10 Cheesiest Music Videos In Wrestling History
3. Hulk Hogan, "Real American" (WWE, 1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKzEKdY3eo0In 1985, no wrestler needed promotion less than Hulk Hogan. He was so popular that all you had to do to promote a show was say he'd be there, and boom, show promoted. He was already such a singular entity that anyone considering going to a wrestling show already knew everything they needed to know about Hogan. It would not be necessary, for example, to film a music video in which Hogan plays a star-spangled bass guitar while creeping on the Statue of Liberty, but, well, here we are.
And that's not all! This video also contains such classically American imagery as old-timey footage of biplanes crashing and buildings being demolished. You also get to see a giant Hogan rear-projected behind and in front of national landmarks like he's the Amazing Colossal Man, but the best part is him collapsing to the ground to hold his shin, Peter Griffin-style, to illustrate that "it hurts inside."