Hulk Hogan may be the biggest wrestling name in the history of the world, but how is he qualified to judge anything wrestling related? This week he was announced as one of the judges on Tough Enough, which is actually kind of a questionable decision when you get past his name value. The man has made quite a few bad calls over the years in terms of judging talent. He willingly teamed up with Brutus the Barber Beefcake in the WWF, in WCW he compared Vampiro to the beginning of Hulkamania, and in TNA he said Austin Aries was the greatest wrestler hed ever seen. He also made news for saying he was contacted to join UFC when he was in his 40s. Somehow no one else can lend any credibility to this claim...just like when Hogan said he almost played bass for Metallica, or that he was offered the lead role in The Wrestler. Shouldn't judges be able to judge reality? Anyway, just this past week, Hogan chimed in and put over an NXT wrestler. Who was it? Finn Balor? Kevin Steen? Hideo Itami? No. It was Big Cass. He said he wished he had a heel like him during his run. Big Cass? Hes okay I guess, but if thats the guy he sees the most money in, maybe he should excuse himself from judging. Replace him with The Iron Sheik. His eye for talent might even be worse, but it would at least be entertaining.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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