Rough Week For Gen-X Men That Identified As Both Metalhead And Jock

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact

Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan have both died within days of each other, leaving one (former) jock and current metalhead Gen Xer feeling the burn.

Having grown up on both the heavy electrified guitar riffs of Black Sabbath but also the electrifying sports entertainment known as World Wrestling, Lee Stratfield, 52, was devastated to learn that Hogan has passed away in the same week.

Lee is blindsided by not just the death of his two childhood heroes, but also the fact that they were only in their early to mid 70s, as Osbourne has always seemed like he was older than the Rolling Stones and Hogan has looked sixty for the past thirty years.

A rare subsection of the ‘MTV generation’ are in double-mourning this week, as the former stoner/jocks lose two different cultural icons, representing two different columns of core childhood memories.

For Lee, who had posters of both icons in his teenage bedroom, this clash of events have left him acutely aware of his own mortality, and fearful of who will come next.

Hulkamania is now running wild on both heaven and hell.