10 Wrestlers Who Always Followed The Money
9. Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan was a stupid carny.
You're meant to act like the promotion to which you've just jumped is the place to be. You're meant to bury "that place" after you've been there and after those fans can no longer buy tickets to watch you perform. Hogan was stupid enough to bury the WWF title that he held at the time as a "trinket", seemingly unaware that technology exits.
He later learned of the innovation and told the WWE locker room that it exists and can catch you out, which was his way of addressing his disgusting racism.
Hogan may have built the WWF, but he didn't let it get in the way of his earnings. And that, incidentally, is more than fine. He was an independent contractor with a limited window in which to make money. He went to WCW in 1994 after burying his own promotion in '93, and was only ever interested in making more money for Hulk Hogan, dude. He also followed the money by attaching his brand to anything that he could put his name on, like a slightly more tragic and past-it Krusty the Clown, before returning to WWE, floundering as a draw after all of a month, and then taking a bumper TNA deal to drop the leg on a promotion that never recovered from his idiotic meddling.
He was a money-sucking leech, but had an underrated drop toe hold.