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The Story of The Ultimate Challenge: Hogan vs Warrior

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (20121)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twm5J52947c

Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior are two of wrestlings most popular superstars of the late 80s and early 90s. Many fans think of either Hogan or The Warrior when they think of the WWF, two legitimate household names who garnered a massive fan following during the glory days of the World Wrestling Federation.

Hulk Hogan had been the WWF's number 1 superstar since making his way to the company in the early to mid 80s. Towards the end of the decade, a new superstar was capturing the imagination of fans across the world, and his name was The Ultimate Warrior. While Randy Savage had gained a considerable fan following in 1988, the Warrior's popularity was so huge that it matched Hulk Hogan in terms of fan support. The decision was made then to have the WWF's 2 top babyface competitors square off in a match at WrestleMania. Billed as "The Ultimate Challenge", Hulk Hogan put his WWF title on the line against The Ultimate Warrior, a man who also put his Intercontinental championship up for grabs in the very same match. This was unprecedented, the WWF went against the grain and put 2 of their most beloved stars in the ring to go head to head. This mini documentary from Wrestling Bios takes a look at the match.

Topics covered include:

03:23 - The Rise of The Ultimate Warrior
05:09 - Hulk Hogan and Zeus in "No Holds Barred"
07:00 - Warrior and Hogan meet in the 1990 Royal Rumble
09:13 - Buster Douglas in the WWF
13:11 - The Toronto Skydome hosts WrestleMania VI
14:17 - The Ultimate Warrior vs Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI
- Much More!

[–] urrutiap (1085) 15 days ago

to really understand the whole thing of Warrior vs Hogan, you really need to get off your ass and watch the old episodes of Saturday Night's Main Event along with little bit of Prime Time Wrestling.

[–] millsey72 (10241) 15 days ago

These were the days when pro wrestling was boring. Did you this this past Monday Nite Raw? Its so much better than Prime Time Wrestling where it was all squash matches with jobbers

[–] urrutiap (1085) 15 days ago

WWF's Prime Time wasn't all "squash" matches against jobbers. I doubt you never saw the entire old show, Millsey.

I have since I was a kid back in the day. Back then when I was a kid, I missed out on some of the 1988 Saturday Night's Main Event stuff while I was watching Prime Time the whole time then came along Superstars.

Today's WWE Raw sucks where it has crap storylines and the gals showing off their asses with their wrestling trunks that go up between their ass cheeks.

[–] millsey72 (10241) 15 days ago

Oh so you rather watch The Fabulous Moolah take on Rockin Robin than the divas of today?

Yea, the main event on Prime Time wrestling would be something like The Ultimate Warrior vs Iron Mike Sharpe. Or Big John Studd vs Tony Garea. All the rest were jobbers taking on a superstar

There are no more squash matches with jobbers anymore. Thats a good thing

[–] urrutiap (1085) 15 days ago

Saturday Nights Main Event and Wrestling Challenge you would also think they had boring "squash" matches since they were all 6 man tag matches and then there were single matches of Billy Jack Haynes vs Hercules constantly.

old stuff like that was and still is better than today's crap

[–] millsey72 (10241) 14 days ago

Saturday Nights Main Event had some good matches. But it was spoiled by the likes of Jesse Venturas commentary. Ventura would constantly lie during the matches he called and was very biased towards the bad guy. Bobby the Brain did the same thing on Prime Time Wrestling. Thankfully Gorilla Monsoon would call him out on it. I like to hear unbiased straight forward commentary and not lies like they always told

[–] urrutiap (1085) 14 days ago

Jesse Ventura wasn't on Saturday Nights Main Event the whole time.. Just during 1987 to 1989. then he disappeared to be in movies etc.

1990 to 1992 it was pretty much Vince, Mr Perfect and Bobby Heenan and things changed when WWF Raw came around

[–] WandererFromYs (2308) 14 days ago

You are half right Millsey, televised wrestling back then was all squash matches. It Saturday nights main event as not. You would get real matchups there. The problem is that it was never a consistent show, so we couldn’t even look forward to it.

[–] WandererFromYs (2308) 14 days ago

The thing that bothered me about the Ultimate Warriors push is that they had the Honkey Tonk man who has the IC title for 15 months, a record that would stand for 33 years, and they had the ultimate Warrior Squash him 31 seconds. Didn’t even get his suit off, let alone get a hit in.