DALLAS — Hulk Hogan, who died Thursday morning at 71, had countless legendary rivalries in his prime in WWF. And many of those rivalries saw Hogan and his opponents clash in big arenas across Texas.

When Hogan burst onto the wrestling scene, it was a collection of fly-by-night regional promotions. By the time he was done, it had become a multibillion-dollar global business. Before Hulk Hogan, ...