Well Hawk talk about Wrestle Mania 3 with with Andre and it would go through
Rannells 4, 5, 6, it would continue to grow all the way to Wrestle Mania 9.
And you got a very young Vic Joseph and a lot of trouble with my mother is my mom.
My mom had a 6 string pearl necklace passed down from generations and
I was a little Hawk, a maniac.
And I took those pearls on that necklace and rip them apart under the couch,
she was yelling at me, she was yelling at you, but here's the payoff.
She ended up having to work at convention around that time in Las Vegas, so
she put money in your pocket, put money in Debbie's pocket.
She bought me all the hall Hogan merchandise so
I wouldn't ruin any more her stuff and I finally got my official haul Hogan shirt,
at wrestle-mania 9, so that's my biggest wrestle-mania 9 memory.
>> That's strong brother why would you rip her jewelry apart
what's wrong with you man?
>> I didn't know I mean I wasn't taking vitamins as you can see
by my arms they are like garden snakes not python so
the only thing I could do was rip a garbage bag.
And I thought man there's my mom's necklace haul hogan where's the necklace
stick >> If you learned anything from from hulk
himself is when someone tears your chain you have to fight them at Wrestle-mania.
>> I'm not gonna hit my mom Cory, what are you talking about?
>> Hey listen I don't know, I don't know they're they're different options i'm not
just saying you might have missed out on a big pay day.
>> It is not a very good option, but anyways what actually now that
you're thinking about it my mom wanted to kick my ass, so
she wanted to put me at Wrestle-mania.
>> The options are you tear your mother's jewelry she's gonna kick your ass.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, she wanted to whop my ass.
She was calling you and I every name in the book, but I finally
got my Hulkamania shirt on that night so I actually wanna thank you for that.
My mom ever listens to this, she's probably gonna start yelling at me again,
but that takes us to Wrestle-mania 9.
And that to me is probably the second or
3rd time that Hulkamania stood out because I was so young.
What was that night in Las Vegas.
Can you walk us through everything that happened in Wrestle-mania night dude?
>> That was so crazy, my gosh, you got to hear the backstory,
so we're over in the UK with the WWE and 10-day tour in the UK,
I come back home and my ex wife is gone with the kids.
They're out visiting in Los Angeles, her mother,
coz I was in the UK on tour so she took the kids to LA to visit her family.
So I get home to clear water nobody's home, so what do I do,
hey guys, come on over sorry, boys LS LS Edwards.
>> Okay no Alice very well yeah >> And Brutus and in much okay,
so here we go, I used to keep for ice cube for
see who's behind my house and I mean there's a crazy storm coming in.
And here we go out take out on those jet skis, now I had these CDs and all of
a sudden I switched from 1 of my jet skis to this other guys jet ski that he had.
I don't remember what kind it was but it was a quicker jet ski and had trim tabs on
it, so you can make the front end come up with the front and go down.
And as we're going through the clear water pass were jumping these crazy
ways in the storm,
Brutus tags off going straight ahead macho takes off going straight ahead.
And Ellis is kinda sticking with me, and so as I jump this way,
I get thrown over the front of the ski and I got a life jacket on.
So as I go into the water I try to duck down under water but
that damn life jacket brought me back up and the jet ski hit me in the face.
Now I'm face down in the water knocked out, guess who pulls me out,
Ellis really completely knocked out face down in the water I would
have drowned except for Ellis pull my big ass out of the water.
Pull me on the back of the ski got me over to the beach over there shepherds,
I don't know if you've ever shut up.
Yeah, I know where Shepherd's hole is just blasted open my orbital sockets
broken because that 600 pound jet ski hit me right in the face,
now I call Jimmy Hart, my wife's out of town.
Jim i get from the emergency room i get all stitched up i have this
2 hour operation try to fix Morrible socket jimmy hart comes over
my god baby Vince is gonna kill you yeah i go to Vegas then sees me.
And he goes you're not wrestling that's it and
i said BS I said if I pass a physical I'm going to wrestle.
So I actually wrestled my I was completely shattered I wrestled a tag
match with IRS and ted they didn't touch my face.
And then I got to wrestle but that was a backstory of that crazy night.
>> That's wild it's absolutely crazy and shortly thereafter a few months after
that wrestle-mania you would find a new chapter of your career in WCW.
Now obviously you were focusing on making WCW everything that it could be in growing
Hulkamania growing WCW.
Did you keep an eye on Wrestle-mania?
Did you keep an eye on WWE at the time while you were working for
the competition why you were the competition?
>> Yeah, I did, but it was it was just such a have both time and
business, it was really a tough time, late 80s,
early 90s and I was done, I, I wasn't going to wrestle.
I went down I started shooting and I was partners with the Baywatch guys And
Hasselhoff had their four partners Burke, Swartz.
And bone that produce Baywatch has has allowed for the 4th guy, so I took his
position at 25% position and we were producing Sheena and Thunder in paradise.
>> Okay, >> I spent I was shooting a 1 hour action
show, we should have taken about 9 days to shoot but we were shooting at 6 days.
I would start at 5 in the morning and
would not even get done till 8 o'clock at night.
I actually was live in Orlando, I couldn't get home to see my kids,
it's 10 times worse than wrestling, I lasted.
And I swore I'd never rustle again and lasted about a year and
a 1/2 and all of a sudden we're on 1 sound stage.
And Hulk Hogan Thunder paradise and on the other sound stage was WCW,
so when the people would take the backstage tours.
They'd walk upstairs through the glass,
they'd looked on the sound stage of WCW they go where's Hulk Hogan?
And I guess Eric Kirchhoff, and everybody there, Bill Shaw,
and everybody must get driven crazy because all
the people would hit their sound stage, first on the walk through.
And say where's Hulk Hogan, and then they would come to the thunder in paradise set
which was my living room in my house.
Usually i wouldn't be there i'd be out diving in the ocean or diving in this pool
or doing fight scenes or whatever but we spent very little time on the set.
So after about a year and a 1/2 Eric Bischoff came over with flair and
said hey man a lot of people are talking about you.
and you know you're not wrestling anymore are you interested in wrestling And
I said hell yes hell yes I've been beat up with those long days but
that was my whole goal was to.
And that's i had a disagreement Vince Mc mahon had an opinion that hulkamania
had his run and actually went back to Wrestle-mania 6 when he asked me to put
the wire over I said no, that's no problem all brother but my question always is.
And I'm putting somebody over what, what are we doing after that?
>> Sure.
>> And there wasn't really a clear cut answer for that, I said, well,
how about this 1?
[NOISE].
I put him over handing the belt and I know everybody's cheering for him,
I get 1/2 way down the aisle, how about I just.
Turn around and go, just grind him, just drop him and
just drag him around the ring.
And I want to be Hulk, it would Hulk Hogan.
>> All the way back to Wrestle-mania 6.
>> Yes I said, I wanna be, Tripple H, [INAUDIBLE] Hulk Hogan,
the ultimate [INAUDIBLE], he goes, that'll never work.
I sense I can be a bad guy used to be a bad guy when I worked for your father,
I know how to do it.
And he was not, no, that'll work, the salt mania thing you're,
you just need to go ahead.
And slow things down the bread, I was getting some booze and
some things were happening.
And so it was time for me to back down, I just thought I could of a hell
of a run and WWE is hardly at all alien but then I had a disagreement.
So finally a few years later, I went ahead and did my thing and left but
when I went to WCW that was my whole plan was to come in as Hulk Hogan do the red.
And yellow thing and when things if things didn't work out,
I was gonna switch right away, went in, things took off.
And it took a couple years for that whole Cogan thing to get old and
then of course when Paul and Nash came in, I was on the fence
about teaming up with guys coz I never really teamed up with guys.
I don't know who these brothers are and,
I don't know what their deal is as far as their work ethic.
And where their heads are out,
I don't even know these guys are from Shawn Michael's is click.
And I really wasn't part of that deal, that was a whole other era.
And so once they came in, and I was shooting the movie out in California
thing was, I can't remember name it Santa with muscles.
>> Okay, actually watch that with my kids a few weeks ago, believe it or not,
if you get a royalty check from the Google Play Store,
it's from me [LAUGH] It was 1 of the all time greats.
>> [LAUGH] But I started watching what they were doing and
then I saw their sponsor getting everybody in WCW thought this was really WWE talent.
[APPLAUSE] [LAUGH] [APPLAUSE] conflict between mother courage and
her role of mother and her role of as a professional woman trying to sell things.
She claims she is working to support her children but you'll see some of her
choices bring them misfortune throughout the course of the play.
And then last that wars hunger is really insatiable,
so hunger is a recurring theme throughout the play in a couple of different ways.
He goes good, because I was just getting ready to get sting to do it, thank God.
[LAUGH] >> That's 1 of those moments off and
Cory and I always talk about it on this show, suspending belief like we
just want to believe his wrestling fans and in that moment you see Hall.
And you see Nash and it's kind of like no and I remember sitting there because that
was my birthday present, was bash at the beach.
And that happened I went, I was so angry and all my friends were but we believe
that there was this invasion going on and you said it earlier, the perfect storm.
And it was another perfect storm for Hulk Hogan.
>> Yeah and the thing was, I told these guys I said,
this is either gonna be the greatest thing we've ever done.
We're gonna put them to bed on this one because it's gonna go one way or
the other because it was just a real simple deal I came down.
And the 1 thing 1 thing I jumped in and on was,
as I'm going to the ring, all of a sudden he goes but whose side is he on?
>> Hulk Hogarn is in the building,
are you talking about Jose is he talking about.
>> Yeah.
>> I would right at what point did.
>> Why would you have doubted hogan to that point.
>> I agree let's get ourselves over here all kinds of crap for
that [APPLAUSE] once I dropped that leg on match.
And they started throwing stuff, and
they told me to cut a promo, and I went out there and
saw the world and you guys were bumming gas to get to high school.
And that no good Eric bearish off if it wasn't for Hollywood and
hulk hogan he'd still be selling meat out of a truck in Minnesota.
>> You had your doubts as to whether or
not it was gonna work out i'd say it worked out fairly well for all of you
who being inducted as a member of the class of 2020 in the WWE hall of fame.
Eric Bischoff is the class of 2021 so i'd say it worked out pretty well for
all parties involved.
>> Yeah, bro that was a really cool run because I tried to be snidely whiplash,
I tried to everything I've learned from everybody from
Pat Patterson Ray Stevens to get in.
And just grind people and then when they start coming up my god, I'm sorry,
I've never do it again, I everything that Pat taught me,
when I was breaking into Florida, I saw these guys work back in the day.
And I was just backpedaling backlash but if you beat me, I, he couldn't beat me on
his best day, I'd never lost a match, I mean, just lie your ass off.
Have you on the classic then sure line when if you can lose if you must but
always cheat.
[LAUGH] I was living by that and in the more evil stuff me and
Kevin Scott did the more they cheered us, it got crazy,
I mean everything got blurry like the good guys were the bad guys Goldberg.
And Sting and everybody were complaining like hell, we were getting cheered,
they were getting booed, it got crazy.
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