10 Insane Reasons Wrestlers Got Sued

Ah, good! One we literally have the footage of!

At the height of his fame, Hogan (and his good pal Mr. T) appeared on the Richard Belzer light entertainment show to do some incredibly light entertaining. They were just big lads! Two big lads there to have a big laugh! But the presenter, big square corporate dork Richard Belzer, just couldn't take a joke properly and passed out. Nerd.

Hogan was just doing what any normal 6 foot 7, 300lbs man would have done in his position and applied shoot sleeper hold to 120lbs-when-soaking-wet TV anchor. Belzer, seemingly leaving his sense of humour at home, presumably in the pocket of some other god-awful tweed jacket, stopped breathing and passed out between the Pythons.

Undoubtedly wounded that his Very Funny Joke hadn't been taken the wrong way, Hogan released the hold and Belzer, not satisfied with just ruining the segment, collapsed onto the ground and split his head open on the studio floor. He sued Hogan for $5m, settled out of court, then stiffed his own lawyers on the fees causing them to call him a "paradigm of ingratitude".