10 Worst Ever Wrestling Retirements
5. Hulk Hogan (WCW Bash At The Beach 2000)
So toxic that it became the subject of a lawsuit, the all-too-real war of words between Hulk Hogan and Vince Russo during July 2000's Bash at the Beach pay-per-view came to embody the enormous failure the former WWE head writer had been in Atlanta.
The story began as yet another of his insipid 'worked shoot' angles, but morphed into something much worse as the night progressed.
Set to do battle over the WCW World Heavyweight Title, Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett instead commenced the supposedly big angle, with 'Double J' laying down in the ring for Hogan to defeat him at Russo's behest.
Hulk did so, but lambasted his boss on the microphone, suggesting that WCW was 'the shape it was in because of bullsh*t like this'.
As commentators talked about 'going off script', Hogan took the World Title and left.
Russo returned later in the night to explain how he'd spent all day trying to deal with Hogan's politics and was pushed to breaking point. He ended his scathing diatribe with a final message to Hulk - 'You big bald son of a b*tch, kiss my ass'.
According to Hulk (and his defamation lawsuit), Russo went way beyond the pale in his promo. Ironically, he did promise fans that they'd 'never see that piece of sh*t (Hogan) again'. It ended up being true.