Could anybody picture Hulk showing up on Raw and giving a heartfelt teary apology in front of a live audience? What would the audience reaction be like? How long of a wait would there have to be for this to happen.
As a guy who grew up idolizing everything Hulkamania stood for I really feel like this is a part of me that died. A lot of the philosophy of training hard, being honest, not giving up and staying away from vices shaped me. Even though I would later on know that the real Terry Bollea wasn't half that man I still appreciated his presence. Those post reality show years did a number on Hulk Hogan, even to the point of possible suicide. Every week something was going down that TSC tacked on the L's in that Hogan L thread so it was refreshing to have seen Hogan going to church humbled and back in good graces with WWE to the point where he was an ambassador and TSC celebrated his accomplishments and appreciated the legend he created. And all of a sudden a relic of that time period comes back out of no where and destroys his legacy and hurts so many people who believed in the character of Hulk Hogan. I personally believe people can say things that they don't really mean that doesn't define them when it comes from a place of anger. I do not know Terry as a person to know if those comments truly represent him I pray to God they don't.
A little background on my self my mother crossed the border from Guatemala and got knocked up by a married Italian guy. I was raised by a single mother and never gave a crap about identifying as any race or ethnicity. But i'll never forget in the early days of AOL chatrooms as a young teen going in to an Italian chat room and I posted my picture. I was called a spic who didn't belong and wasn't one of them. That I looked like i could be part N word. The funniest was someone saying I looked like Oprah and Bruce Lee had a baby
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I remember how much that hurt and how I could never do that to anybody to make someone feel inferior because of being different.
So it hurts that Hulk Hogan who's life was saved by Leila Ali and was Dennis Rodman's best man and who's had millions of poor African Americans idolize him could speak with such vitriol and superiority about how a black person isn't good enough for their daughter...that fukking sucks man!
But I still don't want to believe that is what defines him as a human being and I pray that he isn't the same person and is one day able to make amends with himself society and his fans someway somehow. All of us human beings are complicated with a range of emotions and there are times we aren't our best. I won't abandon Hulkamania or erase the memories but this is a life lesson that no human is infallible and the only person who you can trust is yourself and even you will let yourself down from time to time.
God bless love my Coli fam
As a guy who grew up idolizing everything Hulkamania stood for I really feel like this is a part of me that died. A lot of the philosophy of training hard, being honest, not giving up and staying away from vices shaped me. Even though I would later on know that the real Terry Bollea wasn't half that man I still appreciated his presence. Those post reality show years did a number on Hulk Hogan, even to the point of possible suicide. Every week something was going down that TSC tacked on the L's in that Hogan L thread so it was refreshing to have seen Hogan going to church humbled and back in good graces with WWE to the point where he was an ambassador and TSC celebrated his accomplishments and appreciated the legend he created. And all of a sudden a relic of that time period comes back out of no where and destroys his legacy and hurts so many people who believed in the character of Hulk Hogan. I personally believe people can say things that they don't really mean that doesn't define them when it comes from a place of anger. I do not know Terry as a person to know if those comments truly represent him I pray to God they don't.
A little background on my self my mother crossed the border from Guatemala and got knocked up by a married Italian guy. I was raised by a single mother and never gave a crap about identifying as any race or ethnicity. But i'll never forget in the early days of AOL chatrooms as a young teen going in to an Italian chat room and I posted my picture. I was called a spic who didn't belong and wasn't one of them. That I looked like i could be part N word. The funniest was someone saying I looked like Oprah and Bruce Lee had a baby
.I remember how much that hurt and how I could never do that to anybody to make someone feel inferior because of being different.
So it hurts that Hulk Hogan who's life was saved by Leila Ali and was Dennis Rodman's best man and who's had millions of poor African Americans idolize him could speak with such vitriol and superiority about how a black person isn't good enough for their daughter...that fukking sucks man!
But I still don't want to believe that is what defines him as a human being and I pray that he isn't the same person and is one day able to make amends with himself society and his fans someway somehow. All of us human beings are complicated with a range of emotions and there are times we aren't our best. I won't abandon Hulkamania or erase the memories but this is a life lesson that no human is infallible and the only person who you can trust is yourself and even you will let yourself down from time to time.
God bless love my Coli fam
