10 Insane Wrestling Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
1. CM Punk Is The Same Age Now As NWO Hogan Was
On the surface, CM Punk and Hulk Hogan are wrestling chalk and cheese.
Punk is a straight-edge, independent darling-turned-unlikely WWE hero of the masses. Whereas Hogan was the WWE/WCW poster boy given the keys to the kingdom for much of his time in the spotlight; whether fans liked it or not.
However, the two do remarkably share something in common, as Twitter user @socaluncensored spotted recently. At the glorious age of 42-years on this planet, both men cut arguably their most important promo ever in front of the masses, forever changing the business in the process.
In Hogan's case, his game-changing words came at the tail-end of 1996's Bash of the Beach, going from squeaky clean babyface to ultra-cool nWo anti-hero after beating down The Macho Man and joining up with Nash and Hall. Whilst few will ever forget the sight of Punk fully embracing his hometown and declaring he was "back" and better than ever in The Land of All Elite at August's The First Dance.
Two polar opposite individuals. Two polar opposite promos. But both, remarkably, at the exact same stage of their lives. Fancy that.