“It Was a Mistake”: Wrestling Legend Reveals Choosing Hulk Hogan Hurt His Business

Hulk Hogan is one of the biggest wrestlers of his generation. But he is one of those wrestlers who stayed with the business even after his peak had come and gone. But he wasn’t the one who caught the ire of the fans when booked in the main event. It was the bookers.

And one of his early bookers, the wrestling legend, Eric Bischoff, came out in an interview to explain his side of the story. Concerning putting Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in the main event of the pay-per-view unsanctioned, he opened up about the backstage politics that run all of it.

Eric Bischoff regrets putting Hulk Hogan in the main event

In a shoot interview, Eric Bischoff said, “In retrospect at that time, having Hulk Hogan in the main event still mattered, it mattered a lot to our pay-per-view distributors. Who weren’t following storylines, by the way, they didn’t give a sh**. What they did care about is who’s on the card and where. Because that’s how they determine how much promotion they’re going to give things.”

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Further, Bischoff added, “They’re going to promote events that they have the highest confidence in and they’ll promote events less that they have less confidence in and for the pay-per-view companies having Hulk Hogan in the main event provided a lot of confidence which means they would promote us more. So that was the reason from a business perspective but from a creative perspective, and one could argue a long-term kind of strategy, it was a mistake”.

Hulk Hogan’s stardom in the ’90s

After fans were bored and moving on from the superheroes and over-the-top personas. The big stars of the ’80s, Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ultimate Warrior, needed to find something else. While at the beginning of the ’90s, Hogan was main-eventing the WrestleMania, defeating Yokozuna to win his last WWF Championship, it was downhill from that time onward.

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After his run with WWF, Hogan would go to NJPW to have a dream match with ‘The Great Muta’. After which he would go to WCW to have another dream match, but this disappointed fans. Many circumstances would riddle the feud between Hogan and Flair.

But his turn to WCW proved to be a shining light that would save his star for a couple of years. Not only would he form nWo, but this would also cement his main event status in WCW. But this was the last peak that Hogan’s career would see. His star would dwindle when he went back to WWF and more when he joined up with TNA. Tell us about your favorite moment from Hogan’s career down in the comments.