The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Now Hulk Hogan is gone

**Posted by SteveM** July 24, 2025 12:11 pm

Passed away, from cardiac arrest.
He was 71.
2025 is NOT a good year!!!

**Posted by Buzzy Krumhunger** July 24, 2025 12:12 pm

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**Posted by Binson Echorec** July 24, 2025 12:15 pm

Well that would be the third. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy, and now the Hulkster.

**Posted by cash** July 24, 2025 12:16 pm

He was entertaining back in the day. I never had much use for him in recent years.

**Posted by RadioActive** July 24, 2025 12:25 pm

They say they come in threes. Hopefully, that's it for a while.

From the AP:

Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

**Posted by Radiowiz** July 24, 2025 12:29 pm

cash wrote:
He was entertaining back in the day. I never had much use for him in recent years.

He wasn't just a wrestler. He was also an actor.

A movie from 1989 that he starred in: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097987/

**Posted by Jody Thornton** July 24, 2025 12:34 pm

And now ... in fours apparently .... RIP Chuck Mangione. Jesus !!!

**Posted by RadioActive** July 24, 2025 12:40 pm

Wow. It's a bloodbath this month. Don't forget we just lost Connie Francis as well. So that would be five!

Mangione was from Rochester, and stations there were among the first to break the news.

Rochester music legend Chuck Mangione has died at age 84

**Posted by Easily Amused** July 24, 2025 12:41 pm

cash wrote:
He was entertaining back in the day. I never had much use for him in recent years.

Now there's one less MAGA vote.

**Posted by TomTV** July 24, 2025 1:03 pm

Black people will definitely not miss the Hulkster...

**Posted by Binson Echorec** July 24, 2025 1:05 pm

Jody Thornton wrote:
And now ... in fours apparently .... RIP Chuck Mangione. Jesus !!!

Does not "Feel So Good".

**Posted by Saul** July 24, 2025 1:19 pm

SteveM wrote:
Passed away, from cardiac arrest. He was 71. 2025 is NOT a good year!!!

Jody Thornton wrote:
And now ... in fours apparently .... RIP Chuck Mangione. Jesus !!!

Jesus died 2025 years ago. This has been a problem for quite awhile. So don't expect 26, 27 and any year after that to be any better.

**Posted by Easily Amused** July 24, 2025 1:22 pm

Binson Echorec wrote:
Jody Thornton wrote:
And now ... in fours apparently .... RIP Chuck Mangione. Jesus !!!
Does not "Feel So Good".

The irony is that with Mangione's passing, there will be innumerable playing of 'Happy'. If it wasn't for that piece and Streisand's 'The Way We Were', WBUF FM in its soft adult era of the eighties would have been dead air. 🤨

**Posted by Dial Twister** July 24, 2025 2:08 pm

You're telling me that the Felon-in-Chief's endorser-in-chief is gone? Say it ain't so!

**Posted by Jody Thornton** July 24, 2025 2:20 pm

Binson Echorec wrote:
Jody Thornton wrote:
And now ... in fours apparently .... RIP Chuck Mangione. Jesus !!!
Does not "Feel So Good".

That was used on the TapeHeads Forum. Sad news.

**Posted by betaylored** July 24, 2025 3:04 pm

Was just remembering on the Mike Stafford show when someone famous would pass away, Patrick would pipe up and say " Stop it (insert the current year) ! " It became a funny/sad recurring bit.

I can think of a couple of actors, comedians , authors, radio personalities and musicians who I hope are with us for a good long time to come.

Would there even be a Dwayne Johnson without Hulk Hogan?

To speak about the human (inhuman?) flaws and less than charming aspects of a recently deceased public person can only be a good thing.

Stop it 2025!

Last edited by betaylored (July 24, 2025 4:06 pm)

**Posted by Buzzy Krumhunger** July 24, 2025 3:28 pm

Passing sort of under the radar (sorry…) George Kooymans aged 77 this past Tuesday.
Founding member of Golden Earring of Radar Love and Twilight Zone fame. Oddly I have more Golden Earring tunes on my iPad thingy than I have Ozzy/Sabbath and Chuck Mangione combined. Two Earrings to zero of the other guys. Three, if we’re counting the Earring adjacent Stars On 45.
Pouring out a Grolsch for Kooymans.

Last edited by Buzzy Krumhunger (July 24, 2025 3:32 pm)

**Posted by newsguy1** July 24, 2025 3:28 pm

I still remember with teary-eyed affection how Hogan (Terry Bollea) once said he would only tolerate his daughter marrying a ni$#@er if he was a rich basketball player.
What a guy he was and a real role model for kids.

**Posted by Chrisphen** July 24, 2025 5:54 pm

He was a contemptible clot who sold out his friends and co-workers well before the world came to realise his shitheaded proclivities.

RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper.

**Posted by newsguy1** July 24, 2025 7:24 pm

Hulk Hogan's daughter: Dad, I'm marrying a rich black basketball star, you said you wouldn't mind.
Hogan: Well, OK I guess I reluctantly agree.
Hulk Hogan's Daughter: Oh by the way dad, she's with the WNBA.