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I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Seen this Video of Hulk Hogan Telling Howard Eskin to “Get the Fuck Out of Here”

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: May 22nd, 2026 · 11:04 AM EDT

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A reader sent this over. I’ve never seen it before. It’s a 1988 video clip of Hulk Hogan telling Howard Eskin to “get the fuck out of here” during a WWE event at the Spectrum:

Hogan tries to unmask a Killer Bee before getting legit mad at the ring announcer attempting to get into the ring WWF Philadelphia Spectrum 03/12/88
by u/Maffewgregg in SquaredCircle

lmao

So the background here is that the WWF used to have local ring announcers for their live house shows. They didn’t have a national touring roster back in the 1970s and 80s, so they’d hire local talent from boxing, radio, or whatever. This was before you’d see people like Howard Finkel and Lilian Garcia at most of the events.

The Burger King was pretty big in Philadelphia radio at the time, so he ended up doing this gig.

Richard Rys at Philly Mag wrote a 2009 oral history of the Spectrum and Eskin explained it this way:

I was also the ring announcer for a WWF event — Hulk Hogan and the Million Dollar Man. The match was over, so I walk back in to announce the winner, and Hulk Hogan says in his voice, “Brother, you better get the fuck out of here!” After the match was over, it wasn’t over! I jumped back out of the ring, and they went at it again.

Seems like it would be confusing to follow the match cues if you’re a local guy. How often does a sports talk radio host do a wrestling gig anyway? That’s why I think the Hulkster may have been out of line. As nice as it is to hear someone tell The King to “get the fuck out of here,” it did look like the match was over, so I think you have to begrudgingly give Howard some grace here.

Honestly, it seemed like kind of a stupid match. They did a “mask under the mask” bit with “The Killer Bees” and that storyline apparently went nowhere.

Here’s the full match: