Highlights
- Hulk Hogan's recent interviews reveal his tendency to make up fake stories, tarnishing his once iconic status in the eyes of wrestling fans.
- Hogan claimed to have been pitched an idea for WrestleMania 39 involving his son, Nick Hogan, but it's highly unlikely and implausible given Nick's lack of experience and WWE's decision-making process.
- Hogan's false claims are further discredited by the fact that Shane McMahon, whose involvement was integral to the supposed storyline, was actually injured at WrestleMania 39, contradicting Hogan's narrative.
Hulk Hogan is perhaps the most famous wrestler of all time. He dominated the 80s and 90s, but the last several years have seen his legacy tarnished due to several controversies. The latest one has seen him doing several interviews where, despite the great things he's accomplished, he feels compelled to make up crazy stories that can easily be proven to be a lie. It's sadly led to him being looked at as a joke by many wrestling fans.
Hulk Hogan kept it up in a new interview with Chris VanVliet. He did tell some interesting, and hopefully true, stories about his Netflix biopic starring Chris Hemsworth being off, and the lead up to his WrestleMania 18 match with The Rock. Then Hogan talked about an idea that he was supposedly pitch for this year's WrestleMania 39. “Shane called me and he sent me a picture from Madison Square Garden. I guess they have a Hall of Fame walk in there. Piper’s boots are in there and some of my stuff is there, so Shane sent me a picture of him standing in front of my stuff saying, ‘Hey old-times. Do you still have one left in you?’ I’m like, ‘Okay, what are you thinking?’ He said, ‘Well, I didn’t know if you had one left in your or maybe a surrogate such as Nick’, my son. We started talking and I said the only way I could do anything was if I was in the middle of the ring and you came to me because I can’t run. I can’t hit the ropes. I have a hard time walking distance. Taking a bump, if I got up, I would have to roll to my left. I can’t roll to my right."
“Nick, who was in Rikishi’s school for a couple years, he was in there with Rusev and all those guys, and I would go out to California and watch him. Nick had it figured out, and then he blew both of his shoulders out. I said, ‘I don’t know. There’s a possibility of doing something, whatever the storyline is, whether Nick is a heel and, ‘You destroyed my father’s career, so I’m going to destroy your personal life.’ I don’t know. There’s a million ways to do it, but then a couple weeks later, Shane got hurt or something with his quad. So anyway, that whole idea, I just never heard from them again, so that was pretty much it.” (h/t WrestlingNews.co)
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Shane McMahon Was Hurt At WrestleMania 39
It's easy to pick apart this latest Hulk Hogan fabrication. While it can't exactly be proven, there is no way WWE would put Nick Hogan of all people in a WrestleMania match. He has his own controversial past and is not a wrestler. On top of that, WWE isn't taking storyline ideas from Shane McMahon, who is no longer with the company.
Then there's the obvious, which Chris VanVliet called out. Shane McMahon was injured at WrestleMania 39. How could the WrestleMania match have been called off because of his injury when it's at that show, doing something else, when he was hurt? Once again, Hulk Hogan has hurt his legendary status for a headline.
