Hulk Hogan's book

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I can't remember a book that I have looked forward too more than the Hogan autobiography. Truly a book that NEEDED to be read.

 

I've skimmed through some stuff of interest to me and have fallen down laughing a few times already.

 

First of all...if there is a book out there with as many chapters less than two pages long, I haven't seen it.

 

Here's some quotes I love of the very small portion of the book I skimmed:

 

"So, contrary to what Vince Russo said in the ring that night at Bash at the Beach, I didn't hold Booker T back in any way shape or form. The only one who did that was Booker T himself."

 

- From a 3 paragraph chapter on how Hogan isn't a racist...which he thinks everyone assumed he was when Russo said he held back guys in the locker room.

 

"You have to be flexible in the wrestling business. You have to be able to go in different directions. When a guy's one dimensional, you can't do anything with him. You can't write story lines and create emotion when somebody refuses to do business"

 

- About Goldberg, says the man who would leave for months while champion and refused to job to Bret at KOTR.

 

 

My favorite one so far:

 

"By the time I got to WWE, Triple H had secured his position as a main event wrestler and become very solid in his work. And with a coulpe of years in Titan Training, he had become even more solid as a person.

 

He doesn't care anymore who throws the first punch or who knocks whose tooth out. HE doesn't care who wins or loses. He just wants to do what's good for business. So what a nice surprise it was to meet Triple H again. Triple H the businessman has so much in common with me, I think we could actually be good friends."

 

- Yes Yoda, the force is strong in this one.

 

 

 

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Absolute MUST BUY

[Guest Angle-plex]

"By the time I got to WWE, Triple H had secured his position as a main event wrestler and become very solid in his work. And with a coulpe of years in Titan Training, he had become even more solid as a person.

 

He doesn't care anymore who throws the first punch or who knocks whose tooth out. HE doesn't care who wins or loses. He just wants to do what's good for business. So what a nice surprise it was to meet Triple H again. Triple H the businessman has so much in common with me, I think we could actually be good friends."

 

At least Hogan is smart enough to know that the only way to get to the top in the WWE is to suck Trips's dick.

[Guest Frankie Williams]

I just bought it today, along with Roddy Pipers book, Kurt Angles paperback, and I got the Rocks book too. I figured what the hell, it was only 4 bucks. One thing about Hogans book though, it was 27 bucks. Thats kinda steep I think.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

16.90 at Media Play.

[Guest dreamer420]

I'm asked my mom to get it for me for Christmas. I can't wait to read it though.

[Guest DeputyHawk]

more master more! entertain us with the bullshit of bollea!

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

"As I left the arena, 68,000 people in Skydome watched me go. Ultimate Warrior held the belt over his head and no one cared"

[Guest snowfan]

"As I left the arena, 68,000 people in Skydome watched me go. Ultimate Warrior held the belt over his head and no one cared"

as opposed to both his last title reigns in the WWF prior to going to Atlanta???

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

In the book he takes credit for every angle that worked, and discusses how he was against every on that didnt.

 

The man is a genius.

[Guest jester]

I can't wait to read reviews of this book.

 

"Triple H and I cured cancer one night after a Raw taping."

[Guest El Satanico]

Bullshitting from Hogan...I'm truly shocked.

[Guest snowfan]

I can't wait to read reviews of this book.

 

"Triple H and I cured cancer one night after a Raw taping."

Triple H rose from the dead and I was Paul brother!

[Guest Human Fly]

"As I left the arena, 68,000 people in Skydome watched me go. Ultimate Warrior held the belt over his head and no one cared"

 

You know the warrior will say something about that on his site. I wondered if this book would be any good, but it sounds like a must buy. This could be the Communist Manifesto or 'Mein Kampf' of Pro Wrestling.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

When Warrior responds no one will understand it anyway.

[Guest El Satanico]

Warrior makes as much sense as Hogan does.

 

Warrior just happens to be insane while Hogan is senile and full of shit.

[Guest BigPoppaKev]

Any bragging about selling 200,000 tickets in Japan in the book?

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

Hello warriors. Thanks again for all the great email. I had been trying to answer quite a few of them; so many well written. The quantity of mails has gotten so great I can no longer do much more than read them all, which I will continue to do. As I said in my first post, part of the reason for the continuum of posts I set before me to do this month of Nov., I was officially beginning preparation and promotion of my new goals. Goals that have been sidelined for quite some time. Since I have been posting I have at the same time been reaching out and making contacts to explore speaking and writing engagements. With that to do, there is little time I have but to read emails. So, when I mention thanks for the mails, be assured I am addressing you all. Yes, of course, even the clinically undiagnosed mentally deranged.

 

The answer to the question proposed in my 11.15.02 post is “Individual Initiative.” One person got it right. There were a few other bluntly creative ones. “Bullshit” was one. And “The Truth” and “The Facts” were the others. You know who you are, so send me an address and I’ll get you those 8x10’s. Just to emphasize the point, however, "Individual Initiative” were the exact two words I had in my mind. Every time a socialist-minded person goes on a harangue about the horrors of capitalism and the utopia of socialism (even if we have to force it on others), they always leave out the superabundant histories of all the great individuals who rise above even the most measly beginnings to incredible levels of success in life. All by their own blood, sweat and tears.

 

Individual Initiative is the Plain and Simple two word “crush-into-pieces” defeat for anyone who believes Capitalism holds down those born without fortune, either in cash in hand or luck in the draw.

 

Individual Initiative is also why Socialism won’t work. Never has. You see, what man (the human being) is by his nature begets Initiative to begin with. Humanness is a breeding ground for Initiative. Like adrenaline is the greatest pain killer, Individual Initiative is the most powerful hormone. A person zoned in on magnificent achievement is like a Silverback Gorilla in a rage...there is no control or stopping its passion. Sure, there have always been the bums in the world who won’t do for themselves. And there are those who will, sorrowfully, do for the bums so that they don’t, in fact, have to do for themselves. Especially as I have said before, in these times of abundance. But that is the unnatural state of performance (rather, lack of performance) the human "being" demands of itself.

 

At the root, the reason people side with Socialism (and all the other -ism’s hell bent on taking us all to an unachievable utopian existence) is that they are choosing not to learn or know the truth. The ability to do so is there. Instead they use feelings over thinking. They are just taking, as it is often said about the weak human beings, the path of least resistance. Thinking is the hardest thing one can do.

 

People who stand by the idiocy of Socialism believe it is unfair that some people have more than others. That is fatuous and hypocritical. The people in Government putatively fighting for their cause are “people with more.” And many of them are self-achievers or come from ancestry of self-created wealth. Look, I understand up to a certain point, some young, ignorant, idealistic kid, looking to be a part of something, falling for the lure of it all, i.e., saving the World from the evil of itself. Probably to impress his first girlfriend. Especially in these times of subjective education, the if-it-feels-good-do-it culture and the absentminded parenting and adult mentoring going on. But there comes a time when even the most faithful toward the cause can no longer look beyond the truth they are seeing.

 

Picking on or penalizing people who have used their humanness to succeed at life isn’t the answer. Educating the ignorant masses about their own is. If you were in a successful person's shoes, just how long would you continue to produce your goods and services if everybody viewed them as an unending piece of free cheese. If everybody took the view that a little nibble here and a little nibble there, over and over, you can afford without recompense or reward, and no negative consequence will EVER come from it.

 

Socialism vs Capitalism boils down to Feeling over Thinking. All the serious issues do. That is why I keep going back to it. There are many people in powerful positions who want the confusion to continue, so those who do not have the knowledge and the time, can just throw their hands up and claim they are not capable of deciding for themselves.

 

It is easy to hide the truths in this day of colossal ignorance and confusion. Why then do so many keep pushing themselves, and the encouragement, to do the harder things instead of settling for a free ride? Like the old saying goes: “Those with nothing to hide, don’t.” That is why many still do the harder thing. It is a “have-to-do” to succeed at life. The sooner one realizes and does hard, the sooner one succeeds easily.

 

Think about it, we are a World of copious differences. We have different tastes, preferences and needs. If it were feelings that we used to run our lives and the operations of the world, who’s feelings would we follow, who’s feelings would set the rules? The one toughest to impose his feelings on everyone else would set the terms to what feelings would be followed. Out in the world, it would be the feelings of whoever had the most powerful, muscled-up, weaponed gang or clan or dictatorial army capable of enforcing their feelings on the rest of us, that’s who. Sound familiar? Check your history.

 

Take those same different tastes, preferences and needs and plug them into the individual formulas it would take to find what each of us considers “enough.” Who will decide what is enough for me? my neighbor? for you?

 

It is never just a simple, silly, innocent act nor harmless for any human being to ever place feelings over facts, in any judgment or decision about others or oneself. If you are living your life to fit the feelings others have of you or find yourself regularly fighting-off, putting-up with or outrightly accepting the feelings others hold and push upon you, or if you are living your life by what you feel instead of what you can know -- you will never own your life. You will never run your life effectively if you don’t have certainty, look at the facts about things.

 

In this country, you have the Freedom to direct the outcome of your future. That is certain. It’d be a pity to find yourself on the other side of the fence one day enjoying great success, earned by your own blood, sweat and tears and also find out, that idealistic cause you zealously participated in when you were nothing but a snot-nosed kid has mushroomed into an albatross being militarily practiced in the marketplace. What will you say then when they come to get more of what you worked hard to earn and others were never willing to work for?

 

The ironic thing is, in America the odds are stacked in favor of success, not failure.

 

Let me be “Plain. Powerful.” clear, to take from my own self-styled analysis of WARRIOR TALKS Speaking engagements...

 

Don’t push that protest banner too close to my face if I happen to be walking by, it might just become your next meal (taste that compassion). And for any of you undeserving, conning tin-cup-rattlers -- hold it close or the only thing rattling might just be the last few loose teeth in your mouth at the bottom of it. I am healthy and awakened (not sick and tired) to the guilt trip you non-achievers peddle. The question should never have become the one of how much I have to give, it should have always been (and remained) the one of whether or not I have to give anything at all.

 

Those thinking have a long way to work our way back.

 

Use your Mind. Find out the Facts. Get some History Lessons. Secure and Protect your own Future

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

That above is todays "Warrior Wisdom" by the way...

 

::laughs::

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

That was North Korea, and I haven't looked.

 

 

Here's a new favorite:

 

""Listen, Vince" I said, "I think you might have bid eighty or a hundred million bucks for WCW at one time. You can probably pick it up for three million bucks, maybe three and a half"

 

Then he goes on to explain to Vince why it's a good business decision...and late kicks himself for not buying it himself for the tape library.

[Guest jester]

I thought about writing a lengthy rebuttal to the Warrior's burblings, but that would mean reading it and trying to dissect it. Frankly, I'd rather do my income taxes every Friday night.

 

So I'll settle instead for mailing him "You enjoy marital relations with a large variety of barnyard animals, and Hulk Hogan said no-one cared when you pinned him."

[Guest AndrewTS]

I wonder if they'll put up talking cardboard cutouts of Hogan that say "Buy my book, brother! Buy my book, brother!" in the WWE arenas.

 

Oh, and what Warrior is trying to say:

 

"Pure socialism is inherently flawed because there is no incentive for anyone to work harder. No incentive to improve on things, to invent, or to make government reforms due to a strict ideology. The only ones who are better off than anyone are those in government."

 

I could go one briefly, but in that brief bit I summed up his enormous rambling column rather simply.

[Guest jester]

I hope Warrior's kids become flaming Marxists. If he has a daughter, I hope she become a radical Vegan/Wiccan Green Haired Lesbian Feminist.

 

AND PROTESTS THINGS CONSTANTLY.

[Guest AndrewTS]

I hope Warrior's kids become flaming Marxists. If he has a daughter, I hope she become a radical Vegan/Wiccan Green Haired Lesbian Feminist.

 

AND PROTESTS THINGS CONSTANTLY.

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy...unless they made a sitcom out of it.

 

It'll be a slightly more insane version of All in the Family.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

To put things back on track:

 

"Vince said to me a couple of weeks ago, "I had Hulk Hogan during the eighties, and we took wrestling to a fever pitch, but I've never had anybody as hot as you are right now." He's never seen anything like this.

 

This time it's going to be bigger than the eighties, I guarantee you. Let's hope the world is ready for it, because I am. It's gonna be bigger this time, brother. Remember I said that. Mark it down."

 

-Oh I'll remember. Bigger in that you drove away ratings and got shitcanned again.

[Guest snowfan]

To put things back on track:

 

"Vince said to me a couple of weeks ago, "I had Hulk Hogan during the eighties, and we took wrestling to a fever pitch, but I've never had anybody as hot as you are right now." He's never seen anything like this.

 

This time it's going to be bigger than the eighties, I guarantee you. Let's hope the world is ready for it, because I am. It's gonna be bigger this time, brother. Remember I said that. Mark it down."

 

-Oh I'll remember. Bigger in that you drove away ratings and got shitcanned again.

I can't wait for him to try to go in the 50th Hulkamania Anniversary in 2034 brother...

 

He'll be like 81 iirc...

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

This is like the anti-Foley book.

 

All he does is put himself over and then sometimes comment on big events from his own strange perspective. Those opinions never seem to last more than a few paragraphs either.

 

At times it's like a children's book, and sometimes it's just sad.

 

I wonder if I read from the beginning, he'll tell me he invented wrestling.

 

...

 

We all know that it was Nova.

[Guest alfdogg]

Actually, I ALMOST bought it today...but my car insurance, which is due tomorrow, is just a BIT more important.

 

I'll definitely pick it up eventually though.

[Guest snowfan]

This is like the anti-Foley book.

 

All he does is put himself over and then sometimes comment on big events from his own strange perspective. Those opinions never seem to last more than a few paragraphs either.

 

At times it's like a children's book, and sometimes it's just sad.

 

I wonder if I read from the beginning, he'll tell me he invented wrestling.

 

...

 

We all know that it was Nova.

Well you know brither it was me an George Hackenschmidt back at the turn of LAST Century that got together and realized that Worked wrestling was wave of the future brother and the Stanislaus Zybysko and I had to shoot on Ed Lewis because he just wouldn't do what was right for the business brother and the Hulkster is ALL about the business.

[Guest DerangedHermit]

I wonder if they'll put up talking cardboard cutouts of Hogan that say "Buy my book, brother! Buy my book, brother!" in the WWE arenas.

::shot fired at cut-out::

 

Hogan: Whaddya do that for, brother? All he was saying was buy my book, brother! Buy my book, brother!

 

::person cocks gun::

[Guest jester]

To put things back on track:

 

"Vince said to me a couple of weeks ago, "I had Hulk Hogan during the eighties, and we took wrestling to a fever pitch, but I've never had anybody as hot as you are right now." He's never seen anything like this.

 

This time it's going to be bigger than the eighties, I guarantee you. Let's hope the world is ready for it, because I am. It's gonna be bigger this time, brother. Remember I said that. Mark it down."

 

-Oh I'll remember. Bigger in that you drove away ratings and got shitcanned again.

Was this about the Bret/Yoko thing?!