- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had Fusient been successful in buying WCW, ultimately there would have been no one on that side of the equation, including me, that would have had the commitment to the business that Vince McMahon has had throughout the years.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I was like, 'Dude, you need to take that. You need to go now. Lemme give you a ride to the airport.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am pretty transparent how I do things.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regret how I built the Cruiserweight division. Could I have done better? Sure. Absolutely. I'm sure I could have, especially with 20/20 hindsight. I just don't know of anybody that I talk to that looks back at that division and says, 'Oh, man, that sucked.'
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I brought Muhammad Ali to North Korea in 1995. I tried that once. It didn't work out quite that well for me as it did for Dennis Rodman, but I brought Muhammad Ali to Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a big wrestling event called the World Peace Festival. It was a two-day event that drew over 350,000 people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you've got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they're playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not as many passive wrestling fans as people would think. There are a lot of fans who just can't get enough, and they're almost more interested in what's going on behind the scenes and the business of wrestling then they are, necessarily, of what's going on inside of the ring.
- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly there's value in Twitter and Facebook; otherwise, none of us would be involved in it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me just say this, Dolce Maria Garcia Rivas: You are not 'sexy,' you are not a 'star,' and you are certainly not a professional wrestler.
- Beer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drink a lot of beer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was fun and something I could do together with my wife and kids. We were all hand-washing bottles, cleaning and bottling together. It was like families that cook together - we just happened to brew together.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.
- Effective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. McMahon the character is a very effective heel.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked D-X since they invaded WCW.
- Crashes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hired the first group of cruiserweights - which consisted of Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, and Eddie Guerrero - I sat them down in my office, and I was very clear to them. I said to them, almost verbatim, 'You need to be my human car crashes at 9 P.M.'
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I created the Cruiserweight division in WCW, nobody called them cruiserweights in the industry at that point. That was a boxing term, not a wrestling term, but I did not want to call them junior heavyweights, light heavyweights, or anything that made them sound diminutive. I wanted it to sound special and cool.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The WWE also embraced more of a reality-based approach to wrestling a year or two after I established it. I knew, deep down inside, were it came from. The WWE did it better than I did, and they're still here, and I'm not, but nonetheless - I knew where it came from.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
We formatted our shows so that, at nine o'clock, we were in the heat of hard-hitting, fast-paced cruiserweight action, and it was so different from the WWE that it worked.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably done 1,000 interviews about the 'Monday Night Wars' and how 'Nitro' was made.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A character like mine, there is only so much you can do from a storyline perspective. You can be that heel authority figure, which I was for a few years in WWE and WCW, and it's interesting, and it's fun, but after a while, you've kind of done everything you can do creatively.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came out for the 25th anniversary of Raw, I got a great reaction, and it made me feel very good, but as amazing a moment as that was, I know, after two months, fans would want to move on.
- Haters
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're going to have haters no matter what you do.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
To many generations of fans, Hulk Hogan really represents the beginning of what became this amazing industry that we have.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Professional wrestling, the WWE, and being in the Hall of Fame represent such a large part of Hulk's life, as does his connection to the audience.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't reflect back too much on moments in my career.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Florida was a hotbed of professional wrestling, one of the hottest in the country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When WCW first really began to enjoy the success that we enjoyed, it was because of the story lines that we were putting out in front of people.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can't create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020