Hulkamania is not running wild like it used to back in the day. New fans just don't love him like they used to for a myriad of different reasons. Hulk Hogan has never been a stranger to controversy throughout his life. To this day, he's still making people upset because of his racist past and his Donald Trump connections. He skates through it the same way he always has: flagrant lying.
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Recently, Hogan was on the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN (captured by the Daily Mail). There, he talks about being booed out of the building in Los Angeles for WWE's debut episode of Monday Night Raw on Netflix in January. The crowd spent all night cheering the big stars that came through that night. All of that came to a screeching halt when "Real American" started blaring.
Hulk Hogan Gives Ridiculous Reason Why Fans Booed Him at WWE Live Event
It's not a secret why people don't like Hogan. However, the Hulkster decides to feign ignorance instead and argues that it was for wrestling purposes. "You've got to realise, the last time I ran hard in LA, I was a bad guy, I was Hollywood Hogan," he argues. "I was riding dirty with the boys. You know, [Kevin] Nash and [Scott] Hall, and we're spray-painting people and we're crotch-chopping everybody. It started out with the Too Sweet stuff. So the last time I was there, I was a heel, but I think the politics had a whole lot to do with it, like you said."
... Right. I'm sure that's why Hogan. Even Pat McAfee, who is generally pretty agreeable with his guests, tries to parse through the nonsense by vaguely suggesting 'other stuff' is involved. Hulk once again kind of breezes past all of it without digging into the specifics. "Yes, of course, you do slip and fall a couple of times,' he flatly claims.
Wrestling 101 has always taught me that wrestlers can be notorious liars. Hulk Hogan is probably the prime example of that. He knows why people don't like him but he's got Real American beer to sell.
