Hulk Hogan's 26 Losses - From Cleanest To Screwiest

5. Monday Nitro - Vampiro

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ktbz_hulk-hogan-vs-vampiro_sport

One of wrestling's rarest creatures is antihero Hulk Hogan. Normally, you'll get either ketchup-and-mustard vitamin enthusiast or airbrushed Hollywood dilettante, sometimes, the Hulkster explored the grey area between these two extremes. Well, one extreme is yellow, so it's more of a brown area. 

During Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff's disastrous "New Blood" collaboration, this new, unapologetically dangerous Hogan wore a sleeveless vest to the ring. Won't somebody please think of the children?

Quick, think of a worse meshing of styles than Vampiro at his most medicated and Hulk Hogan at his most immobile. If you can't, maybe you should have been booking WCW in 2000. It happened because Hogan was feuding with, and refusing to lose to, cruiserweight sensation Billy Kidman, and Vampiro was tangentially related but 6'5". 

The match itself is mostly Hogan and Vamp walking each other around ringside by the back of the heads while the announcers confidently shout about how this was the NEW WCW and we wouldn't be seeing any CLUSTER FINISHES like that OTHER PROMOTION. 

Vampiro won after Billy Kidman showed up and hit Hogan with an acetylene torch to build to a match where Sting got lit on fire, because bad booking decisions were not Hogan-exclusive in 2000 WCW.

Rating: Definitely Not a Cluster, No Sir

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