15 Exact Moments WCW Booking Stopped Making Sense
6. It’s Not Hot!
Funny side story time: This writer's friend was a late in the day wrestling fan and missed the entirety of WCW's run. So, he wanted to go back and watch some old stuff. A nightly ritual of hot baths and World Championship Wrestling followed. One evening, he texted yours truly to say that he'd just watched Hulk Hogan stumbling upon the Dungeon Of Doom's lair.
Said mate had to check the temperature of the bath water, because he thought he was imagining things.
Hogan meeting the Dungeon Of Doom/Alliance To End Hulkamania in 1995 was unintentional comedy at its finest. Once he was teleported into the belly of the beast, a rather confused 'Hulkster' spewed nonsensical lines like: “There are no Hulkamaniacs here” (why would there be?!), “I’ve never been here before” (Hulk clearly assumed he'd visited every location in the world) and, “It’s not hot” (a puzzling observation considering he'd literally just said that he'd never been there in his life).
Meanwhile, Kevin Sullivan and The Master giggled like schoolchildren that they'd perplexed the biggest star of the 1980s by creating a place free from Hulkamaniacs, Pastamania and all things red and yellow. Real American? No, Hogan was in real trouble if they had their wicked way.
Of course, it was all totally bonkers. If The Master and Sullivan had the power to trap Hulk like this, then why did they need to wrestle him on WCW programming or pay-per-views at all? There's something uniquely charming about this time period. It was like Power Rangers meets Goosebumps, but with Hulk Hogan in the middle of it all.
What goes bump in the night? Curtis Iaukea falling off that big throne, probably.