10 Wrestlers You Can Tell HATED Working For WWE

6. Hulk Hogan

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What's as infuriating as the castration suffered by Bret Hart at WrestleMania IX is that Hulk Hogan felt he was doing it as a favour. "If I have to," was very much the message conveyed by Hogan through his mercenary shark eyes - one of which was helpfully blackened to accurately portray him as the villain in this disaster piece.

After striking gold in Caesar's Palace, Hogan took his jackpot home - and didn't even bother to spend it. He did not appear live on WWF programming betwen 'Mania and King Of The Ring, the sight of only title defence. No, the man who cared so little for playing the hero that he referred to opponent Yokozuna as "the jap" instead embarked on a jolly to...New Japan Pro Wrestling. For Christ's sake. Hogan worked both sides in his tirade of awfulness. It's just as well technology hadn't caught up with the man, for this was total bullsh*t you couldn't actually smell.

"This belt," he said during a New Japan press conference, "is just a toy. It's like a little trinket on a Christmas tree."

Hogan, upon his return to the WWF, phoned it in even by his standards - and even though he didn't care at all, he still couldn't do a clean job.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!