NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling, 5/5/79: Terry "The Hulk" Boulder vs. Andre the Giant (arm wrestling match)
WWE, 13/11/79: Hulk Hogan vs. Harry Valdez (WWE debut, Championship Wrestling)
WWE, 17/12/79: "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan vs. Ted DiBiase (Madison Square Garden debut)
WWE, 9/8/80: "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (Showdown At Shea)
AWA, 18/4/82: Nick Bockwinkel! vs. Hulk Hogan (AWA World Championship)
AWA, 24/4/83: Nick Bockwinkel vs. Hulk Hogan (AWA World Championship, Super Sunday)
NJPW, 2/6/83: Hulk Hogan vs. Antonio Inoki (IWGP Championship tournament finals)
DISC 2:
WWE, 23/1/84: Iron Sheik vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship)
WWE, 31/3/85: Hulk Hogan & Mr. T vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper & "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (WrestleMania)
WWE, 7/4/86: Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy (steel cage match, WrestleMania 2)
WWE, 3/1/87: Hulk Hogan vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (steel cage match, Saturday Night's Main Event)
WWE, 29/3/87: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (WrestleMania III)
WWE, 29/8/88: The Mega-Powers vs. The Mega-Bucks (SummerSlam)
WWE, 2/4/89: "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, WrestleMania V)
WWE, 1/4/90: Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior (Wre! stleMania VI)
DISC 3:
WWE, 27/8/90: Hulk Hogan vs. Earthquake (SummerSlam)
WWE, 24/3/91: Sgt. Slaughter vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, WrestleMania VII)
WWE, 3/12/91: Undertaker vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, Tuesday In Texas)
WCW, 17/7/94: Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan (WCW Championship, Bash At the Beach)
WCW, 23/10/94: Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair (WCW Championship - steel cage retirement match, Halloween Havoc)
WCW, 15/9/96: Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, & nWo Sting vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, & Sting ("War Games:The Match Beyond", Fall Brawl)
WCW, 29/12/97: Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting (WCW Championship - Starrcade)
DISC 4:
WWE, 11/3/02: Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, & Kevin Nash vs. The Rock & Stone Cold Steve Austin (RAW)
WWE, 17/3/02: Hollywood Hogan vs. The Rock (WrestleMania X8)!
WWE, 21/4/02: Triple H vs. Hulk Hogan (WWE Championship, Backlash)
WWE, 4/7/02: Billy & Chuck vs. Hulk Hogan & Edge (World Tag Team Championship, SmackDown!)
WWE, 30/3/03: Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. McMahon (streetfight, WrestleMania XIX)
WWE, 21/8/05: Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels (SummerSlam)
I like it. I wish there were more Savage matches, and the Hulk/Andre cage match would have been cool too. I'm still buying it.
It's just a message board, people. Chill out. Now, go show your internet diapproval of me! YEA!
I'm really glad they included his AWA matches. Those couple matches with Bockwinkle were super hot. The crowd was ready to tear the place down. Vern deserved to go bust for being dumb enough not to make Hogan world champion.
What does the release of this set say about the chances of seeing Hogan-Austin at WM22? I'm assuming that since we have the match listing, the release date is going to be sometime late 1Q / early 2Q 2006. Surely, a match with Austin would belong on a set like this, and not on Ultimate Anthology 2: Oops, We Forgot This One Match - Now Buy This Set Again. I guess my question is: are we seeing Hogan-Austin this year or not?
We are not. D-Melt summarizes it as Austin is probably not going to be at the show at all and right now they have nothing for Hogan, but since Hogan Knows Best II comes out at the same time, it would be mutually beneficial for him to be involved.
A few duplicates from the "Hulk Still Rules" release but I think I could go for it because even with the Warrior release I can totally relive the time of egomanic revolutionizing wrestling.
If you can't beat'em whack'em with a chair! Go ahead...take a Chance!
I'm there, too. Believe it or not I have yet to see Sting/Hogan from Starrcade '97, even though it was, y'know, probably the biggest match in WCW history. (And naturally, WCW found a way to screw it up big-time-- they should have had Sting squash Hogan).
Colour me underwhelmed. Perhaps as the resident Hogan mark of the board, my standards are too high but these matches won't provide a perspective of what a phenomenon Hogan became and how he got to the heights he eventually did. I am thrilled to see the loaded forearm fiasco with Andre on there, but the Antonio Inoki deal would have been sweet. Any of Hogan's Japanese stuff would have been great, since it would show a different side of him (he actually could work pretty well). Also, I am dying for that Nitro match with Bret Hart where he and Bret actually wrestled, like, on the mat. It was mind-boggling, and then one of them left the ring and some awful booking took over, but for that short time it was splendid.
Hopefully the use of Wargames: The Match Beyond is a precursor to future DVD's, specifically the Pillman one where Sid scrambles his brains on the roof of the cage. Surprised they aren't going with some of the Boston Garden/Spectrum/Maple Leaf Gardens/MSG matches, such as Hogan vs. Valentine, Hogan vs. Savage in '86 in a lumberjack match, Hogan vs. Harley Race in '87 in a Texas Death Match etc. Even a Hogan vs. Studd from '84 would be a nice change of pace, especially since 7 of the matches are Mania matches, thus they would be available on the Mania Anthology. Throw in Orndorff vs. Hogan being on the Steel Cage DVD and Iron Sheik vs. Hogan on the Stars of the 80's DVD, and you wonder whether they could have tried to go deeper on this DVD.
Any complaints about the preceding post can be directed at the time traveling aliens who edited it.
Well the Hogan vs. Orndorff cage match was not shown in entirety on the Bloodiest Cage matches DVD...
Speaking of house show matches...why no Hogan vs. Flair matches from 1991 - 1992? They worked quite a few matches and Flair even won a few via count out...
OverpusHHHed...Patterson was right...
"Win if you can, lose if you must, but in the end, always cheat..." - Jesse "the Body" Ventura
DiBiase said very good things about their first match in MSG on his shoot interview. I guess he really bounced around for Hogan. ------------- I have the Best of Hogan in Japan, two tape set from Matt Long and it would have been nice to have:
Hulk Hogan & Stan Hansen vs. Bob Backlund & Antonio Inoki. or Hulk Hogan & Antonio Inoki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami & Akira Maeda.
Also, it will be interesting to see which Inoki match they put on...there was a great angle that I won't spoil.
I just remembered that im absent minded wait i mean i lost my mind, i cant find it.
Originally posted by canis582Also, it will be interesting to see which Inoki match they put on...there was a great angle that I won't spoil.
It's Hogan beating Inoki in the IWGP Tournament Finals in 1983 (before it became a normal title).
In the real world, WWE believes that no matter what our race, religious creed or ethnic background in America, we all share the common bond of being Americans. American-Arabs are a part of the fabric of America, and they should be embraced by all of us.
No, I was less than a month old when the match happened. Some sources list it as a KO, others say it was by countout.
In the real world, WWE believes that no matter what our race, religious creed or ethnic background in America, we all share the common bond of being Americans. American-Arabs are a part of the fabric of America, and they should be embraced by all of us.
Funk speculated in his book that Inoki was taking a nap b/c he had heat with the Yakuza.
Perhaps more importantly, and wayyyyy of topic (sorry CRZ) how the hell did a kick to the face get the criminal syndicate title: Yakuza Kick for the Japanese, Mafia kick for the Italians, Hamas Kick for the Palestinians, I presume.
My fear is that they'll unmask Abyss. I have a bad feeling that someone wants to turn him into a Mick Foley type character. This is a horrible idea, and I hope I'm wrong. I'd rather have TNA keep everyone as characters and not as real people...