Please Don't Discriminate, Edition I: Hulk Hogan.

In this article, I will defend things in wrestling that get hate by many wrestling fans. It can consist of many things such as: wrestlers, companies, announcers, show, eras, bookers, and so on. Today we will focus (as the title says) on the wrestler, Hulk Hogan.

Reasons why I don’t hate Hogan:

Charisma/Crowd Psychology:  One thing every wrestling fan must admit was that Hulk Hogan knew how to work a crowd. The man truly knew how to get over, and make people love him. People considered him as a true American Hero, and people loved and respected him more than our own Soldiers (the true heroes).People say Hogan was the right man at the right time, which is true in a way, but every gimmick, character, or amazing wrestler as yet to get over as much as Hulk Hogan did.

Mic skills: I am taking my smark hat off on this one. I know Hogan wasn’t a great talker or could tell a great story on the mic as a Flair or Foley, but no one can deny it wasn’t entertaining to listen to a Hogan promo back in the day, or even to this day.

Popularity:  You must be saying to yourself why would I care about how popular he was? And that is because I respect anyone who could do what he did.  Hulk Hogan took wrestling to another level; a level that it never reached before. And even if I don’t like where he took it, he still took it in the right business direction by making it as popular as it became. If it wasn’t for Hogan’s popularity, WWF would have most likely died, soon or a later.

Face to Heel:  This is honestly where I don’t think Hogan gets enough credit for at all. In the 80’s and early 90’s, Hogan was considered the best man of the face of the earth by various people. By 1996, he turned into being the most hated wrestler on the face of the earth. I know and understand that it was an era where the good guy was the bad and vise-versa, but the fact still stands he was a great heel, and got heat for a long time. This was the actual time a heel carried a wrestling show and improved their ratings.  So, Hogan went from number one face to number one heel.

Reasons why people hate Hogan:

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