Where to begin with Hulk Hogan? The most famous wrestler in the world, and the biggest draw in wrestling throughout the entire eighties and a good portion of the nineties, Terry Gene Bollea is also known as one of the consummate players of the game of backstage politics: a man so wily that in his prime, he was capable of burying someone while appearing to praise them. Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Jesse Ventura, the Ultimate Warrior some of the biggest names in the industry in the eighties and early nineties, Hogans first boom period absolutely loathed him for the cowardly heel that he appears to be in real life, and that didnt change in WCW when he put himself and his friends at the top at the expense of the company and everyone else in it. Matt Borne, the man most often wearing Doink The Clowns make-up, was a close friend of Savages right up until he passed away, and claims that Hogan and Savage never made up and were bitter enemies until the end. Hogan simply lied about it in order that he could do sad, babyface interviews about the legends life and death at the time. Warrior released an hour-long self-made shoot video in 2011 that mercilessly destroyed Hogan, commenting that Hogan was a pothead who gained a sick pleasure out of exposing other peoples dirty laundry. Thats the Hogan most of his co-workers know and loathe. Hogans the sort of guy that will fearlessly drop information about how he really feels in a shoot radio interview with his stooges, but would never tell you to your face. He was the one who dropped the dime on his good buddy Ventura when the future governor of Minnesota was encouraging WWF workers to unionise and god forbid actually obtain some rights and perks as employees. Think thats more gossip? McMahon admitted that was the case under oath during a lawsuit. Like many wrestlers in the main event, paranoid about keeping their top spot, Hogan has been selfish and kept people down - But its the constant, unbelievable lies that are the most jawdropping thing about Hogans many, many issues. Remember when he appeared on the Arsenio Hall show and claimed in front of an audience of millions never to have taken steroids, only to testify in court two years later that hed been taking them since 1976? Hogan will lie as often as he thinks he can get away with, and the older he gets, the more outlandish and flat out ridiculous his lies get. Apparently his lost feud with John Cena around Wrestlemania 24 cost him fifty million dollars. He told McMahon that WWF should sign Sting at Wrestlemania III, months before Sting ever began to make a name for himself. He wanted to turn heel in WWF against the Ultimate Warrior in 1990, when still a hugely popular star (he was terrified about turning heel in 1996 when his star was waning). Its as if Hogans been working the public for so long that lies have become part of his persona.
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