Hulk Hogan made red and yellow iconic and he also found major success with the Hollywood Hulk Hogan gimmick as well. Hogan introduced the world to a new character in 2003 when Mr. America debuted.
The Hulkster embraced the Mr. America gimmick by trying to pull off a disguise while performing under a mask, but the gimmick didn’t go very far. While speaking with Ringside Collectibles, Hogan noted that he originally thought the gimmick would run for a few years before he quickly figured out that wasn’t going to be the case.
“I thought that Mr. America was going to kind of do like, the Midnight Rider thing that Dusty Rhodes did in Florida, be around for two, three years, mess up all the main events,” Hogan said while appearing on Ringside Collectibles’ YouTube channel. “When I got there, we had a six-man tag and of course, I thought Mr. America was going to rock on and be a huge angle and they said, ‘Hey, brother, you’re doing the job tonight.’ And I went, ‘Hmm, I guess this isn’t going very far’ … I just figured they didn’t like the gimmick, so, at the end of the match, I kind of pulled the mask up if you guys remembered and showed everybody it was me.”
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