In the July/August edition of Sly Magazine, Hulk Hogan offered some candid words on fellow wrestlers The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
On the subject of his movie career, Hogan explained that he's actually more successful than The Rock:
"Compared to the success that Brad Pitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger have had, people probably thought I had a run of B movies that sucked. But those movies were cheap to make and they generated a lot of revenue. If you watch what my movies made against what The Rock's movies are doing now, taking into account changing ticket prices and how many more theaters his movies were shown in, I still generated more revenue than he did."
While Hogan believes a match with Steve Austin could do big business, he's not sure if the two click enough to perform the match. He also had some less-than-flattering words for those under the impression that Austin is a star of his caliber:
"Austin has been in the business about 18 years and he was on top for four. I wrestled main events for 25 years. I could pull my dick out and I might be on top for four years - it's called 'cheap heat.' Somebody who stays on top 25 years has to have more than that. It has to be in your spirit."
Hulk Hogan was on Larry King Live tonight with Linda, Brooke, and Nick. In addition to promoting "Hogan Knows Best", here are the highlights.
- On Brock Lesnar's return. "I'd love to see Brock come back. He should've never tried out for the Minnesota Vikings. He's wrestled all his life."
- On WM18- The Rock is his boy and he was very surprised of the fan reaction he got.
- On Summerslam and why Michaels turned against him- "I guess he wanted to try and get into the upper tier that he never achieved."
-On Owen Hart's death- "The biggest tragedy ever to happen at a live event."
- On making more movies- He may make another one soon with Lil Bow Wow.
Hogan promoted Summerslam, said he will be in Montreal soon, and they said he will wrestle on Raw August 8th in Pittsburgh. They showed alot of WWE clips past and present and even some WCW. They showed some clips of this week's "Hogan Knows Best" with Hulk at the Hall of Fame banquet and Wrestlemania 21. Everyone came across well. It was a good interview.
Wow, Hogan flipped quickly on his opinion of the Rock huh? One minute he's better the next he's his boy. I greatly respect what Hogan did for the industry, but I've never been a huge fan of his so forgive me for saying this but I think he's arrogant. He's got a right to be, but he's arrogant.
