Loss Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Hogan vs Undertaker with the WWF basically guaranteeing that Flair will be involved is a pretty strong PPV hook, I will give them that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Rewatching this, did you get any sense that having these programs run almost simultaneously diluted their impact? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted May 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Rewatching this, did you get any sense that having these programs run almost simultaneously diluted their impact? Yes. Flair/Piper could have gone much longer, and Hogan/Undertaker could have wrapped up on its own too. I'm not sure why they were in such a rush to run Flair vs Hogan on house shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 That's what I thought. It didn't make sense as an 11 year old why these stories were being crossed and still doesn't today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 When was it decided that Hogan would go on hiatus after WM8? I wonder to what extent that affected the booking--better to rush Flair/Hogan than to risk not being able to book it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackToBionic Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 I don't think that started until maybe January/February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 I wonder what it was that precipitated Hogan's leave of absence, and more importantly why it was treated as a retirement. My first guess is that it was to maybe have more of a serious go at acting on Hulk's part (something I say very loosely). I'm guessing the end-game to it was to always bring him back, like they did do in '93. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 I wonder what it was that precipitated Hogan's leave of absence, and more importantly why it was treated as a retirement. My first guess is that it was to maybe have more of a serious go at acting on Hulk's part (something I say very loosely). I'm guessing the end-game to it was to always bring him back, like they did do in '93. Steroid scandal. Hogan took time off, thinking he could come back and his image would be okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackToBionic Posted June 6, 2013 Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 Was this around the time Disney supposedly offered him a deal to make a few movies? Or was that later (or earlier)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2013 He did get a deal around this time, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 Brutus even gives a lousy intro for his best buddy Hogan. Hulk has been running off all challengers for 8 years. Undertaker will be no different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I agree that the Hoga/Flair/Taker/Piper overlap was too much and made this whole period seem more scattered than it needed to be. Hogan says he needs God to help beat Taker at Survivor Series. Standard promo from the Hulkster here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 Actually, the idea of multiple feuds at once wasn't so bad; Flair himself had done it in JCP for years. What made it a bad thing in the end was that neither program got the blowoff it really deserved. Both of them had the potential to be WrestleMania main events. All Vince had to do was pick one and watch the tickets fly. The ideal for the longtime fans would have been Hogan/Flair, but Savage/Flair was nothing to sneeze at when it came to dream matches either. Combine that with Hogan/Taker in a bodybag or casket match and you have a Mania for the ages. Instead, neither feud was blown off, and we got Hogan/Sid instead, which was basically a way to give Hogan a "retirement" win with no lasting consequences for the WWF long-term. As for this particular interview, we're back to Hogan in Immortal mode, dealing out the death references thick and fast. Beefcake's in the role he plays best, which is chief stooge and cheerleader, and the whole thing's as cheesy as you'd expect. To Kevin's point, Beefcake's intro for Hogan seems a bit off because he has to shoehorn a "survivor" reference into it, since we're talking about Survivor Series. That event alone has produced some of the most tortured interviews in wrestling history, as everyone involved MUST use the word "survive" about every third word during any promo they cut from late September on, lest the marks forget the name of the card. No sound from Gino and Bobby at all? Were they taking a mutual bathroom break or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Standard fare from Hulk, which is to say I didn't care for it. I'm not thrilled at the feud overlap, but it seems like they did that with Warrior for a while too. Teddy also had some of that going on as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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