Hulk Hogan is a legend in professional wrestling, and why is that? There are several reasons for the same. To name a few will be his massive Hulkamania run in WWE in the 80s and the turning heel in WCW. Hence, initiating the second boom period in wrestling by joining nWo.
But is The Hulkster only popular for his run on American soil? No, Hogan wrestled several times in the Japanese ring too and he surely had some unique moves in his pocket to show there. We’ll see a few of them in this article.
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Recently, a Twitter user shared a clip of Hulk Hogan vs Genichiro Tenryu on the social media platform. Surprisingly, in this match, Hogan has a completely different move set against Tenryu, which surprised everyone.
Even the user wrote the caption, “Hulk Hogan in Japan was just different!!!”
Hulk Hogan in Japan was just different!!! pic.twitter.com/LiKg2t6OSt
— Jeremy Padawer (@JeremyCom) November 29, 2022
The Hulkster is more looking like a technical wrestler with some high-flying moves involved too. However, he never had such matches in American companies. Hogan’s ‘Real American’ character was so over that a limited set of moves was enough for him to make the crowd go wild.
But can you imagine why Hogan might be able to adapt to Japanese-style wrestling? The reason is simple; he took training under the Japanese wrestling legend Hiro Matsuda.
Legend says he gave a tough time to the first-ever IWGP Heavyweight Champion. Hogan had some more great matches in Japan, mainly against The Great Muta and Antonio Inoki.
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Fans were jaw-dropped seeing Hulk Hogan using a completely different wrestling style!
Hogan used a limited set of moves in WWE and WCW as he was one of the heavyweight wrestlers here. However, this clip amazed several fans, and they shared their reactions to the same.
Clearly, the WWE Hall of Famer has amazed the wrestling fans!
Never in my life could I have imagined Hogan hitting an Enzuigiri. This is like a completely different wrestler.
— The L⭕ng Trader (@_LongTrader_) November 29, 2022
Why on earth would Hogan not wrestle like this in the WWF?
At the very least he could have pulled out these moves for his Mania matches.
— Sherman H (@DemondW01) November 29, 2022
A drop kick and enziguri, holy crap
— Planet B.R.D (@BigRashDog) November 30, 2022
I never thought @HulkHogan did this type of wrestling. I'm amazed by this. I want to find the whole match.
— Nicholas M Surber (@NickSurber1) November 30, 2022
Reason why Hogan was familiar with Japanese wrestling style!
Hogan was trained by Japanese legend Hiro Matsuda so he had to work over there stiff or they would not respect him. All the USA boys worked stiff in Japan it was just part of their wrestling culture.
— TC RESTANI (@AfterHoursTC) November 30, 2022
However, it confused fans looking at The Hulkster having a different style of wrestling!
Wait a second, is that Hulk Hogan’s noble twin? Hustle Hogan?@notfunkyyknuf @TioGDX
— Purple Guy (@theRealEd59) November 30, 2022
Can someone confirm or deny this as Hulk’s best match of all time because it damn sure looks like it
— Zach (@TheTearInUrEye) November 30, 2022
Hogan doing an Enziguri! Something nobody thought ever.
2 inzaguris ( no idea how to correctly spell that) and a drop toe hold and he was powerbombed… damn guess he did actually know how to wrestle.
— Travis Keaveney (@travisk1984) November 30, 2022
Hogan doing an enziguri is not something I thought I’d ever see 😂
— Aaron Spencer 🖤💛 (-_•) (@RebelHart9) November 30, 2022
Hulk Hogan performing an enziguri is more mind-blowing to me than him slamming Andre 😳
— Fabled Lionhart (@fabledlionhart) November 30, 2022
I can't believe that the Hulkster tried to do an enziguri. pic.twitter.com/5P4holYmbA
— #FireStreeter (@Runnin_The_Hill) November 30, 2022
Truly, very few fans are aware of Hogan wrestling in this manner!
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No one ever bothered to tell me Hogan could wrestle like this. They've been hiding Hulk Hogan's entertaining side in Japan all these years. They didn't even put these in his WWE game move set like come on. This is great.
— Waloogi? (@waloogi686869) November 30, 2022
We can just imagine if Hogan, who was a massive human being at the time, wrestled this way, his stock would have risen more. Anyhow, back in the day, the fans in Japan saw the other side of ‘The Immortal One’.
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Hogan wrestled in Japan even though having a WWE contract in the early 90s. He even called the IWGP more important than WWE, but as it was filmed and showed in Japan at the time, Vince McMahon never bothered about the same.
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