10 Worst Workers In WWE History

7. Hulk Hogan

Ex-body builder Terry Gene Bollea was never that good a wrestler even in his prime, although he€™s far and away the most famous professional wrestler in the western world €“ maybe the entire world. €˜Stone Cold€™ Steve Austin may have been bigger in his time, and John Cena may have been on top in WWE longer, but no one€™s a household name like Hulk Hogan. But then Hogan came up in an era where you didn€™t have to be a great wrestler to be a great professional wrestler. National television was kicking off for the WWF. Pay-per-views €“ including the monolithic Wrestlemania €“ were becoming the new business model, the territories were being bought off, and a massive babyface champion didn€™t need to work sixty minute Iron Man matches anymore to get over. Hogan was a cartoon character on television in an age of cartoon characters on television, slotting comfortably in at the top of the card, and he had the connection with the audience that the role needed above anything else €“ above the look, above the promo ability, and certainly far more than the wrestling ability. No one in the history of the business has been able to work a crowd so well with so little actual wrestling. It€™s not exactly a controversial opinion to state that, when it came to the ability to work a match, the Hulkster was more limited than a forklift truck in Formula One. His finish was a basic leg drop, people. A leg drop. Bollea managed to finagle his way into the more technical world of the late nineties through a carefully managed heel turn in WCW and the most protected booking strategy in history, but the turkeys he was responsible for in the ring are legendary. As time has gone on, repeated back problems have slowed the sloth-like Hogan down still further. Aside from a nostalgia pop once a year, there€™s very little the Hulkster has left to offer the world of professional wrestling in 2014.