Yeah, Hulk Hogan is a great “never meet your heroes” test case. The dude was a huge part of many kids’ formative years, but was actually a massive piece of shit if anyone ever bothered to dig. But before the internet was widespread, digging wasn’t even really possible; all you had to go off of was the public persona that they presented, and whatever you were able to dig up via library research.
Yeah, unless you were subscribing to the Wrestling Observer or something, you wouldn’t know what kind of a POS Hogan was IRL back in the day. When I first got online and discovered the nascent internet wrestling community back in the day, it was like the scales falling from my eyes.
Yeah, Hulk Hogan is a great “never meet your heroes” test case. The dude was a huge part of many kids’ formative years, but was actually a massive piece of shit if anyone ever bothered to dig. But before the internet was widespread, digging wasn’t even really possible; all you had to go off of was the public persona that they presented, and whatever you were able to dig up via library research.
Yeah, unless you were subscribing to the Wrestling Observer or something, you wouldn’t know what kind of a POS Hogan was IRL back in the day. When I first got online and discovered the nascent internet wrestling community back in the day, it was like the scales falling from my eyes.