Hulk Hogan starts feud with Tony Atlas

[311superfly]

THIS IS CLASSIC! I WAS IN GEORGIA IN THIS ERA AND THIS WAS PURE BLACK VS WHITE ENTERTAINMENT ! BLACK CLOWN? WTF. YEAH THIS IS GEORGIA OR NEW YORK WRESTLING ! DROP THE BROTHA ON HIS COCK AND THE MATCH IS OVA! HOGAN WAS BIG.

[KaneRobot]

Hogan not a fan of the dusky gentleman

[GESSO217]

We see here a perfect example of a body builder and a weight lifter.

[AceDagger1]

Hogan actuallly looked cool in black tights

[frrrrrunkis]

Jeez, check Vince's pants for a woody after Tony Atlas posed...what a fagula!

[144church]

I think Vince wanted to go and shower with Tony.

[Rockchisler]

Hulk Hogan gettin his Racist on..hahaha

[tcollins79]

No microphone skills what so ever!

[illuminatioracle]

LOOK AT THAT BRISKET!

[Vernonu9]

boy? Shine my shoes? Damn Hogan!

[PeteyVX12]

lol i was att he gym today and i saw a bunch of people with cameras and i walked over to see what the big deal was..... haha Tony Atlas was at tilton fitness, pretty awesome i got to meet him, old as hell and still his arms are like legs hahah

[MIZIKE69]

thats exactly how television stations looked in the early 80's no HD no nothing this video captures that

[schuriken]

hogan looks double the size...

[shaneannigans]

Listen to the screams of horror from the crowd as they believe their beloved Tony Atlas is being killed by Hogan!

Listen to them erupt with hope when Hogan misses the leg drop!

You just don't get that emotion anymore. :(

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Wrestling has evolved, but maybe if it the business was kept kayfabe, performers wouldn't feel the need to put themselves through so much hell trying to impress a crowd of critics??

[shizeninho]

vince is homo

[norseleague]

I remember this one well! man oh man funny and exciting! (ok folks like any wrestling fan of this era I would suspend my disbelief system!)

[jaxbeachguitars]

Vince McMahon salivating over Tony Atlas' pecs...Hulk Hogan in a rainbow colored robe...Fred Blassie dressed head to toe in pink...who says wrestling was ever gay?

[DTJBsd]

Hogan and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

[catfan]

Classic stuff. Hogan was a great bad guy in his early days. He never got the prestigious title bout with Backlund in MSG back then. But why??!

[WONDOCTORJ]

classy fred glassy or whatever was at a cheap motel in kissimmee still trying to play wrestling promoter, it was funny.

[mooky9669]

enough of all the gaga...hahaha

[rayday007]

WOW hogan said boy? and shine his shoes? nowadays that shit would not fly!

[Contractnik]

@rayday007 he called him a brown-clown, too, I think...lol...so bad...

[Mattraction513]

Hogan was having a little too much fun saying boy

[mmmikeyxx]

HOGAN as Heel in any era is amazing.

[barrybear2011]

Tony: "Vince, is that an extra cellaphone you got in your pocket, or are you just queer for muscular guys like me?" :p

[DJCandyManMike]

I love Tony Atlas, but that cracks me up hearing him say rasslin'.

[Buckeyecat2002]

Great to see the Grand Wizard of the old WWF (White Hope Wrestling ConFederation) putting that Negro in his place. Mr. Atlas would later manage Mark Henry. The KKK would hold a rally in the Augusta, G.A., home town of Hogan (Terry Bollea).

[huskerhotelfoxtrot]

Hulk was awesome on the mic and had the look for sure but in the ring was very average but his career speaks for itself. He is not one of my favs but he is one of the best.

[gregnice25]

VINCE: "TAKE A LOOK AT THAT....MMM......UNBELIEVABLE.­.... LOOK AT THAT CHEST"........VINCE IS GAY!!!

[Ramon440b]

@gregnice25 lol

[MrDeeky74]

@gregnice25  Agreed 110% lolll Vince McFag!

[oldschool6804]

@gregnice25 yes it is well know vince is a switch hitter, rick harriss and bill eadie have told me so.

rick hariss is black bart.

[gregnice25]

@oldschool6804 lmfao @switch hitter...

[slick88zx]

@gregnice25 Well he did a side chest pose....so the chest is where people should look. 1 vote for Vince appreciating bodybuilding and not being gay.

[norseleague]

I remember this and it was awesome then and awesome now!

[huskerhotelfoxtrot]

I might be alone here but I think Hogan was a better heel than he was a face.

[mongoose704]

@huskerhotelfoxtrot He was unparalled as a face.

but as a heel was was fantastic. His Hollywood Hogan character is one of the greatest heels of all time.

Smarks still say Hogan has no talent. How was he able to create one of the greatest faces and heels of all time? Very few wrestlers can play a great heel or face. Only a handful.

[AceDagger1]

@mongoose704 agree

[choirguy210]

this is pretty interestiing.. nothing like the following society of today...

[doctorsizzle]

atlas, like many sports heroes was revolutionary...i believe he was the first to start pressin' motherfuckers over the head.

like it or not, regardless of how blacks were perceived...

tony did shit that was copied.

[misterprickly]

When Hogan plays Heel, he goes all out.

Very few guys can; Even these days.

[veiledvulture]

"rassling"  :| :| :|

[aderandie2]

jesus did hulk hogan ever have a full head of hair

[TrisJJ94]

ahh wrastling

[theIneluctable1]

brown clown, boy, shine my shoes? LOL @ Hulkkk Hogan

[labombina3]

THUNDERLIPS!!!!!!

[yimpka]

Didn't understand one god damn word that mooncricket said.

[Thumper17]

Probably the best physique in all of wrestling, Tony Atlas.

[Quincydellic]

"brown clown?" Wow. Where's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? SMH That's a REAL heel.

[dwaynekilbourne]

Funny to see Tony Atlas stand on his tippy toes!

[genosynca]

young Booker T watching WWF.

Hulk Hogan: Brown Clown

Booker T thinking I so gonna get him for that

over a decade later

Booker T: Hulk Hogan, We commin for you Nigga!!! woo thats a load of my chest... oh shit i might just lose my job. 

[keomacfarlane]

What is 'raoslin'? He keeps talking about it at the start.

And yeah, Hulk Hogan is clearly a klu klux klan fan.

[tommiedepew1]

@keomacfarlane he ment wrestling like in professional wrestling.you do know the guy was a wrestler correct? lol

[magnetmanca]

@keomacfarlane Its pronounce Wrastlin. lol.



[magnetmanca]

Holy shit. Hogan's got hair. lol

[NJPlayer79]

"Look at that chest..." was that Vince's opening line with Linda?

[fashizze]

pretty ironic because Fred Blassie was always an advocate for equal rights for minorities

[fashizze]

"Hold on enough of all the gaga" hahahaha

[hulkhogantupaclover]

@fashizze gaga, haha, now I know where lady gaga got her name from

Hulkamania forever!

[JeffSayYes]

i love how the finishing move was drop over the top ropes. it's like his crotch is his achilles heel.

[peterp21]

Rainbow Cape of Doom.

[thanpy]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooo

[adoniscomplex]

"brown clown"

lol Hogan plays a great heel

[mbtion]

did hogan call him brown clown? wrestling almost promoted racism back then

[fashizze]

who's idea was it to let tony get on the mic?. terrible speaker

[aaronrus]

doood.. hogan make Tony look small....

[fashizze]

@aaronrus hogan wasnt ripped he was muscular and fat at the same time

[aaronrus]

@fashizze who said anything about being ripped? Hogan was a solid 4 inches taller, and definately outweighed him... Hogan was just a bigger dude. tony is big, dont get me wrong, but hogan is just a larger man

[fashizze]

@aaronrus hogan was 6'5 320 at this time ..he looked like a offensive lineman ..when he did the rocky 3 movie he downed a couple pounds and had a very muscular physique ..very large 24 inch biceps

[aaronrus]

@fashizze actually, hogan was 6'6 go look at celebheights if you dont believe me

[fashizze]

@aaronrus he wore lifts in his wrestling boots back in the day to make him taller ..his height is really unknown .some sites say he's 6'4 some say 6'5 some say 6'6 ....he was billed at 6'8 all through his wrestling career ..Dennis Rodman is 6'8 and when he stood next to Rodman he was much shorter

[aaronrus]

@fashizze he was always an inch+ taller than 6'5" hillbilly jim, and the same height as 6'6" earthquake. in most of hogan's interviews with rodman, hogan is always leaning over and doing the sly "hollywood" hogan moves in front of the camera, he's never standing straight. In momments where you see him stand completely straight next to rodman, he's only an inch and a half shorter than the 6'8" rodman.....lifts? perhaps, but not very large ones.

[aaronrus]

@fashizze today, hes about 6'4.5" or so.. his spine surgery added some height back. hes had two hip replacements, two knee replacements, ground down femurs, and spine surgery. and after all that, he still is around 6'4.5"... he was a legit 6'6" at one point. never 6'7" or 6'8", that was an exxageration

[fashizze]

@aaronrus oh and tony did get bigger over a few years

[fashizze]

"let me tell you somethin My Momma didnt raise no boy .she raised a 6'2 250 pound man that can whoop yo butt BOY"".. great come back

[OmegaWolf666]

The comments are interesting, everyone commenting on Hogan's "Brown Clown" while at the same time talking about how gay his cape and Vince are.

[fashizze]

I love how Tony came right back hollering and screaming in hogan's face after all the southern rednck talk he was spittin

[blackoil911]

@fashizze

if hogan went to harlem and said that he would get shot by the smallest black dude there ahahah

[FreshDouglas1]

Hulk Hogan has come a long way!

[donn409]

Tony was impressive and we're all proud of him in Virginia.

[Imachowderhead]

Hogan had hair...wow...

[TheACC81]

racist shit!

[fogodssake]

Vince has a hard-on. Thumbs up if you agree

[StanKingston420]

It doesn't How Much Tony has aged since this promo was recorded. He still looks pretty Young and Buff.

[BARCACROSSESTHEALPS]

Ahhh, those were the days. Back when folksy racism was tolerated by the masses, even black people!

Hogan was originally a huge heel, even trained by the Sheik.

It's insane, but this is the way it was, folks!

[yardlet6]

@BARCACROSSESTHEALPS Hiro Matsuda trained Hulk in Florida. Even broke his ankle to see if Hulk was serious in training.

[veeseee128]

Thats right tony stand up to that redneck hogan. Hogan was a real heel back then, a true ASS.

[49ers545]

I dont think anyone today has a upper body quite like that,symmetry and size imagine if he had the steroids they have today.Its not all about being massive it has to look right.Body building has gone away from it's roots today.I know it's wrestlingbut T.Atlas was a body builder.He makes Hogan look not as impressive.Yes Vince is a queen !

[kingJshawn1]

WOW! BROWN CLOWN and BOY, I wonder who's idea that was. vince or hogan?

[NxDragon76]

@kingJshawn1 You need to understand the time this took place. It was 1981, and no one ever heard of political correctness. ell, even up until 1987 people would stretch their eyes out to make fun of the fact Mr. Fuji was oriental.

[mberke2]

Vince's sounds like a perv as he almost begs Tony to pose.

[mbtion]

@mberke2 shit he was, he loved muscular men.

[KonChul]

Is it true the rumor that this dude Tony Atlas was hot for womens shoes?..

[pierremcpoop]

Ha ha... That's good old fashioned racism!!

[Somesubjekt]

hogan was a real big monster at this time.

[RWright2006]

Hogan sounds so weird.

[Aadonis219]

Side note. He was wayyy more ripped than Hogan and he didnt even juice. Dude had a head full of hair while Hogan was looking a bit on the whispy side even then. Makes me question the intentions of this whole BALCO/Barry Lamont Bonds trial. Seems fishy to me, congress cares about baseball that much enough to meddle yet says NOTHING about the Benoits Guerreros and Lugers of the Wrestling world. They take this shit for vanity..not even for an advantage/recovery like athletes do.

[FireitupBedford]

@Aadonis219 Are you kidding? Tony not juiced? I saw an interview with Tony about 10 years ago and he admitted he was juiced the whole time he was in wrestling and said after years of abuse his body began to break down that's why he started wearing T Shirts because he was ashamed of his body. Those were his words...

[NxDragon76]

@FireitupBedford Back then 90% of both NFL players and WWF wrestlers used 'roids. It was completely legal at the time.

[fogodssake]

Vince had a hard-on

[Deanobucko917]

shine my shoes?! racist much Hulk?

[21richkid]

Remember the promo in ECW when Atlas try to mimic The Miz sayin Im Awesome. He sounds like he's a White boy, you never see Black wrestlers mock White wrestlers except when Shelton Benjamin feuded with Rob Vam Dam and mocking his RVD pose.

[DominoRyder]

Wrestling legend and patriarch of the Hart wrestling family Stu Hart said it best: "so Vince has come out of the closet?"

[realdeal119]

@S0Throwed the only reason youre saying that bullshit is because youre not black.If you were black and lived in those racist times, you wouldnt be be talkin all that shit. That was pure racism what hogan said.Its just that simple. QUit making excuses because youre a hogan fanboy

[UCKABAH]

@realdeal119

Hogan is a CHARACTER. He's performing. I personally have no problem with a racist wrestling character, as long as the racist is a heel. Hogan's a heel here.

[realdeal119]

@UCKABAH hahah racist coward!!! Its funny how you closed your account

[UCKABAH]

@realdeal119

Why am I racist? I don't understand your logic. He's a heel. This kind of race-baiting has been a part of wrestling for years. If a babyface said it, I would agree with you.

[UCKABAH]

@realdeal119 No I didn't retard.

[realdeal119]

@UCKABAH yes you u did jackass cause i remember goin to yout channel. I dont know how you restored it but you it

[UCKABAH]

@realdeal119 you can't "restore" a youtube account. You're insane.

[klabkebash]

ThunderLips The Ultimate Male would kick Hulk Hogan's ass any day..

[maxmaxmax295]

"take a look at that, mmmmmm" he almost said mmm toasty

[lenneth3]

omg lol vince lol

[RyanIsOffended]

Tony Atlas is easily one of the most boring wrestlers ever. And that lack of charisma is terrible.

[TooMuchGass]

@RyanIsOffended Fuck charisma

[ebonyroundass]

yip, vince looked like a queer in this footage.

[nkevinb]

Back then black wrestlers weren't allowed to respond to racist insults with racist insults of their own.

[Hheavilon]

You can't spitshine velcro sneakers.....

[BrickhouseB2]

I can't believe how disrespectful that brown clown was!

[lucioustofu]

Am I the only one who think Atlas looks like a swollen James Evans from Good Times?

[YouBigChooch]

yes. that was back in the day when everyone had their own color. lol.

[BAMAandBBQ]

holy shit its thunder lipps !

[OriginalModel1984]

LOL Did Hogan say Brown Clown? LOL!

[McIntyreHunter]

Holy Fuck Hogan has bad mic skills here

[SantiagoKali]

Wow, very weird to hear Vince say "Pro Wrestling" instead of "Sports Entertainment"

[RWright2006]

@SantiagoKali

Doesn't sound weird to me at all. Actually he sounds more natural then when he's talking nowadays.

[SenninhaRubberburner]

@SantiagoKali he couldn't say much when Vince McMahon Sr. was still in charge.

[whycantihavemyownuse]

@SantiagoKali he felt weird saying it lol

[gear377]

he called him boy hulk hogan is a racist damn...........

[dirtrider169]

big goofy looking hogan. youll never look like atlas! younever had peak on your biceps or the deffintion. just big goofy with no skills hogan

[BrianBlaze]

Overtly racist.... Yes

[yimpka]

Looks like ol' Vince might be a pole smoker his own damn self.

[VolumedMusicMan]

Look on the bright side at least Pat Patterson wasn't on hand.

[Natsukaze]

Brooke Hogan is hot as fuck and I cant blame her dad for him wanting to fuck the shit out of her daily!

[TheRealWillHatton]

check out how loose those ropes were!

[Love4SK]

whats wrassslin?

[KittColby]

I can't hear anything. :-(

[jackrobhp28]

I love the "take a look at that! mmmmm." What a queer Vince is. What the hell is up with Hogan calling him "boy?"

[DREDAY717]

@jackrobhp28  i wouldve whooped his ass...

[jackrobhp28]

@DREDAY717 lol, yeah, the whole "brown clown" had me dying because of how inappropriate it was. That would never fly today. They're already racist as all hell there anyway

[violinsofangels]

@jackrobhp28 its called an "angle".

[jackrobhp28]

I love the "take a look at that! mmmmm." What a queer Vince is

[donn409]

Hogan called Matt Morgan a boy in TNA. Morgan is white.

[HemmHon]

@donn409 But Matt Morgan was a boy, he was only like 15 years old.

[HulkHoganGER14]

i love all those comments about how not to hate hogan. they are all jealious and from mexico (this is atleast that they sound like)

[Rubensproperties]

how racist!

[dmreeoogdaq]

I can't believe they allowed Hogan (or anyone) to call Tony Atlas "boy". I know it's a big show & all, but there really shouldn't be any of that stuff.

[mrhoosierboy812]

You better pose boy or Vince will whip you nicca!!! Look at that chest......You got it....look at them abs!! enuff of this Brown Clown!!! my momma didnt raise no boy!!!

[MUSCLELOVER4me]

Hogan took steroids & still looked like shit his whole career - too lazy to work out I guess

[EyeTalkShit69]

hulk hogan gay old man who fuck hes daughter in the ass and hes raping her. you know this guys???

this man is very old pervert man. he must go in jail. for hes crimes in this nature when is in bad sense.

hulk you old bastard pevero!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jojabury]

the beginning is weird lol. atlas must have an iq of 70. and apparently vince has a boner for him

[LaneD83]

@jojabury

That comment tickles the old funny bone XD!!!!!

[salemdoom]

Hogans voice sounds completely different.

[250honda]

BOY...and shine my shoes? i wonder what it was really like between blacks n whites back then.

[williameva]

rasolin

[romanosmth]

hogan was on steroids

[ownage16050]

lol vince take a look at that mmm hahaha look at that chest vince sounded gay.

[ownage16050]

Lol Thunderlips!!!!

[cannabisdeathmorbs]

u dont hav the grapefruits. wutta homo

[eslubin]

Hogan a member of the rainbow coalition

[alfares656]

اكيد ما تهاوش الرجال الا ان الحريم محرشات عليهم او وغادينهم تضاربوا . الله يعيد حلاوة ايام زين .

[okrabay]

Atlas got a clean pin on Hogan about this time.

His drug use though got out of hand so they turned him into a first class jobber.

[GhostDistortion]

McMahon wanted him to pose so he could get a boner.

[VeeDeLarge]

Tony Atlas speaks like a Klansmen's impersonation of a black dude.

[trdt1]

"boy", "brown clown"and "shine my shoes". Great lines.

[mrbluto3]

Atlas was so stupid, he was horrible.

[ishotu747]

what year was this from?

[SeanOBriain]

@ishotu747 around 1979 or 1980 i think.. ish.

[mxaxnxo]

better than today;s wee , love the way tony gave interview doesn't look fake story lines

[gr8gunner101]

wheres tony's laugh

[Fektthis]

Brown clown, shine my shoes boy? This is to funny, not going to see the's kind of lines used again.

[sammys70]

Vince loved guys that where on them roids!!