20 years of Hulk Hogan as Champion, or wrestling for the championship was all a ruse that none of us saw while it was happening, all he ever did, was get his ass kicked for about 15 minutes against somebody a 1/3 his size, turn things around, body slam his opponent, leg drop, and then pin. I'll give anybody $100,000 if they can find me footage of Hulk Hogan performing a superplex, or any inordinate move outside of a body slam, punches, and that dreadful leg drop.
Hogan destroyed WCW by simply refusing to let somebody else have the fucking spotlight, by the end of things, he was wrestling Billy Kidman? come on Billy Kidman? a Cruiserweight?
He never thought twice about putting an entire company out of business to forward his own agenda, and need for spotlight. Despite Hogans large contract, and the 20 to 30 minute promos to start WCW Nitro every week...... people fell in love with the NWO, and for 83 weeks WCW had higher ratings for their Monday Night Show then WWE.
However, Hogan and Friends didn't care when their act got stale. As long as he had creative control, Hogan and his close friends, could do whatever they wanted, including storyline modifications, no shows, and very few matches, Hogan knew it would fall apart, but as long as he got his check, he didn't care about WCW, it's fans, and the importance of competition between not only wrestlers, but companies themselves.
The NWO was a revolutionary stable, that's when people started rooting for the heels more than they did in the past. However, not even the four horsemen lasted forever, and stables have a timetable, and by the end of the '90s people were growing sick of Hogan's existence altogether, and the WCW I remembered, became a sideshow of experimentation, and complete stupidity. instead of one dominant stable, there was like 20, and then of course you have David Arquette winning the WCW title, we won't get into that, but that, can all be linked back to Hogan.
it wasn't just the WCW talent that lost the job of their dreams, it was the audio people, the marketing people, more than a thousand people lost their job when Vince McMahon bought WCW for 2.2 million dollars, Just 4 years before that during the end of the Hollywood Hogan days, WCW was estimated to be worth over $120 million. there's a reason why Jeff Jarrett laid on the ground for him at bash at the beach, there's a reason why Hogan got booed out of his shoes at the Netflix raw premiere, because the honest truth of his dark side far surpassed anything he ever did that was good, because it was never for anybody, it was never for the fans, it was for himself.
I hate to speak so ill of the dead, but I'm sick and tired of people becoming martyrs just for dying, despite the choices they've made in the majority of the years up to their death.
In the end, he wasn't on speaking terms with either one of his children, and despite what he thought, most of the professional wrestling universe, many of the same people that are tributing him, would have panned him yesterday. his last ever appearance on WWE TV, will always be the Netflix Raw Premiere where he got booed out of his shoes.
it seems like death dispels you of everything you did, people spoke highly of OJ Simpson and Pete Rose, they were terrible people despite their enduring and everlasting marks on their respected sports careers.
Greed is never good.