Hulk Hogan 28 years ago today beat the Iron Sheik @ madison square garden on January 23,1984 and it began Rock n' Wrestling which lead to the beginning of the franchise of WrestleMania and Hogan did not even have his infamous real american theme song yet. Hulk Hogan after the 5:20 squash match against the Iron Sheik where Sheik got a Boston Crab and Camel clutch on Hogan who muscled out of both big Iron Sheik moves and Hogan control the rest of the match he ended up keeping the title for four years plus with the title. In that time WWF started doing wrestling on MTV and PPV of Wrestle Mania and the first Survivor Series that killed the NWA as Vince McMahon said to the cable companies that they could only show the first Survivor Series and not Starcade '87 that were both on November 26, 1987 and if they did not choose his then they would not get Wrestle Mania IV and almost all Cable companies choose to carry only the Survivor Series which lost lots of money for NWA's Starcade '87. The first Royal Rumble just happened on January 24, 1988 which happen just before February 5, 1988 when Hulk Hogan lost the title to Andre the giant and the first Summerslam was in place for August of 1988 and the WWF/WWE franchise was in place for years to come.
The side story is that the Iron Sheik only had a month with the title because Bob Backlund who held the title from 1978 - December 26, 1983 and he lost the title to the Iron Sheik because Backlund did not want to lay down for the Hulkster.
Hulk Hogan used to a fan favorite for years and now he just is annoying
Tom Mehegan
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