8 Wrestlers Who Quit After Major PPVs
4. Hulk Hogan (Bash At The Beach 2000)
This is a rare and frequently misunderstood example of a wrestler who quit a company not just after a show, but during it.
By the summer of 2000, WCW was well on its way to the knacker yard, and seemingly in a bid to speed up the glue-making process, the desperate company drafted in Vince Russo in the vague hope that all those accusations of charlatanism had been mere smear. They weren't, and almost immediately the motor-mouthed New Yorker set about dismantling the company.
His most tired set-piece, the dreaded worked shoot, was dredged up with self-destructive consequences for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship match at Bash at the Beach 2000. The plan was for title holder Jeff Jarrett to lie down for the purportedly politicking Hulk Hogan, after which the Hulkster would grab the mic and lay into Russo for the supposed nonsense.
All that happened - but Russo had an extra swerve in store. Looking to make an example of Hogan, the booker launched into a shoot of his own - and this time, his bullets weren't blanks. He dramatically 'fired' Hogan on air, before calling him a "piece of sh*t" and vowing WCW fans would never see him again.
He wasn't wrong. So furious was Hogan with the unscripted diatribe that he flatly refused to step foot in the company ever again. And he didn't.