• Hulk Hogan Reveals Why He Began Wearing A Helmet To The Ring
During a recent interview with Ringside Collectibles, 2-time WWE Hall Of Famer Hulk Hogan was asked if there’s any wrestler who refused to lose to him in a singles match.
Hogan said Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff have refused to lose to him via pinfall in the past.
Below is what the Hulkster said:
“Back in the day, when Vince [McMahon] first kinda took over and I’d go be the main event at Philadelphia or the main event at Hersheypark, Vince would say, ‘Hey, we want you to drop the leg on Piper, drop the leg on Mr. Wonderful [Paul Orndorff],’ and a lot of times they’d go, ‘No’.
So I’d call Vince back and say, ‘Okay, what are we gonna do? They don’t wanna end the match that way.’ He goes, ‘We’ll come up with something else.'”
Hulk was then asked why he began wearing a Helmet to the ring in 1988. Below is what he said:
“I came up with the helmet to try to come up with a way to give the guys an out. Like if I put the helmet on and cheated and headbutted them or something, I thought maybe I could get them to do the one, two, three, but that’s where the helmet originally came from.
It was a compromise so the bad guys wouldn’t be whining and crying because the office wanted me to go over.”
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• Old School WWF Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the 63rd birthday of Old School WWF Veteran Doug Furnas.
The former world-class powerlifter (986lbs Squat, 600lbs Bench Press, 826lbs Deadlift) wrestled for various promotions over the years, such as Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling (1990), Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling (1996, 1997-1998) and the World Wrestling Federation (1996-1997).
Furnas passed away in 2012 from Atherosclerotic & hypertensive heart disease.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & † REST IN PEACE
December 11, 1959 – March 2, 2012
