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Hollywood Hogan made me act vicious.

He was arrogant.

I was the most evil greaseball that ever showed up in the wrestling business.

The character Hulk Hogan used to be the ultimate tan, all -American hero.

Totally two different animals.

So it was just that complete 180 transition to being the most evil

guess you could say. The ultimate bad guy.

The dirtiest player in the game, Hollywood Hulk Hogan, will prove you

take what you want.

Hollywood Hulk Hogan was the most diabolical villain in sports

history.

But Hogan's inglorious brand of evil derived from rather innocent beginnings.

It's the 80s. Simpler times.

Hulk Hogan is the larger than life personification of everything you want

hero. Be good, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, and you too could be like

Hulk Hogan someday.

Hulk Hogan was larger than life. Big, 300 and some odd pounds, built like a

brick house, and had an ungodly amount of charisma.

The 1980s were a wonderful era for real -life superheroes.

Hulk now has the Sheik's robe, and he clotheslined him with it.

We were looking for heroes that were really idealized versions of ourselves,

Hulk Hogan was one of those. One, two, he's done it!

Hulkamania is here!

In the early 80s, I started Hulkamania, and I had a lot to do with it, but so

did the promotion.

I've been training and saying my prayers and eating my vitamins. And everywhere

I go, man, the people are training in the parking lots, posing in the gyms.

Hulkamania is running wild all over the world.

Hulkamania was a phenomenon that grabbed hold of not just the wrestling world,

but the entire world.

It just blew up huge. I mean, this guy couldn't go anywhere and not be

recognized. All of a sudden, you started seeing Hulk more and more on different

shows. Johnny Carson.

Professional wrestling kind of turns me into a stark raving maniac.

Jay Leno.

We came to Saturday Night Live for one reason, brother.

Because this is the best darn show in the whole wide world.

Hulk. I said, Hulk, you can't go wrong with the red and yellow. He goes, why?

McDonald's. McDonald's is red and yellow and they're all over America.

They were putting me on the cover of Sports Illustrated, all the major

magazines. You know, I was doing commercials for Right Guard.

There was this crazy momentum.

greatest professional athlete in the world today, Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan came into my life when I was very impressionable in my formative

years. I loved everything about him. He was big, he was tall, he was tan, he had

24 -inch python, the way he talked, the way he ripped his shirt, when he was

Thunder Lips and Rocky III.

You got to remember, we were in the middle of a Cold War. There was a lot of

propaganda as far as, you know, Russians or whatever the case may be.

We got Nikolai Volkov singing the Soviet national anthem. It was not necessarily

a time for nuanced storytelling.

I can't stand to see our enemy's flag in the ring. Mr.

All -American versus the rest of the world. Throw in the American flag, you

a hero.

Hulk Hogan with old glory flying high above.

Coming out of the 80s, the 90s. is defined by grunge

and gangster rap.

Counterculture was everything in the 90s.

When the 90s came along, everything changed, you know? It was about being

the bad guy, the more in your face, the more, yeah, who said so?

Well, try to knock this chip off my shoulder and I'll show you what's going

happen, buddy.

It was the same red and yellow for a long time.

Very successful long time, I might add.

But there was a point where the audience started looking at Hulk and going,

okay, what's new?

All of a sudden, I felt things changing.

I could feel the momentum. It wasn't as powerful.

I'd come out and my music would hit. It wasn't the same.

I'd drop the leg, do the pose down. It wasn't the same.

We could notice each night we were getting a few more boos.

Each night.

I'd go and check the sales on our merchandise, you know, and I could see

it was starting to dip a little bit.

This Hulk Hogan thing got so big and it was so powerful, but there were certain

times where, you know, when I kind of felt Hulkamania might not be going in

right direction, I thought there might be a time for a change.

Going up?

For the next few years, Hogan focused on his Hollywood ambitions.

So, is he a box office champ?

Well, not yet.

I'm getting better.

Transition is a tough one.

By 1994, it became clear.

Hulkamania was not running wild in Hollywood.

I kind of like was really on shaky ground for a while. I wasn't making any

money. And when I left WWE, I just thought my run was over.

You know, so I was just kind of like stumbling along on a hope and a prayer.

I was so lucky that WCW had a soundstage right next to Thunder Paradise.

And Eric Bischoff approached me with Ric Flair and said, hey, we'd like you to

put lightning in a bottle again. I said, brother, I'm in.

Eric Bischoff.

was a chief executive tasked with leading WCW, a wrestling promotion with

objective to overtake WWE as the industry's standard.

Bischoff's first plan of action was to entice former WWE superstars into the

fold to jumpstart the company.

And there was still no bigger name out there than Hulk Hogan.

I never.

ever in my life thought that I would run against Vince McMahon.

But, you know, I talked to Eric Bischoff, and he said, what's it going

to light this company up? I said, well, I need to come back as Hulk Hogan for a

while and get the feel of things, and then we can figure it out really quick.

The initial reaction when Hulk left WWE and went to WCW was

going to a smaller organization at the time.

Would help that organization, definitely.

But wasn't anything that said, oh, well, this is going to make a difference. Not

with the same thing that he had been doing here.

We're going to find out who the most powerful man in the WCW is.

When we first brought Hulk Hogan in, it was a big damn deal. It made a lot of

news. It served its purpose.

But after about a year and a half, the audience viewed Hulk Hogan differently.

I knew that going head -to -head with the WWE,

We had to be different and had to be a lot edgier.

So it was Hulk Hogan joining the dark side.

Oh, what is this? Come on!

So I flew myself down to Clearwater and had a conversation with Hulk. What do

you think about turning heel?

Going from good...

To the bad guy.

Eric came up with this idea.

And, you know, I knew I needed to do something, but I wasn't sold.

I think Hulk knew that the red and yellow Hulk Hogan was still generating a

of revenue and would be turning his back on the fans. And I just don't think he

was interested in taking the risk associated with turning heel.

Because Hulk had made it clear to me he had no interest in turning heel at all.

So I had to have a plan B.

WCW president Eric Bischoff hatched a real -life plot to put WWE out of

business. Scott and I have taken on the perception of two of the WWE's top

guys doing basically a hostile takeover of another corporation.

So we were always perceived as the WWE.

Get security out here!

And get them out of here. The perception was implied that they were being sent

from us at the WWE. And it was an invasion of WWE talent going to

WCW. See you, buddy.

Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, they killed everyone.

They...

They didn't have anything to lose, and they were willing to take risks.

Oh, my God. Get him out of here.

We picked up a lot of momentum right off the bat.

Certainly got people's attention, but I needed to make as big a splash as I

could. So we built an entire storyline around a third man.

What made it tricky for me is I had to find the third man in that story.

Bischoff wanted the promise of a mysterious third man.

The baddest of the bad guys.

A true heel of a human being.

But who could possibly fill those boots?

Everyone wanted that spot.

These two guys lit up the world. I'm talking about number one spot on cable

television. We want to know who your three guys are. And then he cut that

about bring your best three.

We're bringing our best three.

The big man.

And the medium -sized man.

And our surprise buddy.

And next week, I'm bringing the big man in.

The really crazy part is, no one knew who the third

guy was because there wasn't one yet.

I remember the day that I got a call from Hulk, and he said, hey, man, I'd

to talk to you about what's going on. Can you make it out to L .A.? So I did.

I think I got to Hulk's trailer around midnight after we had a beer or two and

lit up a Cuban cigar. Hulk said to me, so, who's going to be the third man?

And I didn't want to tell him.

I already had Sting lined up.

I said, you can't ask Sting.

I needed major, major change really, really bad.

I was starting to get to the point where I was second -guessing everything about

myself.

Was the Hulkamania ride a fluke?

Was the reason Hulkamania got so big, was it just Vince McMahon's promotion?

When this whole three guys thing came along, And I decided to jump on it. I

needed it more than life itself at that point.

I didn't want Sting to get it.

And I wanted to prove to people that I knew this business.

And not only could I be the greatest good guy ever, I knew this business well

enough that I could be the greatest bad guy ever.

So I said, I'm in.

I'm in. Let's do it.

Wow.

Didn't see that one coming.

Boy, have I got butterflies.

Luger's here.

Sting's here.

Savage is here. I only see two of them.

We were told there would be three of these interlopers.

And as you can see, there are only two.

There's just two of them.

They're fighting three guys.

Savage and Luger and Sting.

Where is it? Is your partner telling me that your third man is in the building?

Oh, he's here. All right, Gene.

What made it tricky for me is I wasn't 100 % convinced that Hulk was actually

going to see it through. Up until 4 o 'clock, Hulk wasn't sure he was going to

do it. You know, it was not a go.

And the backup plan was going to be sting turning.

I think everybody under the breath said a little bit of prayer because we knew.

We're taking the biggest name in the history of this business and switching

to a bad guy.

We couldn't afford any mistakes.

Keeping it a secret was my top priority.

I pulled him over into this big janitorial closet, and we started going

that promo, just beginning to middle and end.

It was the most exciting, most stressful, probably.

Two hours of my professional life.

Once Hulk walked through that curtain, it was what it was going to be. And

was nothing I or anybody else could do about it. All bets were off.

Hulk Hogan is in the building.

You're damn right he is. Hulk comes out. Here he comes.

America. Red and yellow. Bah, bah, bah.

People are there. They're there. They're there.

Finally, the Hulkster to the rescue.

And I'm in on it. I know he's going to turn. And all I'm thinking in my mind

oh, man, five minutes from now, man, I'm going to get the photo op of a

lifetime. Like, I'm in the ring with Hulk Hogan.

I go to the ring, and Bobby Heenan goes, but whose side is he on?

Yeah, but whose side is he on?

What are you talking about, Bobby? What side is he on?

There's only one side for him to be on.

Literally, it was hard for me to breathe.

I was so excited.

Kevin and Scott cleared out of the ring like they were afraid of me first. Get

him, Hogan!

Go get him, Hogan!

Is he the third man?

I went in and dropped the leg on Mott.

Hulk Hogan has betrayed WCW!

They were in shock.

You just sold yourself to the devil.

I mean, you could feel the air come out of the arena.

No one knew how to react.

Hogan drops the leg and stands there in the ring being interviewed by a

disgusting Mean Gene Oakland.

Mean Gene, the first thing you need to do is to tell these people to shut up if

you want to hear what I got to say.

I told everybody I was done, and all you fans out there, you're just like the

trash in this ring.

When I said that, man, they were throwing bottles. They were throwing

they could get their hands on. Look at the ring.

Look at all of this crap in this ring.

As far as I'm concerned, all of this crap in the ring represents these

fans out here.

You fans can stick it, brother.

Trash is raining down from the crap. You knew you were seeing something you

never thought you would see.

Hulk Hogan was evil. He had become the ultimate villain.

You can call this the New World Order of Wrestling, brother.

And he ushers in an entirely new era of professional wrestling.

And that was the birth of the NWO.

Join up with the likes of these two men absolutely makes me sick to my stomach.

The way it is now, brother, not only are we going to take over the whole

wrestling business with Hulk Hogan and the new blood, the monsters with me, we

will destroy everything in our path, me, Gene.

It got so much heat.

Me, Kevin, and Scott got to the back and went, holy.

It was the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. They had to call extra

police in from the Daytona Police Department came out there because there

riot that took place. I mean, all the news media is picked up on it

The next day, Turner Broadcasting was flooded with emails

and phone calls of really pissed off people, mainly because of the kids.

Because Hulk was, say your prayer, eat your vitamins, and now you're healed?

Oh, man.

People were bleep, bleep, bleep, pissed.

People lost their minds, dude. I mean, kids were burning their Hulk

Hogan wrestling huggers with effigy. I mean, it was insane.

That's how beloved that man was.

That was devastating.

Little kids were crying.

Lone men were pissed.

It was genuine betrayal and the hate that truly

follows.

Hollywood Hogan embraced his dark side with greater ease than anyone expected.

It was clear he was in this for the long haul.

Wearing black instead of his customary and traditional yellow print.

Mr. Hollywood, Hulk Hogan.

The biggest on -camera change for Hulk Hogan going from good guy to bad guy was

wardrobe, the red and yellow. Those were his colors.

Then going to the black and the bandana being black. He turned his back on it

all. What I liked the most about, as opposed to just the wardrobe, it was in

beard. It visually made his heel turn more dramatic.

At the time, it wasn't gray.

It was still kind of blonde. I grew the beard in, and I got just for men.

And I dyed it shoe -polished black, as evil, as snidely whiplash as I could get

it. That was the look.

It made people so mad that they knew I dyed my beard or I put makeup on it or

whatever they thought.

It put that extra icing on the top to make people hate me even more.

And then nobody airbrushed their boots, you know. So I was putting Hollywood and

lightning bolts on the boots.

So that was like tweaking the character and getting it right. But it made me act

a certain way, too.

There wasn't a bigger boogeyman than Hollywood Hulk Hogan.

Hollywood Hulk Hogan. He'd give the cheap shots behind the referee back.

You know, scrape the back. He would get on his hands and knees and beg, and, oh,

please, don't hit me, please, where the people wanted to see that happen, you

know? And so he was just a whole different persona than he was from Hulk

Hulk Hogan is the man that you voted for for the most hated wrestler of the

year. Hulkster, wait a minute. I've known you, like, forever.

I mean, you were the most popular guy in the world, and now the most hated

wrestler of the year?

Well, brother, times change, and so do people, man.

The Church of the Wrestling World!

Not only was the heat so pure, but all the, I don't want to say purest

wrestling fans, but the dicks like me.

We all loved it. We were like, oh, if he can do that, anything's possible.

I just wanted to set the tone for what really would make the NWO take off.

And man, we rode it hard and we rode it long.

Asking Hogan to turn his back on the ideals that made him the icon of a

generation.

was a big ask to say the least.

There was no turning back.

The fans

picked up on the

NWO and Hulk Hogan. It was something the wrestling world had never seen before.

It was even crazy more so than anything.

They liked it.

They ate it up.

I think secretly we all love the bad guys.

There's always a cool factor to the bad dude. I think there's something within

all of us that kind of wishes we could do a little bit of that in real life.

What are your fans going to think?

Hey, what are you going to do?

I'm a bad guy.

I think there's a certain authenticity that rings with people when they find

that this pure hero is flawed.

And then when they see that, they go, wow, I don't have to be perfect. You can

identify with that person that has the flaws.

They were cool bad guys.

And I think that's what makes the fans go, you know, I wish I could dress like

him. I wish I could go and tell my boss off like this guy here.

It's being everything that...

You wish you could be, but you're not.

It's the new world order. There's nothing you can do about it.

You know, the more we would beat people up and spray paint Ted Turner's

equipment outside, the more evil stuff we did, the more the fans cheered.

I think the audience's appetite was changing.

The audience was beginning to dig the anti -hero a lot more than the hero.

The whole idea was to be edgier, more adult -themed, and to have much

more of a reality sensibility.

And it worked.

It was fascinating because they were showing us things that we had never seen

before. They were taking us back behind the scenes, and they were just

disrupting. From a fan's point of view, it was almost like now there was a

virus. In wrestling, and you were either cool, like Hogan, or you were, you

know, company people.

Didn't the world get behind me and want to be a part of it? It was genius. It

really was.

Everybody in the arena had the shirt.

Want to make a fashion statement? My grandmother wouldn't allow me to wear

NWO shirt.

in my house she even ripped down my hulk hogan poster so when hulk hogan was

transforming and the nwo was forming i was also turning into a younger adult

so i was kind of changing the way i was moving and the things i like so that

whole transition was perfect from you know loving this guy in the yellow and

to grandma i need my nwo shirt where's my black and white shirt ironically the

villain at hollywood was now attracting the sort of celebrity attention that

hulk hogan could only dream about back in 94.

The NWO thing was so cool that there were really no boundaries.

I mean, it was insane.

We had a blast.

All of a sudden, our ratings went from like 2 .4s to 6s,

7s, and 8s.

I mean, those are NFL numbers.

We had our own NASCAR NWO car.

Everybody wanted to be a bad guy.

You proved you are the icon that everybody in this building has always

are. Give it up for the Hawks. Come on, give it up.

It totally changed the landscape of the business. All of a

sudden.

Bad guys became everything.

Hulk Hogan becoming evil and becoming bad was the game changer that allowed

WCW to move ahead in the ratings above us for 83 weeks.

And that was the catalyst that really set WCW into motion, becoming a very

successful promotion.

Let's destroy the broadcast booth!

The WCW!

At that time, the world celebrated power -hungry villains who might just burn

the whole world down.

But, in a bizarre twist of fate, the very monster WCW created in order to

destroy WWE turned into an evil they could not forbear.

In 1996, thanks to Hollywood Hogan,

WCW was dominating WWE in the TV ratings.

But, as it's often been said, the devil's in the details, or in this case,

fine print.

Going back to some of the first, the initial meetings I had with Hulk about

coming to WCW, he looked me right in the eyes and said, brother, I don't trust

anybody here. I don't know you, Eric, and I know everybody that works here in

this company, and I really don't trust them.

So here's how this is going to have to work.

Creative control.

It means a lot to have creative control because if somebody else comes in and

says, I think we need to do this or do that, and you can't perform, it really

hurts the money you're making. So we knew if you do have creative control,

like you can do no wrong.

When Hulk came over to WCW for Hulk, creative control meant that you could

the match that you wanted when you wanted it.

It was something that opened a can of worms.

I think it rubbed a lot of the guys the wrong way.

A lot of the wrestlers were upset.

Their egos just got out of control. They were just really upset.

We were pissed.

We were all just fighting for your spot.

The NWO has had some good times.

Quite frankly, lately, some bad times.

Scott and I, his creative control was very hard because the golden one would

walk in at 5 .15 on an 8 o 'clock start and go, brother, that doesn't work

for me.

You know, like, wow, really, man?

Okay, what does?

Do you have an idea?

You don't even have an idea.

That just doesn't work for you.

So we'll work around it.

It got to a point when the lunatics started running the asylum and the ship

started falling apart.

The numbers started slipping just a little bit.

Instead of Eric taking over control, you had everybody in the Turner offices

that knew nothing about wrestling trying to put their two cents worth in. We

need to talk.

What do we need to talk?

Wait a minute. This is the president of Turner Sports. He's your boss. This is

Dr. Harvey Schiller.

This cannot go well for you.

Turner basically took WCW away from him. Eric Bischoff lost control.

So it was like being sabotaged at the highest level.

It just fell apart.

So, yeah, I mean.

In September of 99, I was relieved of my duties in WCW.

In their infinite wisdom, WCW brought in Vince Russo. Guys, this

show really sucks. Because Vince Russo was able to convince certain people in

WCW and Turner Broadcast that Vince Russo was actually the architect behind

Attitude Era and all the success that WWE had.

Bro, as sure as I'm sitting here, I walked into a WCW

locker room.

And the minute I walked in, there was a giant target

bullseye on my back.

Vince Russo came in. He said, I'm going to fire everybody that's one day over

40.

And I went, okay, how's this going to work?

One of the ways he was able to galvanize himself with some of this lower -card,

younger talent was to badmouth guys like Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair can't go on wrestling forever. You've got to build

undercard. I'm just going, oh, my God.

If you guys buy this, I've got a lot of swampland here in Florida to sell you.

Russo's goal was to get rid of Hulk Hogan.

That was going to be his claim to fame.

He was going to put the nail in Hulk Hogan's career.

A wrestler's paranoia, you can't change that.

They're going to believe what they want to believe, and they believe that I was

trying to run them out of Dodge, which was the last thing I was trying to do.

Vince Russo never butt heads with anybody to their face. It was always

their back.

Don't edit that out. I dare you.

So when we talk about Bash at the Beach, I had written the show, and Hulk had to

give the script approval.

Okay?

Sent the first one over.

Hulk didn't like it.

Sent the second one over. Hulk didn't like it.

Basically, they want to get the belt off you and put it on Jarrett. I said,

well, here's the deal, bro. I don't get along with this Vince Russo guy.

Anyway, he's been trying to sabotage me since the day he walked in here.

So I write the third script, and basically I have Hulk killing everyone

building but not walking out with the title.

He's here! It is!

Vince wanted Hulk to drop the belt to Jeff, and he said, look, let me win the

belt tonight on the pay -per -view, which is the money, and then Monday

he said, I'll drop it at Nitro. Well, he didn't want to do that.

I then go to Jeff Jarrett and say to Jeff, Jeff, F Hogan,

lay down in the middle of the ring, let him cover you, and let him leave with

his belt. F him.

What's Jeff doing?

What's Jeff doing?

Russo, I think, told Jarrett to lie down. What's going on?

Jarrett lays down.

I looked at him and said, brother, don't do this. I said, don't screw this

business up like this.

You know, and he just laid there.

That's why this company's in the damn shape it's in, because of bulls like

Hulk Hogan is the world's best, and this sport has never seen anything like

this.

Maybe Russo can explain to the world what we have seen.

His face. Yeah, we know that face, don't we?

I've done nothing, nothing but deal with the bull of

the politic behind that curtain.

I came back to the guys behind that curtain that give a shit about this

And let me tell you who doesn't give a shit about this company.

Politician Hulk Hogan.

Because Hulk Hogan tonight wants to play his creative control card.

You will never see that piece of shit again.

So now you've got to understand with Hulk's ego, I go back to the office and

I've got to meet with Brad Siegel, who was the head of TNT.

And Brad says, Vince, what happened?

And I laid out the entire scenario. And Brad says to me, how did you leave it

with hope?

That was the Vince Russo show.

The whole thing was just so, just out of the realm of what this business is

about. And it was just, it was disaster.

Where does Hollywood hoping's career go from here?

Where does WCW go from here?

With the WCW's value at an all -time low.

The powers cut their losses and sold out to the man they sought to destroy,

Vince McMahon.

The fate of WCW is in my hands.

Will Hollywood Hulk Hogan and his band of cutthroats destroy you?

The WCW will be on a silver platter, brother.

And just like the big bad wolf said, better to

eat you with.

Wow.

The downfall of WCW.

I didn't feel any, you know, ego boost of way to go events. You know, you're

crushing them.

Now you own them and all that.

I look at it as business as usual.

You have to grab your competition by the throat, and you've got to squeeze the

life out of your competition, just like I did to WCW.

On March 26, 2001, WWE officially purchased WCW.

Vince McMahon would dismantle the roster and yank WCW off the air.

A year later, Vince McMahon was looking to squeeze whatever evil juice was left

out of Hogan.

While Hollywood star was on the wing,

The Rock was on his way into the stratosphere.

It was to be a symbolic passing of the torch from an icon of an era gone by to

the great one of the Attitude Era.

Hey, it's The Rock. Come on, guys.

This ain't one of those people's champs.

This is my son's favorite wrestler.

Vince wanted me to wrestle The Rock, you know.

Hogan, you take that camera.

It's already shined up. Turn sideways.

Eat your vitamins. Say your prayers. And stick it straight up all your candy

asses.

It's kind of funny because, you know, I remember him saying, well, Terry, you

know, things have changed.

You know, if you're going to wrestle The Rock, you better really bring it.

In my mind, I'm thinking, brother, if I bring it, you're going to be begging me

to take it back.

The Rock against Hulk Hogan. Here's the aging Hulk Hogan.

Here's the newcomer The Rock.

What was going to happen?

Man, it took my daughter to hear the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, and the girls

screamed so loud it hurt my ears. It was just that loud.

When Hulk came back, they didn't want the NWO Hulk. They didn't want Hollywood

Hulk. They wanted Hulk.

I think our audience looked at it as it had been long enough. He had been black

and white for 10 years or whatever it was, and people were ready now.

What's old is new again.

I mean, God, how long did the beginning of that match go on where they were just

listening to the crowd and listening to the deafening?

Hogan chance.

Many in the crowd chanting for Hogan. Holy cow, man. It was a worldwide

telling you that, man, we love him for everything he was.

We loved him for leaving. We loved him for coming back.

We love Hogan.

And maybe you're shoving rock down our throat.

Heard him cheering.

I went, oh, crap.

You know, and they were cheering and cheering and cheering, and then The Rock

started taking over. I mean, every time he'd punch me, they'd boo him.

The Rock was getting booed.

He's had the push of a lifetime, and here I come back, trying to put the WWE

of business for 10 years, trying to destroy the company, and I come back,

the people are cheering me and booing him.

The crowd is solidly behind Hulk. I don't know if The Rock knows what to

People went crazy over the Hulkster.

Oh, my God, it was unbelievable. And then people loved The Rock, too, but

got the match turned around where people cheered The Rock, cheered Hulk, you

know. Let's go, Hulkster. Let's go, Rock. Let's go, Hulkster. Let's go,

Hulk, Rock, two of the greatest of all time.

And they were able to listen, react, and make it work.

People just couldn't take it anymore. Couldn't wait for Hulk to Hulk up and

that big comeback, comeback, comeback.

Oh, my God. What you going to do, Rock?

Hulk heard an audience, a worldwide audience telling you that, man, we want

our traditional Hulk back and we love him.

It was a beautiful moment because that was an evolution for Hulk.

It was interesting because it was almost like it was the first time that Hogan

realized that there could be some ambiguity to his character. And I

think it wasn't until that night, because he was so over with the

realized he could have elements of Hollywood and not be completely bad.

At the end, the people really got what they wanted to see, two of the biggest

icons in the world.

And so, you know, it was kind of like a passing of the torch.

It was so intense

that Vince McMahon goes.

Where is your red and yellow gear?

Vince goes, you need to go get your red and yellow stuff.

My whole character of Hollywood Hogan was nothing but fun and being nasty

as I want to be and having a blast doing it.

The Hulk Hogan character actually.

Was up here and it brought me up and made me a better person all these years.

And I finally understand what it meant to so many people.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung once said that inside of every person is a shadow self.

It's where we keep the things we don't like about ourselves.

Pride, ruthless ambition, tendency to violence.

That's Hollywood Hogan.

As much as we all want to be the hero that was Hulk Hogan, we all have a

bit of Hollywood Hogan inside of us.

I think if one were to go back and try to...

Do a post -mortem on the evil Hulk Hogan. At its core was the

fact that Hulk turned his back on people who loved him and supported him as a

character. And creating a mystery, getting the audience to ask questions,

blurring the line, which I will admit now that the litigation is far behind

Creating that...

feeling of not being sure if what we're seeing is real or make -believe.

For Hollywood, every night's a main event.

Every night's a payoff.

And every night's another trip to the bank.

It was genuine betrayal and the hate that surely follows.

It was a thing of beauty.

If I do say so myself.

It's the most Cunning men will survive!

What are we to think of the duplicitous Hulk Hogan? Is he the icon who inspired

a generation of Hulkamaniacs to say their prayers and eat their vitamins?

A superhero who made it cool to be the good guy?

Or is he the nefarious Hollywood Hogan who became intoxicated with his own

and fame to the extent he brought down an entire company?

Either way, for the most beloved superstar of a generation to become the

prolific villain of the next.

is an amazing feat.

If you really want to know what evil lurks around you, take a closer look

the heart of your heroes.

I am the master of the mental game for us.

The maneuver people like puppets.

I actually take what I want.

There's no being better.

And each and every time I hit an arena, I made sure I left my mark.

Because I gave wrestling something that nobody else could have given it. I gave

it life.

And wrestling will live forever because of me.

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