Hulk Hogan

Essential Episodes: The A-Team

The A-Team are helping me put the “A” in Actionversary! It’s been a decade that this site has delivered discussions, reviews, podcasts, and all sorts of coverage of action-oriented cinema and television, and I’m happy to...

Ranked: Wrestling Goes Hollywood

Professional Wrestling and Hollywood have been a winning tag team for decades. Some early examples of pro wrestlers making the jump from the wrestling ring to the silver screen include “High Chief” Peter Maivia in 1967’s...

The Essentials: 1989 Action

1989 saw the inauguration of George H.W. Bush as the 41st President of the United States. 1989 was also the year that the Berlin Wall fell. And Nintendo released their Game Boy console in North American...

5 Questions: The Ultimate Weapon

For many years I avidly watched Hulk Hogan battle the likes of “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Andre the Giant and “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. I was a true blue Hulkamaniac! But...

10 Things You Didn’t Know About No Holds Barred

Many credit Hulk Hogan’s appearance in Rocky IIIĀ that thrust him into the mainstream spotlight as the spark that had Hulkamania running wild through out the 1980’s and into the 1990’s. But while 1982’s Rocky III would...

Scene of the Week: Rocky vs Thunderlips

Rocky IIIĀ gave us several things; it was the first film for Mr. T, it introduced the friendship of Rocky and Apollo Creed, it featured Survivor’s awesomely 80’s “Eye of the Tiger”, and maybe best of all...