10 Times KARMA WAS REAL In Wrestling

9. The Legacy Of Hulk Hogan

Shawn Michaels
WWE

Hulk Hogan was a glorified infant who thought the entire world revolved around him.

It was of tremendous importance that everybody had to know how big, tough, and heroic he was in a fake sport. He had to always win. Nobody was stronger. And if he had to get beat, he'd simply use his vast influence to get that person hired to a different promotion just so he could beat them back. He jobbed to Goldberg and eventually to Sting, but that last one. F*ck. What a worker. He did so only when Sting had peaked and was no longer a long-term threat to his spot.

The only difference between Hulk Hogan and an actual child at WCW Bash At The Beach 2000 was that a child would have petulantly kicked their legs about.

That's literally it.

Hogan couldn't job; you see, all the Hulkamaniacs wouldn't be able to take it. They depended on the time-travelling Metallica bassist to learn the moral code of what it means to be a man. A hero. If they didn't, they might even die, like that kid he bought a ticket for at SummerSlam 1992.

He wasn't at SummerSlam 1992.

Neither was the child, who was invented.

Given that Hogan was deluded narcissist who was interested not in being a hero but making lots of money and pretending to be tough to the detriment of an entire industry, it's karmic retribution that he was revealed, through saying the N-word, literally admitting to being a racist and never fully apologising, to be a complete piece of sh*t!

 
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