10 Rare Times Wrestlers Were Self-Aware
4. Hulk Hogan! Again, Somehow!
If a broken clock is right twice a day, a deranged carny narcissist who claims sentient machines and their evil self-pressing red buttons are after him can recognise his character flaws twice in the span of a career.
Not that being bald is a flaw Andy Murray, but Hogan was self-conscious about it, and not the despicable on-record racism he has failed to adequately apologise for. Perhaps this was the source of Hogan's self-conscious delusions all along; the fantasies of the high school baseball career, that time he was in Metallica, the tragic occasion on which he body-slammed André the Giant to death: maybe, he just needed to feel like a big man with a head full of white hair.
And so it was stunning, in 2002, with Hogan otherwise playing his old self transported through time, that a writer snuck in a joke that acknowledged that Hogan was quite ancient-looking.
In a verbal exchange with Kurt Angle, just off his loss to Edge in a Hair Vs. Hair match, Hogan quipped "What's wrong with being bald?"
Ah, Hogan. The writer gave you the line and there was nowhere else to not say it. But you said it, and that's the main thing.