22. Hulk Hogan Reveals Too Much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA2BQXwlOOE It's one thing to have a promo botch with a slip up here and there. It's another thing altogether for your promo botch to involve you accidentally calling yourself gay, as Hulk Hogan did with this particular promo. Hulk was always known more for his charisma than his actual technical promo skills, but to hear him stumbling over his words like this was pretty jarring. It happens to everyone at some point, though. You think you've got it all in the bag but when you begin to speak, your words just get rushed and they don't come out properly. Of course, it's what he ended up saying that made this one so memorable. If he just forgot his line, this wouldn't be discussed right here and now. The fact that he ended up referring to himself as the "right gay guy" is about as bad a slip-up as a wrestler can have. In this testosterone-driven sport where effeminate or "gay" gimmicks are almost guaranteed to be booed mercilessly, someone accidentally saying that about themselves will never be lived down, as unfortunate as that is to say.
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