10 Things You Didn't Know About The Honky Tonk Man

7. He Claims To Have Been The One To Suggest 'Hulkamania' To Hulk Hogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZM5kXnXeM Now it's important to take all claims made by wrestlers in shoot interviews with a pinch of salt and a raised People's Eyebrow, but here's the story according to HTM. We know that Farris had often worked with Austin Idol. While he was wrestling down in Georgia, Idol, who just happened to be tall and blonde, coined the phrase 'Idolmania' and began saying things like 'Idolmania is running wild', which sounds in no way similar to tall and blond Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania running wild. At all. Obviously. Hulk Hogan, then known as Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder was wrestling in Memphis and, during his stay in the territory, Farris claims that he took the soon-to-be-megastar aside and gave him some sage advice. "So we said to him do 'Hulkamania! Hulk up, hulk up!' ... we were in Memphis and he started doing the Hulk Up thing and that's how it started" ... there's nothing original in this business."