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You know, Devon, I know that 
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breath to hear what you have to 
say about the big announcement 

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that we're going to get one more
time. 

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Probably the last time in 
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the Hardy Boys in TNA. 
What's your prediction for that 

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match? 
Prediction Pain. 

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Tails knock you off your seat, 
TuneIn. 

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Now don't you be late wrestling.
Punk has never felt this great. 

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Tails, ladders, chairs, they 
tell it all. 

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From the highest highs to the 
lowest fall. 

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Great glory. 
Tails from the ring, every 

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chain, every cheer. 
They'll bring team One and the 

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two bring the heat. 
Wrestling tales knock you off 

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your seat, TuneIn. 
Now don't you be late. 

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Wrestling podcast never felt 
this crazy. 

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Brothers and sisters, it is with
a heavy heart that I announce 

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that on Thursday, the 24th of 
July 2025, the immortal Hulk 

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Hogan took his last breath. 
Condolences to family, friends 

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and fellow fans out there. 
This is absolutely one of the 

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most traumatic and impactful 
losses that we've had probably 

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in our lifetime as it relates to
pro wrestling. 

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So definitely my heart goes out 
to everyone out there and 

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really, you know, here on Devon 
and the Duke, the the honor of 

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being able to do a show with the
Hall of Famer who grew up as a 

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wrestling fan and somebody who 
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Hogan. 
It's it's tricky here to do this

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episode because I know that it's
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So I I want to give a disclaimer
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This is not going to be a long 
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heartfelt, so just bear with me 
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So without further ado, my 
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himself, the five time Hall of 
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How you holding up there man? 
I'm doing all right, you know, 

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hanging in there it, it was 
complete surreal and just 

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unbelievable. 
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all have to go to that other 
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And but when it happens, there's
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to be surreal, like you just 
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You're always caught off guard. 
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off guard because this is 
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really ready for. 
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God rest his soul, and the 
drowning, you know, that caught 

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people, you know, for shock a 
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Osbourne and now Hulk Hogan. 
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in threes. 
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Who's next? 
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first one or the second one, you
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statement, it's not that they go
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It just happens to be somebody 
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goes, you know, if they go in 
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But I mean, that's just the way 
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You know, Hulk Hogan was a 
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I mean, he was bigger than the 
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I'm sorry, some people say no 
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business, but Hogan was. 
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asses and seats. 
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Hogan, none of us would be here 
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The collaboration between him 
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just unreal. 
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and when that collaboration 
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left the AWA, it just Hulk Mania
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Not to mention, you know what he
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That's where it all started. 
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Vince and Hogan and WWF, but it 
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charisma. 
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But like I've said so many 
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Vince McMahon expressly back 
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of Pat Patterson, 'cause he was 
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those minds together, Hulk of 
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I mean, he was very good and 
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where he bought the AWA, but to 
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you and giving you ideas and 
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everything like that, he didn't 
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What Vince had, you know, he had
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able to elevate and push Hogan 
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The first, you know, time I 
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Rocky three. 
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seeing him going, man, he looks 
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though in 1977 when I first 
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watching. 
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was looking at. 
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Hogan here and there. 
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when I saw him in Rocky three, 
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Andre Shea Stadium. 
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remember they because it was 
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time that they kept replaying it
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Rocky 3. 
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story with Rocky 3, how I 
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off of Mr. T. 
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Rockies of all time. 
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most money as well. 
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and going, good God, this is 
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You know, as a kid, I remember 
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and then every chance I got, I 
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or HBO, you know, or another one
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remember only well, I know this 
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wouldn't remember, but there was
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those that was like HBO rivalry.
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other, unless you were rich, you
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It was something that to me was 
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The best of Stallone casting 
Hulk Hogan at that time probably

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didn't realize how what he was 
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wrestling. 
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than life star. 
He just basically was everything

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that pro wrestling needed at 
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Nobody drew more money back in 
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Hulk Hogan. 
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that because think about it, he 
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He didn't have none of that to 
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He did it all on his back with 
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didn't. 
He broke records that I don't 

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think anybody could have done. 
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He was the biggest star. 
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Flair, then he was, you know, 
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at Ric Flair as being the 
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his, you know, his catchphrases 
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all his promos and things like 
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the list goes on and on. 
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tribute to Hogan. 
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things, man, where again, I am 
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So I'm jumping all over the 
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because again, yet they say you 
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I met him and was not 
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There's going to be a lot of bad
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Hogan, especially because of the
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at his lowest. 
I didn't put anything up on 

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social media because of the 
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degrade him and put him down 
because of, you know, his when 

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he was at his darkest place and 
things like that. 

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Listen, the Bible says it best. 
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the first stone. 
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they're saying negative stuff 
now that Hogan is no longer with

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us. 
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What have you done in life that 
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Or I should say, nobody would 
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because you can't. 
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way, shape or form of saying 
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wouldn't be appropriate or what 
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I'm not condoning in any 
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what was said at his lowest 
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African American. 
I get it, OK, If anybody gets 

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it, you know, us as African 
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But at the same token, you 
cannot deny what this man has 

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done for this business. 
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there would be no WWE, there 
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no TNA, there would be none of 
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We wouldn't even be having this 
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That what we're doing, we're 
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this business because of that 
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This business, the business 
right now is hot. 

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It's hotter than it's been in a 
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And in my opinion, it never gets
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If Hogan didn't do what he did 
back in the 80s, if Hogan didn't

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generate what he generated, we 
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This would our world would 
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There'd probably be no wrestling
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There'll be no nothing wrestling
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The way territories were dying 
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fizzled, not just because Vince 
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know, rated all of the talent, 
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Everything eventually folds in 
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Businesses, things that you 
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business and things like that. 
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Who's to say that that wouldn't 
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close it became so many times 
WrestleMania, the first one was 

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a hit or miss. 
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definitely wouldn't have been 
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WrestleMania 2, which I just 
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events documentary that some a 
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WrestleMania 2 is being a flop 
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draw the numbers or the ratings 
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But then here comes WrestleMania
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Hogan. 
The build up between Andre and 

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Hogan is something, if it's done
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No one ever thought in a million
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Andre. 
They played that storyline to 

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AT-15 years being undefeated. 
Never once, Hogan, did you ever 

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give this man a title shot. 
Never once did you offer him 

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anything. 
The build up between Andre and 

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Hogan and with Bobby Heenan 
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I mean, the three of them 
together, good God, you had to 

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be there during that time to 
feel what I'm feeling right now.

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And again, I told you, I'm all 
over the place. 

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But let's go back to the to the 
early 80s when he first came in 

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the Rock and wrestling 
connection, the, the whole 

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collaboration with Cyndi Lauper 
and Dave Wolfe, Rick Derringer 

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and all of that. 
You know, you really had to be 

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there to understand what these 
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It was unreal. 
It was surreal. 

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It brought wrestling out of the 
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Captain Lou Albano, Rowdy Roddy 
Piper, Mr. Wonderful, Paul 

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Londorf, you know, Muhammad Ali,
Liberace, you know, all of that.

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All of those guys at the first 
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phenomenal. 
It'll never be forgotten. 

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I'm sorry, but it will never be 
duplicated. 

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It just won't. 
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it's one of those things where, 
you know, those that were there 

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can reminisce and go back and 
remember where you were when 

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certain things happened during 
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But this new generation will 
never, ever know what it was 

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like to deal with Hulkamania 
when it first came out. 

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Again, I refuse to go on social 
media to say anything about it 

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because it's something negative 
hate that I've seen out there 

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from some people, you know, 
still living, you know, in the 

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past about what he said or what 
he did. 

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Was Hulk Hogan a a stand up 
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Maybe not. 
Are we all? 

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No. 
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lives that we're not happy, 
probably that we've done, but we

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want forgiveness. 
Bubba said this best, too, as 

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well. 
He said when a guy, when someone

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commits murder and he's 
convicted for 2530 years in 

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jail, when he gets out, he's 
given a new start. 

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He's given a new lease on life. 
Hogan never got that. 

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Some people say that what his 
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public, that there was not 
enough remorse or what have you.

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OK, grant you, if that's how you
feel, that's how you feel. 

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And I understand that, and I'm 
not denying how you should feel,

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you know? 
But to denounce everything that 

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he's done and sweep underneath 
the rug is asinine. 

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There would be no Cody Rose. 
There would be no Rock. 

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There would be nobody that is 
big right now in pro wrestling 

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if it wasn't for Hogan. 
You know, Devon, you, you've, 

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you've nailed it on so many 
fronts and, and you're speaking 

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from the heart. 
So, so that you know, to say 

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that you're, you're all over the
place. 

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No, you, you're, you're speaking
directly from the heart man. 

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And it's, it's solid. 
It's also, it's the, the, The 

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thing is, we talked about Hulk 
Hogan and, and you know, the 

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racist things that he said and 
we expressed our feelings about 

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that. 
We talked about that earlier 

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this year. 
So folks, there's no confusion 

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about our position on that. 
With that set. 

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Devon, you touched upon a story,
I think it was actually last 

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year when you did it, when we 
first started doing this Devon 

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and Duke show. 
You touched upon a story a 

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little bit, but offline, you and
I, you know, you gave me a lot 

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more detail and what have you. 
So I'm going to, I'm going to 

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ask you to, to, to put this out 
online because this is not 

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something that most people know.
Most people never heard this 

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before. 
You credit Hulk Hogan for being 

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a major help to you in TNA. 
And before you start to tell 

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that story, I, I want to, I want
to set the stage for people out 

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there, especially the younger 
folks out there who may not know

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the history. 
Devon Dudley and Bubba Ray 

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Dudley Dudley boys were, were 
already legends at ECW. 

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They already accomplished 
everything they could accomplish

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there. 
They went to the WWE and became 

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legends in the WWE, right? 
TLC and all these different 

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things that they did working 
with The Rock, the whole 9 

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yards, they became WWE legends 
and basically cemented 

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themselves as future Hall of 
Farmers. 

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So they had already done all of 
that. 

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They signed the TNA and they go 
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So now they become TNA legends, 
they go to Japan, become legends

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in Japan, the whole 9 yards here
as A tag team, they they pretty 

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much accomplished about as much 
as they could have at that 

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point. 
So you guys were split up in TNA

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and Hulk Hogan had some 
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that point. 
So I'm going to, I'm going to 

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ask you, Devon, tell us the, 
tell us the TNA story and, and, 

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and what Hulk Hogan did for you 
just so folks can really 

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understand where you're coming 
from with all of your comments 

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there. 
Well, you know, back then when 

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me and Bubba slit up, it seemed 
like TNA, the powers that be 

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thought that I was washed up. 
I was done and they put me at 

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the wayside and they started 
pushing Bubba like there was no 

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tomorrow. 
And I couldn't understand for 

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the life of me why I did. 
I gained some weight, not 

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unhealthy, gained some weight 
and I wasn't moving his 

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whatever. 
But both of us were in that 

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pretty much that category. 
They gave Bubba the opportunity 

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to work and do what he was 
doing. 

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While he was in the process of 
losing the weight and developing

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his persona as Bully Ray, they 
gave him the opportunity to do 

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that on camera while he was 
still relevant. 

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Where with me, they kept me 
home. 

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They didn't want to do anything 
with me. 

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Each week I would come in. 
Nah, Devon, we don't have 

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nothing for you. 
Or if we did, it was just to go 

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in here to put people over. 
And I felt like I was more than 

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that. 
So I got myself together. 

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I said, OK, I'm not going to cry
about it. 

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I'm not going to do anything. 
I'm going to go home. 

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I'm going to get my thoughts 
together. 

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I'm going to get in the best 
shape I possibly could be in. 

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And I'm going to prove them 
wrong. 

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And that's exactly what I did. 
I remember I was sitting and 

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catering. 
Hogan came in and he goes, damn,

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Devon, he goes, how much weight 
have you lost? 

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I don't remember the time. 
I was like 50, maybe 40 to £50. 

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And I goes, man, you look 
amazing. 

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I said thanks, Hulk. 
He goes, yeah, he was like, 

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yeah, keep it up. 
And then the next week, you 

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know, I think a couple weeks 
later, you know, he said, Devon,

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you know, I've been watching 
you. 

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He's like, good God, you're 
moving like the old Devon. 

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I said, really? 
He goes, yeah, man, you go. 

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You look great in that ring. 
I said thank you. 

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I said, but they still not doing
anything. 

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Yeah, I don't understand that. 
And then they kept me home. 

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They were still doing what they 
were doing. 

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Then all of a sudden I'm home 
and I remember I get a phone 

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call and I think it was either 
from Al Snow or or Bruce 

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Pritchett and said we need you 
here at the pay-per-view. 

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I think it might have been no 
surrender. 

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I'm not sure. 
I said, OK, I'll be there. 

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This is when we were filming at 
Universal Studio, so I was like 

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maybe 40 minutes away from my 
house, like I'll be there. 

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So I get there. 
And they said, yeah, Hogan 

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really pushed for you to come 
back, him and Eric. 

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And I was told by Dave Heppner 
because Dave was in the meet. 

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I'm not, I'm not, not Dave. 
I'm sorry, Earl, because Earl 

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was in the meetings in TNA and 
he goes, man, Hogan loves you. 

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I said, why do you say that? 
He goes. 

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He kept pushing and pushing for 
you and he kept saying how come 

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Devon's not there? 
Have you seen Devon? 

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Have you seen what he looks like
now? 

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Have you seen what he's been 
doing in the ring? 

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I don't understand it. 
You guys are making no sense by 

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putting him on the back burner. 
You know, this came from Earl 

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Hebner and and his son Brian 
Hebner 'cause they were all in 

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the meetings with them and they 
both pulled me aside 2 separate 

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occasions and told me what was 
being said about me. 

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So they said, yeah, you have a 
match with Robbie E, who was the

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television title champ. 
And he says, yeah, they were 

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debating back and forth on who 
should go over in this match. 

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And Hogan said, what do you mean
who should go over again? 

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Do I have to say it? 
Look at Devon, look at what he's

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doing. 
Why wouldn't you put him over? 

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Put him over, Let him have a 
title run. 

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I don't get it, nor do I 
understand what you guys are 

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doing. 
Hogan fought, both of them said.

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Hogan fought tooth and nail. 
And finally they said, OK, we'll

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get the title on Devon. 
And I just remember going in 

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there and doing that and then, 
you know, just having a 

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successful run with that 
television title. 

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And it was all because of Hogan.
Hogan was in my corner left and 

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right when I was having contract
disputes with them. 

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You know, they basically let me 
go and I had the television 

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title with me. 
They never took the title off of

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me. 
So I went home with the title 

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and I remember they needed it 
because they were going to. 

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I was going. 
I had left. 

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I had no, I wasn't coming back. 
I had no plans on coming back. 

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And they said we're going to 
have a tournament for the 

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television title 'cause it's 
vacant, 'cause Devon is not 

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coming back. 
He left his champ. 

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I took the title home with me. 
I get a call from Al Snow. 

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Al says, Devon, how you doing? 
I said I'm good. 

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Al, what's up? 
You know, 'cause Al at this time

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was office, so my guard was up 
with Al, which it shouldn't have

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been, but it was. 
And he says, hey, we're gonna 

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have a tournament for the title 
and we need that title back. 

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Can you give it to him? 
Can you bring it to us? 

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I said I'm in Mexico right now, 
man, I'm on vacation. 

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He says you're in Mexico. 
I said yeah, I'm in Mexico right

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now. 
He was like, alright, can 

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somebody come and get the title?
I said no man. 

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I said I got 3 big ass 
Rottweilers. 

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Anybody steps on my property, I 
get the ass bit. 

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He was like Devon, come on. 
I was like, Al, I'm serious. 

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Nobody's at my home. 
And if they do show up there, 

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I'm telling you, I'm not going 
to be responsible. 

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I told you what would happen if 
they show up. 

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And of course, Alan knew I was 
full of shit, but I wasn't 

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budging. 
I felt that TNA did me so wrong 

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back then. 
Not this new regime TNA, but 

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the, you know, Dixie Carter's, 
you know, version of TNA. 

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And, you know, I was just like, 
yeah, no, I can't do it, Sorry. 

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I said, I'll give you the title 
after I come back from Mexico. 

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And of course the next week 
after the tournament, you know, 

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and I and I, it was Samoa Joe 
versus Ken Anderson. 

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And Joe knew what I was doing. 
Samoa Joe knew what I was doing.

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I called Joe after and I said, 
Joe, I said, I'm sorry, man. 

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I said, but I I I can't give 
this title back. 

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I said, they screwed me. 
They messed with me. 

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They tried to cut my money. 
They they, they really tried to 

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destroy me in my career. 
I said I can't do. 

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He goes Devon. 
He goes, I knew you were full of

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shit. 
He said I knew you were. 

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He goes When they told me what 
you was saying, he was like, oh,

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he was like that. 
He yeah, my fucking lying. 

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But Joe didn't. 
Joe understood and Joe was like,

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Devon, I don't blame you. 
He said if it was me, I would 

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have threw the freaking title in
the damn ocean and told him to 

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go get it and tell him where I 
sit and put it. 

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And you know, Joe was 
understanding about it. 

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And this man, he just laughed. 
We both laughed about it. 

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But then Hogan went on his 
Twitter, which is X now, got to 

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be correct, and said I don't 
know why Devon's not here. 

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I think it's BS that he's not 
back in TNA. 

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They should have signed him. 
They should have did everything.

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I mean he really went public and
I remember he tweeted me, tagged

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me in it. 
My Twitter file was went from 

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100,000 to 300,000 at that .0. 
Like good God, the power of 

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Hogan and then the the love and 
support that I got from the fans

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back then was just unreal 
because of Hogan and Bischoff. 

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Don't want to leave Bischoff 
out. 

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I don't care what Bischoff did 
in the end and WCW and, and it's

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net and the people that he did, 
whatever people claim that he 

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did wrong too and all, I don't 
care. 

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All I know is that when Bischoff
was with me and we did business,

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he was a complete gentleman. 
He was behind me. 

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Me and him have a great 
relationship now, but going to 

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Hogan, he called me and told me,
you know, brother, I don't 

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understand this. 
He goes, I'm at a loss for words

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with this company. 
He goes, it just doesn't make 

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any sense. 
Half the stuff that they're 

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doing. 
I said Hulk, I say it's alright.

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I was like, you know what, It is
what it is, man. 

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I was like, I've been dumped 
this card pretty much my whole 

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career with the exception of 
ECWI said. 

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But other than that, it is what 
it is. 

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And he just went, brother, 
listen, I'm getting you back in.

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He's like, don't worry. 
That was when the whole idea 

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with the Aces and Eights came in
and who was underneath the mask 

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and that was all Hogan's idea. 
And it just put another spark in

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my career when, you know, we did
that and it was like Devon was 

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reborn again. 
So there was 2 separate 

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occasions where Hogan actually 
saved my career. 

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So for people to say that, you 
know, the comments that he made,

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I get it and understand why 
you're hurt by it. 

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I was hurt by it. 
But like the Bible says, forgive

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because if you don't forgive 
your brother, I will not forgive

441
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,800
you. 
And that's exactly what the 

442
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,840
Bible says. 
He apologized to me. 

443
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,320
Pull me as I said, divine he 
goes. 

444
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,640
I'm not that type of person. 
I'm not. 

445
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,960
He was like, but they're killing
me in social media. 

446
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,560
They're making me feel like that
I am. 

447
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,240
I know it might have said things
in the past or done through the 

448
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,640
past. 
The brother, I love you. 

449
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,360
And you know what? 
He didn't have to tell me that. 

450
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,160
He didn't have to pull me aside 
and say that, but he did. 

451
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,800
In his world. 
If you really think about it, 

452
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,720
I'm not taking anything away 
from myself, but I'm a nobody. 

453
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,680
And if you take care of what 
this man has done, he didn't 

454
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,520
have to do that with me, but he 
did. 

455
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,160
He goes, Yvonne, I love you, 
brother. 

456
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,080
He goes. 
I love and respect everything 

457
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,400
that you've done, how you've 
gotten yourself out of this 

458
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,320
hole. 
And no matter how many times 

459
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:11,360
they try to knock you down, you 
keep getting up, he goes. 

460
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:16,160
I have so much respect for you. 
And that was that. 

461
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,720
Let let's talk about the last 
conversation that you had with 

462
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,840
Hulk, because you you spoke to 
him fairly recently, right? 

463
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,680
Yeah, I spoke to him during 
WrestleMania week and I was 

464
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,640
doing, I was doing the autograph
signing, the con. 

465
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,240
I have butt dialed him about a 
week or two weeks prior to 

466
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,280
WrestleMania and it was like I 
would always butt dial him by 

467
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,040
mistake. 
I don't know why, but I would 

468
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,960
always butt dial him and he 
would always wait about a week 

469
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:47,320
or two to call me back and I was
signing and it said Terry 

470
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:52,520
Bollea, Hulk Hogan on my phone. 
I went, oh, I said Hulk, he goes

471
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,000
and he always answered. 
Devon, what's going on brother, 

472
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,760
how you doing? 
Sorry, I'm just getting back to 

473
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,600
you, man. 
I'm like, Terry, you ain't got 

474
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,120
to apologize to me. 
I said I made a mistake and butt

475
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,640
dialed you. 
I was like, you have to 

476
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,600
apologize to me. 
He was like, Nah, but I want to 

477
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,840
speak to you. 
I want to see how you were 

478
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,760
doing. 
We, you know, it's been some 

479
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,520
time. 
I was like, yeah, like I'm doing

480
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,640
good. 
You know, I told him about the 

481
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,880
back surgery, talking about all 
of that, talking about Dallas 

482
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,440
DDP, how he helped me. 
And he said to me, he goes, 

483
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,040
yeah. 
He was like, Dallas has been 

484
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,600
trying to get me to do that for 
years. 

485
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,120
But you know, I just being me, 
being me. 

486
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,720
I would just brush it up to the 
side. 

487
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,120
He's like, it really worked for 
you. 

488
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,880
And I said, Hulk, it really does
work. 

489
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,640
I said, I know it doesn't seem 
like things that you're used to 

490
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,240
doing in the gym with the 
weights and stuff, but I'm 

491
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:44,280
telling you, this works. 
It was like, yeah, he's like the

492
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,120
amount of back surgeries that 
I've had and this and that. 

493
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,360
He was like, man, he's like, I 
need something right now. 

494
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,040
He's like, I'm going to give 
Dallas a call. 

495
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,560
And I don't know if he made that
call. 

496
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,640
I'm not sure he made a call at 
all. 

497
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,000
But you know, I know we continue
to talk a little bit and it was 

498
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,680
time to wind it down. 
And you know, he said, Devon, he

499
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,520
goes, I want to I just want to 
tell you that I respect the hell

500
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,960
out of you. 
It was like you're very genuine.

501
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,760
You're this and you're that. 
He was like, I have a lot of 

502
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,680
respect for you. 
He said, and I just want to say 

503
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,720
I love you brother, for that. 
And I said, well, thank you, 

504
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,080
Terry. 
I said, thank you for everything

505
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,120
that you've done for me. 
Thank you for everything that 

506
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,520
you've done for this business. 
I said, if it wasn't for you, I 

507
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,120
wouldn't be here. 
I said, I don't care what these 

508
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,960
idiots say about you. 
I don't care how they portray 

509
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:36,040
you as being, I know you. 
I know. 

510
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,640
And I say that because I 
remember what George Foreman 

511
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,800
said. 
I remember what Dennis Rodman 

512
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,200
said. 
Hell, I remember what Carl 

513
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,360
Malone said when all that stuff 
came out on him. 

514
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,760
It said we still love Hogan. 
We respect him. 

515
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,360
We know he, we people make 
mistakes. 

516
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,040
People say things they're not 
supposed to say. 

517
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,160
You know, they do things they're
not supposed to do. 

518
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,000
But he's asking for forgiveness,
whether you think it's genuine 

519
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,720
or not, or he's bullshitting 
around and he's asking for 

520
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:07,040
forgiveness, you know, and you 
know, I, I remember, you know, 

521
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,840
them saying this stuff, those 
guys about Hogan. 

522
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,120
And I just remember going, you 
know, I ain't holding no grudge 

523
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,720
against this man. 
I ain't holding no grudge at 

524
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,880
all. 
I understand why people upset. 

525
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,480
I get it. 
But again, sometimes you just 

526
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,120
got to learn how to love and 
forgive. 

527
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,280
And that's exactly what I did. 
And right before we left the 

528
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,040
phone, he says Devon. 
Yeah. 

529
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,480
I just want to say I love you, 
brother. 

530
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,600
I love you very much. 
And I said I love you too, Hulk.

531
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,720
I said we'll talk to each other 
soon. 

532
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,920
Thank you. 
Got it, brother. 

533
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:40,840
Take care. 
I said. 

534
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:41,720
Bye, Hulk. 
No. 

535
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,840
The last time I spoke to him. 
You know, a lot of people have 

536
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:52,680
been reaching out and they don't
know which way to go because 

537
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,280
they're still hurt by by what 
Hulk said. 

538
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,560
Hell, I'm hurt by it. 
And again, you and I covered 

539
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,880
this on the show. 
There's no confusion about that.

540
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,560
And I'm also hurt by the fact 
that one of my heroes, one of 

541
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,239
the biggest pieces of my 
childhood outside of my 

542
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:22,360
immediate family, is gone. 
I'm hurt because his friends 

543
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:28,360
like you, Devo, have lost 
somebody Who, warts and all, he 

544
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,760
had your back. 
I'm hurt over the fact that his 

545
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:39,040
children lost their father. 
I'm hurt over the fact that the 

546
00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:43,080
industry that depended on this 
man so much. 

547
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,239
And like you said, he set Vince 
McMahon and Hulk Hogan set the 

548
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,120
table for everybody. 
There's not a single person in 

549
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,040
pro wrestling today that can say
that they're that they made a 

550
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,320
Diamond Pro Wrestling on their 
own. 

551
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,480
What Hulk Hogan did in in in 
revitalizing the business and 

552
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,080
making it larger than life and 
putting it in a position where 

553
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:10,760
it can be mainstream forever. 
You know, everybody in the 

554
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,080
Business Today owes Hulk Hogan a
debt of gratitude. 

555
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:20,280
That doesn't mean that we forget
about the warts, doesn't mean we

556
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:21,720
forget about the negative things
he said. 

557
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:25,960
Doesn't mean we forget about 
that stuff, but you can't deny 

558
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,520
the fact just like you said, 
this man had an impact on all of

559
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:37,120
us and it's OK. 
It's OK to to to mourn that 

560
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,560
folks. 
It's OK and I don't give a damn 

561
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,680
all the other folks who who just
want to to stay stuck. 

562
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,080
Well, he did something wrong and
we just have to hate him 

563
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,640
forever. 
You can be that way if you want 

564
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,360
and good for you. 
But just like Devon said, you 

565
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,920
know, at some point you got to 
let that hate out of your heart.

566
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,920
At some point, you have to be 
able to be a human being and 

567
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,240
recognize that people are 
imperfect. 

568
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,960
People are going to disappoint 
you. 

569
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,000
People are going to also bring 
you a tremendous amount of joy. 

570
00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:17,800
Pro wrestling saved all of our 
lives. 

571
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,480
And when again, when we talk 
about pro wrestling, we're 

572
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,240
talking about Hulk Hogan, Vince 
McMahon, Ric Flair. 

573
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:29,640
We're talking about them. 
That's what we're talking about.

574
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,160
So I just say this to everyone, 
piggybacking on what D Bond 

575
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,040
said, Sure, never forget that 
this person did some negative 

576
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,320
stuff, some hurtful stuff. 
Never forget that. 

577
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,400
That's OK. 
But damn it, don't pretend like 

578
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,120
you weren't saying your prayers 
in eating your vitamins and 

579
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,360
looking up to the man upstairs. 
Who the hell is the man up? 

580
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,240
I didn't even know who the man 
upstairs was at at 3456 years 

581
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:58,160
old. 
I don't even know what the hell 

582
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,640
that meant. 
I just knew that Hulk Hogan said

583
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:00,960
we got to pray to the man 
upstairs. 

584
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,800
OK, so I'm praying to the man 
upstairs. 

585
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:09,360
Andre Giant ripped the the the 
crucifix off of Hulk Hogan's 

586
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,760
neck. 
Everyone's upset about that. 

587
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,120
Hulk of Mania is being attacked.
OK, I'm being attacked because 

588
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,360
I'm a Hulk of maniac. 
It's OK to go back to those 

589
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,360
moments in your life where you 
experience those, those 

590
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:30,400
tremendous levels of joy and 
concern and triumph when the 

591
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,640
hero was able to to defeat all 
the evil people. 

592
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,640
It's OK. 
You've got to be able to 

593
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,040
separate things if you're going 
to be a complete human being and

594
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,600
an adult. 
Not making any excuses for what 

595
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,000
the man has done wrong, but damn
it that was our hero at some 

596
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,080
point. 
The man is dead. 

597
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:57,160
It's OK to mourn them. 
You know what kills me and hurts

598
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,960
me, Duke? 
And I'm not going to name any 

599
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,040
names. 
And if you're listening to this,

600
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,840
you know who you are. 
You sat there and you buried 

601
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,760
this man for the comments that 
he's made. 

602
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,080
Yes, I get it. 
But I know these same people 

603
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:18,160
have done things that if it was 
brought to light, that these 

604
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:25,680
fans would not be happy with or 
the people I should say would 

605
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:32,080
not be happy with, and you would
probably be put in the same boat

606
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:38,160
as Hogan. 
But yet, you know, and you 

607
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,880
buried the man when he was here.
I get it, you were upset. 

608
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,680
But now that he's in death, it's
kind of like you're being 

609
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,720
hypocrites. 
I'm not talking about these 

610
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:50,840
people in the industry, but I'm 
just talking about people in 

611
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,640
general. 
You're being hypocrites about 

612
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,560
it. 
Don't say good things about him 

613
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:05,200
now that he's gone. 
Try to correct how you felt and 

614
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,840
how you couldn't let it go. 
One of the biggest things the 

615
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,360
counselor will tell you is that 
in order for you to heal, you 

616
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,520
have to let go. 
You have to let go because if 

617
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,200
not, the hate in your heart will
consume you, will consume you 

618
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,520
too. 
Trust me, I know. 

619
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,480
I've been married three times, 
so I know what that hate to feel

620
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,120
like. 
But the minute you let it go, 

621
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,840
oh, I don't care. 
The minute you let that hate go,

622
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,680
it's a new feeling, It's a new 
world. 

623
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:49,840
You see things a lot clearer. 
You know, here it is. 

624
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:55,720
I'm an ECWI would this is when 
they have portable DVD players. 

625
00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:59,560
I would have the Hulkamania DVD.
I would watch it before I went 

626
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,600
out because the energy that that
man drew when he came out 

627
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,280
through that curtain was just 
unreal. 

628
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:15,960
It was, it was energy that I 
basically never seen before. 

629
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,240
The likes of Hulk Hogan when he 
would come out and how pumped up

630
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,440
that crowd would be. 
It would get me pumped up. 

631
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:28,320
It would bring me back to when I
was a kid watching it and I 

632
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,200
would go out in the ECW Arena. 
I feel like I was a guy. 

633
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,320
I feel like I was untouchable, 
not a God. 

634
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,840
Use that. 
Not taking anything away from 

635
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,200
the creator, but I felt like I 
was invincible because I would 

636
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,640
be so charged. 
People be like, oh, you're such 

637
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,240
a mock. 
You're damn right I am. 

638
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,680
And I'm damn proud of it because
it made me go out there and do 

639
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,000
things I never thought I could 
do because I was so pumped up 

640
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,760
watching that man. 
Before I went out there. 

641
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,560
We were on Charlotte. 
We were on the charter flight 

642
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,920
one time and I'm sitting there 
watching the Hulk Hogan's 

643
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,520
greatest hits. 
And you tried, you know, flying 

644
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,840
8 to 12 hours on a flight, 
landing, checking into the 

645
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,600
hotel, only to come back 
downstairs and get back on the 

646
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,160
bus after a 2 hour ride from the
airport to the hotel. 

647
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,320
To do that. 
Now you're driving an hour to 

648
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,960
the arena and then put on the 
show. 

649
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,800
I would take that portable DV 
player, I put the Hogan's 

650
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,040
matches in, the promos, 
everything. 

651
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,920
I would watch it. 
I got off that bus, man. 

652
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,240
I was ready. 
Didn't need a 5 hour energy, 

653
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:41,640
didn't have that at the time, 
didn't need a Red Bull, didn't 

654
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,600
have that at the time, didn't 
need nothing but that DVD. 

655
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,640
You know, the first time I ever 
met Hogan was at the Staples 

656
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,320
Center was when they came back 
from when WCW was brought out. 

657
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,880
They were bringing people in 
little by little to see how we 

658
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,640
would all generate together when
Vince bought the company. 

659
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,840
Me and the Bubba leaving the 
hotel, we're driving to the 

660
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,720
Staples Center to get to the 
building and do Monday Night 

661
00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:21,280
Roar and Bubba knew how much of 
a big fan I was at Hogan and how

662
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,760
much I loved that man. 
I had 370 something posters in 

663
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:30,560
my room of Hogan, that's how 
obsessed I was. 

664
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:52,840
And 
I just knew me living in 

665
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,840
Brooklyn and the projects 
cracked, hitting the scene so 

666
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,040
bad. 
I rushed home, not to be in the 

667
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:07,480
streets, but to see what he was 
going to do. 

668
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:16,320
I rushed home to the TVI told 
him, I said when I first met 

669
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:24,440
him, I said you saved my life. 
I didn't get mixed up and all 

670
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,560
that crap out there in the 
street because I was so in tune 

671
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,360
and so intact on what you guys 
were doing. 

672
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,880
My father, who's the reverend 
who I called my dad, didn't come

673
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,560
into the picture until I was 
about 1415 when my mother met 

674
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,720
him and got remarried. 
So I had really no real father 

675
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:50,760
figure growing up, I said, But 
you were the you were the 

676
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:56,280
leader. 
Well, I looked up to you. 

677
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:01,640
Everything you said I want to 
do, I was mesmerized. 

678
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:06,320
I remember getting to the 
Staples Center. 

679
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,720
But because, you know your boy 
is going to be here, right? 

680
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:12,880
And I said who? 
He said Hogan and WO was coming 

681
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:19,120
in today. 
I said, oh, OK, I was being all 

682
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,080
tough and yeah, OK, yeah, not a 
big deal. 

683
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,120
I remember getting into the 
building. 

684
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,960
I went to the locker room. 
I dropped my bag off, I went 

685
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,560
back to walk 'cause I was going 
to go to the to the ring and 

686
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,160
then I'm going to the ring. 
There he is. 

687
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:36,120
He's standing there with Scott 
and Kevin talking to Vince. 

688
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:42,240
And I remember my body heated up
and I went back into the locker 

689
00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,600
room. 
I ran back into the locker room 

690
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:49,120
because I was nervous to meet 
him because I had never met him 

691
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,480
at that point. 
I had met Kevin, I had met 

692
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:57,560
Scott, but I've never met Hogan.
And that just how that's how 

693
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:03,360
strong it was for me. 
I said, Devon, get yourself 

694
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,400
together. 
You gotta get yourself there. 

695
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,160
Come on, come on now. 
Come on. 

696
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:12,160
You're Devon Dudley Stop. 
And I remember going back out 

697
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,000
there and I got myself together 
and I was like, hey, Hulk, I was

698
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,360
like, how you doing, Mr. Hogan? 
And I said, Mr. Hogan, you know,

699
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,840
that's the respect said how you 
doing? 

700
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,360
I said, I'm the I said, how you 
doing? 

701
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,080
I'm Devon. 
He goes, Devon, get the tables. 

702
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:31,080
I said what he said, man. 
Me and my son Nick, we love you,

703
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,120
man. 
We watch you guys and that's all

704
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,960
we do around the house is go 
Devon, get the tables, man. 

705
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:44,000
My heart was filled with joy. 
A man that I idolized, that I 

706
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:50,840
felt saved my life, was telling 
me that. 

707
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,120
It was something, you know, 
people are embarrassed to tell 

708
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,160
stories like that because of 
where they are in the industry 

709
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,240
right now. 
I don't care. 

710
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,080
Make fun of me, make memes about
it. 

711
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:18,320
I don't care. 
I know what this business has 

712
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,200
done for me and I know what 
Hogan's done for me. 

713
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,280
And I remember telling him I 
said, brother, I will never turn

714
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:33,360
my back on you. 
I've done things in this life 

715
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:36,560
even up to this day, I'm not 
proud of. 

716
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:41,160
I've made wrong decisions. 
I've said things that have 

717
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:49,200
probably been inappropriate that
I would get ridiculed for and 

718
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,280
maybe even put in the same 
category as Hogan. 

719
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,120
But that's why I would never 
throw stones at somebody. 

720
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,720
But I know I've probably done 
just as worse. 

721
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:08,480
So all you guys that might 
listen to this, that wanted to 

722
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,320
have something negative to say, 
go ahead and say it. 

723
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,240
I don't care. 
It's not going to hurt me one 

724
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:20,480
bit. 
I know the relationship I had 

725
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,240
with him and that's a memory 
that I'll never forget. 

726
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:32,800
It's like you don't know my 
struggle, you don't know 

727
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:38,960
anybody's struggle but your own.
The hatred that I've seen, I've 

728
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,400
seen a lot of love. 
That's one reason why I don't go

729
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:49,920
on Twitter 'cause I feel like 
Twitter is kind of like it could

730
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,720
be the death of somebody or what
have you. 

731
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:57,200
But I just, I, I have Twitter 
for just promotional reasons for

732
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,480
what I'm doing in my career now.
But other than that, I don't 

733
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,680
like to go on Twitter. 
The people are nasty, they're 

734
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:10,200
vulgar, they have no respect and
they feel like they could just 

735
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:15,760
say and do whatever they want. 
So I barely post anything on 

736
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:21,160
Twitter. 
My thing is Instagram or my 

737
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:28,120
personal Facebook. 
But the negativity that I've 

738
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:34,600
seen on Twitter and some of the 
things that was said was totally

739
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,760
disgusting. 
That's somebody's father. 

740
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,360
That's somebody's husband, 
that's somebody's brother. 

741
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,800
How do you think they feel in 
the loss of their loved one who 

742
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,400
actually go on social media and 
see this stuff? 

743
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,160
Oh, but let me guess, you don't 
care, right? 

744
00:48:54,160 --> 00:49:02,560
You don't care. 
He came to you personally and 

745
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,040
disrupted your life, so you 
don't care. 

746
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:14,630
You're full of shit if you're 
going to sit here and denounce 

747
00:49:14,670 --> 00:49:16,390
everything that that man has 
done. 

748
00:49:17,070 --> 00:49:19,870
The reason why you're even still
watching pro wrestling is 

749
00:49:19,870 --> 00:49:25,150
because of him. 
You're a fool. 

750
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,920
You can act all big and bad and 
hope that somebody sees your 

751
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,800
tweet or what have you and go 
yeah, you damn right. 

752
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,640
Yeah, forget him. 
Yeah, yeah. 

753
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,320
Somebody even said good that 
he's gone. 

754
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,200
What type of human being are 
you? 

755
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,040
It just kills me, man. 
It's. 

756
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:02,840
Sad. 
It's sad, you know, Devon, I'm 

757
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,680
going to, I'm going to put a 
button on this because we, we, 

758
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:11,360
we're going places with this one
boy again, such a major part of 

759
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:16,760
our childhood. 
That's it. 

760
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:22,280
And, and you being inspired by 
this man and then building a 

761
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:29,680
Hall of Fame career and being 
able to meet him, get to know 

762
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:36,880
him, build a friendship with 
him, make money with him. 

763
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,560
I got it. 
I got it. 

764
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:49,680
I know this isn't going to be 
easy, but you are the the 

765
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,520
Bishop's son and the Bishop's 
son, the Bishop and the Bishop. 

766
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,040
You are their son. 
You are the reverend, your own 

767
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,720
damn self. 
So I'm going to, I'm going to 

768
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:04,360
challenge you on this one. 
We always do our word of the 

769
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,640
week. 
This might be one of the most 

770
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,120
important words of the week that
you'll ever do here. 

771
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,560
So to dedicate this to 
Hulkamania, what is your word of

772
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:16,800
the week to take us out, 
brother? 

773
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,320
I'm going to combine a couple of
things. 

774
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,320
You know, as you're talking, I'm
just saying what am I going to 

775
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,680
possibly say to end this? 
I'm going to combine a couple of

776
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,680
things. 
It's not going to just be one 

777
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,240
thing. 
Number one, that he was without 

778
00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:44,520
sin, cast the first stone. 
John 316 You know, he gave his 

779
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,960
only begotten Son so we could be
free. 

780
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:56,840
Let go and let God. 
It may not come when you want 

781
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:07,240
them, but he's always on time. 
John 316 was something that 

782
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:10,400
Hogan wore in countless 
interviews because he had given 

783
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:19,560
his life back to Christ. 
And, you know, there was a 

784
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:26,000
preacher on Twitter that Bubba 
had read, and he said it on the 

785
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,840
show today about how he said 
Hogan gave his life back to 

786
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,840
Christ. 
He got saved. 

787
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,760
So he knew. 
He knew that he was going to 

788
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,040
heaven. 
You got baptized and everything.

789
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,560
And I believe that brother will 
be there when that trumpet 

790
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,960
sounds and we're all raising. 
He'll be there along with so 

791
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:55,480
many others. 
I know it's not something 

792
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,200
Normally I would say I would 
give you one thing and that was 

793
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,520
it and we would go off. 
But I had to combine all of that

794
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,920
into one. 
It's a sad moment for a lot of 

795
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:14,160
us and it's time to heal and 
that's what we're going to have 

796
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:18,920
to do. 
And for those haters out there 

797
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:22,360
that want to down me or make fun
of me or what I'm saying, go 

798
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,760
ahead. 
That's OK. 

799
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:30,160
Can't hurt me and you definitely
can't hurt that man anymore. 

800
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,240
So good luck with you and your 
life. 

801
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,760
You ready for this one? 
Yep. 

802
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:49,080
Testify, Brother. 
Testifying D my brother testify.

803
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:22,600
The eye in this fashion, you'll 
touch the sky strictly for the 

804
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:30,680
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805
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:38,880
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806
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807
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808
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