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Chris Jericho, Bryan Alvarez, and “Big Vinny V” Vincent Verhei had a recent Watchalong show on “Talk Is Jericho” where they watched the Saturday Night’s Main Event episode that aired on NBC on November 27, 1987. Jericho had a lot of praise for Hogan, noting how he was able to hold the crowd’s attention like no one else. He even went as far as to say that Hogan was a better worker than Ric Flair, at least in his opinion. According to Jericho, Hogan knew exactly who he was as a babyface or a heel and was great at knowing his audience.>“I will say to this day and people will bag. Here’s a clickbait. Hogan is a better worker than Flair. For me. I always had amazing matches with Hogan because he knew exactly who he was as a babyface, as a heel, whatever. He was so great. He knew his audience. He didn’t do anything he didn’t have to. It was one of my favorite times in my career.” One interesting point that was raised was Hogan’s receding hairline. Despite this, Hogan was still able to maintain his image as America’s hero without anyone really noticing his hairline. Jericho noted that if Hogan were bald now, he would probably wear a toupee or something to maintain his image.>“Here’s another great thing about Hogan. Like you don’t even think about it. But the dude had like a super receding hairline. But no one even really noticed it back then…We all did, but you didn’t. It’s just Hogan, right? Like, it’s weird. He’s like America’s hero with no hair now that would never go, he’d put a toupee on or something.”
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He is. His match with Rock at WrestleMania is better than any match Flair ever had.
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Ric Flair is probably the most overrated acts in all of wrestling history. Literally all of his matches are the same, wasn't a draw, repetitive promos, booked himself to be champion. Flair was main-eventing shows as World's Champion that drew less than current day AEW.
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Hulk Hogan is the best worker of all time.
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>>10093329 Hulk is dimes and the GOAT. In other news, water is wet.
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>>10093329 >“Here’s another great thing about Hogan. Like you don’t even think about it. But the dude had like a super receding hairline. But no one even really noticed it back then…We all did, but you didn’t. It’s just Hogan, right? Like, it’s weird. He’s like America’s hero with no hair now that would never go, he’d put a toupee on or something.” kek, you can just hear Jericho's hair plugs speaking through him here
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Hogan vs Rock was a perfect wrestling match that hasn't been touched ever since
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>>10093329 Go watch his New Japan matches they are actually really good. There is an argument to be made here.
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>>10093329 He's right, but lmao at that weird cope projection at the end about going bald
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>>10093329 lmao, this nigga still seething
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>>10093329 HULKSTER will always be number one
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>>10093329 Never seen Chris Jericho, but from this text i can certainly say her is balding.
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>>10094019 kek you completely missed the point you shit brai
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>>10095118 good morning sir
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>>10093329 >believing a single word that comes out of jericho’s mouth Anonymous
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>>10093329 Hogan literally was. Flair had his stupid chops and his oversold reactions. He also has the "get down on your knees and beg" shit. That's it. Probably best at promos in history, but truly sucked in the ring.
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>>10093329 When the Hulkster gives a shit he can run circles around anyone, but the only way to see that is through some old ass clips of his time in Japan.
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As a huge Flair fan, I agree, solely because of my personal definition of work. Hogan does seemingly the bare minimum and gets it over, that's the work. Flair is also a great worker, but he's putting on 60 minute matches with a lot thought put into them. Hogan just sells great and has the all time best babyface comeback. The only person I could put above Hogan to would be the boogie woogie man, whose sloppy, and his matches have no flow or logic but people still ate up everything he did. Likewise I love 90s All Japan, but I don't know if those guys are great workers, because as far as I can tell they're really laying in everything they do. If Kawada actually has a feather touch he might be the goat, but as far as anyone knows he was just really stiff.
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>>10094019 Doing the tiger mask move once in Japan isn't being a good worker. Having millions of Hulkamaniacs live and die based on if he wins or loses fake matches is being a good worker.
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First off, Jericho is correct. Secondly, I never got Flair being "the" Goat. What's with /pw/ making legitimate sense out of the blue? Hogan over Flair every day of the week.
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Hogan is shit, /pw/ only likes him because muh america, the heckin' based n word and the classic case of being contrarian as fuck
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>>10095342 >with a lot thought put into them. Why do people lie like this about Flair? You talk about Hogan's work? This is Flair's. Flair was not the level or worker everyone makes him out to be. Watch the matches and you can see that. Is Flair bad? No. But he is not some "genius".
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>>10093329 He has a new found respect for WCW Hogan, now he's in a similar position (without the dimes).
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>>10096053 >liking the most popular wrestler of all time >contrarian Anonymous
>>10096053 Not enough flips for ya, faggot?
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>>10096158 don't need flips, just don't need a complete fragile pussy surrounded by people better than him
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>>10096177 objectively Hogan was never surrounded by people better than him
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>>10093329 Very interesting information
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Only idiots think Hogan was a bad wrestler I still prefer Flair personally, but I love the Hulkster.
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Bret said the same thing and he hates Hogan. Flair had the same match every night, and got boosted by Meltzer and Cornette. When he got to WWF he failed so miserably that Vince let him out of his contract for free.