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A Completely Different Wrestler”: Fans Left Jaw Dropped as Hulk Hogan’s ‘Mind Blowing’ Performance in Japan Resurfaces on Social Media

Published Dec 1, 2022 | 2:00 PM EST

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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!!!”

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!

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Reason why Hogan was familiar with Japanese wrestling style!

However, it confused fans looking at The Hulkster having a different style of wrestling!

Hogan doing an Enziguri! Something nobody thought ever.

Truly, very few fans are aware of Hogan wrestling in this manner!

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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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Tushar Deogharkar

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Tushar Deogharkar is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Tushar has done his Master's in Tourism Management and is an ardent fan of pro wrestling. He follows WWE and AEW very closely and wants to learn how the promotions are run.
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Debmallya Chakraborty