In the Ring and in Hollywood, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T teamed up for one of the biggest pop culture crossovers of the 1980s, especially when the two teamed up. The main event of the first WrestleMania. During the last speech “What’s your story?” With Stephanie McMahon, Mr. T was asked who his favorite wrestler to watch is, and 40 years later, his answer is still “The Hulkster.”
“Hulk Hogan because we used to work together. So being with him was fun. I mean, no one else, I hadn’t spent time with each other, and that’s how I met him with ‘Rocky’… We met, then we started doing ‘The A Team,’ and then we were going places,” he explained. “He would tell me things about wrestling, what to do and what to do. So that part became a connection. So you had to root for him, his style, and he had that. Wow! It was special … he was that person.”
Mr. T first met Hogan in 1982 on the set of Rocky III. Both we’re the antagonists in Rocky Balboa, where Mr. T plays the iconic Clubber Lang, and Hogan battles The Italian Stallion as Thunderlips. A year later, Hogan guest-starred on two episodes of The A-Team, where Mr. T played Sergeant B.A. for five seasons. As Barakus.
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