damn i used to like dudley before i went to that site.
Andre knew when it was time to pass the torch and make somebody else the face of the business, and he knew his own limits. After Wrestlemania III, he decided to slow himself down because of his health and injuries. Hogan has two plastic knees, probably a steel rod in his back, and a contract with the devil to make sure his tits aren’t nearly as saggy as Flair’s, and what does he do? Try to take top spot in TNA(albeit in a storyline business role) and bring in The Nasty Boys just because they’re his buddies. I’m surprised Brutus Beefcake didn’t ask to tag along as well.
Andre very well could have just used his own size to wreck through everyone and play the political game, and he was definitely smart enough to play it. But he made other guys look good and helped get them over without anything(or at least much) in return. Hogan abused his creative control contract to its fullest potential, destroying the credibility of not just WCW, but its World Title and also one of the greatest slowburn hyped returns in history, Sting at Starrcade.
I used to look very negatively towards Randy Savage as well, because while he wasn’t abusing power like Hogan was, his reputation was getting massacred. His supposed bad blood with Vince McMahon and the rumors degenerating into him supposedly raping Stephanie McMahon as a kid, that rap album(enough said), and he was a dude in his 50s trying to make a wrestling comeback(thank god he didn’t). He eventually made peace with Vince and the WWE though, and happily remarried. He salvaged himself and his rep, and it’s unfortunate that he died.
I’m gonna sound heartless for saying this, but unless Hogan does something so incredible that he wins me over, he could rot in hell for all I care.
tl;dr: No, I don’t hate Andre the Giant.
P.S.- That last question is stupid, because you could replace Andre with any other dead wrestler:
“If Chris Benoit just died instead of killing his family and then himself, would he deserve more cool points?”
Go on your wrestling forum and talk about the latest Botchamania you NERD!
Such an ignorant statement. Modern wrestling of today is sucktacular, but back in the day(mid-80’s to early 2000’s) it was pretty great. Due in no small part to the hulkster. He was to WWF & Wrestling back then, what Mario was to Nintendo.
And this itself is also an ignorant statement, considering Hogan himself barely even wrestled in the 80s. Vince McMahon made a conscious effort to not make him wrestle on free TV, instead just marketing the hell out of him with the pastas, TV shows, cartoons, etc. Everybody else did all the grunt work. Hell, Savage and Steamboat stole Wrestlemania 3. Hogan/Andre was just “Hogan bodyslammed Andre, Legdrop, the end”.
Same could be said for his time in WCW. Hogan barely wrestled, showed his face on TV and talked a lot, promoting nWo T-shirts and spraypainting people’s backs, while everybody else filled in the actual wrestling segments.
And I’ll admit I got WAY offtrack here, no more wrestling rants from me. lol
P.S.- Louis, thanks for reminding me about Botchamania. I haven’t watched it in a while, need to get back. 
Wow such misinformation. All through-out his career up to the point where his knee problems finally took their toll in 1999, he otherwise was very present on Tv and wrestled a lot.Back in the nWo days when he was the driving force of WCW, he was out nearly every week with a big Nitro or Thunder match.
Its only in that final stretch of his career that things started to wind down hard, and he was seldom seen.
But hey, feel free to keep the hate.
Holy cow. You guys are passionate when it comes to wrestling. Do you have anything against robot detectives, schoolgirl ninjas, basketball shotos or test tube stretch armstrongs?
Jesus guys, i stopped watchin wrasslin when i was 12 guys. Hogan and rock da bess
It’s not a bad thing, but I thought the same. I didn’t know people were still into wrestling. I personally stopped watching when Kurt angle wasn’t at the top. That dude was the best. Trolling and kicking ass.
i’ve probably spent more quarters on wrestlefest than on street fighter
I’ll be honest here, I loved Hogan when I was a kid too. Eventually though, we all got to see him for who he really was, and the real Hogan disgusts me as both a wrestling fan and as a human being. If you want to keep your childhood vision of Hogan intact, fine by me. But saying “he was the driving force behind WCW”, when the influx of indie/international stars at the time and the drawing power of just Hall and Nash were building up all the steam, is just a huge stretch.
HUGE stretch.
P.S.- He didn’t wrestle nearly as much as you claim during his WCW run, just mainly PPVs and the occasional Nitro main events. He did show up to a lot of those Nitros, to your credit. But again, mainly promos and spraypainting/burying people. He did a LOT more politicking than actually wrestling during his time, and Bischoff was to blame for that(creative control clause in a contract = worst thing ever).
This thread has been an oddly entertaining read.
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[details=Spoiler]When he was breaking thru, me and the HS friends did backyard wrestling.
“Olympic Slam” was my signature move.
Called it the “Raging Demon”
RAGING DEMON THRU A TABLE
oh, memories.
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Iron Sheik still says Fuck Hulk Hogan on Twitter, but this one he found was a good read:
shit how does Hugo get on Airplanes, SF2 style to get to all the Japan stages?