# RIP Hulk Hogan **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** boxing-wrestling-mma\ **Created:** [July 24, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276 "2025-07-24T16:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/41 "2025-07-24T21:40:19Z")
I only realized Leaping Lanny Poffo and the Macho Man were brothers (?) decades after it was no longer relevant to my life. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/42 "2025-07-24T21:46:55Z")
Yeah, brothers. And their dad was in the business, too. The Macho Man originally wanted to play baseball (was in the Cardinals (?) farm system) but he wasn’t much of a fielder. Could hit the ball fine, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/43 "2025-07-24T21:56:39Z")
I saw Hulk wrestle live a few times. Even from the nosebleed seats, he was larger than life. A great ambassador for wrestling in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/44 "2025-07-24T21:57:27Z")
Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake is also still alive. He started his career as a duo, starting alongside another wrestler. Brutus’s real name is Edward Leslie, and his original ring name was Ed Boulder. His partner was billed as his brother (though they weren’t real brothers). His partner/brother was called Terry Boulder in the ring. Together they were the Boulder Brothers, a tag team. Terry Boulder’s real name was Terry Bollea, but just as Ed Boulder changed his name to Brutus Beefcake, Terry Boulder changed his name to Hulk Hogan. Brutus/Ed is 68 and of course stopped wrestling a while ago. I mostly knew him as a partner of Greg “the Hammer” Valentine and as a kid I thought they were a pretty cool tag team. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/45 "2025-07-24T22:13:31Z")
Good fucking riddance. Rot in hell, you Trump-loving shithead. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/46 "2025-07-24T23:08:24Z")
What I remember NOW about Hogan is many lies and ebellishmeny he told over the years: 1. The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky offered him the lead role three times. Hogan claims he turned it down because “he didn’t deserve it”. Aronofsky denies that Hogan was ever considered for the role. 2.Hogan starred in Mr. Nanny & Santa With Muscles. Hogan claims he rewrote both scripts entirely, only to have his writing credits stolen from him by the dastardly Writers’ Guild. 1. John Belushi died in 1982, but according to Hogan, he partied with him after WrestleMania II (in 1986). 2. Hogan claimed that both Metallica and The Rolling Stones wanted him as their bass player, but Metallica member Lars Ulrich came to Hogan himself to ask him to play with the group. There a lot more listed here: [https://x.com/allan\_cheapshot/status/1437040589598597129](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1437040589598597129) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/47 "2025-07-24T23:37:03Z")
The indestructible Mick Foley is still alive. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/48 "2025-07-24T23:44:10Z")
Mick Foley hasn’t even hit 60 yet; he’s younger than I am. Mostly the ones who avoided overdoing the steroids, pain killers, and recreational drugs are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/49 "2025-07-25T00:14:47Z")
Ric Flair is such an incorrigible party animal that frankly, I’m shocked he’s still alive. He has made the comment that he wants to die in the ring, but I don’t think anyone is gonna let him. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/50 "2025-07-25T00:36:15Z")
So good riddance, and I mean that. Hogan will probably go down in history as the biggest mainstream star in the business of professional wrestling. And he and Vince McMahon (another who I very much look forward to reading his obituary one day) are without a doubt the two people most instrumental in bringing pro wrestling into the mainstream and making the WWE the multi-billion dollar force it is in the world today. He was also a racist, a sexist, and just a nasty, self-centered venal son of a bitch that even his own coworkers have very few, if any, nice things to say about. And yes he was MAGA and Trump supporter to boot. Nothing about that surprises me. And his constant over the top lying has been well documented over the decades. Anyone who’s curious can just go Google “Hulk Hogan lies” or go to YouTube and do a search. Tons of documentation out there. And just to be fair, I expect pro wrestlers to lie or exaggerate a little bit. They’re showman, and they have to constantly sell themselves to their audience. Andre the Giant getting bigger over the years every time Hogan told the story about body slamming him at WrestleMania 3 is one thing. I expect that. But stuff like claiming that Metallica wanted him as their bassist or that Darren Aronofsky wanted him for the lead role in “The Wrestler” is something else entirely or at least it strikes me that way. RIP you nasty son of a bitch. The wrestling business and the world in general is better off with you gone. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/51 "2025-07-25T00:36:15Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky offered him the lead role three times. Hogan claims he turned it down because “he didn’t deserve it”. Was this ambition? Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/52 "2025-07-25T01:31:35Z")
_Purportedly…_ > ‘I don’t like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face.’ - Andre the Giant ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/53 "2025-07-25T07:04:48Z")
I mean how is that any different than The Rock? We’ve seen The Rock absolutely struggle to anchor a film that isn’t an ensemble piece with other actors to carry him. If Hulk Hogan was at his physical peak today he would have the exact same career trajectory as The Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/54 "2025-07-25T07:15:57Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > If Hulk Hogan was at his physical peak today he would have the exact same career trajectory as The Rock. I kinda doubt it. For all of Dwayne Johnson’s very real limitations he is: A.) a better comedic actor than Hogan and B.) better at choosing projects than Hogan. Neither is capable of carrying a solo project, I think. ANY project, witness The Scorpion King. Schwarzenegger has them beat. However in terms of muscle-bound supporting characters, particularly the broader/lighter ones, Johnson is easily better than Hogan. Hell, at the end of the day maybe so was Roddy Piper 😀. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/55 "2025-07-25T13:21:55Z")
I imagine most movie critics would say that Dave Bautista is better than either of them. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/56 "2025-07-25T13:45:04Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Neither is capable of carrying a solo project, I think. ANY project, witness The Scorpion King. Schwarzenegger has them beat. However in terms of muscle-bound supporting characters, particularly the broader/lighter ones, Johnson is easily better than Hogan. Hell, at the end of the day maybe so was Roddy Piper 😀. It’s not fair to go back over 20 years to what was basically his first acting gig. Compare _Scorpion King_ with _Hercules in New York_ and Johnson was way ahead of Schwarzenegger at the beginning of his career. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/57 "2025-07-25T14:21:10Z")
And Johnson is (or was for awhile) certainly a bette wrestler and physical actor than Hogan. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/58 "2025-07-25T14:25:58Z")
One less MAGA. My heart pumps piss for him. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/59 "2025-07-25T14:36:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Compare _Scorpion King_ with _Hercules in New York_ and Johnson was way ahead of Schwarzenegger at the beginning of his career. TBF Arnold had not been kayfabeing 3 times a week giving hype speeches in arenas for years at that point. He made up for it fast, though. Johnson was an important character in the WWE cast, but in a different era was not the be-all and end-all Hogan was, and when he took off for acting it was not to be playing The Rock. You get it that he knew all along he was one of a cast in a bigger show so he plays well as an ensemble anchor. Meanwhile ISTM Hogan could not really play anything but Hogan … but then again why would he need to. Of all his peers he was the one most secure in not needing to do/be anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276/60 "2025-07-25T15:19:28Z")
Mr, Rock is (IMO) a good actor. I like most of his roles. He has great comic timing. I’d put him as a true successor to Schwarzenegger for larger-than-life characters. I even liked _Baywatch_ and I hated the TV show. He’ll never be cast as Hamlet, but then, there are many others that won’t, either. (eta but he’d make a great _Naked Gun_ Nordberg!) Hulk Hogan was only good at playing Hulk Hogan, and not even that very well. I’d rather watch Shaq playing Superman than Hulk in…anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hulk-hogan/1021276.md?page=4)