Vince and Hogan on CNBC

[randomguy]

Vince, Hogan and Stone cold were on CNBC tonight on that show with the advertising guy from The Apprentice challenges.

 

A few highlights:

 

Vince loves Hogan. He seriously appears to idolize him. Donny (the host) asked about Hogan leaving and coming back to WWE, and Vince said they were meant to be together. Hogan is his soul mate or something. It's kind of weird but you can really see the appreciation which is nice, Vince is positively humble on the subject of Hogan and could not say enough good things about him.

 

They briefly mentioned Hassan. Vince said it didn't work because of the guy playing Hassan. WWE and Hassan have parted ways, it appears to be somewhat mutual, as Daivari said the real-life Hassan (Mark something) wasn't into wrestling as much as some other guys. I assume that's what Vince meant, but he didn't have time to elaborate.

 

Mrs. Vince (Linda?) was also on the show. She was very nuts and bolts and rational. You can see why she is the CEO. Donny asked her about women in the WWE and her answer was very straightforward - the women are strong, not wallflowers, but the WWE demographic is male so they cater to that. She made no apologies for it.

 

They showed a clip of Vince getting muted when he talked on Spike about moving to USA. Made Spike look pretty bad. Of course, they didn't show the announcers later saying Raw was moving to USA 500 times in a row, which I assume was on-the-fly retaliation.

 

That's all I can really remember. Hogan did mention that Hogan vs. Austin was a possibility.

 

Austin was also on later. The whole show was pretty interesting, I'm not doing it justice.

[UZI Suicide]

Austin is going to be on the Best Damn Sports Show Period on Thursday.

[cameron chaos]

They briefly mentioned Hassan. Vince said it didn't work because of the guy playing Hassan.

 

Uh... right. It's not because a bunch of guys in ski masks ran out to mock garotte the Undertaker, it was because Copani didn't do a good job. Which is why he didn't impress a Hollywood agent enough to picked up.

[Fökai]

In his mind, he believes that the angles that Copani nixed due to fear of safety was a personal attack on the writers and Vince himself.

[sluggo]

Hogan was on Sirius Shade45 this morning. Did a quick plug for Raw. He also mentioned that on Monday he was going to get in the faces of McMahon, Michaels, and.....Austin.

[Downhome]

They briefly mentioned Hassan. Vince said it didn't work because of the guy playing Hassan.

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That literally made me spit my drink out because of laughing. Can someone confirm that he actually said something that stupid?

[cabbageboy]

In a way Vince is right. I mean of course there was the whole UPN debacle and the terrorists in ski masks, but if Hassan had any real talent they wouldn't have just said fuck it and released him. The character was never going to work because Copani wasn't any good in the ring.

 

The Iron Shiek got over for the reasons Hassan never could: He was authentic, had the (alleged) amateur background, and for the time period backed it up in the ring.

[Dangerous A]

They briefly mentioned Hassan. Vince said it didn't work because of the guy playing Hassan.

 

 

Talk about rolling a guy under a bus. Geez.

[Jericholic82]

I saw the replay last night (sunday oct 2) . It was interesting to see Vince spin the Hassan thing. I missed the first 30 mins or so and missed most of Hogans parts. I taped the last vicne/linda segment as well as Austins. It was a decent interview, in that the host din't try to degrade wrestling and actually seemed like a fan.

[Promoter]

They briefly mentioned Hassan. Vince said it didn't work because of the guy playing Hassan.

 

 

Talk about rolling a guy under a bus. Geez.

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Like the poor guy hasn't gone through enough after Vince giving him that character.