Fumi Saito and Justin Knipper discussed Hulk Hogan's legacy in Japan on this Feb. 2021 edition of Write That Down! on the Fight Game Media Network on Patreon.
0:00 Intro, Giant Baba Memorial Show last week
3:15 Hogan in Japan
17:27 Hogan debuts in 1977 at 24 in Florida after being trained by Hiro Matsuda
21:10 How was Hogan received in Japan?
29:00 1981 Hogan turns babyface in NJPW, dons “ichiban” tights
38:00 Hogan vs Terry Funk in South Africa
43:30 84-85 WWF expansion but Hogan continued to go to NJPW
46:00 SWS Wrestling Summit at Tokyo Dome, possibility of NJPW+AJPW vs WWF in ’90s
55:00 Rock album in Japan
58:00 Hogan meets Karl Gotch in Japan
1:00 Hogan’s importance to Japanese pro wrestling history
1:01 Fans react to Hogan winning IWGP in 19831:03 He is a “huge huge huge!” part of Japanese wrestling history
1:13 When “hulked up” for the first time in Japan
1:17 When Fumi got chased by wrestlers in the crowd as a junior high school student
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