10 Times Wrestlers Blatantly Lied To Your Face

Groans could likely be heard at WWF HQ when everyone concerned clapped eyes on Hulk Hogan's controversial Arsenio Hall Show appearance in 1991. Reportedly, the company had encouraged Hogan to just tell the truth about his steroid use and fend off further criticism, but Hulk wouldn't do it. Instead, he denied taking steroids for muscle mass, and said he'd only taken them 3 times throughout his career to recover from injuries.

It's a wonder his nose didn't start growing as soon as those words left his mouth.

One could fill this list with Hulk's borderline pathological fibbing alone, but this was a seriously damaging lie and one of the earliest examples of him getting caught out by the media. Later, Hogan testified in court that he did in fact take steroids throughout his wrestling career. Not many were shocked by that revelation considering the changes to his body over the years.

Don't get it twisted: Hulk was still huge compared to most normal-sized people in '91, and he had worked hard in the gym to sculpt his frame. However, even those overdue an eye test could see that he'd enhanced his physique with steroids during the peak years of 'Hulkamania' in the WWF throughout the 1980s. It was obvious. Blatantly so.

The grumbles within Titan Towers came because Hogan had just made the company's argument weaker. He'd also practically egged on those looking to persecute the WWF and wrestling in general for rampant anabolic steroid use. Arsenio gave Hulk the chance to come clean, but he'd refused that polite olive branch and ended up making things even worse for himself.