Her husband even made multiple efforts to mend the relationship, including reaching out when Brooke nearly died during childbirth ... but Hulk responded coldly and never made an effort to meet Brooke's kids. Our sources say he ultimately only wanted a relationship with her under his terms.
Yeah, it is sadly amazing to have seen so many wrestling heroes live to become the villain.
Ric terrorizing the bars and restaurants of Tampa is that, par excellence. I'm just amazed we don't have more crash out videos of him than we do.
I'm far from defending Ric here and more about the steroid induced reckoning wiping out the big guys of the 80s like Hogan, Warrior, Savage, and many others. Hogan making it to 71 was fairly lucky for him.
I'm honestly wondering where wrestling goes after this current moment under TKO. They're taking a very all flash, no substance approach that I could see hurting a lot when the current popularity wave crashes.
The Vince stuff is disgusting and, while I can get attempts to distance or avoid the discussion, standing by him is something else. Especially, there seems to be some indication that he and Stephanie are on the puts like Hogan and Brooke were. These people live in their own bizarre worlds of feeling totally unaccountable for anything and free to do everything.
Yeah, I think the TKO model is not built to last. As you wrote, it's just comes across as a fad. The weekly programming is shit, just a handful of shit matches with the rest being hype for the next greatest "PReMiuM LiVE EVent EVAR!!!1"
Bringing Goldberg's tired routine back, the Travis Scott debacle, etc, etc.
Also the corporate shilling during the matches, stupid fucking run-ins, all of it reminds me so much of WCW at the end.
AEW is a much better product, but they need to refine all of what they do.
With the Vince insanity, some think WWE is prepping the audience for his return. HHH, Cena, and others have openly praised that scumbag fucker in press events, as if they were trying to see how that would go over.
I don't know all the ugly personal details of all these wrestlers that you guys seem very familiar with. But in Hulk Hogan's case, saying this at the 2024 Republican National Convention, Hulk Hogan certainly went out on a high note that will be remembered for the ages.
Alhough Hulk Hogan's image got some fine tuning after this, it at least gave him some wide exposure that helped establish and make him well known in the early 1980's.
so tuesday seems to go by as a regular day. ... at least, as far as i can remember. ... so... lets just skip it, eh?
wednesday, july 28th - 2:00 pm
wednesday, on the otherhand... wednesday had somethings goin down!
most importantly, the latest 4kids softball game!
now, we've already played 4 full games, and stand at 3-2 -- the extra game coming from a forfeit, where the other team simply didn't show up, cuz they forgot the game was rescheduled. woo, says i.
anyway, quite honestly, i was getting tired of the whole softball experience.
i mean, as i had imagined it in the beginning of the year, it would just be this fun, near-weekly gathering of employees on the field, to enjoy an uber casual game of softball. i thought it'd be a great way to have fun and meet a buncha my co-workers in an out-of-office environment.
but that really isn't what it has turned out to be, thus far.
rather, its been a somewhat embarassing, somewhat political ordeal that seems to try as hard as it can to remove the aspect of fun.
flat out, it aint.
i mean, in the casual, who-the-fuck-cares system i was envisioning, i assumed everyone would get a chance to do everything. everyone would get their turn.
but its so different. there's a set lineup of players, mostly those who played last year, and rarely ever someone new. everyone seems to try too hard to win and they're upset with losses or bad atbats. the girls who are required to play (the rule mandiates 4 must be there at all times) never even get a shot, as anytime the ball comes near them, someone runs in front to cut it off.
cuz, worst case scenario, it'd be so fucking horrible if a ball was dropped, or something.
then there's me, and my sad story.
i know that there were, like, 50 people who signed up, and i understand that i'm very low ranking and, especially, new to the whole company, but... to have not even gotten a single chance is belittling.
i've been to every game. and, as the season has gone on, and others have realized the lack of fun, less and less people attend. its down to the point where jon and i (and whatever extra girl there is) are the only people not playing.
... at all!
we don't even get put in after, like, the third inning. or get to switch with someone in the field on occasion.
But y'know, I specifically said "MILF-y", and to be a MILF you need to have at least reached puberty, and have children, or at least be old enough to have children. I was thinking of the women on either side of Hulk Hogan in that photo who are both displaying a nice C- or D-cup, and pretty dangerous curves.
I recall when I first watched wrestling on TV on a weekly Saturday show, a guy named Gordon Solie was the announcer, and wrestler Barry Windham was brand new to the sport.
For about aa monh or so, I actually believed wrestling was real. By the time Hulk Hogan came along, I'd already stopped watching for a long time, and only discovered him in the early 1980's as a celebrity visible outside the world of wresttling.