Name: Hulk Hogan Was Fired from WWF for Doing Rocky 3
Uploaded: 2023-08-23T17:13:55.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hulk Hogan Was Fired from WWF for Doing Rocky 3' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Hulk Hogan Was Fired from WWF for Doing Rocky 3' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-23. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience well I gotta give it to Sloan he took all the hits and
all the bumps and he was an animal yeah I kind of messed his collarbone up you
know by accident but you know he was amazing I mean I remember when I was
gonna go do that film Vince McMahon senior fired me because of that because
of that movie because what well I'd got the call I didn't know there was a
senior
oh yeah Vince senior that's what I started working for brother yeah so it's
not the Vince McMahon that's an old no dad was a star I first when I first went
to when I first went to New York in 78 Vince McMahon senior had a couple Phil
Zacco and a couple partners and Vinnie jr. had one building I think in the Cape
Cod and Vince would come in once every three weeks he'd hold a stick like mean
Gene you know so when I first started there 70 and however long I lasted till
probably mid-80s and I told Vince senior I got this crazy call to come out and
do a
Stallone movie first I was in the dressing room and Gorilla Monsoon gave me the
note
I'm like yeah right I threw it away because you know Stallone was like 150 feet
tall in the public's eyes and I saw Rocky 1 and Rocky 2 I was like oh my god so
I
said yeah another wrestling joke you know like pooping in my bag or putting
lots of my
stuff you know so I split to Japan for like eight weeks and when I came back
again to TV
again in Allentown they handed me a Western Union letter this time from Stallone
so I flew
out there and talked with him got in the ring with him and did a couple things
if you want
to hear about that that's a little different but what would you do well when I
went out
there I just had my nose broke in Japan for like the second or third time and
when I went
out there I was so enamored and such a fan of his you know he goes let's see he
had a guy
with one of those big cameras old school cameras you know when I came in so I
knew I was on camera you
know sorry at least I knew that much back then and so he goes hey let's just
get in the ring and move
and I had jeans on and cowboy boots he goes oh just get in the ring like this
so
he goes I'm gonna try to hit you I said well if you want to you can hit me in
the nose because
I saw the camera I thought it'd be cool if he splattered my nose that's how
crazy I was
this is right after neurosurgery no I didn't have nose surgery it was right
after having my nose
broken oh you just had it broken again yeah I flew back to TV I'm just assuming
you had it fixed
no no no Andre Andre would fix everything for you he'd just stand up behind you
with the thumbs and
push everything down but so I got in the ring he goes you know try to hit me
you know and so
when he went to hit me I just grabbed him I said I don't want to hit you he
goes well hit me give me
everything you have I want I said no brother you don't want that I said there's
a certain place I could
I can hit you harder than others but if I hit you as hard as I can it's not
going to be cool he goes
well give me 50% I really don't want to I said what is going on with Sylvester
no no no he was
because they were filming this whole thing so I said well you try to hit me I'll
grab you I'll bend
you over and I'll hammer you between the shoulders and I hit him I probably
gave him 50% and as soon
as I made contact his face hit my cowboy boots he came up and his lip was
bleeding so that's perfect
that's perfect and so he was all excited you know just because I hit him what a
psycho yeah and then we
we got out of the ring he goes you're a fake wrestler you know boxers can kick
a wrestler's ass anytime
get mad so he wanted me to do an interview right so I did let me tell you
something you know that
whole stick so he goes I want you for the film and I've never had an agent I've
never been in a movie
I don't know anything he goes I'll give you $10,000 to do the film me being the
negotiation genius
that I am I'm like I want 15 you know I want 15 grand so he gave me $14,000 and
I signed whatever
oh my god he bargained with you yeah wow yeah so I signed what the fuck sly you're
stealing
yeah so I signed whatever he wanted back in the day and that was it but how
rude
yeah but you wouldn't even give him the 50 that's some negotiation bullshit
right there but to go
backwards I had called Vince McMahon senior that night from Fall River
Massachusetts because I was
wrestling at a high school in Fall River Massachusetts and I called Vince
because he was my guy we were
really good friends on top of him helping me give me the break Vince senior I
called him in Fort Lauderdale I
said brother I'm leaving tomorrow to go to LA to do this film he goes no you're
not he goes it's midnight
now you have to be in Charlotte at noon for TV with Crockett because that's
where Flair and all those guys
were he was sending me down to that southern swing wrestling thing I said no I
told you I'm not gonna do that
you know I said I'm gonna go do this movie and as soon as I'm done with the
movie I'll come back
he goes well don't come back you're never gonna work here again never so I went
okay I was single at the
time spending 20 to 24 weeks a year in Japan had a great hookup in Japan being
single with my friends
and all the stuff that was going on there you know and so I went to Japan and
the movie came out and
all of a sudden this guy Vern Gagne from Minnesota called me wanted me to come
in there so that was the
place everybody wanted to go wrestling the AWA for Vern Gagne I don't know if
you've heard of it of course
yeah four days a week he pays you better than any of the promoters and I just
stumbled in right behind
this guy the Crusher he was like the Hulk Hogan of the Twin Cities and that
whole St. Paul across
Wisconsin area with Brock Lesnar and Brad Riggins all those guys live so Crusher
was walking out I was
walking in and I wouldn't let anybody see my face my arms were legitimately 24
back then
and I throw my arms up and I go hey if you guys want to see my face you go to
buy a ticket I was trying
to be a bad guy and I'd do all my interviews with the back to the camera my
back was this wide back then
and they wanted me to wrestle Jesse Ventura and Jesse Ventura is the one that
actually turned me babyface
as soon as I walked out they booed the piss out of him and cheered me so I had
that little run in
Minnesota for three years then we're coming into New York you know Vern Gagne
was going to buy TV time
on Channel 9 and all up down the East Coast that's when Vince Junior came back
and said hey brother
you know I want you to come back to New York and we had a talk he came to my
house in Minnesota
at five in the morning we shook hands and we did that whole worldwide takeover