CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
478. "While flying to the U.K., I read the [new]Hogan book. If you're reading it for insight into his wrestling career, you'll be disappointed. Of course, he's completely full of it on almost every page. Om some cases, it may be memory problems. For example, in talking about how he and Muhammad Ali were good friends and always hung out together (translated, he met Ali a few times at wrestling shows), he noted how Ali raised his hand when he won the title for the first time at the first Wrestlemania. Well, Ali did raise his hand as the guest referee (outside the ring ref because Ali wasn't able to function as a regular ref by that point as had been advertised) at the first Mania, but it was not the match where Hogan won the title.
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But he also talked about how he and John Belushi would party together and he would out-party Belushi. He used that story in his first book as well. The only problem is that in the first book, it only happened once, after Wrestlemania II (that was in 1986, Belushi died in 1982, making the story a little suscept). Now it's been exaggerated to something he regularly did during his first title reign (which started in 1984).
He didn't do the shooting on Riki Choshu and beating him for real in a match he was supposed to lose story in his first match in Japan (he wasn't supposed to lose to anyone but the top guys on his first tour and it was a few years later before Choshu became a top guy, his first match in Japan wasn't against Choshu, and he didn't shoot on anyone). But now after the story about how Hiro Matsuda broke his leg on purpose to run him off (which is possible because in Florida, they were really mean in those days to guys who wanted to get in that they wanted to run off, but nobody else has ever verified that story), after it healed, he came back, and Matsuda tried again but he blocked very move Matusa started. Yep, after two days of wrestling, Hogan, who had never wrestled or studied submissions in his life, was able to block every move by a serious hooker. I mean he was big and strong and if he trained at it, sure.
Then again, he also told a story about how when he was in high school, and he didn't even play sports in high school and never wrestled, there was this high school champion wrestler in his school and somehow they had a match and Hogan was scared, but, in fact, he pinned him in seconds which infuriated the wrestling coach so much that he challenged Hogan and then Hogan pinned him in seconds as well.
The stories about his schedule were the most incredible. He talked about wrestling 400 nights a year. He said the reason he could do it was because he would go back and forth to Japan such as wrestle one day in MSG, the next day in Japan, fly back to Boston, then fly back to Japan, which never happened, but he claimed by doing so, because of the time difference, he was able to actually live 400 days in a year. The problem is that yes, you can be in Japan and fly to California and because of the time difference, you can get home before you leave, but when you fly from California to Japan, you lose the day you pick up. In the end, it's still 365 days. I mean, how can anyone even print something so totally ridiculous?
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In this book, he also never worked at a bank as he did in the previous book, where he claimed he worked at the bank the wrestlers went to, found that the guys were making $3,000 a week (the top guys working for Eddie Graham in the late 70s were making $1,000 to $1,500 per week) and that's why he wanted to get into wrestling.
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His entire seven years in WCW is done in a few pages, and can be summed up by saying that he was retired from wrestling (not true, he was working in Japan) and Eric Bisachoff and Ric Flair recruited him in (true). He then decided to turn heel (Bischoff wanted him to turn, he didn't want to) and he turned around the wrestling business. Then AOL bought Ted Turner's empire, and they sold the company to Vince McMahon. Nothing else important happened.
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In the McMahon trial, the prosecution claimed he had used steroids from 1976 to 1989. At the time, Hogan admitted he used from those dates, but also noted a period after that time when he had lied to his wife about quitting and she got furious when she found out he had conceived while he was on steroids. In the new book, he and his wife weren't trying for a second child, and that she simply stopped using any birth control without telling him, then told him she was pregnant, and he was mad because he didn't know she was off birth control and would have gotten off steroids. But earlier in the book, when talking about his use, he copped the, 'we didn't know steroids were bad' argument for why he used then in the 80s, but when it comes to nailing Linda, he somehow realized that this drug didn't know were bad that he felt it important to get off while conceiving children." - (WON 2009-11-23)
The best part is him claming to have "lived 400 days a year" due to the "time difference".