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A pro wrestling counterfactual: What if the World Wrestling Federation was organized around workrate, around the idea that the pivotal word in the phrase "sports entertainment" is the first? Can one Ricky Steamboat pinfall put right what once went wrong?
Go to the earliest archived post; scroll to December 19, 2005 "it begins" and you're ready to roll.
“When I grew up, I hated Hogan. I thought he was terrible and didn’t like to watch him. I was like Punk in a way. I liked the Steamboats and Flairs and the ones that could go. Would I be right in saying that Hogan was the wrong guy to go with, and they should’ve changed directions and gone with Steamboat because he was the better wrestler? Ludicrous.” - Triple H. October, 2011.
Spoon Millionaires co-author and longtime Jividen writing partner Kirk Hiner asking Hulk Hogan how the world would have been a different place had he been pinned by Ricky Steamboat in 1985. Hogan's response, "you sure you aren't smoking some funny cigarettes, brother?"
