Such a shame. I grew up a couple of miles from his old house, Terry/HH would be out on the town, autoparts, picking up take out, riding his motorcycle, regular dude / dad stuff etc etc. He had a reputation of being super nice, soft spoken, and a good tipper, you know in the before times of long ago.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the business he's known as a racist, a deviant, union buster, and a pathological liar. Dude lies about the most easily verifiable shit like "I partied with Jon Belushi after WrestleMania 1" (Belushi died 2 years prior to that) and "I was the first choice to be the lead in the movie the wrestler" (meanwhile the director confirms that's 100% not true).

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a shame, all of it, though I guess none of it matters when you support fascism. Eh, throw another slice of childhood on the fire.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I used to also love that wrestler Chris Jericho back When I was a teen watching wrestling, and I checked him out recently. He's a trump supporter and his wife was at the Jan 6th insurrection. Trump has at least caused these guys to show their true colors, which makes it easier for us to chuck em in the bin.

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is a tarnished silver lining of the whole maga thing isn't it? Masks off

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely made me filter out quite a few people out of my life

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I'm with you on that. Not all of them are racist, greedy, amoral or fascist either, some of them are just genuinely stupid, which doesn't make them less of threat to freedom or to me.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He is not a nice guy.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you grow up within a smaller radius to Hulk Hogan?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I am literally in the wrestling business and I read a lot about wrestling history. I have yet to find anyone saying anything positive about him.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I see what you're saying, but I believe the root comment is talking about before he got famous