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I heard that Steiner dropped it so it would show Vince he could play ball if they considered signing him later on.

2nd part was okay, went over pretty trodden ground though and I didn't learn much new. Nice of him to clarify the Metallica story at the end.

Even as an 8 year old supposedly intimidated by this heel, I thought it was a little goofy when he was trying to be a badass with all that shaving cream on his face.

More likely that that time of his life is kind of a blur, which makes sense since he was so hot at the time and working pretty non-stop. I liked hearing his Florida stories, especially his time as a musician. I didn't know he studied music in college, and to hear him throw out Stanley Clarke as an influence came out of nowhere.

In '93 yeah, but my impression from the doc is that he left shortly after he told Vince about this plan and was rejected, which would have been when Shawn was slowly gaining power and the Kliq was becoming more of a thing backstage.

Hogan tells an awesome story in the first five minutes of his interview.

This. Why they stuck Randy with Dusty for basically the whole year (they had their last match in November) is a bit beyond me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL6h2pss7CQ Well if Al Gore is to be believed, the title of the thread is redundant.

Maybe he was against a program with Randy as much as Vince was?

Worldwide was on our local Fox affiliate during the weekends. At first on Saturday afternoon, then towards the end they stuck it on after Mad TV.

I never get tired of that Tenta/Kitao incident. John looked pissed.

I think without Hall and Nash we wouldn't have gotten the NWO. That was a huge get for WCW to get two of Vince's top stars in a row, so they were going to make the best of it anyway they could.

I always though that Monsoon probably didn't know who the heck Caulkin was to acknowledge him. He threw in a Home Alone reference during that bit. I guess he also made an appearance on The Bobby Heenan Show too.

No, Branson is Las Vegas if Ned Flanders ran it.

Taking them?

It could have worked if they gave the time from the Roberts/Rude match to them. It's surprising that they didn't try and do it, especially since Hogan/Andre was heavily promoted for that show.

I wonder how one hangs upside down in the turnbuckle "in a careful or cautious manner".

Heard he's a pretty good guitar player too.

The website hasn't been working at all today for me. Anyone else having trouble there?

His work looked good, but never stiff to me. He worked pretty much every top face multiple times while he was there which tells me he was a reliable hand.

I can't imagine a Hogan shoot would be of anything of value aside possibly entertainment. Then again that could be said for most shoots.

So who lost more this year, Vince or Sony?

The best thing for Hogan's heel turn were those two years of difficulty WCW had trying to convert their core audience to Hulkamaniacs. If he did stay with WWF and they tried the same thing around this time, it would have just looked desperate. It didn't even make a whole lot of sense for him to come back to them in 2002 as a member of the NWO, considering how quickly they turned him back. The latest WWE doc on Randy kind of sets the record straight (that they didn't get Vince to participate to set things right doesn't make it complete, but I'm sure he has his reasons) as to why he left, and more interestingly why he never came back. He wasn't unhappy with what he was doing in the broadcast booth and elsewhere (they talk a lot about the charity work he did, and how he seemed to give it 100%), but he really wanted to work a program with Shawn Michaels but they were in that "new generation" frame of mind, so that was nixed. And it would seem from watching it that he was personally offended by the "Nacho Man" skits, especially as it touched on Elizabeth in more than few of those segments, which I could hardly blame him for being that way. On the other hand, I can see how it might have not felt as personal to Hogan, I could see him as almost expecting some sort of backlash from Vince. But I think Randy felt truly betrayed by that, which isn't too hard to see given how heartfelt Vince seemed on this night.

Taker looked terrible in the last picture that was taken of him recently.