Comments on: The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW – May 10 1993

By: fg76

fg76 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:04:01 +0000

He (Hogan) wasn’t “totally done” with the WWF until about Jan 1994. He was still doing spots on WWF Radio, but Hogan was basically done with wrestling for Vince at that point. Hell, if Turner hadn’t come with the money and Bischoff with the “part-time” deal and “World Title Run” – Hogan would have never gone to WCW in the first place and just stayed with the acting. Hogan was completly out for Hogan at that point. I mean when the money was coming from Vince, he’d show up in 2005-06, but Hogan is always thinking more about Hogan than anybody else and it burns people and so now he’s about broke, divorced, and doesn’t even have his pseudo reality-TV special anymore to act like he’s still a living legend.

Don’t get me wrong, he is a legend – but some people still think watching a show with Danny Bonaduche and Tonya Harding is revelant.

By: StepGeo

StepGeo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:46:37 +0000

I don’t remember Hogan doing any interviews at all post-KOTR; maybe there was one or two taped ones that may not have snuck through into the Niagara Falls / Buffalo Superstars feed we got in Toronto, but I remember Hogan basically vanishing and the Luger push starting shortly thereafter (pissing me off something fierce, as I wanted Bret to get the shot he’d logically earned by winning KOTR).

By: bignasty96

bignasty96 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:38:50 +0000

I think its crazy that Hogan was still wrestling for the WWF in Europe over the summer…I always assumed he was done with them at King of the Ring, heck he wrestled the next night.

The History of WWE site seems to indicate that they kept Hogan alive through taped interviews on the weekend shows. Still curious to not have him mention on Raw or even Beefcake show up to further things.

By: Sturm316

Sturm316 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:15 +0000

Grudges, Gripes, & Grunts was the CHV, by the way. The match was on March 9, 1993, according to Graham Cawthon’s site.

By: Sturm316

Sturm316 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:16:15 +0000

Hogan and Beefcake also had several matches with the Beverly Brothers, one of which made it to Coliseum Home Video.

By: aiclive

aiclive — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:44:28 +0000

I’ve seen the Muta match and the press conference after. He calls the WWF title “bullshit” and says that he’s looking for bigger and better challenges in New Japan. It’s on YouTube I believe.

By: aiclive

aiclive — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:54 +0000

Yeah, in his shoot, Typhoon says that Bruce Pritchard (I believe) called him up to do that and he was actually supposed to get a decent sized push. But he was starting up a bar in Florida and couldn’t be on the road all the time.

By: TBT

TBT — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:52:33 +0000

He wrestled Muta May 3 in Japan and a bunch of stateside tag matches with Beefcake v. Money Inc. from May 21 on leading up to King of the Ring.

After King of the Ring, he wrestled a few more of the same matches and wrestled Yoko pretty often on a European tour over the summer.

By: machomark

machomark — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:44:09 +0000

Hogan hasn’t been on RAW since WM IX and has hardly been mentioned. Was he even wrestling house shows at this point?

By: StepGeo

StepGeo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:18:37 +0000

That sounds right (it showed up in CRZ’s Raw report I linked to in the last one of these recaps). They had no idea what to do with Yoko after he lost the title, and sending the fat guy of the month after him didn’t work.

(Personally, I thought they should’ve turned Bigelow *then*, but I guess they always knew Yoko was going to have to put over Taker when he came back)