The WORST Wrestling Story Every Year (1989-2025)

1995 - Hulk Hogan Vs. The Giant

Hulk Hogan’s adventures with the Dungeon of Doom stable were brilliantly awful.

It was every kind of ancient - a 1980s wrestling TV show and a live-action ‘80s cartoon at the exact same time - in 1995, when Paul Heyman was making wrestling cool with ECW.

The Dungeon was steeped in irony, in that the members were meant to scare you, but were in fact cartoonish, unintentionally hilarious losers. This would have been awful in any context, but WCW fans actually valued and wanted to watch wrestling with an ambition of being rough and rugged. Hogan entering the dungeon itself and expecting the water to be boiling hot, only to be disappointed, is particularly infamous - but the entire saga was drenched in schlock.

It was such a completely asinine attempt at doing various scary things all at once that an aquatic predator was involved in a group that foretold the demise of Hulk Hogan by a giant that was written in stone. The Dungeon of Doom were all powerful across land, sea, and time - just not at the box office.

Said giant was named ‘The Giant’, and did in fact bring Hulkamania to its knees, for a week, after the fact, when it was revealed that his disqualification win over Hogan at Halloween Havoc actually granted him the belt via a clause in his contract. This clause didn’t hold up (?). WCW was so systemically broken that its administrative uselessness bled into storylines.

This all followed by Hogan’s win over the Giant in a monster truck sumo match (!), after which the Giant fell from the roof of Cobo Hall. It was sold as his death, but he emerged from it unscathed.

A terrifying fall from a skyscraper didn’t hurt the Giant, but he could only go over the Hulkster via the screwy finish, brother.