Hollywood Hulk Hogan - Softcover

Hogan, Hulk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451623453 ISBN 13: 9781451623451

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2010

Synopsis

You think you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan(TM)? Brother, you don't know squat about me.

Yeah, I'm the towering red-and-yellow warrior who revolutionized the wrestling business, the larger-than-life superhero who transformed an entire country into a horde of Hulkamaniacs(TM).

But it wasn't always like that. Once I was a fat kid named Terry Bollea watching legends like Dusty Rhodes and Superstar Billy Graham, never dreaming I'd be a professional wrestler myself one day.

Run with me on the streets of Tampa, where a bass guitar became my salvation. Fight alongside me in the wrestling arenas of Japan. Cruise L.A. with me and Sylvester Stallone. Find out what makes me cry like a baby, what makes my blood boil, and what scares the living hell out of me. Then tell me you know the man called Hollywood Hulk Hogan.

Join the Babe Ruth of wrestling on a no-holds-barred odyssey of his start in the barbaric wrestling arenas of the seventies through the humiliation of his involvement in federal steroid-abuse trials and the heartbreak of potentially career-ending surgery to the achievement of his greatest triumph yet.

Hollywood Hulk Hogan. It's the real deal, brother.

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Review:

Hollywood Hulk Hogan, the blond-and-tan man-mountain who dragged US wrestling into the mainstream consciousness, explains how it took more than a few muscles and an extravagant moustache to become the most recognisable and enduring act of the whole game in his new (or should that be latest?) autobiography.

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

About the Author:

Michael Jan Friedman is a New York Times bestselling author who has also written for television, radio and comic books. He lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons. This is his fiftieth book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451623453
• ISBN 13: 9781451623451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352