WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan’s daughter Brooke Hogan recently took to her Instagram account and posted a picture with the caption:
“Hard to deal with, or not easy to fool?”
Hulk Hogan recently shared his thoughts on his legendary match with The Rock at WrestleMania X8.
Speaking during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Hogan looked back on getting the call from Vince McMahon about the match with The Great One, and how their famous match was made. Here is what he said:
“I got a call from Vince. He goes, ‘We’d like you to come up and work with The Rock at WrestleMania. I said, ‘Well, yeah, I can still go if you need me to come up there. We can make it work. He used to call me monster. He said, ‘Monster, things are different up here now. If you ever come up here, you got to really bring it’ because you know The Rock does this thing in the ring, like bring it, so I didn’t say anything. As a smartass, I’m thinking it if you want me to bring it, you’re gonna be asking me to take it back when I’m done with this bullsh*t.
So anyway, you know, we went up there, had the match. There was a bunch of stuff that happened before the match that was a little bit different than weeks before. When I went up there, what we did on TV was I did everything I could to be a bad guy. I was in Chicago. The place was just slammed in Chicago, just crazy.
I mean, I had so so many matches in Chicago, and the past accolades were so intense there that when I came out as a bad guy that people were like with me, you know, and so all of a sudden, The Rock comes out, gets in the middle of the ring, challenges me to WrestleMania. I go to shake his hand he won’t let my hand go. He pulls me back in and right when we’re face to face, he rock bottoms me and dumps me in the middle of the ring on the back of my head.”
Continuing on, Hogan said his role was to pass the torch and make The Rock the biggest star that he could. Despite being a heel, Hogan was cheered to the rafters during the match, and the two men in the ring had to adapt on the fly, something the WWE Hall of Famer gives Rock huge credit for.
“At the end of the day, I did everything I could to be the worst, most evil person in the world bad guy and we get in Toronto for WrestleMania after I’ve done all these horrible things At the end of the day, I did everything I could to be the worst, most evil person in the world bad guy and we get in Toronto for WrestleMania after I’ve done all these horrible things. Oh my God, now after I do all these horrible things, I come out of the building of WrestleMania and the place is cheering me out of the building.
I’m going, ‘Oh my God. How are we going to fix this’, because The Rock is splitting to go to the Scorpion King and I’m passing the torch, giving him the rub, everything I can to help him be the greatest wrestler ever. Because that guy was so good in the ring, and I never worked him before, but second, third generation instinct, timing, placement, he had everything. It took us about seven or eight minutes.”
