Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair go nose-to-nose
Here’s another video to hype the Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair matches on The Hulkamania Australian tour this month. This has to be one of the weakest pull-aparts of all time.
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I was leafing through Hulk's new book the other day and came across the section where he talked about blading. He explained how he made one, where he hid it and how he used it. He said he was such a pro he challenged people to watch any of his matches and see if they could ever catch him cutting himself.
Posted by: Bradley | November 11, 2009 7:08 AM
God thats depressing.
Posted by: theorangechimp | November 11, 2009 7:46 AM
Wow that was sad, so so sad!
Posted by: Duffman | November 11, 2009 7:48 AM
SAD :(
Posted by: chris | November 11, 2009 8:24 AM
I'm sure Australian fans are dying to walk out on this match like they did at the Brittany Spears concert.
I pity them both.
Posted by: Frank King | November 11, 2009 8:59 AM
What a joke!
This match once was a must see...20 years ago!
I feel for the good people of Australia. Hogan & Flair should be paying them instead...
Posted by: BennyD | November 11, 2009 9:11 AM
Ten years ago this would have been boring and stupid.
Now it's just sad. Poor Australia.
Posted by: Stephen | November 11, 2009 9:18 AM
O.M.G. !
Posted by: Gregory Asch | November 11, 2009 9:21 AM
Hogan should be scared ...... verrry scared .
Posted by: the artist formerly known as jack in hebron | November 11, 2009 9:26 AM
WOW that was one of the weakest pull-aparts of all time. That was an amazing awkward pause that Hogan after Flair challenged him. I guess Jimmy Hart and Knobbs were running a little late. I want to see this match almost as much as I want to see DX main event another ppv!
Posted by: War Machine | November 11, 2009 9:42 AM
That is so embarrasing to see
I feel sorry for WWE, and any shread of respect I had for Flair has now gone.
Posted by: SteRDLK | November 11, 2009 10:02 AM
All I have to say is...YIKES!!!
Posted by: Mike | November 11, 2009 10:46 AM
Of course its week. If I wanted to watch a 50-year old fight a 60-year old I'll just get an Obama Medicare debate going at my local gin joint. That's real old people fear.
Posted by: GMan | November 11, 2009 11:10 AM
nose to nose? Hulk doesn't stand a chance there!!
Posted by: clint | November 11, 2009 12:12 PM
Dude..... caling this a 'pull-apart' is a misnomer!!!!
I dunno whom to feel more sorry for... Ric Flair & his pathetic Wooooo [cant believe i grew up luving that so much]... or the Hulky Bulky Hogan..... or the Australian Hulkamaniacs who have actually bought the tickets to a Seniors Prom-cum-CostumeParty!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Saaron | November 11, 2009 12:40 PM
That looked about as credible as HHH's facebuster missing the Great Khali's head by a full yard.
Posted by: Christopher | November 11, 2009 12:40 PM
Haha, too funny...Who the heck is the person trying to break up the fight before Brian Knobbs steps in? Nice Hogan sweatshirt btw. Also, didn't these two a match more recently than "20 years" ago, as Hogan puts it?
RESPONSE FROM KE: It was Jimmy Hart.
Posted by: TheCoz | November 11, 2009 2:04 PM
Whatever happened to god old "Spacemountain"? This is why prenuptial agreements are a good thing.
Posted by: matt | November 11, 2009 3:16 PM
If they were performing in my backyard (and they pretty much are), i'd draw the curtains.
As starved of quality live wrestling as we are in Australia, i just can't bring myself to pay good money to see two 60yo's wrestle even though they're legends.
The TNA tour down here early next year can't come soon enough (unless Hulk is main eventing in TNA by then, too).
Posted by: John | November 11, 2009 3:58 PM
wow, I haven't been watching wrestling that long, but I really think I've lost all respect for Flair.
Posted by: Kevin | November 11, 2009 4:09 PM
Looks like a Hulkamaniac may have run a little wild on Flair inside Wal-Mart: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=6313
Posted by: Jules B. | November 11, 2009 5:36 PM
All this video needs is The Miz running in and doing his 'Really' line.
Posted by: Mike C | November 11, 2009 6:43 PM
Did I hear Flair borrow Joe Louis' old "he can run, but he can't hide" line? Well, Flair and Louis are contemporaries, so I guess it's alright.
Posted by: Christopher | November 11, 2009 7:24 PM
How long until Flair is cut out of the WWE promo that's on before every episode? They're both already cut as "alumni" on wwe.com.
Also, is Austrailia really still living the way we used to in the 80's or are these two just that out of touch in promoting their match that way?
Posted by: James C | November 11, 2009 7:42 PM
Um, why is it that wrestlers and bookers try to make us think we haven't seen them wrestle before? "I've waited 20 years to get you in the ring with no interference..." What's that about? A simple trip down memory lane (with help from Youtube, of course) reminds us all of every match these two ever had. Kevin, I wonder if you know why the big match-up between Flair and Hogan in 1991-1992 never really happened? Did they house show/dark match things between the two? It seems like WCW did a better job of matching the two than WWF did way back when.
Posted by: jon in bradenton, florida | November 11, 2009 7:55 PM
Not sure which is more sad......this video or Stacy Keibler winning Baltimore's Biggest Celebrity
Posted by: G | November 11, 2009 8:14 PM
The future of TNA...
Posted by: Jon Munsey | November 11, 2009 9:48 PM
Of course Jimmy Hart was late, he was obviously too busy with Wrestlicious. Where is that any way??
Posted by: Duane | November 11, 2009 10:16 PM
My sincerest apologies go out to the hospice workers who had to pull these two apart.
Those retirement homes must really make people crazy and give them delusions of grandeur.
Posted by: Jon | November 11, 2009 10:21 PM
This is sad. It's like watching your grandfather get ready to fight the elderly in the retirement home over pudding.
Actually, I'd think I'd pay more for that then Hogan and Flair down under.
Posted by: Josh | November 11, 2009 10:43 PM
I wonder if TNA must is till proud to have Hulk Hogan come on board...
Posted by: canadianwwefan | November 12, 2009 11:19 AM
I think Ron Simmons' DAMN would be more appropriate.
Posted by: Loco | November 12, 2009 11:53 AM
I'm not sure if you noticed on Monday, but there was a bona fide pull-apart between Legacy and Kofi, MVP, & Mark Henry, with no one else in the ring. All six men acted like they had people pushing them back to separate them, but it was just the six of them there.
Maybe WWE got confused and couldn't remember if England's iconic guards were unflinching & silent, or invisible. And they guessed wrong.
Posted by: Mr. Sarcasm | November 12, 2009 1:32 PM
I couldn't even understand what Flair was saying except for the last line.
Posted by: King Tony | November 12, 2009 4:03 PM
Not that anyone should take this match seriously, but Hogan looked like a complete bitch in that argument with Ric Flair.
Posted by: Cliff | November 12, 2009 4:57 PM
After thinking it over, I was wrong. It wasn't hospice workers pulling them apart, it was creditors.
Posted by: Jon | November 12, 2009 9:47 PM
Not quite "The Huckster" & "The Nacho Man" segment from 13 years go..But close enough..possibly funnier..But kinda sad even to a fault. As Ric Flair's older than Randy Savage & Hogan was a feature in Vince McMahon's WCW Parodies. Aww Well, it's come true, except it is no parody. And the curtains open...yet again.....
Posted by: SM | November 13, 2009 5:42 AM