10 Wrestlers Who Were HUGE Marks For Themselves
9. Hulk Hogan
If you wanted to distil the essence of Hulk Hogan, you need only watch the Doomsday Cage match at WCW Uncensored 1996.
In it, he teams with Randy Savage to take on no less than eight (8) heels: the Alliance to End Hulkamania. Much of the match played out like a side-scrolling beat ‘em-up video game, only, because Hulk Hogan was such a mark for himself, he handily defeated the wrestler who should have been the Final Boss - Ric Flair - in the first level. The parallels to Shinobi were made literal when Arn Anderson - who was also a legend treated like a one-hit kill 8-bit sprite - was dressed, inexplicably, like a ninja.
It was the most ridiculous, masturbatory match in the entire history of the pro wrestling medium, and it was almost even more ridiculous, somehow, since Brian Pillman was nearly the ninth man. He was cleverer than that, and got out of it by scheduling non-emergency throat surgery for the day of the pay-per-view.
Hogan was appalled at the prospect of losing - to such an extent that he treated WCW as a vanity project and defeated every signature star, just so that he could be Hulk Hogan.