God, that was fucking wild.
Seriously, for a kid that grew up idolizing Hulk Hogan, it’s hard to oversell how impactful his turning heel was. It’s like if Santa woke you up on Christmas Eve and bitch slapped you.
Pretty fucking much!
Monday Nitro was must see TV
Well…one man did. He may not have “knew”, but he knew since the 80s that Hogan was a great big phoney. He tried warning us for years. So when Hogan came storming to the ring, he demanded to know…“YEAH, BUT WHO’S SIDE IS HE ON???”
R.I.P Bobby Heenan.
Time to rub the ol’ pain reliever cream on the knees I guess lol
Already popped the gummies and took a couple baclofen!
You knew it was bad when they were pelting Mean Gene just because he was close to Hogan.
Anyone got a worded recap on this situation for people that don’t follow wrestling lore and can’t watch the video at the moment?
I can tl;dr it:
The two who aren’t Hulk Hogan were working for WWF, left the company and went to WCW. Big deal at the time, WCW acted like they were WWF ‘outsiders’ coming to invade until WWF actually sued over it. Long story short we get to this PPV after a little bit of them raising hell the 2 of them were booked with a mystery partner, to face 3 other of WCW’s main guys (Randy Savage, Sting and Lex Luger). The outsiders overwhelmed the others, Savage was down in the ring, and Hogan showed up out of nowhere to help. Hogan, lifelong good guy, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, Superman-in-pro-wrestling, best friend of Randy Savage out to save the day!
And he attacks Savage instead.
The 3 of them would form The New World Order, one of the most influential wrestling factions ever, to this day, leading to several revivals, splitoffs, and spiritual successors like Bullet Club in NJPW/AEW/others.
Thanks a lot!
