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On Monday night, WWE made its big debut on Netflix with their first-ever live RAW. All the stars were there.
The Rock showed up and immediately posted videos of himself hugging Cody Rhodes—the man he made bleed the last time he appeared on Raw, thus removing any suspension of disbelief and reminding us we are watching play-fighting.
The Undertaker rode his motorcycle around the ring briefly for a reason yet to be identified to me. I’m almost 78% sure Taker was looking for the parking lot and accidentally ended up in the ring with Rhea Ripley.
John Cena returned to announce his 2025 farewell tour where his face and likeness will be all over the product, taking attention away from the hardworking superstars who are not retired multi-millionaires making movies.
Even sort of famous podcaster, Bill Simmons was there, fighting for his life.
Mrs. Bill Simmons’ isn’t even there yet he’s more locked in on a match than we’ve ever seen. The ultimate veteran wife guy move which requires years of experience to develop. Respect 🫡pic.twitter.com/65AkjqVGem
— kev mahserejian (@RotoSurgeon) January 7, 2025
WWE’s Netflix arrival was a huge deal.
I know that because WWE spent 3 hours congratulating themselves for it.
In the midst of the company’s 3-hour self-suck—making even the gooniest of gooners jealous—another huge celebrity showed up to grace the lucky Los Angeles crowd with his presence.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN HULK HOGAN GO FUCK YOURSELF #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/HVShrmnEgt
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) January 7, 2025
Hollywood Hulk Hogan, one of the greatest to ever do it, showed up with Jimmy Hart—the only man on Earth older than he is—to a sea of boos from ungrateful fans who don’t respect history.
Everyone in that arena should’ve been on their feet, applauding, bowing down and even potentially weeping at Hulk Hogan for being generous enough with his time to return to professional wrestling.
But these kids, this new TikTok generation, have no respect for those who poured blood, sweat and tears into creating their favorite institutions.
They’re more focused on exposing people’s personal life so they can feel superior to those who are actually out here getting shit done.
This is a 12-time World Champion getting booed by boogar eaters and Yelp reviewers.
Sure Hulk Hogan was caught in a leaked audio recording saying “I mean, I don’t have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, f*cking n*ggers. But then when it comes to nice people and sh*t, and whatever”—but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that he body slammed Andre The Giant at Wrestlemania, you unappreciative babies.
Who among us hasn’t been pissed after spending millions of dollars to launch a music career for our talentless, loser daughters—only for them to end up potentially, hypothetically, completely in our own imagination, get into the music industry and start sleeping with black guys?
Is it racist? Absolutely.
Is it wrong? Well, yea, also yes.
But you guys weren’t there when he joined the NWO in the 90s.
Shouldn’t all the joy we got from watching him wrestle in slow motion when he was far past his athletic prime but refused to give up the spotlight for anyone—cancel out his wife alleging Hulk Hogan abused her?
Our heroes aren’t perfect and we shouldn’t ask them to be.
I just feel bad for Hulk.
Here he is struggling to rip his shirt at the Republican National Convention last year:
🚨Just in: Hulk Hogan rips open his shirt at the RNC Convention saying, Donald Trump is a real American hero.”
pic.twitter.com/x46LlSiJfN— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) July 19, 2024
Clearly this is a man who LOVES January 6th.
A national holiday in Hogan’s (broken) home.
And on January 6th, 2025, Hogan got tomatoes thrown at him by tens of thousands of haters who don’t respect his legacy simply because he’s racist, abusive, he’s a liar and he supports a president who would kill every American one-by-one if it meant he got another one million dollars in his bank account each kill.
You can’t even say the n-word, hit your wife and speak at the RNC anymore without the public turning on you.
I hope he never comes back to WWE, so he never has to be embarrassed by silly, woke wrestling fans.
Seriously, I hope Hulk Hogan never comes back.
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