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BEAST said:
It's weird man.
I felt hella sad for Eddie, Chris and Owen.

But this just ain't hitting it for me.
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Those guys died when you were like what? In your teens or 20s?

Death stops meaning things when you see a lot more of it.

I took Lemmy’s death harder than I took Ozzy’s and I have far more Sabbath albums than I do Motörhead.
 
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RIP Hulk

I gotta pretty decent Hulk story, people seem to like.

When I was 4, 5?.. Hulk Hogan was the Champion of World. In my mind, he was the boss of everything, and we did what he said, or he beat us up. The WWE was just a way to find out who was the boss of the world. We were lucky Hulk was a great guy.

I literally thought we had families, schools, hospitals, cars, because it was Hulk Hogan's will, and he wanted us to live like that. I thought the sun went down because Hulk Hogan set the sun settings.

Then it was 1991, Survivor Series.

This old man, with white hair, and a fake belt, puts a chair down and the fucking deadman becomes boss of the world. I couldn't find any respect for Flair after this, till I was nearly 20. It fucked me up. I hated him.

Kids are crying on TV, my younger brother is bawling his eyes out, I'm on the verge of a panic attack- and I suddenly hear this loud belly laughing. My father is holding his stomach, laughing his ass off, having the time of his life.

I'm having this sudden realization, my father is not a good person. He is a bad guy, a leader of a biker gang probably, and is only forced to be a dad because of Hulk Hogan. I think my dad is leaving to join his biker gang, with Taker's permission.

I have vision of waking up and breaking rocks, and building coffins instead of going to school.

It took forever for me to go to sleep that night. I remember waking up that morning, crystal clear to this day.

The sky was fucking purple.

My mom walks in and I'm standing there frozen, wondering why she's not scared, and she's upset I'm not getting dressed for school. She starts dressing me, and I have a vague idea of time zones(because of the Santa trackers on TV during X-mas), and I conclude, Undertaker hasn't shown up yet, he's in China, and its very very important not to act scared. ...On the way to school I start coming to the conclusion, the world champion must lose a lot. It changes. Hulk will be back, but... Taker is coming, soon.

All day in kindergarten, I'm fucking shook. Teachers are asking me if everything is okay at home and shit.

Finally, the teacher asks me to go to another room to get something, and I fucking know Undertaker is waiting in that other room. Waiting for me. But I'm trying to act brave. I go into the other room, run, come back, full of sweat, nearly in tears and my teacher is fucking confused, trying to figure out what happened, and then suddenly in this moment, without telling the teacher, I realize I probably got some things wrong.
 
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TBH Piper's death hit me harder. I was 14 or 15 when I started watching, prime Hulkamaniac age, and while I was definitely a fan of his it was Hot Rod who I hoped to see on TV every week. But you can't debate Hulk's impact on the industries of sports and entertainment. I hope his passing was easy.
 
@Blunderbuss Lapsed Serendipity once again. They just started 94 Bash at The Beach and chronicling Hogan's departure and singing with WCW. When they started they said it was a bit melancholy because 10 years into the show this pretty much the last major Hogan show they are going to do. They've covered nearly everything else. They said they saved this one because it's the ultimate Hogan story and would be their tribute episode when the time came.

3 parts in and Jack made that call this morning. Unbelievable.
 
Batjester said:
Should have stayed in bed.

I was never even a Hogan fan, but he's such a part of my childhood that I can't wrap my head around this yet.

RIP Hulkster.
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The thing that's making this one weird to me is all the people I would say omg hulk hogan died are also dead and gone.

Felt old as shit this morning before I saw about hogan seeing kbk is 60 too.
 
Hulk Hogan was the catalyst for two of the most popular eras in our time,I’m not going to argue about what the business was like in the mainstream zeitgeist when the world was still in black and white.

The man himself seemed to have a complicated history, but I didn’t know him so that’s not my place to talk about.

All I know is that everyone did his pose, cupped their ear and said “brother” at more than one point in their life.

A major part of my childhood is gone, and it’ll be Vince, Arnie, Sly and Mike Tyson leaving to fully end it.
 
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