Name: How Hulk Hogan Bought His Name Back From Marvel
Uploaded: 2023-07-31T17:23:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Hulk Hogan Bought His Name Back From Marvel' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Hulk Hogan Bought His Name Back From Marvel' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-31. Transcript available.

and did you have full ownership of your own of your own character how did that
work out with
because it's you create it within the wwf yeah right so was there partnerships
in it and stuff
like that you ready for this story maybe if it's uncomfortable no no no it's
way cool okay it's
just really a little twist here i own everything i own hulk ogren i own hulk
mania on holster
congratulations i'm one of the few few guys that own their name and the rights
and the trademarks
and licenses i own everything yeah so when i first the name i was wrestling i
had several names
super destroyer terry boulder sterling golden terry the hulk boulder different
sterling golden sounds
no offense i know it's you but yeah i don't love that one i know that was a guy
named jim barnett
who's a very nice man yes jim barnett was cool yeah he was cool he you know
okay a little light
in the loafers but he's a good guy yeah not everybody loved him to death loved
him to death
but um yeah he called me sterling my boy oh yeah that's what i'm saying dude
that freaked me out man
yeah but anyway so anyway i went through all these different things and finally
when i quit and i was
working on the docs i'll never wrestle again i'm done i'm you know five or six
times i've quit i'm over
this crap i get a call from vince mcmahon and it's a couple local wrestlers
jack and jerry briscoe who
were here in florida jack was an ncaa champion world heavyweight champion
wow so they were real wrestlers yeah they said you know vince mcmahon this is
perfect for you this is
madison square garden this is where all the really big wrestlers go and they
kept pounding on me pounding
on me i said okay well i'll go up there but i'm not taking my wrestling stuff
with me like what kind of a
horse's ass is that so i fly up there and they had just got rid of superstar
billy graham because he'd kind of like
they'd had some problems with him as soon as soon as i walked in i mean i was
jacked i was all yoked
up on something i was like 330 pounds i was working on the docks running game
on the docks arm wrestling
everybody and stuff so i walk up there in the whole buildings i can't slid
through the building i didn't
know how to get in correctly so i had to cut through the crowd for about 20 or
30 feet and the whole building
started young superstar superstar i thought i was billy graham i had a tie-dye
tank top on i didn't
even think about it and vince mcmahon senior goes don't you ever wear that tie-dye
in here yeah i guess
he just had a blow with billy graham so anyway i met with him and he talked
about what they wanted to
pay me you know because i i just get tired of getting screwed over and they
talked about
getting me a place to live and having a guy travel with me which was one of the
worst decisions ever made
they hooked me up with one of the biggest con men ever really yeah i don't know
if you know who
albano was yeah captain lou albano his partner tony altimore they were the sicilians
tag team
champions i remember tony okay well tony was the biggest carney ever met wow he
taught me everything
how to slip and fall in a grocery store and walk out with two three grand how
to do everything you know
yeah so it just it was horrible to put me with him but smart me up to what the
world's all about
so anyway as i'm talking he goes you know what i want you to be hulk hogan i
said what does hulk hogan
mean he goes like that ivan putzky for the polish americans bruno sammartino
for the italian americans
chief jay strongbow for the native american indian americans and i want you to
be hulk hogan for
the irish americans here's two bottles of red dye i want your hair red and you
know and they put me with
fred blasey and i told fred i said brother i'm going bald headed as it is if i
put this red diamond
hair the party's over so die goes down the toilet oh my god he's gonna fire us
i could care less
and they didn't fire me yeah but that's how i get the name right hulk hogan to
represent the irish
americans dang and vince gave you the name so now vince died the irish goodbye
that could have been your
finishing move ooh strong brother i like that sorry that would have been really
good not trying to tell you
what to do but it could have been neat but what you did worked great yeah so
anyway vince dies vince
his son takes over and right when this whole hogan thing takes off we get a
call from marvel comics
you're infringing our mark reasonably similar lou ferrigno's character the with
the cartoon character
incredible and the magazine is because before the tv series right you know you're
infringing on our mark
we're gonna sue you put you in litigation so we went ahead and and let them
have the name
didn't license the name but they only had i only had to pay him one tenth of
one percent
oh wow so out of a dollar if i got a penny i had i only had to pay him one
tenth of a penny
and that went from 85 to 2005 20 years fast forward to 2005
it's over you know and i now i can't use hulk hogan again i'm red hot in 2005
man
i'm still jamming so i went to my attorney i said i don't damn what deal you
make you want to make that
deal because i need the name so what happened was we went and i get a one-year
extension i had to pay him
30 percent of everything i made movies tv wrestling they got 30 of everything
but if they decided to
sell the name they had to give me first shot at it they couldn't you know sell
the name or do anything
you know right at a fair market value so all of a sudden marvel comics gets in
a
bitch fest with the wwe about intellectual properties that they can't re-air
old hulk hogan
matches which was re-airing all that stuff they've lost marvel comics lost and
the other vince like
uh 35 million dollars and they made a huge mistake of including that in the
deal and they said no
instead of paying you 35 million dollars how about if we give you the hulk hogan
name and i heard about
it and i went you guys screwed up now because now i don't have to pay 35
million dollars for the name
you have to sell it to me at a fair market value which is only like 750 grand
wow yeah so i bought
the name back and then swan to buy the name for me now i think i got this let
me get this yeah i got
this one wow did that feel pretty yeah that must have been a cool moment
because then it's almost like
you own yourself yeah so i bought the name back and i just own everything wow
congratulations yeah it's
really hard to do in these in the world how many guys you know that have that
can say that yeah hope
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