10 Wrestlers Who Came Crawling Back To WWE
8. Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan refused to commit to exactly where he was going, what he was doing, or indeed why he was going away in and around the time of WrestleMania VIII in 1992.
This wasn't because he had offers from the industry at large flooding in, that he was the subject of a bidding war between wrestling and Hollywood, or because after eight years at the top he wanted to step aside and let the next ones throgh.
This was because doing so would have involved yet more speaking about an area he'd already proven rather weak at.
A 1990 appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show was an exercise in media spin gone horribly wrong - by fibbing about the amount of steroids he'd taken in his career up to that point, 'The Hulkster' inadvertently opened up a pandora's box that had been bursting at the seams for years. Two years on, and WWE was further engulfed in scandal extending to lawsuits surrounding drugs, death and sexual assault claims.
As the front-facing company representative when times were extremely good, it was looking like he'd have to eat sh*t during the dark timeline too. That didn't work for him brother, and off he popped until some of the dust had settled in early 1993.