{"id":10762,"date":"2014-11-25T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:34:12","slug":"hulk-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=10762","title":{"rendered":"Hulk Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Championship Titles<\/strong>: 12<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode\" class=\"sixtop-post-quote post-quote-right\" >\n<div class=\"quote-sign-box hidden-on-desktop\"><\/div>\n<p>        &ldquo; Whatcha gonna do, brother, when the largest arms in the world and HULKAMANIA run WILD on you?!?!? &rdquo;<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode_after\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Finishing Moves<\/strong>: Axe Bomber, Running Leg Drop<\/p>\n<p>Hulk Hogan is one of the most recognizable wrestlers worldwide and the main attraction of the \u201880s wrestling. By his real name, Terry Gene Bollea was born on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 1953. Throughout his career he has inspired many wrestlers with his in-ring character.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan has 12 World Champion titles to his name, six WWE (former WWF) World Heavyweight Championships and six WCW World Heavyweight Championships. Hogan was inducted to WWE\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2005 by Sylvester Stallone, guest star for the 2005 WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony. The two American heroes go way back, to Rocky III, in which Hogan had the role of Thunderlips. After a few memories about Hogan hurting stunt guys while filming Rocky III, Stallone introduces the one and only Hulk Hogan.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Career<\/h3>\n<p>Taking\u00a0a trip back in time brings us to the year 1979, where a young Hulk Hogan first shows his face and power on the ring of WWE:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEYcnqiRcVM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Hogan, the Real American<\/h3>\n<p>Years later, Hogan has earned the crowd&#8217;s respect and sympathy, also during his time with World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) the role of the American Hero. He always entered on the stage on \u201cReal American\u201d in the chants and applauses of the crowd. This is a tribute to Hulk Hogan, the real american:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFwXmz1KGoQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Change of heart and allying with rivals<\/h3>\n<p>However, after turning to World Championship Wrestling in 1994, Hogan changed his character as well. Hulk Hogan turned heel (turned bad) for the first time in fifteen years, when he attacked Randy Savage and announced the formation of nWo, New World Order, a new stable with Hogan in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Savage, one of Hogan\u2019s longest rival, also joined the nWo pack. However, when the nWo split up into two, Savage chose to be part of the \u201cgood guys\u201d called \u201cFace\u201d in wrestling, the nWo Wolfpac. At the same time, Hogan chose to maintain his \u201cbad guy\u201d aspect he created upon joining WCW and created nWo Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his 12 titles as World Champ, Hogan also won the WWE World Tag Team Championship (in 2002 with Edge as his partner) and the Royal Rumble two times, in 1990 and 1991 (making him the first wrestler to win the Royal Rumble two times in a row).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10787 size-full\" title=\"Hulk Hogan flexing his muscles\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hulk-Hogan-coll.jpg\" alt=\"Wrestler Hulk Hogan doing his pose\" width=\"1000\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hulk-Hogan-coll.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hulk-Hogan-coll-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hulk-Hogan-coll-768x217.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During his time as a wrestler, Hogan had four managers: \u201cCaptain\u201d Lou Albano, \u201cClassy\u201d Freddie Blassie, Miss Elizabeth (most known for managing Macho Man Randy Savage) and \u201cThe Mouth of the South\u201d Jimmy Hart.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Hollywood&#8221; Hulk Hogan<\/h3>\n<p>Hogan took his theatrical prowess and tried his luck with roles in movies. Although he played in several movies, like \u201cMr. Nanny\u201d, \u201cSpy Hard\u201d, \u201cSanta with Muscles\u201d his true love and the place for his talent to shine was wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, VH1 put their faith into \u201cHollywood\u201d Hulk Hogan (his ring name in World Championship Wrestling) and premiered a show called \u201cHogan knows best\u201d. The show captured Hogan\u2019s family life, focusing on his children\u2019s dreams and how they will fulfil them. Hogan\u2019s daughter, Brooke dreamt of making it into the music business while her brother, Nick tried to become a professional race car driver followed by an attempt to be a professional wrestler like his father.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan\u2019s family was just like any family, full of troubles. After a scandal about Hogan cheating on his wife, Linda, she filed papers for divorce. Initially it was thought that the divorce was just meant to save them money from the criminal charges against their son, Nick (car accident in 2007 with the right passenger seriously injured). However, Linda later declared that she wanted divorce because of Hogan\u2019s unfaithful nature.<\/p>\n<h3>Return of the Hulkster?<\/h3>\n<p>At the beginning of 2014, WWE announced the return of Hulk Hogan as the host of Wrestlemania XXX, thirty years after the first edition of Wrestlemania, edition which featured Hogan next to Mr. T. This edition of Wrestlemania was also an homage to Andr\u00e9 the Giant with a 30-man Battle Royale. The winner of the event would win the Andr\u00e9 the Giant Memorial Trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/most-iconic-wrestlers-of-all-time\/\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"prev\" >\n<div id=\"prev_link\" >Most Iconic Wrestlers of all time<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/randy-savage\/\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"next\" >\n<div id=\"next_link\" >Randy Savage<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76416,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10762\/revisions\/76416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}