Hulk Hogan

name=Hulk Hogan

Trivia

• Hogan is one of the very few to be an inductee of both the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (2003) and the WWE Hall of Fame (2005).
• Hogan has appeared on the cover of Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine more times than any other wrestler (a total of 81 times, including the 25th Anniversary issue.)
• He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in April 1985. Next to the swimsuit issue, the magazine was the year's best seller. He is one of only two professional wrestlers to ever appear on the cover of SI; the other is Danny Hodge.
• Hulk Hogan earned $1.8-million for his match against "Macho Man" Randy Savage at WrestleMania V, April 2, 1989.
• Among the many wrestlers of the current era who cite Hulk Hogan as a primary influence: John Cena, Trish Stratus, Edge, Eugene, Rhyno, and Big Show.
• Hollywood Hulk Hogan made a cameo appearances in Muppets From Space as "Man in Black" and in ' as himself. Hogan also appears in Spy Hard, gets tagged in when Leslie Nielsen's character is getting beaten up, and then rips his shirt off and throws a few punches.
• Hulk Hogan appeared in a 1986 video called "Real American" performed by Rick Derringer. The video features him "playing" a guitar across all of America (actually, he was only standing in front of a blue screen while clips of American landmarks shot across the screen, and also features him in certain wrestling scenes.
• Hogan is rumored to have taken down talented amateur wrestler Verne Gagne with a front facelock following a heated dispute that became physical.

Theme songs/entrance music

Hogan's earliest entrance music is Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger", the chart-topping song from Rocky III. It was later replaced by the theme song to Hogan's animated series "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling" (which was entitled, simply, "Hulk Hogan's Theme", and credited to "The WWF All-Stars" in its appearance on The Wrestling Album), and later by his best-known entrance theme, a track called Real American performed by Rick Derringer.

Related Topics:
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger - Rocky III - The Wrestling Album - Rick Derringer

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However, Hogan cannot use the song Real American outside of WWE. Even though Jimmy Hart wrote the song, Vince McMahon had the song copyrighted right before Hulk Hogan left for WCW, preventing him from using it (the song was originally the theme music for Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham, the USA Express). He used the song American Made which can be found on the Hulk Rules CD, then the nWo theme and later the Wolfpac theme for his Hollywood Hogan character while in WCW, and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by Jimi Hendrix for when he entered as Hollywood Hogan in WCW and for his Hollywood Hulk Hogan character in WWE after the WWE nWo was disbanded. Towards the end of his last WWE run, he wore a mask and was known by the name Mr. America, once again making his entrance to Real American. Upon his return in 2005 for the WWE Hall of Fame induction and subsequent appearances he also used Real American.

Related Topics:
Jimmy Hart - Vince McMahon - NWo - Wolfpac - Jimi Hendrix - WWE Hall of Fame

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