‘He was the catalyst': Toronto referee remembers Hulk Hogan, the man behind the myth
When Korderas joined what was then called the WWF in 1985, one of his first jobs was picking up wrestlers from the airport and driving them to Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.
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