether you liked

06:47it or consumed it or not and so uh another one uh rest in peace hulk hogan

06:53it or not and so uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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