10 WWE Mega-Pushes Fans Hated BEFORE Roman Reigns & John Cena
2. The Megamaniacs
One of the bigger moments from Raw's earliest days saw Hulk Hogan return to gobble up an undeservedly large chunk of WrestleMania IX's smaller pay-per-view pie, but his WWE Championship win on the show was the consequence of his trojan horse Tag Team Title shot with Brutus Beefcake.
Outside of a shocked and stunned Las Vegas car park crowd on the night itself, it was hard to find anybody asking for this turn of events other than Hogan himself.
It began not-that-innocently with the 'The Barber's return to in-ring competition some three years removed from a near-fatal parasailing accident and divorce one-two punch that understandably sent his physical and mental health into a spiral.
With all the sympathy of a Twitter troll, a Manhattan Center fan picked a silent moment between breaths to yell 'KILL YOURSELF' at the maligned babyface. This was beyond the pale but the pop for 'The Hulkster' himself a fortnight later was pallid compared to the pandemonium he was once capable of.
The pair felt like spare parts in this nascent New Generation, and would be absent without explanation save for Hogan's one and only defence of the WWE Championship at King Of The Ring two months later.