14 Wrestlers With Winning Records Over Hulk Hogan
13. The Rock
Time to get a bit philosophical here.
There's doing a job, and there's doing a job.
Losing clean in the middle of the ring via pin fall is not necessarily doing a job - i.e. making it crystal clear that, on the night at least, your fictional character was not as good or as much of a star as your opponent.
At WrestleMania X8, Hogan lost to the Rock, but he lost a fictional in-ring outing that hardly mattered, and to underscore that, he won the WWF title 35 days after staring at the lights. In Toronto, he lost a match, but by doing the red-and-yellow act in nWo colours, he manipulated the fierce nostalgic sentiment in the building to get himself over as the bigger attraction.
What do you remember most from the match: Hogan, his trapezius muscles stacked on top of his head, celebrating wildly after throwing Rock halfway across the ring?
Or the finish?
Hogan knew what he was doing in Toronto, and he knew what exactly what to do at No Way Out 2003 just under a year later when he went 0-2: next to nothing.
By doing next to nothing in a nothing match, he ensured that people would only remember the first meeting - and the real headline from it.