HULK HOGAN`S TITLE HISTORY

Sterling Golden`s NWA Tennessee SouthEastern Heavyweight title history

time	Won from	Date	Place	Lost to	Date	Place
2nd time	Dick Slater	12/1/79	Knoxville, TN	Bob Armstrong	12/25/79	Knoxville, TN

*Thanks big time to the man himself, Gary Will for correcting the above title change as it was written before that Sterling Golden defeated Bob Roop, according to Hisaharu Tanabe of the Great Hisa`s Puroresu Dojo page
Terry beat Bob Roop in december 79 and lost to Armstrong in january 80, so thanks again to Gary Will, who wrote the Bible of Wrestling for the correction, you can buy his book here
*I received note that there may be a chance Bob Roop indeed defeated Terry in Knoxville, but his win did
not count, there where matches between Terry and Roop, therefore it is believed the title change mentioned on Tanabe`s Great Hisa page was not official. Also a possibility, Roop indeed won the title, and Terry won it back
a few days later. I will heavily research this information which hope will result a 100% confirmation on the above.
 

"Incredible" Hulk Hogan`s Unrecognized AWA World Heavyweight title history

time	Won From	Date	Place	Lost to	Date	Place
1st	Nick  Bockwinkel	04/18/82	St. Paul, MN	Stripped	04/19/82
2nd	Nick Bockwinkel	04/24/83	Minneapolis, MN	Decision was reversed.	04/24/83	Minneapolis, MN

1st- Please note that Terry was stripped off the title and was never recognized officialy as champ. Bockwinkel made an angle that put Terry down for hitting him with a foreign object, thus allowing a victory. Week later
Hogan was stripped by "president Stanley Blackburn" or the promoter Verne Gagne due "hitting the champ with an illegal object", the official strip was day after the win, however at this time I don`t know when the official stripping aired on TV at the time.
2nd- There aren`t many details on this one, the one thing known is that the match went the same as their first, only this time Gagne came down and didn`t allow the referee that Hogan leaves building with title when he hit the champ with a foreign object, even though Heanen threw it, therefore Gagne reversed the decision and Bockwinkel left with the title. From what I was told "President Stanley Blackburn" was the one who came to the ring to strip Terry, causing a riot. I`m still not 120% sure about the dates, because it looks impossible to me for the rematch to take place a year later. By the way, the second match was on a Big AWA Event called "Super Sunday".
Behind the scenes, Gagne wanted Bollea to share his % $$ with him from all his appearences in movies and
New-Japan, Bollea refused and that led to Bollea leaving the promotion.
Thanks to the one and only "Netcop" Scott Keith , WrestleLine.com contributor and Co-Mod of RSPWM,
(check out his rants,faqs at Rantsylvania.com) for helping out with the Super Sunday rematch date.
**According to John McAdam who confirmed the Super Sunday date.
(who also sells almost every event/card ever put together in the wrestling business on his website here)
Between 1982 and 1983, Hulk Hogan faced the AWA champion, Nick Bockwinkel almost every month, and only once left with the belt then to be stripped, several times he was cheated out and then he won again, but the decision was reversed. McAdam told me a very wise line which I liked very much and think speaks for itself
"Gagne never planned on putting the title on Hogan. He felt that fans would pay to see Hogan challenge for the belt, but once he go it, they wouldn't. For example, if he had Hogan as champ vs Bockwinkel as challenger, fans would  figure Bockwinkel wouldn't have a chance. This theory was proven wrong as Hogan defended the WWF title vs smaller challengers to packed houses."

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