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I really hope the fentanyl stuff is another lie. Being that high and drunk, if true, probably didn't start in 2010. It was more likely a decades-long thing with only the substances changing. It would've informed all the paranoia, grandiosity, and self sabotage (which is what all the dumb self-booking was...may have felt good at the time but lessened all his future income each time he did it) from the mid-80s on.
 
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I've been up for like 21 hours at this point so I will probably be delirious before I can finish this in one afternoon.

Episode 1:

We open with the Hulkster's funeral. BRODY SOB.
- Rodman kept it classy by wearing an nWo shirt to the funeral.
- It had to be killer for a fitness freak like Hogan to spend 20 years with a broken back and not being able to go like he wanted too. And then because he was HULK HOGAN he had to look a certain way if he wanted to keep the grift going.
- Hulk jokes about his "geritol" gym he has now compared to his glory days.
- Nick has to open water bottles for the Hulk as he can't twist them now.
- Hogan laments now being able to get in the ring anymore as that moment was the ultimate escape for all of life's ills
- It's wild to see Hogan go from banging weights one minute to needing a cane to walk when he's done.
- "Some people hate me but I'm definitely the greatest wrestler of all time"
- "Hulk Hogan was over the top. It was a fake character. I hope people can understand that someday."
- Hulk did not have parents who said things like "I love you". His dad made it known Terry's 8 year older brother was the favorite.
- Hogan discovered wrestling at 9 years old. He loved Dusty Rhodes and Florida Championship Wrestling. (For the record Hogan was 9 in 1962. Dusty 1st gained any real fame in 1968 and that was not Florida. Hogan has consistently told this story though. He just ignores how old he actually was when he would have been a Rhodes mark.)
- Hogan thought it was a shoot. He desired to be a wrestler, but was scared of the guys. Plus he was fat. "I lived off Burger King and Snickers"
- He was too fat to succeed in baseball so he went into bowling. Then discovered music. Linda says Terry was good enough to play for Gun and Roses.
- Being a musician made his parents upset since he quit college.
- The wrestlers saw Hogan playing and started "grooming" him for a spot.
- Hogan was watching from ringside one night and caught Steve Keirn calling spots. Then Hogan realized it was fake and he could do it.
- Hogan cites Brian Blair as one of the guys who got him into the wrestling circle. This is a little questionable as Blair and Hogan debuted the same year. Blair was training in Florida though so he could have been floating around with the wrestlers I guess. Blair does chime in to talk about seeing Hogan on stage.
- Blair then clarifies he and Hogan trained together.
- Blair says the training place was called "The Dungeon". Matsuda's family online say "The Snake Pit".
- An article online also talks about how Hogan found out from a banking job he was doing about the wrestler's paydays so he started to hang out at the spot where the workers would meet during their weekly rotation of towns. So the exact opposite of being discovered by the wrestlers.
- Hogan says "one of my trainers" broke my leg. (Hasn't Meltz debunked this as more of accident? Maybe not?)
- Hulk was not allowed to go home because his dad was still pissed at him. He would sneak over with his broken leg while his dad was at work so his mom could feed him and "I would sleep in Dad's bed"
- Some online sources say the injury was "a severe strain" not a break. Hiro did not mention the incident in his bio. He merely said Hogan became the biggest star of all time. It sounds like Mr. Wonderful and Brian Blair trained at the same time with Bollea.
- Hogan worked under a hood to learn how to work in front of a real crowd.
- Terry Boulder debuts in Memphis. Lawler predicted he'd never draw a dime. "He wasn't very good" says the King.
- Hogan claims he was making 800 dollars a week in Memphis. He said he needed a 1000 to actually cover bills related to traveling, etc. There's zero chance he was making that kind of cash in Memphis. Inflation calculator puts his payoffs at 4 grand a week in modern money. NO WAY BROTHER.
- Bret Hart says he and Hogan worked a bunch in Georgia. "All he could do was a bearhug"
- Vince Sr came calling. Ted Dibiase was his first MSG opponent and Ted walks us through the match.
- Hogan says he was supposed to appear on "Charlotte" TV but chose to go to L.A. and film Rocky 3 instead and got fired.
- Linda saw Hogan in the movie, and then Hogan walked into her bar shortly after. Hogan had all the women swooning as he flexed and Linda loved his moxie.
- Hogan brought Linda back to his apartment. He vanished into the bathroom....only to come out stark naked.
- They fornicated and were together forever....until the divorce of course.
- Hogan got hired by Verne Gagne. Hogan came in as a heel. He fibs here and says "They had a real popular wrestler named Jesse Ventura and they wanted us to feud" or some such. Ventura was NOT a face.
- Crazymax's AWA results have Ventura main eventing with Adonis vs the High Flyers on Hogan's 1st house show. Within 3 weeks Hogan is working heels.
- Hogan came in August of 1981 it appears. Rocky 3 would not come out until the following May.

- Hogan says he was wildly popular in the AWA but needed a "gimmick". So he wrapped himself in patriotism.
- Vince Jr got a hold of Hogan to try and lure him into the WWF.
- YES! They run "Hulkster's in the House" over the credits!!!
 
They should do like that Weird Al biopic or Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and have a Hogan biopic that plays all his lies straight. Like Metallica did audition him after Cliff passed, he was scouted by the Reds and Mets as a pitcher, he developed Pride FC back in 77, Elvis was a Hulkamaniac despite dying like 8 years before Hulkamania, etc. It would probably work as an absurdist parody movie quite well.
 
The timezones canceled out dates in Japan existing compared to American ones
 
BruiserBrody said:
Apparently we get version 5 of his "suicide" attempt later in the doc. I didn't know of like 3 of these.

I was surprised they didn't touch on his NJPW stardom given he was main eventing and making big money. It would certainly help a casual audience further understand his mass appeal.
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I was really surprised that they left out NJPW and barely mentioned Inoki. They might not even of mentioned him, I only watched the first two episodes and found it kind of dull tbh. I was zoning out whenever Hulk or Linda would ramble too much, which happened a lot. Linda especially is not a compelling interview, and Hulk is 2025 Hulk.
 
Last episode better be him not realizing he's mic'd up and revealing the truth like The Jinx.
 
Episode 2
- After a year Hogan wanted to move in with Linda, but with his lifestyle of barely being home she didn't want to commit to being stuck in a new place alone - especially if Hogan decided to dump her.
- When she turned down the idea Hogan vanished from her life for 2 weeks.
- Hogan flew her to Oakland and instead of breaking up Hogan declared his love for her. They were engaged.
- It's funny to think as this pretty young blond was wooing Hogan, Verne was trying to set up one of his....let's be nice and say average looking daughters to be Hogan's paramore.
- Hogan and Linda both sound like they are still in love and still together in these modern talking heads recalling their courtship. There's no bitterness just smiles and praise.
- We go to the Hogan storage unit and see all his old toys and merch. Almost makes the Hogan wing in my basement seem quaint.
- Bob Costas mixes up Iron Sheik and Volkoff as he goes over the cartoony evil that was set up for the American Hero Hogan to knock down.
- Hogan's dad wouldn't go to see Hulk wrestle as he thought it was silly but he came to MSG to see Hogan win the World title
- Hulk got so into the moment that he attacked the Iron Sheik before the bell -supposedly unplanned
- Daddy Hulk finally got over Terry's career choice with the World title win going down. Hogan gets choked up recalling the moment his father finally shared some positive emotions with him.
- They show a hilarious picture of Hogan eating out with his parents (after the show?) where Hogan is wearing a pink shirt covered in hearts with a shredded design. Papa Hogan is in his Mr Rogers sweater next to him on this cold night in January in NYC.
- Hulk says he was run ragged in the build to WM 1. He was booked on Richard Belzer's cable show and told there would be 7 kids in wheel chairs there to meet him. (I believe that part of the story is a later decade Hogan add on to babyface himself some given what happened next) Belzer was clowning on Hogan and T so when pressed to show off some moves, Hogan choked the comedian out legit and dropped him on the studio floor, legit busting his head open.
- Modern Hogan calls Belzer "A pain in the ass" LOL
- Linda claims "We lived on 3500 a month" LMAO. Such BS. With all the big city sell outs Hogan was doing he was making at least that on some nights alone.
- A quick google shows 4 years earlier, NWA champ Harley Race was making that (as well as his opponent) for drawing 11K fans in St Louis. So double that number and you still don't have the MSG and Felt forum sell out capacity. And again that's ONE NIGHT.
- Inflation calculator says that 3500 is almost 11 grand today BTW so the Hogan's were getting by on "only" 100K+ a year in Linda math.
- On that note New Japan was paying Hulk like 5 figures a week so if the WWF was really only paying that a month Hogan would have been eating sushi and saying sayonara to America
- We get a fun video of Hulkamania running wild across the media and loaded arenas. Hogan delivers the cliche of Vince moving wrestling from small venues to stadiums.
- Hogan admits he and Linda were doing cocaine together while partying. Linda talked of using uppers and downers to live the life
- Hulk's estranged brother showed up. He was a biker and needed rehab. Hogan gave him money to pay some bills, but Alan Bollea turned down the offer to go with Hulk to help set up a rehab. Alan overdosed and died.
- Terry Bollea comes out from the Hulk persona sitting in the documentary chair. Hogan's vulnerabilities lay exposed as the film maker tries to ask about his brother's death. Terry straight up says "You have to stop. You're digging way too much for me" Hogan tried to go to the funeral but had to leave from the emotions. Apparently the Bollea parents also skipped it at least according to Terry.
- Hogan says he dropped the drugs at this point.
- Hulk had to embrace his spot as a role model and the drugs couldn't be part of his life.
- Seeing little Hulkamaniacs never fails to hit me in the feels. We get a montage of Hulk doing Make-a-Wish appearances and the room is getting dusty in here.
- This leads to a brilliant transition as we see a crippled adult in the modern era telling Hogan he went to see him at WM 3. This leads right into us seeing Andre and the set up for the biggest spectacle of all time.
- Modern Hogan swings my emotions back to laughter as he says he saw Andre at the airport and he was like 600 pounds. Author and wrestling journalist Keith Elliot Greensburg pokes fun at Hogan for exaggerating Andre's weight upward with each retelling of the story.
- "For those who believe.... it's like when Jesus rose from the dead"
- Hogan says he was thanking Andre and telling him he loved him during the epic stare down. Andre sat there and looked "pissed."
- Hogan claims he used to order boots 12 at a time and when they'd wear out, he'd retire. Then he'd order 12 more... and 12 more...
- WM 3 etched in stone Hulkamania
- Oye... Hulk praises President Trump and this transitions to our Fearless Leader sitting down for the documentary crew. "I have a big Russia meeting going on...."
- Trump puts over Hogan's look and showmanship.
- Premier Trump explains the Hulk Up.
- Hulk acts like he was the WWF merchandising brand manager as he explains how he couldn't chug beers on the road like a normal wrestler and instead had to talk to business execs and approve deals.
- It was time for kids and Brooke is born.
- Not getting Vince to sit down for this seems a bit shocking considering they could land the President, but not our favorite Sex Pest Promoter.
- Given that Brooke had a falling out with her parents, I'm assuming we aren't getting her views upcoming. Nick has been here as a background garnish for Modern Hulk at times.
- Nick was unexpected as Linda just dropped the birth control without telling Hulk.
- Nick says he doesn't remember Hulkamania given he was born in 1990.
- Brooke and Nick had to share their Daddy with the world. Nattie Neidhart talks about Jim Neidhart being on TV in the house more than he was at their house.
- Hogan went to Vince to reduce his schedule so he could see his kids and wife. Vince pushed back since Hogan was laying the golden eggs.
- The way Hogan tells this is absurd. "Vince asked me how we are going to draw in all these towns without you?" "I told him we needed another star" Eureka! How did McMahon not think of that?!?!
- Enter The Ultimate Warrior. Cut to Jake the Snake "The Ultimate Shit"
- Snake, Bret. Dibiase, etc all take turns shitting on Warrior for being terrible.
- Cody Rhodes explains how the WM 6 match was more about Hogan losing than Warrior winning.
- Slaughter gets the belt to end the Warrior experiment. The talking heads compare Sarge to Iron Sheik in gimmicks. Hogan saves the American way by beating Sarge for the title.
- Hogan compares Hulkamania to "The Roaring 20s, WW1, WW2, the Wild West - It will be talked about forever in our society"
- Hulk laments that this magical time dissipated and wonders how it could vanish in what felt like a flash. This is followed by a tease of the steroid scandals and lies that would threaten Hulk's public persona as we head into 1992.
- Credits music is "I WANT TO BE A HULKAMANIAC!" 5 stars!
 
Episode 3:
- We see clips of Hogan at the Mania 8 pre-show teasing retirement.
- Jesse Ventura "Hogan was going to retire? BULLSHIT!"
- The talking heads explain how being a star is like a drug and it's not something you can just quit.
- Nick says in 2025 Hogan was still talking about another match.
- Linda said Hogan really did train, say his prayers and ate his vitamins every day.
- Jesse makes a steroid joke in regards to Hogan's "vitamins" and that transitions us into steroid scandal talk.
- Hogan says in the 70s that roids were thought to be safer than sugar.
- We get clips of Brutus, Hogan and Savage working out. Hogan says Beefcake was puking blood from working so hard one day.
- Hogan talks about how massive he was on roids and Nick kind of gives a dismissive "yeah" as if even he's tired of hearing his dad tell this story.
- "I got Arsenio Hall his talk show" WHAT!? Finally a proper lie on this doc from Mr. Hogan
- Hogan went on the Hall show and lied about his roid use and got major flack from the media for it.
- Bret "When you lie. (pregnant pause) you're a liar"
- Bret Hart was next man up after Hogan left. "Hogan was Elvis, I was Robert DeNiro"
- Modern Hulk buries Bret as not being a star that can carry a brand.
- Bret claims Hogan wouldn't shake his hand when Hulk returned in 1993 and Bret was champ. Modern Hulk doesn't recall this but says he may have had an off day.
- Hogan says he had backstage power to change booking. Bruce Prichard says Hogan getting the belt at WM 9 was a Vince call. Hogan says Hart pitched a fit at the booking and got in his face.
- Bret "Fuck you" sips drink. CINEMA.
- Hitman "Hogan was a knife wielding, back stabbing, piece of shit"
- Hart "Hogan wrestled the same match every night" HHH chimes in to say similar.
- Hogan barely worked dates during this run, and most of the shots he did do were tag matches with Beefer vs Money Inc and Beverly Bros so who knows if they could have found lightning in a bottle once more.... but Vince himself then told Hogan the era is over....
- "Broken Wings" plays over Hogan getting mauled by Yokozuna at KOTR 93.
- Hogan says basically "I know my gimmick, and while Vince can run a big company, I think this time he was way off with how he treated my brand"
- Hulk explains in so many words that Vince the friend and Vince the businessman were one in the same. It hurt Hogan that they split off here.
- Vince and Hogan both confirm they had a heated argument over the phone at the end of this.
- Christopher Lloyd talks about how intimidating Hogan was to look at but he was a big softy IRL.
- Hulk tries to laugh off his movie starring efforts as "scamming" the biz for a bit. We see Siskel and Ebert shit on him.
- Hogan says acting was dull with lots of down time.
- Hogan says WCW wasn't sports entertainment it was "wrasslin" while the clip they chose to show this was Col Parker and Bunkhouse Buck being absolute cartoons. I think they undermined the point accidentally.
- We then see Robocop and Big Josh. Is this not sports entertainment?
- ATM Eric joins us to shit on WCW drawing and the kind of fans they could attract.
- Hogan claims he had to give back some of his WCW money to avoid some people getting in trouble for giving him so much. Uh huh.
- The talking heads think Hogan was a tired act and WCW tired to push an older, played out gimmick.
- Hogan did not say what the FBI wanted him to at McMahon's trial.
- The trial and Hogan's WCW in ring debut were really close together. The Apter mags certainly played it up.
- Vince used his time in front of the press to shit on WCW and Hogan's arrival.
- Hogan feels he was still "hot" as an act.
- 40 year old Cody Rhodes soft buries 40 year old Hulk Hogan's WCW wrestling attempts.
- Bischoff and Hogan admit the fans were booing him after a few months. Hogan says he was not happy and it was time for something different.
- Nash "I was not a guy who liked this as a kid. I watched it and thought it looked fake as shit" Nash wrestled for the money.
- Hall and Nash enter WCW and spark a big interest in the fans. Hogan decided to latch onto the angle and embrace a heel role,
- Nash claims they didn't know what Hogan was going to do when he came through the curtain.
- Linda says Hogan was not the same at home during this time. "He was cold"
- The evil Hogan run finally ends in the spring of 1999 as his knee finally gives out. Hogan claims he blew it out in 1984. Meltz was reporting Hogan having a bad knee in the Fall of 1985 era as Terry Funk was being rumored to be getting a place holder run with the belt as Hogan was off getting his knee fixed; Hogan powered through it instead
- Hogan claims he was legit planning to run for president in 1998. Hogan claims he spent 3 months planning to run (we even see clips of him on Larry King discussing how he knows nothing about the issues) but then he backed off as he was afraid he might actually win.
- The easier answer that wasn't said here is Hogan wanted to one up Jesse Ventura's governor win and was having a lark.
- This leads to Hogan coming back to WCW after a few weeks off and doing the infamous "Fingerpoke of Doom" with Nash.
- Shit, we could have gotten Nash's take on Hogan and him battling backstage over who got to beat Goldberg and once Hogan lost the political battle for once, then switching gears and doing the President gimmick.
- Nash smiles that he and Hulk stole the fans money by running such a BS match in a dome.
- We FFWD past months of stuff to October when Russo took over as booker after the shit hit the fan.
- Hogan shits on Russo's booking.
- The doc fails to explain Russo's shoot on Hogan and how it lead to Hogan leaving and suing WCW for defamation.
- Linda says Hogan was in a foul mood after WCW. She implies he was cheating on her during this period.
- Hogan returns to the WWF in 2002. He was hurt 2 weeks before his Mania match with the Rock but shot himself up with painkillers and did business.
- Cody says Hulk vs Rock is the greatest match of all time.
- Hulkamania is reborn as the Toronto fans lose their shit for Hogan and boo the Rock.
- Montreal fans give Hogan a prolonged massive response. Hogan soaks it in.
- Modern Hulk ruins the vibes by saying he was glad as now he could use the response for his backstage power.
- Hogan got lost in his own gimmick and dark days were to follow...
 
Episode 4
- I wasn't expecting the final 25 years to be the longest part of these docs.
- We question where Hogan ends and Terry Bollea begins. We see this switch can still be flipped as Bollea goes into promo mode to plug karaoke at his bar.
- Vince was all ready to redo Hulkamania in 2002 after Hogan's reaction vs the Rock. HHH says he and others tried to warn Vince it was a nostalgia act and the wrong move. HHH of course had his own push to protect so he's not exactly showing altruism here. Also HHH how'd that DX reunion go time and time again? Was that bad too?
- Hogan says he should have quit in 1990 and pushed the movie stuff harder. That contradicts his statements earlier in the doc.
- Modern Hogan wishes he had done a sleeper for a finish instead of a leg drop to avoid wear and tear on his body. We saw in the 70s he was doing a bear hug for a finish, maybe he should have just modified it into something a bit cooker. Or just use the AXE BOMBA as a finish my dude.
- Hogan says Shawn mocked his age on TV and then made sure everyone knew their Summerslam match was a "joke" with his over selling.
- Hulk was quiet at home now and the marriage suffered.
- VH1 came calling to give the family a show. This was a bit of a stretch for Hogan to bring the family back together by giving them something to work together on as a unit.
- The producers made Nick do kiddie pranks while he really just wanted to work on cars and hang out with his buddies.
- Hogan liked that the show made young women find him sexy as they saw his tender side.
- Jimmy Hart says putting the family together nonstop wound up with them grating on one another instead of bonding.
- Hulk claims Linda was different now. He'd bring six figure checks home and she'd scold him for not making enough.
- The producers wanted to do a marriage issues angle and the Bolleas worked themselves into a shoot.
- Hogan wound up sleeping with one of Brooke's friends.
- Nick doesn't want to relitigate his parents split.
- Linda started dating Brooke's classmate. Hogan tries to shit on her for this, but obviously he can't really say much given what he did.
- Hogan was blocked from living in either of the house's he owned. Linda would have the new bf drive Hogan's boat to wear Hulk now lived so Hulk would/could see them making out and such.
- A reporter hung out with Hogan for a few days. After a few beers, Hogan was asked about the OJ Simpson murders. He blurted out a line about understanding why OJ did it. The reporter ran with it and it added to the scandal.
- After the divorce Hulk says he was broke so he joined TNA after Bischoff brokered a deal.
- Hulk was going to wrestle semi often, but his body gave out.
- Here's where Hogan talks about his fentanyl usage on a daily basis to overcome the pain
- They cover Hogan's many back surgeries.
- A sex tape with Hogan sleeping with his friend Bubba the Love Sponge's wife came out to add more scandals to Hulk's life.
- Hogan won a large settlement from Gawker for spreading the video, but his life was still haunted by it as he used a racial slur, which sullied his public image.
- They cover the WWE firing him over it but do not explain him leaving TNA or anything to tie this together
- They totally skip his 2nd marriage and suddenly he's met wife number 3.
- Hogan implies he was spoken to by God out loud "I am putting you through a cleansing" while sitting alone one day.
- Hulk starting rediscovering the church and was baptized.
- Unintentional comedy again as they use Hogan's faith talk with clips of him shilling beer.
- Terry Bollea is flawed. Hulk Hogan is the super hero that some people need in their lives.
- Hulk says he feels he still is on this Earth for a higher purpose, yet unknown....
- or to Enter MAGA. Hogan "At least Trump is honest about himself"
- Trump's assassination angle they ran in Butler made Hogan decide to go from quiet voting american to MAGA spokesman.
- MAGA rallies gave Hogan the tickle like he was headlining MSG again.
- Hogan praises Dear Leader while shilling beer bar to bar. 'Merica
- HHH and Hogan play nice for the sake of Netflix's RAW debut
- Cody Rhodes diplomatically says Hogan was boo'd out of the building
- HHH says he assumed the "vibe" in L.A. would mean Hulk would be boo'd.
- HHH tip toes around the lack of proper apology for the racism being why Hogan was boo'd
- Hogan says he had heel heat and thinks he could draw a house as a heel in LA
- Bischoff is more realistic and says it's bad for his brand for a face like Hogan to get such a response
- Hogan romances the memory of his kids being young and Linda being the love of his life as the peak of his happiness.
- We get a montage of Bischoff, Prichard, Nash, Linda, etc crying over Hulk's passing. Then we go to Hacksaw Duggan for the first time and he's crying and that breaks me.
- Linda says she still loves him.
- Ventura's interview was clearly taped after Hogan's passing, which probably is why he was more gentle on him than most expected.
- Jimmy Hart talks about Hulk up in heaven with his other fallen comrades, spliced with images of Dusry, Andre, Mean Gene, Piper, etc and it gets the waterworks going again in my living room.
- They do a good editing job showing Dibiase, Jimmy Hart, Ol' Hacksaw, Sarge, Brian Blair, etc walking onto the stage together for the Hogan RAW ten bell salute with transitions into vintage Hogan roaring through the curtain in various arenas
- We see Vince delivering a eulogy for Bollea and leading the attendees in a round of applause and chant of "Hogan! Hogan!"
- "Terry Bollea was a human being. But the legend of Hulk Hogan will live forever"

They don't close with "Real American" which I was 200 percent expecting.
 
Long assumed there was some drug and drink with Hogan but I didn't expect to learn it was Jake the Snake proportions. I also didn't know about the brother and how his overdose both devastated Hogan and drew him towards those demons.
 
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