Died at the age of 71, the American professional fighter Hulk Hogan, considered Michael Jordan of Wrestling, was also a star of the film and television.
Hulk Hogan, a pack of muscle
The world of Wrestling is crying on Hulk Hogan, one of the most emblemic Wrestlers in WWE history. It was so great that Sting, one of the most important wrestlers in recent history, called “Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan of Wrestling”
Gathered more people on a stadium than Pope John Paul II
Hulk Hogan, born Terrence Gene Bollea, was born in Augusta, Georgia, on August 11, 1953. Veneered worldwide, turned wrestling into a phenomenon. But Hulk was also a fighter capable of always giving everything and becoming the undeniable star of each promotion for which he fought, be it American or Japanese. It was the supreme champion.
It was a WWF and WWE champion six times, the last time at 49. Moreover, his match against André The Giant, from March 29, 1987, from “Silverdome” from Pontiac, Michigan, attracted 93,173 spectators in the arena (besides the fact that he brought him a fee of $ 2 million), lowering the record of presence established eight years earlier to the visit of Pope John Paul II.
Over 100 Hulkmania products
By the end of the 1980s, over one hundred Hulkamania products, the brand chosen by Terry to conquer the public and marketing, were traveling in the United States. Hulk Hogan also played in ten films and in a television series (Thunder in Paradise).
His career began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, in a club where he was playing at the bass. Jack Brisco, another wrestling legend, who died in 2010, noted. It offered the opportunity to try wrestling.
In 1979, he signed his first contract with Vince McMahon’s WWF, who offered Hogan’s name with Hulk, which he had used since appearing in a talk show with the “true” Hulk, actor Lou Ferrigno.
In 2005 it was included in Hall of Fame
In 1980, he went to Japan, where he defeated Antonio Inoki, then played in the movie Rocky III (1982) with Sylvester Stallone. The movie was released globally, so much that until 1984, when it returned to WWF, it was already a star. That’s how Hulkamania was born.
After Wrestlemania III and his victory over André The Giant, Hulk became a symbol of American patriotism, used even in political propaganda for Ronald Reagan’s presidency. In 1994, the WCW was joined, the rival promotion led by the telecommunications tycoon-Ted Turner, and, in another genius, invigorated its somewhat faded image, inventing as a negative character under the name Hollywood Hogan.
Its fame was so solid and established that its mere presence on the other side was sufficient to send WWF in crisis and launch WCW events as a new television phenomenon.
In 2000, following disagreements with management, he left WCW and underwent the third knee operation (2001). He returned to WWF on January 25, 2002, and on April 21 there was a world champion again. He would lose Untrtaker in July, but Hulkaman did not go out. Therefore, with great fast, he was included in Hall of Fame in 2005.
