10 Wrestlers Who Changed Their Perception In A Heartbeat
5. Hulk Hogan
Before:
Sure, he talked b*llocks, and yes, he was as carny as the scent of fried doughnuts, but he was your childhood hero. My childhood hero. He fought for the right of every man* in vibrant, loud, simple spectacles in which he glistened so spectacularly that he had to be done for. His plight looked dire. He was working himself to the bone to overcome the baddies out there, and when he shook his hair from side to side, and it looked like a golden retriever shaking itself dry, it were as if he genuinely needed your help to do it. He looked magnificent, his theme reduced us all to total lame-os by playing air guitar to it, and even his politics career was so audacious as to draw a begrudging respect.
In a heartbeat:
*About that...
If he was a carny, you had to be eight feet tall to go on his ride. The racism furore that struck Hogan in 2015 ruined his perception irrevocably - he literally admitted to being a racist on tape - because he never truly apologised for it. Contrary to that theme, he did take trouble for quite some time by instead blaming the evils of modern technology on his downfall, and not his own awful conduct.