Name: Hulk Hogan on Facing The Rock at Wreslemania 18
Uploaded: 2023-08-23T17:14:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hulk Hogan on Facing The Rock at Wreslemania 18' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hulk Hogan on Facing The Rock at Wreslemania 18' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-23. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Incredible.
- Speaking of rock, you mentioned WrestleMania 18.
- Yeah.
- And what's crazy is that,
it's one of the greatest wrestling matches of all time.
Like if I was going to show you literally,
and 'cause I've thought about this,
'cause whatever, a decade ago,
when we would have our crazy wrestling arguments,
I had to think to myself,
well what would I show Joe first?
And it would be probably that, right?
- It was definitely a moment.
I know The Rock says he's never experienced
anything like that before.
- I don't think anyone's seen anything like that.
- No, it was crazy, man.
It was much different than I expected.
I'll put it to you that way.
- How so, what'd you expect?
- Well, I'd been working for Ted Turner for like 10 years.
And I started that NWO thing with Eric Bischoff
and Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.
You probably know who I was.
- Which was WCW, the competitor of the WWI.
We'd been trying to put Vince out of business for 10 years.
And we were killing him in the ratings
for like 83 or 88 weeks.
You know, we were just killing him.
Then there was a turnaround.
He brought Tyson on.
And we made a bunch of mistakes, you know,
programming wise, like we were live, live, live.
And their stuff was all taped.
And we go, "Don't watch Monday Night Raw tonight,
because Mick Foley's gonna beat The Rock."
And this guy, you know, so we'd give him the finishes,
just dirty pool, you know?
- Right.
- So you don't need to watch the show,
'cause we're gonna tell you who's already gonna win,
you know?
And so after 10 years of this craziness,
I was pretty much done.
You know, this was Hollywood Hogan, the bad guy.
And I had this crazy run.
It was just as big as the red and yellow run
as Hulkamania was.
It was just as big and bigger.
And so-- - Huge.
- At the end of the day, I was done.
You know, and Ted Turner merged with American Online.
And where his office was, they kicked him to the curb.
He was down at the end of the hall,
so Ted wasn't in charge.
You know, and Ted's the one I made the deal with,
and Eric Bischoff, and Harvey Schiller,
and all these guys.
And so I wasn't really gonna do anything.
I got a call from Vince, you know?
And he goes, you know, "We'd like you to come up
and work with The Rock at WrestleMania."
And I said, "Well, yeah, I can still go, you know?
If you need me to come up there, we can make it work."
And he goes, "Well, you know, things--
He used to call me Monster."
"Well, you know, Monster,
let's you know that things are different now up here."
I said, "What do you mean different?"
And he goes, "Well, you know, if you're gonna come up here,
you gotta really bring it."
'Cause you know The Rock, he goes,
The Rock does this thing in the ring, like, bring it.
And so I didn't say anything as a smartass.
I'm thinking, if you want me to bring it,
you're gonna be asking me to take it back
when I'm done with this bullshit.
So anyway, you know, we went up there,
had the match, there was a bunch of stuff
that happened before the match
that was a little bit different the weeks before.
But when I went up there, what we did on TV
was I did everything I could to be a bad guy.
I was in Chicago, place was just slammed in Chicago, just crazy.
I mean, I had so many matches in Chicago,
and the past accolades were so intense there,
that when I came out as a bad guy,
that people were like with me, you know?
And so all of a sudden, The Rock comes out,
gets in the middle of the ring, challenges me to WrestleMania.
I go to shake his hand, he won't let my hand go.
You know, he pulls me back in.
And right where face to face, he rock bottoms me, you know?
And dumps me in the middle of the ring
on the back of my head.
So here come my guys.
- I mean, you have to realize
that these are the most electrical moments ever,
like in pro wrestling history.
If you saw it on video, these things,
this is the epitome of the entire,
what makes the entire thing entertaining.
'Cause you're kind of rooting for both.
Both are kind of bad guys,
but have such likable qualities.
So it's a win-win no matter what.
I mean, this stuff is beyond,
like this is, that's,
this here is like totally top shelf pro wrestling history.
- I always loved the two-tone beard mustache combo.
- Yeah, so anyway, after he dumps me on my head,
my guys come down, Kevin and Scott,
and we just crucify his ass.
We just, we unload on him and we just grind him.
So I go out of the ring and I got a toolbox
and I dumped the toolbox out
and there's this ball peen hammer, right?
So they got him hooked.
And they think I'm gonna hit him from the front.
I go and I, and while he, they got him hooked,
they thought I was gonna blast him in the face with a hammer.
I hit him from behind with a hammer, right?
I catch him from behind.
You know, I'm not, not killing him.
I'm pretty good at what I do.
- Is it an actual hammer?
- Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Bro, I can, I can put this thing between your forehead.
I won't even hurt you.
- Please not.
- But anyway.
- He's a professional.
- No, but listen.
- You're hitting him with a hammer?
- Yeah.
- Like actually hit him with a hammer?
- Oh yeah.
- But it's, he's a professional.
- Yeah, I'm pretty, believe me,
I can hit you with a hammer, brother, you'd be good.
You know, but.
- What?
- Yeah.
- No.
- It's a hammer.
- No, you know, you know who first, if, since this guy's so good at pulling
stuff up, pull
up Rocky III where I get Stallone in the corner and I throw that straight in
punch to him.
- Oh, okay.
Yeah.
- Cause he said, oh, I don't want to get hurt.
I said, you just stand there and don't move.
- Well, this straight in punch, he goes, I've never had anybody throw a punch
that looks
like it was going to kill me.
- Did it make him for this?
- Yeah, no, I think this is it right here.
Look, look, look, look, that was straight into his forehead.
- Yeah.
- He goes, you didn't even hit me.
- Well, I'm not supposed to.
- That's amazing.
- But I did make contact.
- So anyway, long story short, hit him with a hammer, drag him outside the
building, put
him in an ambulance, put chains around the ambulance, right?
I go get in a semi truck without the trailer on it, just the cab or the semi,
and of course
as I'm getting in the cab or the semi, they pull Brock out of the ambulance and
I run
that ambulance over with the semi.
- Oh my God.
- Vince goes, do it again, do it again.
- Yeah.
This is so hilarious.
- So anyway.
- You got the fucking, the ambulance is chained up.
- Yeah.
So dude, so now the rock's in there.
We just, we slide him out when they cut to me.
Here you go.
And so at the end of the day, I did everything I could to be the worst, most
evil person in
the world, bad guy.
And we go, we go get in Toronto for WrestleMania after I've done all these
horrible things.
- Oh my God.
- And I had to back up and run him over again.
Now after I do all these horrible things and I come out of the building at
WrestleMania and
the place is cheering me out of the building.
- Yeah.
- I'm like, Oh my God, how are we going to fix this?
Because the rock is splitting to go to the Scorpion King.
And I'm passing the torch, giving him the rub, everything I can to help him be
the greatest
wrestler ever.
You know?
And because that guy was so good in the ring, bro.
And I never worked with him before, but second, third generation wrestler,
instinct, timing,
placement, he had everything.
It took us about seven or eight minutes.
I got it all turned back around, you know?
And he had certain input that we did.
And I said, well, if some of that stuff doesn't work, we're not doing it, you
know?
But it was just the craziest situation.
I mean, this is it, dude.
This is like the craziest shit of all time.
I mean, look, everybody's arms are up in the air.
- Tony is aroused.
- I mean, it's unbelievable.
You have to realize that this is like it.
The two entertainers.
- It was so loud in there.
- How old were you at this time?
- I don't know, I was 53 or 54.
- That's amazing.
- Yeah.
And I had a hip replacement.
- That is amazing.
- And two knee replacements.
- That at 54, you were still this jacked.
That's incredible.
- Another one.
- Another one.
- WrestleMania 18 after being in one, two, three, four, five.
- Oh, dude.
And the next year, I took Vince McMahon at Safeco Field.
And actually had a blast with Vince.
Got to beat the shit out of Vince.
That was fun.
And he, bro, he's all in.
- Oh, yeah.
- That crazy nut was all in.
He loved it.