14 Wrestlers With Winning Records Over Hulk Hogan
9. Lanny Poffo
It was somewhat difficult, paying tribute to work of Lanny Poffo when he passed away in February 2023.
Best remembered for his work as the 'Genius', Poffo was memorable in a role that shouldn't be glorified through a modern lens. Bluntly, the Genius character traded in gay panic, and you were meant to find it a stitch when, faced with the strength of a real man, he pulled excessively cowardly faces. It's probably better to remember Poffo for his key role in the inter-promotional Memphis programme of the '80s and for popularising the moonsault press in the US (he was good value, too, on the old shoot interview circuit).
There once was a wrestling poet, with a Johnson so big he could blow it, and that poet's most memorable match was against Hulk Hogan on a late 1989 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event. Hogan doing pure comedy was a novelty, and the match was widely praised at the time. Again, through modern eyes, not so much.
In an incidental trivia note, that match was Kenny Omega's favourite growing up.
Hogan had the better of the Genius overall, but in televised singles matches, Poffo had Hulk's number.