10 Wildest Wrestling Urban Legends

10. Randy Savage Punched Hulk Hogan Before WrestleMania IX

Hulk Hogan had a massive shiner at WrestleMania IX.

The official story is that Hogan, presumably when on beach patrol, had an accident with a jet ski.

The "rumour and innuendo" is that Randy Savage, furious that his estranged wife Elizabeth had ran off to Hogan's house to stay with her friend Linda, punched Hogan's lights out when he found out.

If this were true, Savage would have brought it up on 'Be A Man'; after all, the "records rap album" phase of a white man's fading career surely correlates with their "stops giving even half a f*ck" phase. When issuing the challenge to Hogan, Savage would have bragged that the score was already 1-0, no?

Let's examine some excerpted lyrics for evidence:

"Hollywood Hulkster, you're at the end of your rope / And I'm a kick ya in the butt and wash your mouth out with soap."

This suggests that Savage never did get hid hands on Hogan, much as he'd like to have - or maybe he was angling for a worked match, and bragging over the shoot punch might have dissuaded Hogan from taking the bait.

But, since Savage didn't spit "You already got popped by the Macho Man / I smeared your stupid face like your daughter's tan," perhaps this is just an urban legend after all.