10 Cringeworthy Worked Shoots In Wrestling History
4. Hulk Hogan Shoots Himself Into A Work, Brother
If it was one thing for Punk to shoot his angle in the foot by reminding the audience it was fake, that's nothing on the Hulkster. In one promo on TNA Impact, Hulk Hogan threw his entire industry under the bus simply for the sake of... being real? I'm just gonna type up his promo word-for-word because it needs to be read to be believed:
Yeah we're getting very real around here. We're so real, it's unbelievable. If you don't get over like I said, you're fired. If you don't draw numbers, if you don't entertain, if you don't put a**es in seats, if you don't put the coinage in the piggy bank, you're fired! No more games, no more "kayfabe," "it's a work," "I've won 34 Tag Team belts." Who gives a damn how many fake belts you won? If you don't draw money, you get fired around here.
So, to summarize to you, the viewer: all wrestling is fake, and there's really no point to watching it.
Special mention should be made of the highlighted line above, as it perfectly fits all of these entries. In their desperate attempts to be "real," companies such as TNA just come off as hokey and unbelievable to anyone who might have cared about their product. Fans may want to see reality and fiction blurred a little bit, but they don't want some old man shouting about fake belts expecting them to care.