We both knew who we were looking at when we were about 50 meters away, it was hard to miss the man, he was immense and even more "immenser" to a 10 year old. I think my sister got more of a kick out of Curious George and his green tongue.

We where walking out of the prop plane area and about to cross a checkpoint into the bigger part of the airport to grab our bags. Andre was chatting with the security guards.

Both of us were stand-offish at first but he caught our eye and extended a brief greeting, I had the sense that he and Curious George were about to catch a flight as he was wrapping up his conversation.

Can't forget that voice either, so deep but very calm and kind.

He immediately became my favourite wrestler from then on, even through the Hulk Hogan era.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Hive13:
At the end of said sex tape after Hogan leaves the room, Bubba tells his wife "we can use this when we want to retire". There is no way he has any ground to stand on.

...Maybe you revealed too much with this post.


I, uh, heard it in the news? Yeah, that's it.

>> ^Hive13:

At the end of said sex tape after Hogan leaves the room, Bubba tells his wife "we can use this when we want to retire". There is no way he has any ground to stand on.


...Maybe you revealed too much with this post.

"In the late 90s Scott Hall was as big maybe bigger..." than Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant? No he fucking wasn't. He was a sidekick and he will always be a sidekick. I'd really love it if someone who actually KNOWS shit about wrestling would talk about it rather than this idiot.

Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were cultural icons, people who didn't watch wrestling know about them, just like Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. No one knew about Scott Hall, no one cared about Scott Hall. And smarks would remember him as a completely crappy wrestler.

I saw Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan? WWF/WWE is sports? Nope. It's theatre.

"...leveraging her sexual politics to promote a historically traditional brand. Each mention of the name she gets 100k, or something like that."

Oh, god...

She defends herself against bigots and, yes, bullies, so she's somehow participating in "sexual politics"? JCP hired HER, and she certainly doesn't control the ignorant ramblings and activities of One Million Moms.

"Historically traditional brand"? WTF does that even mean? Do you mean "before there were gays"? Or do you think JCPenney sheets and pans and clothes and waffle irons were originally meant to represent some sort of imagined conservative lifestyle? Or maybe you just mean "old", which doesn't mean shit.

“We stand squarely behind Ellen as our spokesperson and that’s a great thing, because she shares the same values that we do in our company. “Our company was founded 110 years ago on The Golden Rule, which is about treating people fair and square, just like you would like to be treated yourself. And we think Ellen represents the values of our company and the values that we share.” - Ron Johnson, JCPenney CEO

Who knows if she shops there? Does she have to? Maybe someone shops there for her. She used to work there in the 70s, but that probably isn't enough for you. What if she just moves into one of the bedroom displays? They could put up plexiglass so none of the 40,000 One Million Moms could spit on her. Do you think Troy Aikman and Hulk Hogan actually rent shit from Rent-A-Center? Or that Jared Fogle doesn't have a BigMac once in a while? Or that Ricardo Montalbán actually enjoyed the soft Corinthian leather of his very own Cordoba?

I'm sure there are many, much more important things you can spend your time being ignorant about.

Hulk Hogan would TOTALLY Win this competition.

0:39 classic Hulk Hogan pose!

Oooooh yeah, I'm gonna stomp on you HULK HOGAN. Once you enter the STEEL CAGE THE LAWS OF NATURE NO LONGER APPLY.

This is Terrible. The rap is not ironically funny. It's worse than Hulk Hogan's album.

*Quality quote from the 80s. Did anyone else watch the wrestling cartoon from that era that starred Rowdy Roddy and Hulk Hogan in animated form? (Or was that just a dream I once had?)

Hopefully this will be a t-shirt at Tee Virus soon :

In all fairness, these are probably the worst announcers in any English-speaking MMA promotion. Since EXC and Affliction closed shop, at least one of these tools (the guy who mentions Hulk Hogan around 5:50) is now announcing for Strikeforce. He says incredibly stupid things one right after another, though he's overshadowed here by that other screaming moron.

>> ^direpickle:
"Kimbo has no slice, no answer!"
I hate MMA. I think it might be because of the announcers.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm proud to have been a fan during the Golden Age of the WWF. It will never get any better than 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Randy 'Macho Man' Savage, The Iron Sheik, George the Animal Steele, Jimmy 'Mouth of the South' Hart, Mean Gene Oakerland and others.


They were defo legends, a little past my time, so maybe you'll accuse me of being too young, but......

Two words:

The Rock.

Nothing in the genre i have ever seen has come close to this man's ability to entertain me - and that's just through talking alone! I've never heard a crowd so mesmerised, so enchanted by a wrestler. He OWNS the crowd! THEY ARE CHANTING THE ROCK'S NAME!

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm proud to have been a fan during the Golden Age of the WWF. It will never get any better than 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Randy 'Macho Man' Savage, The Iron Sheik, George the Animal Steele, Jimmy 'Mouth of the South' Hart, Mean Gene Oakerland and others.

I guess one completely leaves his childhood when realizes he's got a better physique than Hulk Hogan...