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Post by LillaThrilla on Jan 8, 2012 11:43:10 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=riaiVn12_rkFlair wins when Hogan throws a tantrum and, despite being eliminated, holds Sid so Flair can throw Sid out and win. Hogan's heelish behavior here (he also throws does some eye gouging in the Rumble) was glossed over by WWF and he was a face to Sid's heel at Wrestlemania. What if instead this was the start of a Hogan heel turn? We probably never get Flair vs Hogan, but we never got that anyway.
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Post by snabbit888 on Jan 8, 2012 18:36:05 GMT -5
Even as a kid, that always confused me. I remember thinking, "Why don't they care that Hogan cheated?"
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Post by JoshiQ on Jan 8, 2012 18:43:23 GMT -5
In the 1989 Rumble, I think, the Twin Towers double team Hogan and eliminate him. Hogan gets upset, re-enters the ring, and eliminates the Big Boss Man illegally. Why in the world wasn't that considered some dastardly act?
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Post by allpowerfulgarth on Jan 9, 2012 10:54:09 GMT -5
Despite his sturdy role as the WWF's biggest babyface, Hulk Hogan cheated all the time during his first run. The announcers always came up with some excuse to make his actions seem justifiable -- usually some variation on "well the other guy started it." A website I used to visit that did reviews of old WWF pay-per-views had a habit of accompanying Hogan's rulebreaking with sarcastic exclamations of "Our hero!" and I remember seeing that phrase an awful lot.
His helping Ric Flair eliminate Sid Justice from the 1992 Royal Rumble was OK, because Sid sneaked up on Hogan and eliminated him from behind instead of confronting him face-to-face. His eliminating the Big Boss Man from the 1989 Royal Rumble was OK because the Twin Towers double-teamed him. Eye-gouging, back-raking and using foreign objects (e.g. the ashes from the Undertaker's urn in 1991) is OK because the heels did it first. And that's ignoring iffier distinctions for some of his "accidental" attacks on his friends, like the eliminations of Randy Savage and the Ultimate Warrior from the 1989 and 1990 Rumbles, respectively.
Honestly, pretty much every babyface history remembers as "squeaky clean" cheated on occasion. I recall mid-1990s Bret Hart used his wrist tape to tie opponents to the ring post, then wail on them.
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