Hulk Hogan Once Wanted To Turn Heel And Call Himself “Triple H”

Hulk Hogan recently appeared on the Steve Austin Podcast and spoke in depth about his historic WrestleMania VI match with the Ultimate Warrior. Hogan was booked to lose the match in the hope that Warrior would become the next big star.

Hogan talked about how he managed to keep himself relevant despite the loss, and even claimed he once suggested changing his name and character to something many fans will recognise.

“I had my gimmick going,” Hogan said. “All the sudden the Ultimate Warrior comes along, and he has the neon colors on, I have a big set of arms and one big ab, he has a 12-pack. All the sudden I’m sitting in a room and seeing Vince look at him and not really look at me anymore and Vince is calculating the dollar signs. I could see Vince seeing him as a better money-making package than me because I had been along for a while.”

“When we did the WrestleMania thing, we did the build-up pretty good. Then it gets time to go over the finish, and whether I’m going over or not, I have the same two questions: Why are we doing this, and what happens next? When I was told to put the Warrior over, I asked those questions and Vince said, ‘I think the red and yellow is over, we have gotten everything we can out of it.’ And I was like, ‘Damn, Vince what if after the finish I point to God, give him the belts and leave, but I do that slow Three Stooges turn, I go back and gaff his ass and call myself Triple H, Hollywood Hulk Hogan? He said, ‘that would never work and you can’t be a heel.’ So, he squashed that.”

Despite Vince supposedly quashing ideas of the heel turn, Hogan explained how he tried to remain relevant to fans.

“I knew if I slid back out there and grabbed that belt from Hebner, looked up to God and said okay and handed it to him, it would work. He is the one that pulled me in for the hug and he said, ‘I love you’. Now, when I leave, I was betting on the people to follow me going down that aisle. And when you watch, every person is watching me down that aisle, not him celebrating in the ring.”

You can listen to the full podcast here.

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