- The massive lawsuit 60 wrestlers put up against the WWE for concussion symptoms and such was a mess. The lawyer in charge copy and pasted a ton of the NFL concussion lawsuit for his suit, but didn't edit it well and left a lot of "NFL" references in where WWE/F was to be. The judge ultimately decided the lawyer had to pay the WWF's legal fees, costing him a large sum of his retirement fund.
- Pedro Morales helped Jose Luis Rivera break in during the early 70s. He bounced around to little success until Superstar Graham went to bat for him in 1982 and landing Jose a spot as TV jobber and eventually house show body,
- In 1983 Vince Sr told Jose they wanted to push him hard to replace the aging Morales in the WWF.
- Sr sent him to WWC for Carlos Colon to make him champ to jumpstart the push, instead Colon made him a heel jabroni and paid him peanuts. After a few months Jose went to Sr who was upset at the news and brought him back into the WWF.
- The WWF push never came and Rivera says it was because Jose Gonzalez (Invader 1) put the bad mouth on him to the office. (I'm guessing this was during their WWF tour).
- Jose avoided the drugs and booze while on tour with the WWF. He says it was simply due to not being able to afford it. Rivera was aghast watching JYD drop 200 bucks on a small pile of cocaine one night. That would have been Rivera's whole payday.
- Jose pitched the idea to make he and Jose Estrada a team. Vince came up with the look and Finkel named them.
- Vince took care of Jose, gladly giving him a loan in a time of need and then refusing repayment.
- Rivera can recall his MSG matches with ease. His kid's birthdays? No as well. (Papa Brody was the same way with deer hunt stories.)
- Backlund was under the impression from Vince that he would regain the title a month after losing it. Once he found out Hogan was the planned victor, he went to Sr to try and appeal for a change.
- Jerry Brisco had discovered Hogan, so he was watching in the gym the day of the Matsuda/Hogan incident. Jerry says Hiro did wrench Hogan's ankle, severely spraining it, not breaking it. The Briscos taped it up for him.
- Hogan gives 2 versions of events - one in each of his books. One says Hogan had to wait for his dad to come pick him up to bring him home. The 2nd says his dad took him to the hospital. Brisco says Hogan drove himself home.
- The author interviews one of Hogan's childhood friends. The friend explains that their area had segregated bathrooms and such, but the divide was more poor kids vs rich kids than black vs white. He confirms he and Hulk had black buddies who they lovingly called the N-word as a greeting.
- He and Hogan got beat up by a group of black guys in their teens. Apparently Hogan's Pa witnessed it all.
- The friend (Danny) hit a bad streak in life and was suicidal. Hogan and Ed Leslie literally dragged him out of bed and helped turn his life around. Danny Brazil eventually became a weight trainer instead of a lardass and worked the territories - peaking with WWF job duty.
- Danny apparently hung out with Hogan during the WM1 era, and Vince would pay for his hotels and such to make Hogan happy. (Who the hell is this guy? I need to hit the google machine)
- Danny got Hogan's roids sent to his house.
- Vince fired Danny in late 89 as Hogan was out of favor and Warrior Wildness on the horizon.
- Danny hasn't spoke to Hogan since 1993.
- Hogan wrote about Danny in one of his books, only referring to him as a "mule" to carry his drugs and roids on the road. Hogan was freaked out seeing Danny in the courthouse during the 1994 trials. Danny tried to call Hogan during this era but Hogan pretended the connection was bad and he couldn't hear him.
- Within the book hunting down Vince's WWF stars of Dec 83 emerges the tease of a enticing new book as the McMahon scandal is breaking as the author tours the country hunting down the stars of the past.
- The WWE approved the author meeting with Hogan, and Brian Blair (still a close buddy to the Hulk) met with and vouched to Hogan about the author, but Hogan never called back to be interviewed.
- The author goes to Hogan's Beach Shop for the Karaoke. Hogan does appear, but the author chooses to wax poetic about wanting to keep Hogan as Hogan and Terry Bollea as a separate entity and does not push to meet Hogan in this bar setting.
