Hogan, who died Thursday at age 71, was hired by the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association (AWA) in 1981 after struggling to gain traction with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In ...

Hogan, who died Thursday at age 71, was hired by the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association (AWA) in 1981 after struggling to gain traction with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

After Hogan left the WWF for the first time in 1981 because of his involvement in Rocky III, he joined the American Wrestling Association, where he became a ‘babyface’ (i.e. crowd favorite ...

According to cagematch.net, an online pro wrestling history database, Hogan had eight WWF bouts at the auditorium, winning six of them, in 1980 and 1981, a time when the WWF was largely a ...