10 Wrestling Parodies That Became Real
9. Shawn Michaels Buries Hulk Hogan As A Bald, Past-It Old Timer...
...before becoming a bald, past-it old-timer 13 years later.
Unlucky!
The original skit was fabulous, mind. Peppering a quite insane amount of "brothers" throughout his spiel, gleefully hamming it up, "Hulk" worked himself into such an apoplectic carny ticket-selling fugue that he suffered cramp. It was great; at the merest sniff of cash, Shawn's Hulk became energised to a preposterous and injurious extent.
Michaels answered a call from Battle Creek, Michigan. He was asked when he'd make his return there, but laughed it off. "The Hulkster only makes the big towns, brother!" he roared.
Eight years deep into the retirement he always insisted would remain upheld and dignified, Michaels had resisted the lure of even the big towns. Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York - the Showstopper had already stopped the show, brother! It was time for the Heartbreak Kid to settle down, pray to God and kill some defenceless animals, brother! He couldn't go anymore, so he told Johnny Gargano how to work, brother! Brother!
Until the glamorous bright lights of...Riyadh, Saudi Arabia came calling, brother, then it was time to get the band back together, brother!
Where in the skit, "Hulk" suffered cramp, in that schadenfreude festival of a main event, Triple H suffered a torn pectoral, Kane's mask and wig fell off, and 'Taker did a rare, clean job - to his own hair.