HULK HOGAN
David Bixenspan Jan 28, 2022. 8 minute read
Just How Much of an Asshole WAS the Hulk Hogan Character, Anyway?
30 years ago this week, what’s now World Wrestling Entertainment held the fifth annual Royal Rumble in Albany, New York. While the 1992 event is best known for Ric Flair’s marathon performance en route to capturing his first World Wrestling Federation Championship, it arguably wasn’t even the biggest news coming…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Jan 9, 2022. 8 minute read
The Greatest Year in the History of Our Sport (1997 Week 1)
I was nine years old when wrestling was cool. The thing is, I didn’t know it was cool back then; it was just wrestling, just something I watched. Now that I’m older, I still don’t know if it was cool. It was popular, but it was approached less like Nirvana…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Aug 11, 2021. Less than a minute
“The Immortal” Hulk Hogan: A Review
Hulk Hogan’s 68th birthday is today, meaning that the man has been around long enough to properly quantify his worth on a 10 point scale. Did he fundamentally change professional wrestling for the worse? Yes. Did his right wing billionaire funded lawsuit against Gawker undermine the free press? Possibly. Was…
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Colette Arrand Apr 6, 2021. 5 minute read
Hulk Hogan’s Skullet: A Review
In 2006, music critic Ray Suzuki gave Australian rock group Jet a rating of 0.0 in his Pitchfork review of their album Shine On. The body of that review was a YouTube video of a monkey drinking its pee. I think about that review all the time, like how much…
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