10 Wrestlers Who Couldn't Hide Their Anger At A REAL Insult

9. Hulk Hogan

Pissed Roman Reigns
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This wasn't even a real insult, at least not the sort of thing you'd expect a normal person to get upset over.

Then again, Hulk Hogan is not a normal person. He is an inveterate narcissist utterly detached from our plane of reality. In his head, he is God. He saved children through his mastery of popular music. He was so committed to making the day of the Hulkamaniacs that he created more days, 400 in a year, to entertain them through time travel. He broke every muscle in his back, Jack, to slay the fearsome giant, dude.

And thus, when somebody had the temerity to say they would beat him in a theoretical predetermined fight, he had a face like a smacked a*se.

Steve Austin inducted Bret Hart into the 2006 Hall of Fame class. Hulk Hogan was sat on the stage, as he had inducted Mean Gene Okerlund earlier that night. Fans, trying to will a dream match into existence, chanted "Austin/Hogan! Austin/Hogan! Austin/Hogan!"

Austin, innocuously playing with the crowd, said "It's funny - I lost something in my bag, and I found a can of whoop ass with Hulk Hogan's name written on it!"

Hogan didn't laugh. He didn't ham up an "I'll get you for that!" facial expression. The man looked mortally offended that the fans had sided with Austin ahead of a match that wasn't even going to happen.

It's not like Austin said "Your daughter's ass isn't that voluptuous Terry" - you know, something that would have deeply upset him.

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