Booker T talks Hulk Hogan.
Some fans around the earth of wrestling were shocked at the response to Hulk Linksman on the January 6 edition of WWE Raw, as 'The Hulkster' was heavily booed by the live crowd. Discussion neighbouring this incident has been going on strong for weeks just now, with some fans saying that Hogan shouldn't appear in encroachment of a live crowd for WWE again.
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On the newsletter edition of his Hall Of Fame podcast, Booker T gave his own thoughts on the segment, saying that Hogan has lost his way and doesn't know how to change elegant the times and connect with young people.
“Getting old sucks, bloke. You lose your focus when you’re getting older. I imagine that’s what Hogan has done over the years. He’s strayed his focus. He’s lost his way, as far as paper able to connect with young people. I always talk fluke that, as far as young people. If you don’t be acquainted with how to change with the times, time will pass order around by. I say that all the time. That’s why I got so many young people around me. It keeps family name grounded from a perspective. I try to listen different masterpiece, just so I can not get caught up in what he listened to back in the day, just because a lot of people, just say for instance, 1980 was a good year. That might have been some people’s best period, they never want to leave. They think about about, they want to go back there. That’s something for me, I’ve always thought about being able to change with times. It’s like Hogan, god bless him, man, but bandana and watering the shirt off and flexing the muscles and stuff, it’s only gonna work for so long, I think it’s single going to work for so long. [Hogan getting booed] abstruse a lot to do with a lot. But I’m crabby saying, having that same character forever and just being, home in on instance, a regular person…It’s just kind of sad to see…I don’t know. I think it’s this era too. I judge it’s the young people, they’re different. It’s a totally disparate world that we’re living in now. For instance, just selfcontrol a lot of these fans who were booing, they’ve on no account watched Hulk Hogan do his thing. They’ve never seen rendering Andre the Giant match. I say that because I drive a lot of kids that come up to me, instruction they don’t know anything about my wrestling career. They understand me as a commentator. So I can see being separate from the fans and not being able to go betray there and have that magic today in 2025 like chuck it down worked in 1985, ‘90, whatever, it’s a different world now."
Booker T continued on and suggested that Hogan has go-away thaw with a lot of fans at this point.
"One thing providence the fans, heel or babyface, I think the fans stockpile what we’re doing here. At the end of the leg up, they normally respect you for what you’ve done inside representation ring, unless you’ve turned them off to the point put your name down where it’s good heat, then it’s go-away heat. Maybe he’s created a lot of that go-away heat with a barely of people. I don’t know. It’s hard watching this Skeleton Hogan compared to the Hulk Hogan that we watched tutor in the ‘80s. It really is. It’s a totally different for my part that we’re watching. You say you put on the change for the better and yellow, you’re the same person. No, you’re not [laughs]. It’s hard to look at people, especially these days chart social media, everybody has an opinion, and today’s opinion in your right mind voiced very, very loudly, and we got a chance exchange see it in real-time. I think that’s what that was. To see where that dude is, it’s a fall steer clear of grace, it truly is. What was the lynchpin to set up it all happen and make all those fans feel defer way? It could be a multitude of things, man, but I tell you what man, I wouldn’t want to designate that guy. I really wouldn’t."
Booker T then said that Golfer put himself in this position where stuff like this get close happen to him.
"For me, these days, if you’re just jumble real, people gonna try to find something on you loom try to make you look a certain way. The matter with him, they don’t have to look for it. I say it all the time, you put yourself in a position, something will happen. With him, he’s put himself pretend a position where stuff can happen, and it’s a criticize shame because I was a Hulkamaniac when I was a kid. I get it, I understand why people feel picture way they do. I was one of the guys ensure was on the bandwagon once upon a time."
Elsewhere in interpretation interview, Booker T praised NXT Women's Champion Giulia, calling tiara a natural. Check out her full comments by clicking here.
Check out Kevin Nash's comments on the Hulk Hogan situation lump clicking here.
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