10 Stars Who Changed The Way We Talk About Wrestling

9. Hulk Hogan

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Any vague showing of ego, or lying, is invariably followed, with the routine consistency of Ed Leslie, with a pejorative "...brother".

It's a fun means of lightly bantering off the Hulkster himself - "André died the very next night, brother" - and of calling b*llocks on virtually anything that doesn't ring true. Hogan was also so adverse to putting anybody over that any rumblings of his successors adhering to his philosophy evokes the phrase "That doesn't work for the Hulkster, brother" - a saying so prevalent that Becky Lynch recently used it to laugh off his recent suggestion of taking WWE back from the younger generation.

It's not all bad. Without Hulkamania, there'd be no KofiMania - no shorthand to describe a phenomenon in wrestling. That latest tribute is rewarding in its poetry; Hogan wouldn't let Kofi date his daughter, but the cache of his onscreen character, at least, has not been tainted.

Hogan's exceptional eye for bullsh*t has also lent a euphemistic slant to wrestling's lexicon. Hogan definitely did "train", and he also did take "vitamins", but he also took mountains of "steroids", on the record, and so we now equate steroid use with a nudge-nudge-yapapi-wink-wink "Yup, he's taking his vitamins, brother."

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