Josh Appel talks Hulk Hogan & his impact to wrestling following his death Thursday

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The show's resident wrestling expert, Josh Appel, joins us to remember Hulk Hogan and discuss his impact to wrestling and his controversial life outside the ring.

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00:00hello joshua hello gentlemen so i want to get into your goodfellas movie watching and i want

00:07to talk dolphins as well but you are our resident professional wrestling expert for those of you who

00:14listen to uh smark your territory on the five reasons network of course you recognize josh and

00:20his pro wrestling prowess what's so funny we're barely in the smattering yeah i mean listen uh

00:28smark your territory with josh and mr bill it was because it didn't time magazine come out with

00:32their top 100 podcast the other day yeah and we uh shockingly were somehow left off of that mark was

00:38not there yeah like joe rogan part of my take and smark your territory the biggest snub is off that

00:44list i'm sure there'll be some sort of belligerent tweet from mr bill coming soon regardless uh hulk

00:50has passed away at the age of 71 and you know all the indiscretions aside i was saying to crowder and

00:58solana at the beginning of the show he is widely credited with the greatest heel turn in the

01:04history of professional wrestling is that true is there anything that compares at the time i thought

01:09john cena was the closest thing to it but hulk hogan in many ways changed wrestling and influenced and

01:17made it what it is today it's unfortunately has that he has such a complicated legacy outside of

01:23the ring given the transgressions that uh you mentioned and it kind of sucks that his last

01:29appearance on wwe television was him getting booed out of the building in los angeles yeah on the netflix

01:36premiere and not to say that it wasn't something that he had earned and deserved especially from

01:42a crowd like that but there is no present day version of professional wrestling or the wwe it does not

01:51get to the heights or reach the heights that it did and has without hulk hogan um he is a lock for

01:58anybody's mount rushmore of pro wrestlers of all time and um it is a complicated day because on the one

02:06hand you want to celebrate what he did for professional wrestling but also you have to recognize

02:11uh what the back end of his life out of the ring has been like you said about rushmore honestly i

02:21think he's number one and the number two i don't know who you think number two is but it's way far

02:25like he was wrestling i don't the rock cena all the guys nowadays like hulk hogan is what everybody

02:31put on wrestling back most recognizable wrestler of all time no yeah absolutely and he was like the

02:38goodiest of good guys like there was nobody better he was the he was the guy that kids looked up to

02:45uh he had all the slogans and that's why it was such a shock that when he came to wcw as the quote

02:52unquote third man or in wcw when he was the third man to form the nwo that's why it was so shocking

02:58it was heartbreaking to little kids and adults uh because of the impact that anyone know it was coming

03:04back then because i i people kind of knew the cena thing might happen right that was maybe telegraphed

03:10i don't i don't know enough about it but did did like was that the biggest shock ever yeah all of a

03:16sudden hulk hogan american hero take your vitamins kids like was a bad guy yeah i mean it is take the

03:24take your vitamins guy is now teaming up with two of the biggest bad guys in the business at the time

03:31they threw trash at them in the ring that day uh it was it's one of the most iconic uh or is probably

03:38the most iconic uh segment if you will um in wrestling history and to your point channing yeah

03:44i'm not really sure there's a close number two uh but he certainly has an impact and had an impact

03:50that again the the industry would not have reached the heights that it's gotten to without him i think uh

03:56number two would probably be the tonga kid yeah ask mr mill and let me let me go on

04:07he switched the hill because booker t became wrestler he didn't like that

04:13i'm not i'm not sharing good guy status with this guy

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