8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For WCW

3. Hulk Hogan

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Hulk Hogan lived life in the balance in the WCW, getting far more from the monied Atlanta outfit that it asked for from him in an insane six year run, but few could have imagined how he'd depart the company when he first entered via papered ticker tape parade in 1994.

Going over absolutely everybody as both babyface and heel during a run that featured multiple long World Heavyweight Championship reigns, big feuds and even bigger paydays, Hogan was seemingly one of the big targets of a Vince Russo determined to move old talent out of the topline picture during his stints at the top of the promotion in 1999 and 2000.

Much of this played out behind the scenes, but the more Russo became obsessed with vague worked shoots as the televised norm, the more there was an inevitability to it all blowing up on screen. The infamous Bash At The Beach 2000, four years on from the night Hogan first turned heel, was the night of said explosion.

Russo went into business for himself on the show long after 'Hollywood' had left, verbally going in much harder on Hogan's real and fictional persona than had allegedly been agreed beforehand. This followed a worked element in which Jeff Jarrett lay down to get pinned by 'The Hulkster', but even that was a little too weary to be entirely fake. Hogan's "is this your deal, Russo? That's why this company's in the state it's in...because of bullsh*t like this" had a weathered quality to it that allowed everybody to read between the blurred lines

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