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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sean Mooney Reveals the Truth About Hulk Hogan Before He Became a Star

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sean Mooney reveals the truth about Hulk Hogan before he became a star, sharing behind-the-scenes stories from the early days of Hulk Hogan’s wrestling career. Long before WrestleMania main events and Hulkamania running wild, Hogan was building his name in territories and working his way toward global fame. In this exclusive conversation, Sean Mooney discusses what Hulk Hogan was really like before WWE superstardom, how his personality evolved, and the factors that helped launch him into wrestling history. From locker room impressions to early career moments, this is a must-watch for fans of classic wrestling and WWE history.

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0:00.0

some of these promoters are saying like how do we get rid of Vince McMahon? How do we get rid of Jr?

0:05.0

And I'm sure that they're, you know, I don't think anybody went to the point that's get a hit man or something,

0:10.0

but they, you know, would have loved to have seen him have the brakes fail going down the hill somewhere.

0:17.4

It's the golden age of W.E.

0:21.6

larger than life of fantasy.

0:24.6

Snap in the rainfield history.

0:27.6

Welcome to the golden W.E.

0:31.6

From Sterling Golden to Thunderlips, we're talking about the rise of Hulk Cogan and Hulkomania right here on primetime with Shaw Mooney.

0:40.0

Sean, how you doing today?

0:42.0

I am doing tremendously, Steve, especially since I'm really anxious to talk about this topic.

0:51.4

Because honestly, when you talk about professional wrestling the rise of professional wrestling the

0:56.7

heights that it reached that conversation does not start without Hulk Hogan and uh you know

1:05.2

love them or hate him as we people always say all this we'll get into it but there is no doubt that there's no way we

1:15.8

wouldn't be probably having a conversation right now if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan who

1:20.3

blazed that trail for every professional wrestler at the time and beyond and change that industry forever.

1:31.2

So, you know, I'm really anxious to talk about this and dive into it because Hulk Hogan is

1:38.1

just a figure that, not just in professional wrestling and sports entertainment and entertainment. I mean, how many

1:47.5

people can say, you know, he was the only professional wrestler, whoever appeared on Sports Illustrated

1:52.8

and on and on and on. So, yeah, this is a great topic, and I'm glad we're doing it. And you read

1:59.8

his book. I see it behind you.

2:01.5

And what do you think of the book?

2:02.8

Because there are a few books out there.

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