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Opinion: Competing political conventions show the difference between fake champions and real ones

Photo/Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via The AP / Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gestures during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago.
Photo/Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via The AP / Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gestures during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. Photo/Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via The AP / Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gestures during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago.

There are fake champions and there are real ones.

And you’ll never see the difference clearer than when you compare Hulk Hogan’s shirt-ripping act at the Republican National Convention to Steve Kerr’s appearance at the Democratic National Convention on Monday.

When Hogan took the stage at the RNC last month, he commented on the energy in the arena: “I felt maybe I was in Madison Square Garden getting ready to win another world title.”

“I just had a flashback man, this is really tripping,” he added. “You know, the last time I was up on stage, Donald Trump was sitting at ringside in the Trump Plaza. And I was bleeding like a pig, and I won the world title right in front of Donald Trump.”

Uh, sure you did.