Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The Day Hogan And Co. Showed Up In Baywatch

I had a fun flashback to the mid-90s this afternoon after seeing a post by Ric Flair on TAFKA Twitter.

The wrestling legend shared a clip of his appearance on Baywatch. It brought back a memory of when it aired on ITV in what must have been 1996 or so.

I hardly ever watched Baywatch back then. However, I was upstairs and my mum called up to say that 'Hulk Hogan is on Baywatch!' I ran down and watched the episode.

It was filmed around the time of Hulk Hogan's cage match against Vader at the 1995 Bash at the Beach event - held by WCW - which took place on July 16th of that year. A quick look at IMDB points to the episode airing in the US on February 24th 1996. We must have had it later that year, or - at a push - sometime in early '97.

My mum calling me down wasn't the only thing I remember, though. One of my best friends at the time also happened to be watching it, and he phoned my home up (I didn't have a mobile back then!) to tell me about the episode.

Fun times. 

Kevin Sullivan and Ric Flair

Hulk Hogan and Pamela Anderson

'Macho Man' Randy Savage

Vader

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