Latest Details On Hogan & Bischoff's New Wrestling "Promotion"
Posted by Ashish on 02.21.2008
All the latest...
The new wrestling "promotion" Hulk Hogan has been talking about starting lately isn't really a wrestling promotion. Hogan and Bischoff have pitched an idea to several TV networks about a reality show that focuses on celebrities training and performing at pro-wrestlers.
CMT is currently the frontrunner to air the show. Jason Hervey, Eric Bischoff's production partner, was handling some pre-production for the show last week.
The other recent statements Hogan has been making, trying to make this reality show seem like a legitimate wrestling promotion, were probably said as a way for Hogan to get WWE's attention in hopes of getting a spot on the WrestleMania card.
The Bischoff-Hervey production company is behind the Scott Baio reality show on VH1.
Isn't Hogan presence in the Hall of Fame enough? The "E" should have stopped with that. What does he want, I used to be a Hogan fan but now with the problems with his family and his inability to get out of the public spotlight, I am done.
What a joke, what benefit can the "e" really gain from having Hogan on the show.
Posted By: Guest#5919 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Oh, that crazy Hogan!
Posted By: Christopher Warrior (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:31 PM
So Bischoff is behind Scott Baio rising from the child-star grave. And the last peice of the puzzle falls into place.
Wrestlers involved with "reality shows". Doesnt quite roll off the tongue does it?
Posted By: Rossbo (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:35 PM
So...we have a choice of believing Hulk Hogan or "PWInsider"...Um, there's a reason why it's called a "dirt sheet" site...
Posted By: Guest#4566 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:52 PM
If I can seperate Chris Benoit the wrestler from Chris Benoit the murderer....I can do the same for Hogan.
Posted By: CMWolf (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Don't mess with Baio. If you didn't get the memo, CHARLES IS IN CHARGE, PUNK.
Posted By: Ken B. (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Oh Dear God No!!! This just sounds like the crappy Celebrity Wrestling show that was shown over here in the UK. The show was abysmal, and I think only lasted about 3 weeks.
Posted By: The Gunman (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 04:03 PM
CMT??? Isn't that country music channel?
Posted By: Kris K (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 04:07 PM
you can buy slayer albums on cmt.com. i'm not even joking.
Posted By: hellboysetsfire (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 04:32 PM
"So...we have a choice of believing Hulk Hogan or "PWInsider"...Um,
there's a reason why it's called a "dirt sheet" site"
So what? Hogan spins thing constantly. I'd believe an objective source over him anyday.
Posted By: Guest#7733 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 04:32 PM
yup, CMT = country music television. it is kinda good in a way. if they get the deal, then they can show Kathy Griffin and Verne Troyer training to be 'wrestlers' between episodes Reba and Dixie Chick videos.
kill me now
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 04:34 PM
That silly, leathery muppet. I was really looking forward to a Duggan/Valentine v. Haku/Karl Malone
Posted By: Guest#3386 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 05:07 PM
Well ya know Mean Gene... I just want to say Listen here brothers! I aint seen nothing till I was down on a muffin, like my boy Steven Tyler says Jack!
Me and EZE are in the bizness of making wrestling professional again brother. And if we have to slay the giants at CMT brothers well that's what we're gonna do. And as far as the WWE is concerned brother, they are my bitch! I treat VinMan like an ATM and make withdrawls for the big four PPV's that I launched brothers. You know divorce aint cheap brothers, and Linda has her breast implant up keep costs ya know. And Brookie has her own baganzas to worry about now brothers. And Nick is needing a new set of wheels so me and EZE are gonna take the world by storm brothers!
Whatcha goin do when the largerst egos in the world run wild on youuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Posted By: Hulk Hogan (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 05:30 PM
They've done Celebrity Wrestling in the UK. It sucked eleventy billion shades of ass.
It was pretty much Celebrity Gladiators and was presented by Rowdy Roddy Piper.
I'd still rail Kate Lawler hard
Posted By: The Sandman (ROH Champ) (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 05:36 PM
I'm a Hogan mark just like to next guy but can someone stop him
Posted By: 411mark (Registered) on February 21, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Hulk Hogan is awesome. All you Hogan haters are just a bunch of pathetic pimple faced geeks whose only contact with the female anatomy was as an infant sucking your momma's teet. Just shut up already, I mean we get it. How many times are you going to say the exact same thing. Nobody cares about ROH. Accept it and move in, losers.
Posted By: Guest#0858 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 06:16 PM
Really? Really now Hogan? "Celebrity Wrestling"? Really? Really now?
A good wrestling reality show is being aired in Canada right now, and is called... Wrestling Reality... That's all we need, as it's a damn good show...
Posted By: Travis (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 06:20 PM
If they can get a wrestling show on SciFi, they can get in on Country Music Television.
Posted By: William (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 06:30 PM
My final thought on the Hogan/Bischoff new wrestling promotion: pffffffttttt
Posted By: HoosierJim500 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 06:49 PM
"Hulk Hogan is awesome. All you Hogan haters are just a bunch of pathetic pimple
faced geeks whose only contact with the female anatomy was as an infant sucking
your momma's teet. Just shut up already, I mean we get it. How many times are
you going to say the exact same thing. Nobody cares about ROH. Accept it and
move in, losers."
Yay revelant discussion! Yay insults we all heard on the school bus in junior high school!
Seriously, leave discussions to thinking human beings. Thanks.
Posted By: Guest#0882 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 07:03 PM
Guest#0858 I believe most of the people who hate Hogan are not ROHbots, but are true WWE fans. I'm a WWE fan and I can't stand Hogan on my TV. I love how people use this comment section to bag on people for being pro wrestling fans when you ARE A PRO WRESTLING FAN YOURSELF! Hogan could do good for the WWE if he'd lay down for younger talent and put them over (i.e. Ric Flair) but he refuses (i.e. Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels...not that HBK needed the rub, but he still shouldn't have had to lay down for the big bald jackass).
Posted By: Smo (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 07:05 PM
dat show sounds stpid. i rather see hulk kick all those famose ppls asses. hogan shud be at mania. he can kill kali an umanga. he can hulk up an bodyslam all wrestlers.
Posted By: T Horner (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 08:15 PM
i am not a ROHbot, i loathe TNA, i don't like ECWWE, i hate all the mexican jumping beans and the japanese no selling rice burners. and i hate what Hogan has become, and have hated him since WM6.
i love the WWE, even if i dislike much of the current product (FUCK CARLITO) but i would rather be ass raped by 50 Belizian prisioners who have each spent 10 years in solitary with razored dildoes than see hogan 'wrestle' again.
in a backstage capacity? sure, i guess...but never in the ring again.
Posted By: Darth Mortis (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 08:23 PM
Screw that! Bring back Hogans Knows Best, this season we would see Nick go to jail, the Hogan divorce with Linda getting all the money and banging young dudes, Brooke banging the same dudes Linda did and hopefully becoming a crazy Britney. And Terry going broke trying to figure out ways to pay his wife money and money to the kid's family whose life Nick ruined. Now thats a REALITY show, not the bullshit that was on for the last few seasons.
Posted By: Razors Edge (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 08:41 PM
looking on the bright side:
if there really has to be a reality show about celebrities trying to wrestle, there could be far worse people running it than bischoff.
Posted By: hornswoggle fan (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 08:47 PM
"i would rather be ass raped by 50 Belizian prisioners who have each spent
10 years in solitary with razored dildoes than see hogan 'wrestle' again."
No you wouldn't you liar.
Posted By: Guest#9511 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 09:25 PM
Boy, all those people who talked about how they thought Hogan was legit this time and how his "promotion" would be great for the world of wrestling and give all these new people and disillusioned talents a chance sure look stupid now, don't they? Have people STILL not realized that Hogan is a pathological liar and scumbag and has been for years?! Even beyond this "starting his own promotion" bull, he's made outrageous and blatantly false proclamations for over a decade. How can people still fall for him? Hogan could swear on a stack of Bibles, Torahs and Korans in the middle of the United Nations and I still wouldn't believe a word that came out of his mouth.
Posted By: GuestGuy (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 09:28 PM
"all those people who talked about how they thought Hogan was legit this
time and how his "promotion" would be great for the world of
wrestling and give all these new people and disillusioned talents a chance sure
look stupid now, don't they?"
Dude's just trying to make a buck - aren't we all?... give him a break :-)
Posted By: c.j. (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 10:41 PM
hogan is looking 4 a way to get into wm lolthats all this show wont even happen.. wwe is ight buts its wwe tna is beging stupid and roh doesnt do ppvs anymore wrestling is dying sadly
Posted By: Guest#4095 (Guest) on February 21, 2008 at 11:33 PM
The comment section has a handful of intelligent posters, the rest are third graders or illiterate douche bags. Having said that, I guess we all have the right to express our individual and unique opinion. Here is mine: Some of you folks would be better served by turning of the wrestling and taking some typing lessons. There are some who might also want to install a spell checker. The grammar and punctuation, thats where it gets a bit shady. That's harder to correct. Hmmmm, I guess wrestling really does make some people brain dead.
Posted By: Bastion (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 12:52 AM
"Hulk Hogan is awesome. All you Hogan haters are just a bunch of pathetic pimple
faced geeks whose only contact with the female anatomy was as an infant sucking
your momma's teet. Just shut up already, I mean we get it. How many times are
you going to say the exact same thing. Nobody cares about ROH. Accept it and
move in, losers."
Holy stereotypes Batman. With anger like that, I believe it is you, sir, that has never touched a woman.
Posted By: Brendan (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 01:01 AM
Hulk Hogan is a legend and one of the top three most beloved wrestlers of all time (the others are Ric Flair and Steve Austin), If anybody should be running a new Indy Company it should be Him (or Flair or Austin but they're more loyal to vince). No offense but The Hulkster built his career on being invincible, he's put over lots of younger talent, Like when Russo took over WCW, Hulk was getting beaten but the younger guys wern't becoming stars, He put over Goldberg, Ultimate Warrior, Paul Wight, Undertaker, and Yokonuza, In Title matches, and lets not forget losing to the Rock at Wrestlemania!
A win over Hogan would have been great for Randy Ortons career but the Hulkster what back for a breif amount of time for the fans to get a feel good nestolga moment, Not to put over a guy who he wasn't certain could carry the company.
The Reason why Orton's legend killing works for him is because it makes Randy out as an evil heel who'll do anything to claim victories over great wrestlers. HBK is a good guy, what would him beating a legend with known bad knees do for him, Nothing! it would just be another acolade for king to mention as he comes down the ramp, Hogan beating HBK on the other hand made fans think that Hogan still had it, which helps "One More match" seem more likely. making Hogan more marketable.
This reality show could be really useful, but only if the Hulkster can get young guys to show up as opposed to the aging has-beens who populate other reality shows. If Hulkster can get publicity with this, he could turn it into a legit school and eventually promotion. It all depends on how well the show goes.
Hogan can't help but be in the spotlight, unless he does major hairstyle changes and absolutly lets himself out of shape, He's Hulk Hogan and is so recognizable on the street that he can barely enjoy his vacations. He failed to set up a backup career for when he retired and now is paying the price, unlike Flair and Taker who have real estate and loan sharking, he's decided to cash in on his surefire fame and push his daughter's career (sadly I don't think she can carry a reality show on her own and still appeal to the marks who watch the show to see what Hulk is up to these days) With his reality show. He's not an attation hog, but it's the only life he knows how to profit from.
Posted By: Davy (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 01:25 AM
"All you Hogan haters are just a bunch of pathetic pimple
faced geeks whose only contact with the female anatomy was as an infant sucking
your momma's teet."
I pity the woman (read: cousin) that you had to touch.
Posted By: Alex (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 01:42 AM
How about a show where Hulk Hogan goes around the country and gets his ass kicked by children? I'd pay to see that!
Okay how about he goes around looking up other wrestlers from his era (yes your era is long over Terry) and picks fights with them. A Hogan Vs Warrior Warrior Warrior street fight would be funny. Then find that crazy Iron Sheik and lay the smack down.
Posted By: Fenris (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 05:01 AM
"i would rather be ass raped by 50 Belizian prisioners who have each spent
10 years in solitary with razored dildoes than see hogan 'wrestle'
again."
No you wouldn't you liar.
Sounds like fun to me.
Posted By: Pat Patterson (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 08:37 AM
Didn't WWE already do this? They also had a recent one called the Bussey Bunch, which wasn't that bad a show, but only lasted two episodes.
Posted By: jbgs2 (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Hogan is a liar. This "new promotion" was just a way for him to get WWE's attention so that he can bury someone at WrestleMania so he can get a paycheck to compensate for that divorce. Even if the promotion was legit, he'd probably hold everyone down in favor of himself. He's been lying like this for years.
Posted By: JJ (Guest) on February 22, 2008 at 11:14 AM
