9 Reasons Steve Austin Was Better In WWE Than Hulk Hogan
6. He Rarely Refused To Do A Job To Another Wrestler
Yes, there have been long-standing rumourss that the main reason Stone Cold "took his ball and went home" in 2002 was because he didn't want to work a match with Brock Lesnar that would find the Next Big Thing walking away victorious.
But that big, egotistical blunder aside - along with his brief aversion to dropping the WWE Championship directly to Triple H in 1999 - Austin didn't seem to have many qualms with putting another guy over, if it made sense and was good for business.
Compare that to Hulk Hogan, who infamously refused to lose clean to anyone who dared gain their own chunk of popularity in spite of him, a list that includes Jake Roberts, Mr. Perfect, Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels. These are all main event-level guys. These are not guys who someone like Hogan should feel bad about "losing" to.
And yet, every year it seems there was another super-talented performer being held down by the dark cloud of Hulkamania. There's an even larger list of performers who Hogan refused to wrestle against at all.
It's an unfortunate fact that Hogan basically built his legacy on oppressing some of the greatest talents the WWE has ever seen. Stone Cold may have dabbled in the area, but Hogan was the undisputed master of killing other workers' momentum.