Rob Van Dam says he doesn’t get why people are making a big deal out of Hulk Hogan being booed out of the building on Monday’s episode of WWE RAW on Netflix.
Hulk Hogan, who has been open about his support for convicted felon Donald Trump, was loudly booed on last Monday’s show.
During the latest edition of his “1 Of A Kind” podcast, The Whole F’n Show opined on Hogan being booed. He said,
“I did see video of Hulk Hogan’s part of the show on every single website and news platform that there is online. Everybody picked that up, and they still are. Why is that such big news? ‘Pro Wrestler is booed at a wrestling event.’ I understand why it’s so hot. I mean, Hogan, he’s controversial and quite possibly the most recognizable celebrity on the planet, so I get where that’s hot, but they light him up, and they let him cool down, light him up, lights himself up, he cools down. He goes through cycles always and always seems to dig himself back out mostly and then bury himself again. This one, I’m trying to figure out why is everybody so into this moment that Hulk Hogan got booed. I think maybe one factor that I suspect, but I don’t know, everybody wants want to fake-ify wrestling so much. People don’t like to feel like they don’t understand something, but they want to believe that they do have an understanding of how everything works. I think that people, maybe one of the reasons that it’s such a big topic is because people are thinking, ‘This wasn’t their plan. WWE didn’t want people to boo him. Hulk didn’t want people to boo him. He was supposed to get big cheers, and the people doesn’t like him, so they booed him.’ I think maybe that’s part of the interest is they’re trying to fake-ify and set up instead of just going with the roll. Roll with it, and hey, guess that? That happened. Any other promo, Hulk would have just turned with them. ‘We gotta change some things, brother.’ I don’t see how it’s that big of a deal. I’m confused by it a little bit.”
RVD added, “It’s not the only time he’s gotten booed, but it is an authentic boo. It’s not an entertainment part of the show boo. It’s more like a, ‘Hey, nah, f**k that, we don’t want to see you. Get the hell out of here,’ kind of boo. That seems to be clear [laughs].”
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