Kevin Nash shares his thoughts on Hulk Hogan getting booed.
Various members of the wrestling world continue to weigh in on WWE Hulk Hogan getting booed at the WWE Raw on Netflix premiere. The crowd's reaction got mainstream coverage, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. recently discussed why he booed the Hall of Famer.
Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, Kevin Nash commented on Hulk Hogan getting booed.
“Somebody’s gotta be a heel. I think if he wasn’t ponied up financially with that Real American beer with the WWE, because the last thing you want to with your logo, face, likeness, on a can of beer that you’re selling, cut a promo on the crowd," Nash said.
Nash disagreed when co-host Sean Oliver wondered whether a cool heel could successfully move Real American beer, the product that Hogan was promoting. He highlighted Hogan's association with Donald Trump and noted that what Hogan did at the Republican National Convention was not going to work with the WWE Raw crowd.
"Look at the play. The play was come out, tear that All American shirt off and have a Netflix shirt on. He thought that what he did at the RNC was gonna work in LA. As soon as he realized that they were turning on him, he said, ‘Man, I’ve been doing this for four decades.’ In other words, fuck you guys, I’m Hulk Hogan. If you don’t have enough respect for me to not boo me out of this place, fuck you. I’m gonna say what I have to say, I’m going to get my thing out. I did hear that, as he walked back, he looked over to Jimmy Hart, and he goes, ‘Man, you got heat [Laughs]. I’ve never been Hulk Hogan, so I can’t speak for him. But I have traveled with him, and that’s a different level than almost anybody in our business [to be him]. To be Hulk Hogan and go out there, I did not think that they would shit on him. Because the last time he came out was a couple years ago, and he blew the roof off," Nash said.
Nash then said that the crowd was not Hogan’s demographic. He also wondered if Hogan getting booed was intentionally part of WWE's strategy, given the way that the response got so much mainstream coverage.
“Is Paul [Triple H] so much smarter than that that he knows that’s exactly the response he’s going to get? If Hulk Hogan shows up and they cheer, it doesn’t make BBC that Hulk Hogan got booed out of the fucking building. Nothing got more coverage than Hulk being booed. Who’s to say that they weren’t smart enough to know that that’s exactly what they were going to get?" Nash said.
Nash went on to say that Hogan was selling beer to the wrong crowd, as he reiterated that he wasn’t talking to the right demographic. He later emphasized that Hogan was in rough shape physically, and he felt bad for him.
"Hulk is beat to fuck. The last thing he wanted to…he sucked it up like a fucking warrior just to come out of that tunnel as far as he did to cut the promo because his fucking back is killing him. He’s a tough motherfucker because I know he’s in pain like a motherfucker. I watched it. I felt bad for him. But at the same time for him, it’s like, man, I’d rather get a response than none. Then I watched that thing the next day and I went [groans], god. Man, fuck that," Nash said.
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