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HULK HOGAN GETTING RIPPED BY FANS AND PHIL MUSCHNICK ALIKE

We've received a number of reader complaints about the Hulk Hogan and Friends event in Allentown, PA over the weekend. For one, there was a confusion about when the VIP portion of the event actually started. Second, the advertised "meet and greet" with Hogan (priced at over $100) was actually Hogan taking pictures with groups of fans and not signing autographs. One reader asked Hogan for a signature after the photo op and Hogan turned it down. To make matters worse, after the event, when photos were supposed to be printed up and given to VIP ticketholders, there was nothing ready and the organizers instead took email addresses. There were also complaints about "signed" posters that were sold actually being printed copies as opposed to original autographs. I was told Hacksaw Duggan's stories were actually the highlight of the show itself and fans also complained that only Duggan and Koko B. Ware stuck around after to sign autographs. It was easily the worst feedback we've received to date to a Hogan speaking engagements.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, The New York Post's Phil Muschnick tore apart Good Morning America for promoting Hogan and Micro Championship Wrestling, writing, "Micro Championship Wrestling is what was once called “midget wrestling.” It died a natural death because it really was nothing better than a sad spectacle for desensitized lunkheads, an antiquated carnival side show, what we once indelicately called a “freak show.” But it seems that’s okay with “GMA.” "

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