Hulk Hogan's 26 Losses - From Cleanest To Screwiest

Hulk Hogan has one of the most impressive win/loss records in all of professional wrestling. Between 1984 and 2000, when the guy's political power was at its zenith, a Hulk Hogan match was more likely to end via interference from a shoot unicorn than the Hulkster allowing his sacred shoulders to touch canvas for three consecutive seconds. 

That's not to say that it didn't happen. It did, exactly 26 times, by my reckoning. I'm not counting disqualifications or count-outs or handicap matches or battle royal eliminations, either; this select number of times, Hogan was pinned or submitted according to the rules of the match.

Thanks to Hogan's infamous creative control, however, these losses often threaten to destroy the tenuous suspension of disbelief that pro wrestling depends upon. For example, a Hulk Hogan loss may require fans to accept the existence of supernatural powers, vast international conspiracies, and medical impossibilities. 

This list details all of the (literally) unbelievable garbage that was thought to be easier to swallow than "Hulk Hogan loses a match". Here are Hogan's losses from cleanest to screwiest. 

This is without a doubt Hogan's cleanest loss ever, probably because Warrior was booked like a younger, stronger Hogan. In fact, the booking of the match repeatedly highlights the similarities between the two, most famously through the iconic SUPER TEST OF STRENGTH spot, but also through a couple of double clothesline spots and the like.

In the end, of course, Warrior evaded the dreaded Legdrop of Doom and landed his running splash, pinning Hogan clean. I mean, yeah, Hogan kicked out at three and ran around making shocked faces, including falling to his knees and wailing in despair like Emperor Palpatine just told him about his new robot legs, but in the grand scheme of Hogan spotlight-hogging it was pretty innocent.

Rating: Clean as a Whistle