10 Worst Times WWE Wrestlers Refused To Lose
7. Hulk Hogan Refused To Lose To Shawn Michaels - SummerSlam 2005
A year before the Orton squash, Hogan had an even bigger star to extinguish. This time it was another man who was notorious for avoiding the job at all costs, Shawn Michaels.
When Hogan returned in 2005 for a storyline with HBK, the original plan was for a trilogy of matches between the two. Both would get one win apiece, followed by a rubber match to conclude. The storyline kickstarted in epic fashion with Michaels turning heel on Hogan and turned his bad guy act to 11, giving fans one of the most entertaining performances of his career.
After playing a major troll-job on the Calgary audience, fooling them into thinking Bret Hart was in the building, and a mock Hulk Hogan interview where HBK impersonated the Immortal One, Hogan himself took umbridge to the skits, claiming that Michaels was taking things too far and used this as leverage to reduce the feud to a single match.
Shawn Michaels claimed the contrary, saying that Hogan himself told him that he'd liked the work he was doing in preparation for that match, and claimed that Hogan only cut down the feud to avoid laying down for Michaels (where have we heard that before, Mr. Hickenbottom?).
So when SummerSlam came around, Michaels did the job, but not before selling for Hogan with video game ragdoll physics in one of the most bizarrly entertaining performance ever.