10 Real-Life Wrestling Feuds You Totally Didn't Know About

9. Hulk Hogan Vs. Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake

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Surely not.

The idea that Brutus Beefcake once buried Hulk Hogan is not unlike a day-old infant burying its mother for producing the milk that sustains it.

Hogan is an awful human being, but if anybody has cause not to think that, it's Beefcake. A close friend of Hogan's who was very much over in the late 1980s as an iconic thread in the DayGlo patchwork quilt of the Golden Era, 'Bruti' failed miserably to stay relevant as the boom deflated. In quite shocking nepotism, he faced Hogan at WCW Starrcade 1994 in a dire main event before continuing to traipse around WCW under various wacky and terrible personas, all of which were synonyms for "Give Terry's useless pal something to do".

And yet, in 2017, Brutus accused Hogan of manoeuvring on his ex-wife. Hogan in response said little, claiming he was going to take the high ground.

Who knows? Maybe this was all a long con both men were in on to drive sales of Beefcake's tell-all autobiography; it is conspicuous that Hogan went on to induct Beefcake in the Hall of Fame.

Or maybe he's an actual Christian and forgave him, as opposed to these "I can say anything because God is on my side" grifter types.

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