Hollywood Hulk Hogan (World wrestling entertainment) (Hardcover)

The mix will be familiar to readers of wrestling literature--a plain-talking gallop through the highs and lows of breaking into the business (with few opportunities missed to laugh at his own dumb luck, or throw the spotlight on those who doubted him); a totally indiscreet attitude to the secrets of the ring including behind-the-scenes stories of the sport-defining Wrestlemania show, and his battles with The Rock; a roll-call of "big-names-I-have-known/thrown about"--though in Hulk's case this includes the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Muhammad Ali--and the age-old tussles with the strange realities of suddenly becoming enormously famous and having shed loads of money.

What sets Hollywood Hulk apart, of course, are his excursions into movies, from bit parts in the Rocky series to starring in the sort of muscles-with-chuckles flicks that briefly put him in the same ballpark as Arnie Schwarzeneger. It's entertaining, knockabout stuff with loads of pictures accompanying a well-plotted tale, told "big". Nervous parents be warned though, Hulk is generous with the expletives, and while some of his attitudes may be just part of the show, they are not a recommended diet for the impressionable, the uninformed or anyone struggling with an irony-bypass--for the record, Hulk, you weren't going to catch "Aids or anything like that" by sharing a dressing room with Liberace... --Alex Hankin

Product Description
The complete story of the most successful wrestler of them all; In the late 1970s Terry Bollea was part of a rock band playing smoky, low-key bars. Few would imagine that twenty years later the man who became known as Hulk Hogan would stand as arguably the most successful wrestler of all time, a man whose name is synonymous with the WWE. And along the way he's found time to make his mark as a movie star as well...Since he first fought as an amateur way back in 1978, Hulk Hogan has won seven World Titles, and in those early years of the 1980s he did more than any other single wrestler to bring the WWE to the massive international audience it enjoys today. In his time he has been both hero and villain, and in the 1990s he took the decision to turn his talents to Hollywood. For the next five years he devoted himself to roles both in film and on TV and subsequently became the star of his own animated series. In 1994 he returned to the ring, becoming WCW World Heavyweight Champion, before retiring for a second time at the end of 1999. Now set once more to make a sensational return to the WWE arena, Hulk Hogan tells his inspirational story, from his earliest years in the ring through the many different turns his career his taken to his life these last few years outside the WWE.

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