Hulk Hogan talks age.
For decades now, age has been a big discussion topic in wrestling, prompting fans to frequently argue about older stars in wrestling and how they can take spots from younger stars.
This topic is currently a big debate when it comes to All Elite Wrestling, as older names like Chris Jericho, Christian Cage, and Jeff Jarrett are featured on the company's programming on a near weekly basis.
While appearing on The Pat McAfee Show for a recent interview, Hulk Hogan talked about not being jaded and hating all of the young guys in wrestling, bringing up how WCW didn't want to hire anyone over the age of 40.
"No, bro. A lot of the guys don’t like me, but I got respect for them. I understand, they’re going to go through a period...perfect example; when I was working at WCW, there was a whole group of young guys, who are all my friends now. Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, a whole bunch of young guys, that where they didn’t want anybody in the business over 40. I love Chris Jericho. How old is Jericho now? He’s one of my favorite friends. Things will change, but they didn’t understand at the time, ‘Hogan is the oldest one, let’s get rid of him.’ There was a lot of that going on back then. The thing is, to get rid of me, I was a star in the 80s. Here goes the ego. To get rid of me, I should have been gone in the 90s. They had 10 years to replace me and they didn’t. So, I was a star in the 90s. When that didn’t happen, guess what happened, I still rolled in the 2000s."
Elsewhere in the interview, Hulk Hogan said that he expected to be booed at WWE's Raw On Netflix premiere. Check out his full comments on the subject by clicking here.
Fans can click here to learn about Kurt Angle's comments on Hogan being booed.
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