RIP Hulk Hogan

~ Clarissa

Hulk Hogan, a famous wrestler and media personality, died a couple of days ago, and I wanted to share the story of his struggle against the scandalous website Gawker because maybe people don’t know, and it’s a truly shocking story.

Gawker published a sex tape with Hulk Hogan and refused to take it down. Hogan was broke and didn’t have money to fund a protracted legal battle with the website.

Billionaire Peter Thiel also hated Gawker because they had outed him as gay when he wasn’t ready to come out. It’s not ok to out gay people unless they hold political views that you don’t like. This is standard journalistic morality these days.

Thiel offered to fund Hulk Hogan’s legal battle against Gawker. After years of lawsuits, Hogan won an enormous amount from the website and from the CEO personally. Gawker went bankrupt, and deservedly so. When news appeared of Hogan’s death, the former Gawker journalists engaged in the most disgusting exhibitions of joy. To demonstrate the moral caliber of these members of the press, I want to post this little excerpt from the testimony given in court by the Gawker journalist who published Hogan’s sex tape:

It’s not surprising that people turn to the likes of Candace Owens for their news because, whatever her faults, she’s a huge improvement on these types of people.

RIP Hulk Hogan who, although not my kind of athlete, brought a lot of joy to people.

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9 thoughts on “RIP Hulk Hogan”

  1. “Hulk Hogan, a famous wrestler”

    All due praise to him and Thiel for taking down Gawker.

    But as a wrestler he was more famous than good – I mean his big finishing move was a leg drop. Not the worst wrestler to have a major championship (that would be the Ultimate Warrior – just awful) but nowhere near as good a worker as many others I could name.

    Sad to hear of his passing but… the record has to be kept straight.

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      1. “I don’t understand the sport at all”

        It was soap opera aimed at working class men (some women too but mostly to men). The storylines were mostly about good vs evil and wrestlers who go from one category to the other over time. In the 1980s they added a sexual component with wrestlers symbolically fighting over women who pretended to be their managers or assistants (who mostly didn’t fight they hung around the ring during the match).

        There were lots of regional variations as well and a wrestler who did well in one part of the country might not go over in another. There were also national variations, wrestling in Mexico or Japan (the other two major countries) were very different. An interview with an American who got her start in Japan found the American version ridiculously easy after the Japanese version.

        A good wrestler knew how to get the crowd invested in either their victory or defeat both in interviews and during the matches. They also knew how to make the match look realistic so that the audience could suspend belief while simultaneously building tension so that the conclusion would lead to either catharsis “the good guy won!” or keep them in suspense “‘”he’ll get that dirty sob next week!”

        I’m writing in the past tense because the classic form doesn’t really exist anymore.

        It’s one of those things that you sort of have to grow up with to understand… and it’s worth remembering that Trump has taken part in it and about half of what he does can best be understood through that prism.

        Even his reaction to the Epstein files has wrestling damage control written all over it, a combination of trying to pretend it never existed and distracting the marks with something new.

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  3. Hulk Hogan was a Florida boy. He’s one of those things where… I have zero interest in wrestling, TV, anything, and yet… when an occasional TV appearance or interview crosses a screen near me, there’s some intangible familiarity to the guy. I could not tell you anything about the culture of my state. It’s invisible to me. But I think that’s what that is… he doesn’t look like anybody I know. I’ve never met the guy. But for some reason, he just has that vibe, like he might be from around here. The little I’ve heard about him, through friend-of-a-cousin channels, universally agreed he was a decent guy, and a great entertainer even back in his days as a rock n’ roll bassist in the 70s.

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    1. “he just has that vibe, like he might be from around here”

      I think he projected that to people across the country. Not a great technician but massive crowd charisma.

      boring wrestling history: His big break was appearing in a Rocky movie. At the time he was wrestling in the mid-west AWA but the NYC based WWF (may have had a different name then) was looking to dump the old territory system and expand out of the NE and nationwide and poaching Hogan was a key element in that (as was Cindy Lauper’s friendship with Lou Albano a longterm figure in the promotion). The WWF champion had usually been a babyface (good guy) with an ethnic but All American personality, as opposed to the NWA (which dominated in Florida) practice of a heel champion (who traveled around narrowly beating local heroes).

      “I could not tell you anything about the culture of my state. It’s invisible to me”

      One of my problems was that I knew too much about it, it was far too visible for me to stay there and remain sane…..

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