Hulk Hogan: Comments on current wrestling, Diva Search, his future, and more
Submitted by Mr. Tito on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:37 PM EST





Hulk Hogan recently sat down with USA Vanguard's Nadia Mohandessi for an online interview yesterday. Here are some significant highlights:


Mohandessi: Do you think the media and the entertainment industry is taking over the wrestling industry?

Hulk Hogan" "Oh, definitely. There's too many choices now. It's a bad Jerry Springer show now, brother. The art form is lost. Like when I would start a fight with you. If this was like November and I would start a fight with you, we'd start in November and maybe wrestle in March. Now you turn on the show at 8:00 and I'll start a fight with you. We fight by the end of the show. TV moves so fast trying to keep up with the Joneses because there's so many choices with Satellite and also the reality shows. People surf so much that they're afraid to lose the quarter hour. They live by the numbers. If you have a bad quarter hour there's all kinds of meetings, people panicking. They don't let things ride. People are job scared. It's a whole different business now. I think that if you really gave them something with some meat on the bones and really got back to the art form of creating emotion and good vs. evil. It's real easy stuff. Itís the KISS theory: Keep it simple stupid. And theyíre just over-thinking things."

Mohandessi: Would you get rid of the Diva stuff?

Hulk Hogan: "Not all of it but I sure wouldn't abuse it. Nothing against the women, but if you use them that way, they don't draw a number. People have to be able to live vicariously through the characters and they have to like the characters and like the people. And what theyíre doing. Well, I'm giving a speech tonight and nobody's clapping so '[screams in character voice] Welcome to Mobile!' There's a way to establish characters and keep interest and create emotion and draw money. Like I said, it's an art form so you have to get back to the basics."

Mohandessi: What's next for you?

Hulk Hogan: "I'm getting ready to do a VH-1 show on a consistent basis with my family. Fox and ABC have pitched shows to do a reality wrestling show. And I was like 'How in the hell do you do a reality wrestling show?' And basically the premise of starting out in minor league wrestling doesn't mean anything to anybody. Basically, they approached me with Hulk Hogan with one foot in the glue factory. All of a sudden, he takes his foot out and saves the art form. Because of some of the guys who want to work for me that used to work for me when I ran Turner's company like Goldberg, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Sting want to work for me. The whole thing is that everyone knows that the WWF means wrestling but so does one name: Hulk Hogan. And the public opinion is to start my own thing like the past is now the future type deal. That with Goldberg and Sting and Stone Cold and Nash, we could probably take over pretty easily. I'm thinking about it. We may go back to the old days again for a while."

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