1979 Louisiana Superdome New Orleans. I saw Andre the Giant vs. Sterling Golden and it wasn't even the main event, nor the co-main event. But it was worth the price of admission. And that same night I visited my first strip club ( I was 14 years old ) on Bourbon Street. GOOD TIMES !!!!!!
This is without a doubt the most impressive intro I have ever seen for any wrestler! .... The Hulk looks fantastic here - like a true bodybuilder. And that announcer is amazing with his voice and the perfect acoustic reverberation.
+Church of DMV Steroids were the norm them. Even Arnold admitted to taking them. However, keep in mind that this was an era that didnt know the true dangers of steroid use.
@@c.l.freeman7654 I doubt he dwarfed Ferrigno especially when his height was exaggerated a bit. Eve if that weren’t true, Lou was 6 foot 5 inches so 2 inches isn’t dwarfing someone.
@@stellarhyme3 LOL. Height isn't the only way to dwarf someone, especially in the context of this circumstance. Ferrigno was definitely in the only line of work where juice was more rampant and was a shrimp next to Hogan. I dunno why it's a tough pill for you to swallow, but it happened and if you catch the clip, it's objective. Hogan was far bigger than Juicy Lou.
My aunt dated him for 2 years when he was 20 she said he was a sweet man but had to many women around him. They remain friends i met him a few times he is very soft spoken
@@BeeBumper Baron Beefcake Big Brother Booty The Booty Man Brother Bruti Brute Force Brutus Beefcake The Butcher The Clipmaster The Disciple Dizzy Golden Dizzy Hogan Ed Boulder Eddie Golden Eddie Hogan The Mariner The Man With No Face The Man With No Name The Zodiac
@@MAINEVENT99 maybe 6'11" if he were wrestling kevin nash, who i read was 6'10" or 6'11" at his peak. (different sources, so it's hard to tell which is true)
@@Hotdiggity11 He didn't get close to that from Gawker. He got the most out of Heather Clem though and probably from one of Brooke's friends. Maybe one of Nick's girlfriends too! Hogan loved to hang and bang brother! Hotdiggity doo is right.
Wow Hulk Hogan 26 years old only and that huge..I think his peak arms cold where 22.5 inches. 24 was keyfabe. He was a legit 290-300 pounder and stood at his peak years at 6'5.5 tall before all his surgeries, knee and hip replacements. back surgeries and so on.
brnleague99 Then he went on to make some big bank in the AWA and then was basically made enough money to create his own bank in WWE. You could say Hulk did not do too bad. LOL
Notice how Hogan keeps looking to the side, as if to say to the director, "Am I doing this right?" He also looks terrified. He quickly improved, needless to say.
0:07 - This man is not a television illusion. He is not an artist’s conception. He is not a figment of the imagination. He is real. He stands an amazing 6'7', he weighs an incredible 324 lbs. He is the HULK!
@@Gtacasinoheist well, I'm 6'-6" and I had a 34" waist in high school. Of course I weighed about 175 and could get blown over if somebody breathed on me.
Yeah,i feel you on that one.especially when everybody just about on the roster kicks out of any finishing move.powerbomb??and piledriver!!!you can't sell that!nobody will buy it!
I laughed all the way through this. The damn thing got more and more funny as it went on. And the music and the over the top movie voice just added to the hilarity. And then... they started talking about The Hulk is coming... over and over again... and it activated that humor part of my brain that I thought I left at middle school! Haha!
@@domamania how come people refer to them as Sr and Jr then? When father and son have same first name but different middle name then they aren't considered Sr/Jr. My Son has my first name but different middle name so he's not a Jr. Did people just do it to tell them apart?
Old school hype was always the best . Yeah Hogan did roids . But back then everybody in bodybuilding/Pro Wrestling did ( with the exception of Bruno) . Hogan was a friggn BEAST. It’s a shame that he let his damn ego run away with him years later and made some bad mistakes in his personal life.
Brutus the barber BEEFCAKE was always my favorite. At least he admitted he was new to the game so I can overlook the lack of MIC skills. If they would have come out with the disciple gimmick right away in wcw I think that would have lasted his whole stint.
Regardless of criticisms steroids aren't magic, they don't build muscle without actual effort. It still takes a lot of dedication and hard work to get to this kind of size. I do 1.5 + hours over 5 days a week, I don't do steroids and never have and sure I'd be a hell of a lot bigger if I did, but at what cost right?
You know, with the size of Hulk’s arms and how much the world was stunned be em they should have gave him a “clothesline from hell” type finisher. Just a thought
A lot dont relize how big he was when younger he was all of 6/7 ask Joe Rogan I saw him when I was around 11 when he was in AWA I couldn't find my seat walk up there was rope blocking so you couldn't cross the aile and Hulk walked out of this hallway my jaw dropped his arms unreal and tall the same with Andre the Giant we all loose height as we age
In fact, Brutus looked to have that Ric Flair look going on!!!!!!!!!! I can't see why Flair ended up hating him, considering Bruti clearly wanted to look like Flair/Billy Graham here!!!!!!!!!!!
2019 Anybody thinks that this video is 40 years old and Hulkster still looks Awesome!!!
I like how the music went from sounding awe-inspiring to horror and then to rock n roll.
Vince Mcmahon did a better job in the music area when he unveiled what he was bent to be the "new" Hulk in January 1993, "The Narcissus" Lex Lugar
Brutus's hairstyle was awesome back then lmao
He had a second job in the Porn industry,thus the hairstyle.
@@curthennig9448 what a stud he was lol
pity his mic skills weren’t that great
1979 Louisiana Superdome New Orleans. I saw Andre the Giant vs. Sterling Golden and it wasn't even the main event, nor the co-main event. But it was worth the price of admission. And that same night I visited my first strip club ( I was 14 years old ) on Bourbon Street. GOOD TIMES !!!!!!
This is without a doubt the most impressive intro I have ever seen for any wrestler! .... The Hulk looks fantastic here - like a true bodybuilder. And that announcer is amazing with his voice and the perfect acoustic reverberation.
***** true bodybuilder and steroids go hand in hand
agreed
+Church of DMV Steroids were the norm them. Even Arnold admitted to taking them. However, keep in mind that this was an era that didnt know the true dangers of steroid use.
Michael Zoran hogan trained with the bodybuilders
Michael Zoran A
To be fair...The Incredible Hulk was one of the more popular shows on TV so people were trying to cash in
He got his name because he was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno and dwarfed him so they started calling him the Hulk
Hulk is an adjective, it shouldn't be copyrighted.
@@c.l.freeman7654 I doubt he dwarfed Ferrigno especially when his height was exaggerated a bit. Eve if that weren’t true, Lou was 6 foot 5 inches so 2 inches isn’t dwarfing someone.
@@c.l.freeman7654 so that's how Hogan got his name,Brother!!!
@@stellarhyme3 LOL. Height isn't the only way to dwarf someone, especially in the context of this circumstance.
Ferrigno was definitely in the only line of work where juice was more rampant and was a shrimp next to Hogan.
I dunno why it's a tough pill for you to swallow, but it happened and if you catch the clip, it's objective. Hogan was far bigger than Juicy Lou.
Eddie has me all fired up with that motivational talk.
Oh yeah!!!!
Lmao
I nodded off twice brotherrrrrrrrrr
no one knew at that time that this was the guy that was going to change the map of pro wrestling forever and make it an international phenomenon
Yeah, Brutus Beefcake really sent wrestling to a totally different level. :D
@@Hotdiggity11 Lol! you mean Hulk hogan
My aunt dated him for 2 years when he was 20 she said he was a sweet man but had to many women around him. They remain friends i met him a few times he is very soft spoken
Thunderlips in the flesh BABY!!!!!
I met hulk hogan at the riverfront coliseum when I was a teenager... He was a monster
No.....he was a Hulk
@@vlcthefish correct... now Sid was a monster
I met him in 2015 and felt rather short standing in close proximity to him. Granted, he definitely wasn’t 6’7”, but he was still really tall.
@@ThunderFist1978Hogan has lost at least a couple inches due to all of his back issues. Peak height was at least 6'6".
Love the music I feel like it’s just hit level 10 I n Zelda 🤦♂️😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
What Zelda game has levels
he really was a monster even with the exaggerations. . . just look at him in his prime next to normal people, he always looks like a monster.
Hulk
He s 6 "7
@Alexander Ocasio-Cortez AOC? lol
beet?
@@cirenosnor5768 maybe Beetlejuice from Howard Stern LOL
*People know that The Hulk is coming* - yeah? So was Vince McMahon when he watched that promo.
Even the most fervent believers in Hogan at this point could not have conceived of just how big he would become.
HE IS THE HULK! *crazy hulk hogan pose*
Eddie Boulder is Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. He and Hulk Hogan later teamed up against Randy Savage and Zeus in the WWE SummerSlam in 1989.
Man Brutus had more personas than the AWA did as a whole, lol, gotta love the Brutaie
Holy shit that is him. Sucks on the mic back then.
I m not so sure, this requires some serious research
@@BeeBumper Baron Beefcake
Big Brother Booty
The Booty Man
Brother Bruti
Brute Force
Brutus Beefcake
The Butcher
The Clipmaster
The Disciple
Dizzy Golden
Dizzy Hogan
Ed Boulder
Eddie Golden
Eddie Hogan
The Mariner
The Man With No Face
The Man With No Name
The Zodiac
@@Hellwyck and 'The Barber'✂️💈
There’s a new TV show about a pro wrestler in a World War II German POW camp. The name of the show is Hulk Hogan’s Heroes.
I am huge fan of The incredible hulk Hogan on early years
His measurements are ALMOST unbelievable......
😆😆😆
what about halfthor bjornson? 6'9" & 425lbs roughly. makes the young hulkster look tiny! 😮
@@jpbart1390 if thor was in wwf at that time he would prob be billed 7 ft and nearly 500 lbs
@@MAINEVENT99 maybe 6'11" if he were wrestling kevin nash, who i read was 6'10" or 6'11" at his peak. (different sources, so it's hard to tell which is true)
Brutus the barber beefcake seems like he just stepped off the short bus 🚌....
Eddie was working the mic hard. Very inspiring
really? that sounded pretty weak and shaky to me. he sounded like a scared little girl.
@@RedroomStudios c'mon man, Eddie was unrivaled on the mic. He was peerless.
no no, promise you. By Brutus Beefcake standards, this is an amazing promo lol.
Those impressive stats on his measurements weren’t enough to beat Linda in court.
But it made Gawker job to him for 100+ million, BROTHER!
i'd love to meet her lawyer.
@@Hotdiggity11 He didn't get close to that from Gawker. He got the most out of Heather Clem though and probably from one of Brooke's friends. Maybe one of Nick's girlfriends too! Hogan loved to hang and bang brother! Hotdiggity doo is right.
@@Hotdiggity11
It started off that way however, the payoff was reduced and ended up being 31 million
Eddie's hair game was strong here.
Yep,they called it Lesliemania in the porn industry.
That interview was as smooth as 36 grit sandpaper!
Or an uneven haircut!
Wow Hulk Hogan 26 years old only and that huge..I think his peak arms cold where 22.5 inches. 24 was keyfabe. He was a legit 290-300 pounder and stood at his peak years at 6'5.5 tall before all his surgeries, knee and hip replacements. back surgeries and so on.
Completely agree with everything you said Alex.
+alex davidov He was 9' 7'' 's tall. He had 56' pythons. He weighed 900 lbs. He was The Hulk.
AND YOU CAN'T... TEACH... THAT!
Yeah alex correct he never crossed 5.5
26 and already bald
"He is the HULK..ulk...ulk..lk..lk..... ". And the lighting effect scares the shit out of me, kinda spooky
The greatest ever- Hulk Hogan
He brought wrestling back. Just like Ali brought back boxing.
He made Vince a lot of money.
From Brian.
He brought the Carnival back. Hogan did very little wrestling. He was a CLOWN in the WWF Circus!
Hogan went from making $175 a week in Dothan, Alabama to making $800 a week in Memphis in 1979. Not bad.
brnleague99 Then he went on to make some big bank in the AWA and then was basically made enough money to create his own bank in WWE. You could say Hulk did not do too bad. LOL
Richard Gustason Yea I think at his height in AWA he was making 100k a year.
@John Volken - But the juice he was using costs more that that.
brnleague99 I wish I lived in Dothan in 1979 instead of 1995.
@@lastwolflord Nope,about 200k in 1982 and 1983 for AWA and Japan combined.
This looks so 1979! I remember WWF did a similar commercial for Wrestlemania 9 with Hulk posing in the darkness.
The greatest promo of all time from "Beefcake Barber". Today's wrestlers could learn a thing or 3 from him.
gtfo here! I thought he was going to start crying.
What did you watch? This is garbage mic skills by Beefcake
I'm hoping that's sarcasm!
Motley Cruz almost turned the tables on him!
Not enough "uh"s in today's promos
Fun fact. Despite dying in 1977, Elvis Presley was a huge fan of Hulk Hogan when he wrestled in the Memphis territory.
Hulk Hogan was 6 foot 7 back then
Notice how Hogan keeps looking to the side, as if to say to the director, "Am I doing this right?" He also looks terrified. He quickly improved, needless to say.
That was Ed Leslie (Ed Boulder), aka Brutus Beefcake.
Oh yeah he started as Sterling Golden too. And the rest is history.
Nope,the Super Destroyer in August 1977.
Beefcaker with the magnificent interview skills
This guy would become the greatest professional wrestler and fan favorite of all time
Yes, everybody will forever love Brutus "The Botch Mumble Promo" Beefcake.
i was born in this year!
That guy sure had serious prayer power, and his vitamin expenses must have been enormous !
one of the best natural bodybuilder
" There will be no problems ' once the Hulk gets here "
Yea-- o.k.
He Jumpin' Jeff Farmere'd that line
@@anthonyk5235 yep
Hulk always been old. When the hell was he young, 1928?😶
Probably 1953-1959 and then he became an old man when Giantism took over.
As Dr D would say he has a 50 inch head.
This dude has been old his entire life...
Shock Master 😂😂😂😂😂
Watch your step brother.
Steroids, they made Superstar Billy Graham look old also
He was born with mustaches and muscles
Awesome thank you for posting
Beefcake working on his mic skills...he sounds here like he went to the Jumpin Jeff Farmer school.
Yup!
0:07 - This man is not a television illusion. He is not an artist’s conception. He is not a figment of the imagination. He is real. He stands an amazing 6'7', he weighs an incredible 324 lbs. He is the HULK!
hulk hogan was like a comination, of brock lesnar, undertaker, kevin nash, goldberg,
And he was huge even for the 70s
Joe Mama he trained a the world gym with the bodybuilder
6'7 with a 26 inch bicep and a 34 waist wtf how is that possible I'm 6 ft with a 36 waist an I think I'm skinny
@@Gtacasinoheist well, I'm 6'-6" and I had a 34" waist in high school. Of course I weighed about 175 and could get blown over if somebody breathed on me.
Brutus with 0 mic skills? This is a trip!
He is SO bad.
Wow damn awesome cool hulk Hogan you The Man
Lance Russell was the best color commentator in wrestling.
When the keyboard music chimes in then time seems to stand still.😆
The music is scary
I miss the the time when WWE was WWF and the wrestlers were WAY better and it was more real and exciting than it is nowadays.
Yeah,i feel you on that one.especially when everybody just about on the roster kicks out of any finishing move.powerbomb??and piledriver!!!you can't sell that!nobody will buy it!
I laughed all the way through this. The damn thing got more and more funny as it went on. And the music and the over the top movie voice just added to the hilarity. And then... they started talking about The Hulk is coming... over and over again... and it activated that humor part of my brain that I thought I left at middle school! Haha!
I'm still laughing and probably will for a long time to come! This is the Twilight Zone which is where Beefcake is during this interview.
dont leave it in middle school, brother, bring it back!
“ COME ON KING!”
Lance Russell
This was the best wrestling show EVER!!!
no, no its wasnt. Mid Atlantic and AWA were easily better than this.
You know Vince creamed his pants when he saw this...🤑
I can only surmise what Vinnie Mac was thinking when he saw footage of this...
Gaaaarryyyyy Stryyyydommmmmmm..... WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!
Which vinny mac. Then at that time there were two vincent j McMahon and Vincent k McMahon.
Instant wood
@@domamania how come people refer to them as Sr and Jr then? When father and son have same first name but different middle name then they aren't considered Sr/Jr. My Son has my first name but different middle name so he's not a Jr. Did people just do it to tell them apart?
"LINDA?! WHERE ARE MY DAMN TISSUES!!
Yes,back in the day when one would get attacked or back jumped
Who could forget- especially that world famous back jump.
Debut in Memphis at the age of 60, standing at 6'7 and weighs at over 300lbs, he is the incredible Hulk.
😂😂😂😆
The keyboard in the background sounds like something from a John Carpenter movie.
I want a list of everyone that has a promo in this style. Kamala and Hogon. Who else?
Old school hype was always the best . Yeah Hogan did roids . But back then everybody in bodybuilding/Pro Wrestling did ( with the exception of Bruno) . Hogan was a friggn BEAST. It’s a shame that he let his damn ego run away with him years later and made some bad mistakes in his personal life.
Everybody wasn't doing roids in 1979. It wasn't until needles McMahon took over the business and had Zahorian dish out the candy bags to the extreme.
Hulk Hogan sent me here from Twitter
THUNDERLIPS! in the flesh baby!
That's what he said to Heather Clem while being videotaped!
sounds like the intro to the Molotov Cocktail Hour on the 88.9 FM radio with Sr. Amore
Oh shit this promo inflated his arm measurement to 26" two inches more than the original exaggerated 24
😂😂😂😂
I was more Impressed by the yokozuna weight
wow i remember this. i was 9 years old
Me Too, I mean 9 not watching it, we didn't Memphis back in those days, Canada was all WWF and we missed out on some awesome Wrestling back then.
It starts out looking like a Twilight Zone episode
And that’s his buddy Ed Leslie, pre Brutus the Barber being interviewed.
Was he ever young. He peaked at 6ft 5.
Brutus the barber BEEFCAKE was always my favorite. At least he admitted he was new to the game so I can overlook the lack of MIC skills. If they would have come out with the disciple gimmick right away in wcw I think that would have lasted his whole stint.
He was the man back in the day
anyone have a link to just the video promo of Hulk without the Bass interview?
Imagine the hard, hard work to gain such a build.
Regardless of criticisms steroids aren't magic, they don't build muscle without actual effort. It still takes a lot of dedication and hard work to get to this kind of size. I do 1.5 + hours over 5 days a week, I don't do steroids and never have and sure I'd be a hell of a lot bigger if I did, but at what cost right?
The cheap keyboard playing in the background is funny too. Makes him sound like a 8 bit graphic game. lol
Lol
Hell to the naw lol😃
I don't care. It sounds cool.
@@jamesmuller1481 lol It wasn't a challenge. Lol
I am a real American!!🇺🇸💪
You know, with the size of Hulk’s arms and how much the world was stunned be em they should have gave him a “clothesline from hell” type finisher. Just a thought
He did have a finisher called Axel Bomb which was a running clothes line. He used it primarily in Japan.
He was sterling golden on georgia championship wrestling before he was the hulk
"Monday night,Monday night- he's coming in"
Wow- can't wait
Hold on- when agan?
"Monday night,Monday night -he's coming in"
Wait,are you sure ts not Tuesday night,Tuesday night- hes coming in?
"Monday night,Monday night- hes coming in"
Hold on-when again?
Mon.....
I hulk had a older bro but here he is
What’s that funky track at the end peeps anyone know it????
The Sid Viscious promo I watched was like the Hulk but far better and he was bigger..
A lot dont relize how big he was when younger he was all of 6/7 ask Joe Rogan I saw him when I was around 11 when he was in AWA I couldn't find my seat walk up there was rope blocking so you couldn't cross the aile and Hulk walked out of this hallway my jaw dropped his arms unreal and tall the same with Andre the Giant we all loose height as we age
Hey Russell he said they're like brothers, quit trying to convince him that they're real blood brothers!
The background music makes me feel like I'm watching "The Touch of Satan" (that's one for the wrestling fan MSTies...).
Lol
This is where the fish lives
I love those sunglasses he's wearing 8-)
Everything will be ok when the hulk gets here.. Really...
El gran Hulk Hogan 💪😈
No wonder Vince wanted him. Even Memphis knew what they had, they just couldn't match the money
Verne dropped the ball with Hogan. smh
Facts
@@MrSmitty1074 It Was Because Of Verne Greed That Made Hulk Left
@@blkpanther11 I know. He wanted some of Hogan's Japan deal.
Hulk was 26 years old here 😱
Beefcakes promo's weren't the strongest back then
In fact, Brutus looked to have that Ric Flair look going on!!!!!!!!!! I can't see why Flair ended up hating him, considering Bruti clearly wanted to look like Flair/Billy Graham here!!!!!!!!!!!
Because he wouldn't carry Flair's bags like he did Hogan's!
dammit brutus is wooden on the mic!!!
postaltraining he was just gettin started but he got better
yeah he did. never much of a rassler though
postaltraining technically no but by the time he landed in wwf he had better training and alot of good matches.
His best match and moment was probably against Mr. Perfect at WrestleMania VI
Sounded like a truck commercial from back in the day.
Brutus beefcake looked so different as a young man
Faces of Hulk
0:03 Terry Boulder ( Terry Bollea )
MY WAIST IS PROBABLY BIGGER THAN 34 INCHES, AND YET HOGAN'S CHEST BACK THEN WAS PROBABLY BIGGER THAN MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!