Hogan Takes Shot At Triple H

In an interview with www.Eagle1057.com out of Atlanta, GA, Hulk Hogan discussed Vince McMahon’s negative reaction to his Celebrity Championship Wrestling program on CMT. “All of a sudden, Vince McMahon raised his ugly head and thought we were threatening his company and he’s been doing everything he can to shut us down,” Hogan told the radio station. “We’re just a reality show.” Hogan said he was worried the celebrities signed on for the show wouldn’t take wrestling seriously because they were paid upfront, but he was positive about the experience. Hogan claimed the likes of Regis Philbin inquired about being on the series when it was first announced, and now people from “all of the major companies” are calling wanting to be part of Celebrity Championship Wrestling. Hogan mostly hyped CCW during the interview, but managed to take a shot at Triple H. When asked about the wrestling business’ history of exposing its inner workings, Hogan said McMahon smartened up the public in the 80s when he said pro wrestling isn’t a real sport, and then created the Tough Enough series on MTV. However, Hogan believes the worst offense of exposing the business is Vince McMahon keeping the WWE Title on Triple H for so many years, and that it exposes the wrestling business more than Celebrity Championship Wrestling does. “The biggest expose is putting the World Title on your son-in-law for the last five or six years,” Hogan said. “That’s probably the biggest expose I’ve ever seen keeping Triple H as champion.” Triple H has taken a number of unwarranted shots at Hogan over the years (usually when Hogan’s been out of favor with Vince), even though Hogan was mostly positive when talking about him. During the interview, Hogan also said he will be in New York this weekend with Steve Austin doing promotional work for liveautographs.com, which films celebrities signing merchandise that customers are buying to authenticate the merchandise. You can listen to the interview in its entirety at http://www.eagle1057.com.

Haha, say what you like about the Hulkster but he has a point there.

And I would say that's more a shot at McMahon than HHH.

I'd agree, it's more a shot at mcmahon.

Why is vince freakin out about this?

About CCW?

He just doesn't feel it's good for the industry to have a an "inside" programme like that being widely viewed. And considering WWE takes up quite a large chunk of the industry he obviously feels that it could do some damage.

he's silly. Anyone over 8 knows that it's fake, and those who don't won't watch the show.

It's not so much the fake-ness, everyone knows that. I think Vince is concerned about looking so closely at the business from an independent source plus a major star. That piece of shit "Tough Enough" series was a WWE product so that wasn't going to damage anything but with Hogan and all of his connections doing this he obviously feels slightly threatened by it.

Or he's worried that after a few weeks of training, Screech off Saved By The Bell could end up a better wrestler than his current World Heavyweight Champion.

Screech is allready twice the wrestler Cena is what a guy, eh?

I guess it's a bit like with The Masked Magician. Everybody knows it's a trick, everybody wants to know how it's done, and the magician's community or whatever fears that nobody will watch once the secret's been unveiled.

And they are right. For my part, I can never watch a woman getting sawn in half without thinking: "That cunt has withdrawn her legs from that other box, this is fake AAAAAARGH!"

Damn you, Masked Magician!

Doomhammer wrote:

he's silly.

vince is silly, gotcha 8)

and its acceptable for vince to be a bit concerned.

if they get ratings anywhere near his shows, (due to having better celebrities etc) then it might create more negativity in peoples minds to the wwe franchise.

if however it gets people into wrestling, that arnt already $$$$$$$$$$

he could even make an offer for one of hulks ex contestants to appear to nick his fans over, and absolutely job them out to someone.

Come on Sexton, you ever watch CCW? None of 'em are even slightly entertaining, it's like Batista without his roid's, there's nothing there, bar Screech of course lol, and Dangerous Bonaducci (who?) those two kick batty!!!

It's probably bollock's from Hogan trying to hype his own show up, like IT'S THAT DAMN GOOD IT'S EVEN GOT VINCE MCMAHON SHITTING IT...BROTHER!!!

if he got a real celebrity that was say a wrestling fan to do the show though?

and if it had real celebrities, then maybe theyd get more veiws.

thing is though anyway, trainers always go, this aint fake, it hurts like shit, if u dont believe me, come step up now.

i can see why vince might not like it, but then again, i dont however think he will care too much