Skr Hogan Research Paper

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Hulk Hogan is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, entrepreneur, rock bassist, and is regarded by many as the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Most of all in my opinion, the best and most amazing wrestlers retired. As a young boy he was a pitcher in Little League Baseball (LLB). He fascinated scouts from the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds, but a major injury ended his baseball career. At the age of 16 years old Hogan started watching professional wrestling. When he was in high school he attended cards at the Tamped Sport tourism. It was at one of those wrestling cards where he first turned or started focusing towards superstar Billy Graham and looked to him for an inspiration, since …show more content…

On the free time that he had, he and Leslie worked out in the gym together, and sooner or later, Beefcake established a muscular physique; Hogan was fascinated by Beefcake's physical figure and became convinced that the two of them should wrestle together as tag team partners. Unhappy and yearning to return to wrestling, Hogan called Superstar Billy Graham in 1978 with confidences that Graham could find him a job wrestling outside of Florida; Graham agreed and Hogan soon joined Louie Tillet's Alabama territory. Hogan also persuaded Leslie, who had yet to become a wrestler, to come with him and swore to teach him everything he knew about the …show more content…

These early matches as a tag team with the surname Boulder being used by both men encouraged a rumor among wrestling fans unmindful of the inner workings of the sport that Hogan and Leslie were brothers, as few people actually knew their real names outside of direct friends, family, and of course the numerous agents the two worked for. After wrestling a show for Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) in Memphis, Jerry Jarrett, the agent for the CWA, approached Hogan and Leslie and offered them a job in his raise for $800 a week; this was far more than the $175 a week they would make working for Tillet. Hogan and Leslie accepted this offer and left Tillet's

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