10 Times Wrestlers Secretly LIED To The Locker Room
8. Hulk Hogan
This simply shouldn't have happened.
Not to clutch too many pearls in the middle of an entire article all about various sacred and trusted tenets being blown to bits over and over again, but Hulk Hogan's failure to do the right thing at Starrcade 1997 was some real political dark arts sh*t even for him.
Despite the post-script denials or justifications by both Hogan and then-WCW chief Eric Bischoff, the whole thing still stinks of the bullsh*t that was being spread that day in order to needlessly derail what should have been WCW's biggest ever moment. They'd worked so hard for it too.
Over a year in the rafters for Sting promised one outcome when he finally came nose to nose with Hogan, but a sabotaged fast count followed by a grey area Scorpion Deathlock victory was categorically not it. 'Hollywood' and Bischoff may have not seen the magic in Sting for their own reasons, but it proved dangerously narrow-minded to ignore what the paying public - the most WCW had and ever would attract, no less - needed. Suck last-minute guest referee and new WCW arrival Bret Hart into the toxic vortex only compounded the collective misery.