“Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan

I remember reading about “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan in the 1997 edition of the PWI 500. He was there at the 423 spot under his initial wrestler name Tower Of Doom. The essential of his PWI description was the following:

423 TOWER OF DOOM (6’4″, 400, 4, NL)
Former USWA champion was known as “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan, but since leaving USWA earlier this year has reverted back to being known as Tower of Doom…. I was thinking: Why abandon the coolest, greatest name on earth to return to a crappy 80s wrestling name like Tower of Doom???  But I haven’t seen the man yet!

I was amazed by his name and gimmick as being a blend of four of the most popular wrestlers ever. However, I thought that his stats 6’4″, 400 pounds were unusual for a man with such a perfect gimmick. The guy was USWA champion so he must be worthful. I don’t need to tell you that until recently I haven’t seen who this amazing superhuman wrestling hero was… 

I’ve seen the “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan a few days ago reading a superbly entertaining and descriptive article: Awful Professional Wrestling Characters: “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan

“Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan his name, his purpose, his reason for being. Picture,
if you will, an island where a redneck Dr. Moreau fuses together his favorite
professional wrestlers to create new, undefeatable, unaccountably popular
spandex-clad warriors. The formula, on paper, looks perfect:

Arguably, you’ve got the four biggest moneymakers in the history of wrestling on
the operating table (well, probably not Warrior, but his reputation was as such
at the time), four dudes who headlined Wrestlemania after Wrestlemania, who have
won the hearts and minds of millions of fans, casual (Hogan/Warrior) and die
hard (Savage/Flair) alike. [1]

However the science experiment wents terribly wrong.
Instead of creating a muscular, tan, charismatic wrestling champion our
redneck Doctor Moreau created a creepy, ugly, 400-pound obese paedophile
dressed as Ronald McDonald????  

Only his name was cool the rest was
pure crap! “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan was a red and yellow clad dumb
looking Dude Love before Mick Foley’s Dude Love ever exist! 

Michael Imburgia, who has wrestled in Puerto Rico and numerous U.S. indies
as Tower of Doom and was the USWA champion for a short time in 1996 as “Macho
Warrior” Ric Hogan, was indicted on ten charges of pandering sexually
oriented material involving a minor on June 10, 2002. [4]

Judging by his look, ugliness, and stupidity I wasn’t surprised to learn that “Macho Warrior” Ric Hogan was a paedophile. But I was astonished when I discovered that he was USWA CHAMPION!??!

 

$1,200 a week?