Jim Cornette on Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels
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The way Shawn sold the "big boot" was one of the funniest things I have seen in a wrestling match.
Yes it was 😂
@@jamesmorant1406 that was my favorite Sell of the big boot. Michaels looked like he got shot😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@The-Endo-SymArmor he looked like a cartoon character bouncing around 😂
@@jamesmorant1406 he looked like a boxer when he gets knocked out
@@The-Endo-SymArmor 😂🥊
Bret should have been the referee for this.
Or Undertaker Imagine Hogan Seeing Undertaker And Had A Post Trauma Disorder
😂😂😂😂
It's hard to tell who he would rule in favour of.
@@iceprincess1898 Oh, that's easy...he would've DQ'd 'em both.
@@andreferguson2564 LMAO 🤣😂😂 Man this match was already hilarious.. Adding Bret would have had the Hardcore Wrestling Fans dead from laughter.. My God! LMFAO 😂😂😂
As a kid this match was epic, but a tad confusing... As an adult it's f*cking hilarious. The part where HBK takes the boot, sells it like he was just shot, then gets up, does a little spin and finally flops to the ground never fails to get me.
Hogan wanted a Hogan match, so Michaels gave them a Hogan match. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Hogan was once a year at this point. Michaels was full time. Michaels even wanted a program, Hogan wanted his win. He got it.
HBK was butthurt that his backstage politics were no match for the grand master of back stage politics
PumpkinsDontCry Even HHH couldn’t help.
@@travismcdonald6576 Lmao HHH himself got outplayed by Hogan in 2002, he wasn't touching this program with a 10ft pole.
Hogan is the king of wrestling no matter what anyone says about him.
@@subzero8679 maybe only in title
Michaels didnt need backstage politics, he was either blowing the boss or allowing the boss to blow him. Literally. (my moneys on the latter)..there were a lot more guys with more talent and drawing power who didnt get away with what he did. He was a glorified trophy wife. Thats why one of the smallest guys in the locker room (and who couldnt win a real fight against a healthy 6 year old girl) and the biggest pr-ck in the business, got away without a daily beating. I know, I know, its an unpopular opinion..and I'll prob be stalked now by some (prob scottish) homosexual kid looking for attention.
While Shawn's actions there were horribly unprofessional, that was possibly the most hilarious match I ever saw.
I was crying I was laughing so hard. It went so far into the bad match category that it rolled around into being a classic, if only for being so hilariously terrible.
Both of them deserved what they got. Hogan got a match that managed to make him look worse than usual (for someone who routinely got "Worst Match of the Year" awards, it's impressive); and Shawn had Hulk Hogan's creative control clause run wild over him, brother!
Lol, same here. When Michaels is on the top rope getting kicked in the stomach, and he's popping in the air like five feet, I was in tears. What makes it all the better is that all that buffoonery was happening to someone that takes themselves so seriously as Hulk Hogan does.
Poetic justice for Michaels but god this match was awful
I actually enjoyed it...sure, the overselling was funny, but it was only in a few spots. The rest of the match was actually pretty good..imo 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Michaels deserved this but after finding out about the fuckery Hogan pulled leading up to the match I was glad it happen to Hogan instead.
Shawn was making a point to Hogan, I understand what he did. Maybe a bit unprofessional, but it was making a point to Terry about not wanting to return the favor in another match.
Anti-gravity boots rofl!
sagari abu I lold at this and the 50 megaton fists 🤣
Hogan pulled a Shawn Micheals on HBK. HBK in turn, turned a dead match with a useless at the time Hogan into a highly talked about classic. Vintage Hogan but also vintage HBK. Haters can say all they want, but HBK put on a marvelous performance.
From my perspective he was under-card at best, and seriously what a fucking whiny bitch, "My mommy says I lost my smile", "my knee hurts" and yeah considering Soma is a heavy muscle relaxant it's hard to keep a smile going. He had talent, too bad he rarely used it. It was clear whenever he got to the ring he was more worried about how his hair looked and if his tights accentuated his ass, over putting on a good show. Brett and him had some classics, but imagine what they could have done if he wasn't such a fucking bitch. God bless him though. It isn't about "haters" (and thanks I haven't heard the phrase haters since I saw my 12 year old niece last, It warmed my heart.) How can you respect someone as unprofessional, backstabbing and self serving as Shawn Michael's. Never seeing the big picture, and no where near the understanding of Ring Psychology as Hart, Piper, Rude, Razor, Dusty Rhodes, Undertaker, all the greats will always overshadow his career because he was not memorable; fuck he was in kindergarten while Hart was doing research in University in comparison, that was true of all the greats on the roster in comparison.
He had the potential to be a groundbreaking innovator, in his early career. As a tag team, I didn't like them but he showed a lot of talent back then but nothing innovated just imitated a style that wasn't common to the WWF. The one thing that proves how selfish and self centered this turd is he becomes born again it his "twilight years". Getting to an age where even though he probably didn't do roids throughout his career there was plenty drinking, pills (death with alcohol guaranteed early) the other assorted drugs, the women, the men, the animals, he knows it's possible he may die younger, but maybe not, so he is washing away his sin, asking Gods forgiveness for himself. That's all he cares about, not feeling empathy for others he hurt, but he's lost his inner smile awwwwwwwwwwwwww
A truly live version of backstage politics is always a great time. More shit like this, less boring modern matches.
Angel Gd didn’t read your long text I stop at the first sentence when you said Shawn was Undercard.. that tells me right off the bat you have no fucking clue wtf you are saying BROTHER.....
@@BeeBumper I'm not a fan of HBK at all, but you have to give the guy credit. Who was pulling a classic match out of Hogan in that time frame? Hogan could barely walk let alone wrestle. HBK is really over rated by the WWE, but he is one of the top five wrestlers of all time and was putting on clinics at house shows during his prime. Not the GOAT but on the short list
@@goatretrogamer If he is top 5 of all time, how is he overrated?
Hulk: you’re not tough enough you don’t have the spine to go over brother
Shawn: i’ll show him that I don’t have a spine
Hulk: finally someone sells my offense properly now that’s how you sell a big boot bother 😂😂😂😂
So stupid he thought Shawn was too small to go over him, even though Shawn had already had a great feud with Taker (who beat hogan for the title in '92) and also big guys like Vader, sid and diesel. Hogan got what he deserved from the greatest in ring performer of all time.
the fact that Hogan got angry is why he lost the match (I know he won on paper but I mean psychologically) if Hulk had instead embraced the joke and looked like he was having fun then he wouldn't look like a fool because he would also be in on the joke.
not going to lie.......i loved this match.....i laughed my ass off
Wait, I'm confused. It sounded like Jim said he was taking Shawn's side, only to immediate criticize his actions.
Jim is getting soft. A while ago, he inadvertently paid Shawn a compliment. It's only a matter of time before girls start shipping Jim and Shawn lol Assuming any even listen to his podcast.
I think it was one of those situations where you can be sympathetic while also criticizing.
He was taking HBKs side in the regard of getting a job out of Hogan. Then he criticises the fact that HBK did the match and fucked Hogan over.
Well he could have not showed up at all.
Nothing was better than shawn flying out of the ring and rolling up the ramp lmao. Then the big boot from hogan sent him into orbit 😂🤣
This is why I love guys like Taker. I've never heard a single story of Taker refusing to do a job or put someone over
@Jobaer bhuiyan taker lost to rock stone cold. Mick foley, he lost back to back with Michael's in 1997 he lost to alot of guys but it's not the loss that matter it's the fact putting guys over to make the company look good and build a new character , taker never had issues putting nobody over
Look up Undertaker vs Jeff Hardy in their ladder match. You can't tell me that he wasn't putting Hardy over at the very end.
Jobaer bhuiyan Taker put Edge, Brock, HBK, Bret , the shield, Punk, Reigns, Austin, mankind and more over
@@LeemWills Taker was a company man that put the business first. Sadly he was surrounded by egos who only could think of ME ME ME.
Undertaker put fucking Maven over!!!
Idk how people say Shawn never put people over...he put over Razor at WM 10...Kevin at WM 11...Austin at 14...Benoit at WM 20...Angle at WM 21...Cena at WM 23....and taker both WM 25 & 26....not to mention all the times he put over triple H and Randy Orton in the title matches they had
For god's sake he put over Devari with a LOW BLOW. Yes it wasnt clean but a low blow.. Thats how many people Shawn put over.
If you think he was trash (as some in the comments apparently do) then he wasn't putting people over but actually losing matches he didn't deserve to be in. I dont get it, but some people really hate HBK.
Shawn Michaels literally put everyone over in the 2000's. He put wrestler over on 8 years more than Hogan in his entire career.
He also got paid his full check to sit at home and pop pills for 2-3 years. You act like he did something admirable. All of that just makes up for his BS in the 90s.
@@Jukeboxster Hulk Hogan was worse. He literally said himself that he took steroids.
Well, what I love about this story is that Shawn Michaels was totally out-politicked by Hogan. He will always be #1 at that.
Even Shawn couldn't out politic Hogan and Shawn been playing politics for years.. but in my opinion Shawn deserves this Karma on how he treated Vader anyways.. Go Hogan Go!
Doesn't mean Hogan was any better. His Ego is still the size of Jupiter. Planet Hogan is bigger than the entire solar system for all I know.
@Damien Jones exactly Hogan made Vince his first millions while stone cold made him his first billion, Michael's a legend but he definitely didn't draw as much as Hogan and Austin
Tbh, they were BOTH giant pos
@@omegamark9178 I think we can all agree with that statement.
Vince orchestrated the heat between the two. You can say it's just business all you want but given all the facts, there is no reason at all to have Hogan beat HBK. It makes no sense. So Shawn being Shawn, he made sure everyone knew who the man was.
HBK did a HBK on Hogan
Hogan did a HBK on HBK
HBK didn’t screw Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan screwed Hulk Hogan
I remember watching this and was like wtf this is gold.
datsweetsansabooty yeah I don't know what this guys are talking about. I think this match was the shit! I love both of them and they performed quite well!
@@MR421NOW watch the match and see how Shawn Michaels selled
@@LongHuynh-bx5ll Whether you know that side of it or not, if it entertained you, it served its purpose. It's like when someone watches a scary movie and ends up laughing the whole time. Was it bad? No, it just failed at what the creators wanted it to be, but it's still fun and enjoyable.
Shawn got the Triple Crown lol. Dropped Tag, IC and World titles without losing in the ring.
Grand Slam count the European title too, he did drop it but he really didn't at the same time.
Travis W
he lost that title "fair and square" to Triple H lulz
Except when he put over Austin at mania..
Yeah he lost his smile, faked a knee injury and some other nonsense, not an honorable end to any of them.
Stone cold would argue that!!!
This match predicted the modern flippy shit style.
I gotra say I hate stuff that exposes the business or makes it look silly, but Michaels did make me laugh very hard.
Shawn put plenty of people over in his second run
He did screw over quite a few people in his first run so, give or take, evens it out.
No, it's not even. He spent years burying people and screwing people over. I did not hear anything bad about him in his short comebacks but over the course of his career he did way more harm than good.
Very true look how many times during is 4 year rivalry with triple h how many times did he actually go over in a one on one match
@@fightsports66 short comeback? He wrestled for 8 more years.
Hogan did also, 2002 run Hogan lost to Kurt angle he tapped out, hhh , undertaker, Brock lesnar , Hogan came back and gave back so Michael's wasn't the only one, he lost to Brock being bear hugged clean
Skid marks on the owners desk 😂😂😂
This just makes me laugh and I feel bad for neither of them. I'm a huge Shawn Michaels fan but he deserved this for what he did in the 90s. Then Hulk deserved this for what he did back then too. They deserved each other. I would have liked to see an encounter between the two back in 1993 between WM 9 and King of the Ring. Make it a Raw match. I don't need a big program. Just that would have done.
Nah, Hulk acted the way he did because he really was the man. he was a license to print money. As much as he may have not helped our favorites much, he drew huge money and huge crowds. Michaels on the other hand never drew shit and with him as the main man WWF nearly went out of business. You cannot compare the 2 at all. One was THE man, one was minor star who never meant much by himself.
Hogan would have refused to work with someone like Michaels back in 1993.
@@a.jseventyseven8771 fuck you
@@abcsin6526 truth hurts
@@aboriginalson truth doesn't..he is talking crap
Shawn Michael's at that time he was ultimate warrior over with the fans. But unlike the warrior Shawn could work and tell a great story. His feud with Bret Hart and the Hart foundation is incredible. Imagine the matches they would of had if Bret would of never went to Wcw.
Here's what happened. HBK and Hogan were supposed to have a best of 3 series from August to October of 2005. HBK wanted it to be face vs face and may the best man win. Hogan bitched to Vince that it should be classic face vs heel and forced Shawn into turning heel. Shawn didnt want to bit did anyway. Vince also planned on Hogan winning the first, Shawn the second and Hogan the third. Then during the buildup to Match 1 at Summerslam, Hogan mysteriously comes down with a bad knee despite not getting in the ring. This means its no longer a best of 3 and Summerslam is going to be their only shot. As much of a pain in the ass HBK is, he got pidgeonholed into turning heel and this lucrative series was now going to be a one and done where he does the job. Shawn knew he couldn't back out of the situation with a fake injury of his own or losing his smile, so he did the one thing he could, tank the fucking match. Hogan got his way and Shawn made him pay for it. What should have been an alltime feud was a one shot abortion due to ego and age.
Hogan didn't need that win in all honesty. Same with Randy Orton. Hogan killed his Legend killer gimmick. Im on shawn michaels side 100 percent.
Hogan says he was still on board with the best of three until he heard Michaels promo on Raw the next night.
@@greatone33j nah that was Hogan being a classic politician saying that to cover up the fact that he just didn't want to lose Michaels. He knew the moment he convinced Vince to make Michaels the heel in this feud and found out he was getting the first win that he could lie his way out of the other two scheduled matches.
The classic “that doesn’t work for me brother”
KHayes666 Shawn lost at his own game, Shawn and his Kliq fucked over so many ppl it’s a joke, it’s good to see hogan fuck him over, Shawn’s just too much of a sook to take it
I bought the PPV for this match and loved it! Shawn's overselling made the match, for better or worse it would of been dull without it. Remember Hulk & Randy Orton the very next year...
Facts
Too many people only watched the highlights. It's a great match. Crowd was on fire.
Funny how they shit on HBK for being unprofessional yet say nothing about Hulk giving HBK and everyone else in the entire industry the playbook for how to be unprofessional.
Imagine helping Vince sink WCW (Albeit only up until 98 when he retired) while Hogan was on the other team trying to sink WWE and then once you beat them Hogan comes over from the dead company and starts calling the shots and actually gets what he wants? I don't blame Shawn for doing it.
Real shit . Obviously I dont know him personally but I dont fuck with hogan like that . He seems so snake like and a dick
So freaking hilarious and long overdue lol Hogan has gotten away with so much crap and has never had to own any of it. HBK, among others, have had to own everything they’ve ever done. This is the 1 time Hogan’s ever been taken to task for anything lol!
Nobody will ever out-politick Hulk Hogan in the pro wrestling business
Terry jobbed to Dwayne twice
Between the promo before and the overselling it's fucking gold 🤣
This was simply the first time Hogan wasnt pulling his punches. You saw the damage they did. Poor shawn didnt know what hit him.
His alleged planned fight with Mike Tyson should’ve happened and probably would’ve went Hogan’s way given his display of elite level striking in this match
My memory may be slipping, but I remember Michaels saying in a video that he wanted to have a face vs face, who's the best, type of match but Hogan said that it wouldn't work. Hogan said that Michaels had to turn heel and Shawn didn't like that so that is why he went so over the top with the build up to SummerSlam and with the overselling.
When I was a kid watching that match live I thought how strong Hogan was to make Shawn bounce all over the place. lol
I love how people act like it's some kind of great mystery as to why Vince gives Shawn such a long leash. He was the best worker in the business since roughly 1994... When you're the best at something, the rules don't apply to you. That's how life works, lol.
the promo HBK had in Montreal before this match "WHO'S YOUR DADDY MONTREAL?!!?" was legendary, HBK was not only the best worker in WWE in 2005 he was a mega heel because of the Screwjob and made Hogan look like a big babyface (despite not being able to go in the ring anymore). Even in the match he put Hogan over, yes some say in a overexaggerated way, but at the end of the day that promo in Montreal HBK promised Hogan 'a match he and the WWE fans would never forget' and it was 100 percent.
Hogan deserved this humiliation.
Michaels running around in a circle and then doing a flip after taking the big boot ended me.
Hahaha I know. That might be the best oversell ever.
That match and entire feud was great
One of the greatest Hogan matches, ever! I don't care what lead to it or why. This match is priceless and awesome, and still more believable than the average WWE show today.
ITCHYisVegeta
Agoraphobic much...?
@@kelman727 Yes, I do hate spiders actually.
One of the greatest matches of all time. No seriously. The over selling made it great
1:23 this run of words is hilarious and should be on a t shirt 😂😂😂
ive heard that Hogan refused to put Rocky over in Rocky III
HBK gave the cartoon characther a cartoon match
This made me like shawn more after watching it..
Its so much fun ive even been in real life conflicts that ended up in a fight and i do that they think there whipping my ads then bamm 11223 jabs its over lmao i practice alot sparing
Lol
As a Bret mark I hated both guys at the time, but this is easily the funniest match I've ever seen. I can't imagine how salty Hogan was when he realized what was up.
This match was the equivalent of watching a pair of viruses eat each other to death in spectacular fashion.
I watched it as a kid and as a kid it was cool to see but I didn't really know what was happening looking back on it now is just like wtf
Shawn Michaels dropped the belt to Austin.
Hbk did put Austin over at Wrestlemania 14
Only after Undertaker sat there taping his fists and making him do the match or face a beating lol
Lol watching Michaels fly around lime a ragdoll in a blender was hilarious! The match ended horrible with hogan REALLY bleeding!
Gotta love when guys let their egos get in the way of making money 😒
If anyone got in the way of making money....it was Hogan. He's the one that that changed the plans.
Hogan is a joke, Shawn lol needed the money. I was always a Bret and Taker fan but this proved how many levels Michaels was above Hogan even in a so-called loss
C'mon, it's great to watch 🤣🤣🤣
But it was an extremely entertaining match. Without the exaggerations it wouldn't be the same. I think Shawn actually did something to better the match in the end.
We wouldn't be talking about that match still if it wasn't so memorable lol
Like below, Shawn selling the big boot reminds me of Scott Hall selling the stone cold stunner lol... Like it was an explosion... 🤣🤣🤣
Go back and watch heel Shawn in 95 and with Dx in 97/98 he always oversold the shit out of things. Maybe not to this extreme but that was something he did to try to get heat.
This was the first match he worked heel I in over 8 years so he may have been a little rusty in that regard and did it too much.
Nah he wasn't rusty. Was he rusty when he came back in '02? Shawn is one of the best. He knew exactly what he was doing.
"Shawn never put anyone over??" How about 11 Wrestlemania losses?
That summerslam was awesome and as a teenager, it was funny and a great moment for sure
Hogan got a taste of how every opponent should have always sold for him (in his mind)
The funniest main event of Summerslam ever
I am sorry but I side with Shawn in this match. For once, Hogan was washed up. Hulkamania was nothing but a replica of the past and maybe good for nostalgia/ There was no value in Hogan going over. Dude had nothing to pass on to the WWE by getting the win, NADA< ZILCH. Why the hell was he even booked to win.
When you say "that doesn't work for me brother" one too many times
There's a lot of overselling in that match, which is anti-AEW in that there's little to no overselling.
No wonder Bret DRAGGED Shawn around a dressing room in Hartford, and ALMOST dragged Hogan around a dressing room in Dayton Ohio. Two of the absolute selfish human beings in the history of pro wrestling.
Damien Jones Bret takes Hogan 100%
Shawn Michaels did the job for Stone Cold.
Lol I Literally Just Watched this Match Today For the First Time in Years and the Over-Selling was so Ridiculous that I Had to Look Up if Cornette Ever Talked About it & Alas He Did! Love it! 🤘💯
If memory serves me correctly, didn't HBK drop the belt to Sid Vicious once?
And stone cold steve Austin
He dropped it at Survivor Series 96 to Sid so he could win it back in his hometown at Rumble 97 in the Alamo Dome. Then the whole "lost his smile" BS happened when they wanted to take the belt off him at WM13 because his babyface run just wasn't drawing good.
@@GorditoCrunch343 that's a lie, he was supposed to wrestle Bret Hart at that Wrestlemania defending his title but "lost his smile" because he had a knee injury. Nobody wanted the title off him, he was the top face in the company and always got the biggest cheers from the crowd. Only ones even close to his popularity were Undertaker and then Bret.
fmthebaron Not true. It was going to be a trilogy from the beginning. Michaels wins at WM 12, would drop the belt to Bret at WM 13 and then win it back at WM 14. His run as top face was a failure and Austin had supplanted him as top face from mid-97 after he went and lost his smile.
@@GorditoCrunch343 if you watched the HBK/Austin KOTR match in mid 97 you'd clearly see that HBK was still the most popular/over guy in the WWE at that time (Bruce Prichard states this as well in his podcast) until he screwed The Undertaker at Summerslam in August. When HBK turned heel and formed DX, The Undertaker had become the new top face since he was 2nd most popular behind HBK in 97. Austin didn't start becoming really popular until the end of 97 in his mid card feud with The Rock. Then in 98, Austin finally became the top face after winning the belt at WM14.
the irresistible pillhead vs the immovable backstabber.
Sterling Golden Vs. one half of The Rockers.
Everyone saying there was supposed to be a best of 3 series is WRONG. There was only ever ONE Hogan vs. Michaels match originally scheduled to take place. Hogan wouldn't have agreed to return to the ring if he was going to lose because it would have made him look like he was a has-been rather than a legend who “still has it”. Michaels was warned by his peers that he would have to do things Hogan's way but the arrogant HBK believed he could out-politic The Hulkster (a man who could pull strings & make moves like no other wrestler, past or present) behind the scenes. When Michaels finally realized - after weeks of trying - that he couldn't, then & only then, did Michaels propose a second match.
Contrary to reports at the time that state he wanted to win the rematch, Hogan straight up ADMITTED during an interview (WrestleCast) he expected to return the favour for HBK but shut the feud down upon seeing a resentful & seething Michaels sarcastically mock him the next night on RAW after SummerSlam because it wasn't a serious interview & perhaps he let his personal feelings get too much involved.
Michaels got upset because Hogan beat him at his own game - he was frustrated with his inability to out-negotiate Hogan behind the scenes. Michaels was never supposed to be anything other then Hogan's job boy bitch but his ego wouldn't allow it. When the politics didn't work (Michaels didn't have the leverage or the persuasive power he thought he did) he accepted his fate & then cried to McMahon to let him cut a promo sarcastically mocking Hogan proving while he's a changed man in many ways, he's still at his core the same person he's always been.
This was 2002....Hogan was a has-been as early as 1999.
Actually it WAS supposed to be a best of three series, but Hogan fucked it up.
Hogan lies about everything dont swallow his nut he never tells the truth it was gonna be a best of 3 vince even said so on austins podcast
How Shawn Micheals gets away with that unprofessional
Hogan should have blasted him and pinned him after he realized what THE MOST OVERRATED WRESTLER OF ALL TIME was up to.
Bret was light years ahead of Shawn bro.... Thank you....👍🏾
so edgy.
Shud we laugh,dumbass
Don't know what's funnier...the fact that you were stupid enough to type that idiotic comment out or the fact that your one brain cell actually believes that lol. Shawn is the undisputed and undeniable G.O.A.T of professional wrestling
@@chrisiverson5648 WHO'S YOUR DADDY MONTREAL!!!
It doesn't work for me brother
This match was PWI's 2nd-runner up for Match of the Year, so fans did enjoy it, in spite of Shawn.
In all likelyhood, because of Shawn. The oversells worked against Hulk Hogan.
You meant to say in spite of Hogan
Can someone tell me what HBKs record is at Wrestlemania? This dude made a living at making an ass kicking look good.
This match was only any good because of HBK's antics
i marked out on so many levels for this match lol
Hulk doesn't just think "what the he'll is he doing? " he yells out "knock it off shawn!"
HBK wasn't the bad guy in this situation.
Nahhhhhh Hogan got he deserved on this one guys. Sorry.
Clash of the egotistical crybabies.
Both are notorious for not putting over other talent and both had reasons not to trust the other. Match made in heaven.
I understand why you guys continually bash HBK. Jim's experience of him was a horrible one. Having said that though, let's not act like Michaels didn't do jobs when he returned in 2002. He continually lost to Trips, Cena, Jericho, Batista, Orton, Undertaker, and he even lost to Vince and Shane.
Come on. As I said, I get the bashing, but HBK's career did not end in 1998. So the 7 years he was a prick from 91-98, IMO is trumped by the 8 years he was a genuinely good guy from 02-10.
Hogan deserved every bit of what Shawn gave him because he done the ole Fu Manchu rub and said, "That doesn't work for me, brother.", when dealing with Shawn.
Honestly this match was great
at the time critics and fans enjoyed the match and stated Michael's performance was brilliant ( hbk did the same in his survivor series 96 Match with sid )
I thought it was hilarious
The way I see it, Hogan gave HBK a dose of his own medicine! Lol!
I don't know if it's just his microphone but Jim sounds much healthier and much more boisterous in 2021, I really hope that's the truth and that he's happier and healthier too.. I only watched this because I had just watched that same match and didn't realize JC commented on it 4 years ago.
Mr. Cornette, to infinity and beyond!
Flopping around like a fish lol
To be fair to Shawn (no matter what he did in the past) it was one thing after another with the fucking, first its Hogan forcing Shawn to turn heel, Shawn didn't want to, Vince okayed a face v face whose better type program between the two, then Hogan's okaying all the promos Shawn is doing about him, tell him to his face it's good, and going to Vince after and cutting his nuts off about it, and then it's a last minute changing the 3 match program to one match to one match, and on top of it all makes it so he goes over, even though he's going away Shawn's going to stay for years more. Shawn shouldn't have done what he did, but its not like he made Hogan look bad because he didnt like Hulk.
"never put anyone over" - literally has a losing record at wrestlemania......
It was hilarious
More like pathetic. Basically showed the world what a piece of garbage Michaels was.
The first time I mentioned Hogan and politics to people they thought I meant Presidential politics. Could you imagine the President of the United States of Hulkamania? Let me tell you something Kim Jong Il brother! If you don't dismantle those nukes The Hulkster and his 24" pythons are coming over there brother and we're gonna drop bombs AND legs brother. You better get ready brother because Hulkamania is gonna run wild ON YOU!!!!!!!
To all the salty teared yahoos in the comment section. The now well established time line for this is. Hogan and Michaels are booked for 3 matches. Michaels is forced into a heel turn by Hogan and Vince that he despises but does what is best for business. Then after the angle begins and HBK is in the middle of the turn Hogan reveals that he has knee and back pain and will only wrestle one match. Then he pulls his CC card and says he's going over. Vince agrees and HBK gets punked. As revenge he oversold Hogan's offense like an Ocotopus in a Washing Machine. The whole thing was Vince and Hogan's fault. It left HBK with alot of Egg on his face and was over all bad for business. More so because it came out that Hogan KNEW he could only do one match but faked like he would or could do multiple matches. So for everyone who just hates HBK fine. However facts are what they are. You may not like it but in my view Hogan was wrong. Not saying he has to do the favors. Maybe have a Dusty Finish or let HBK get DQ'd by beating his knee or back and then have Hogan have to "retire" because of it.
phreak811 exactly. That is exactly what many people in the company has said what happened. Yes, Michael's could have and probably should have acted better, but Hogan knew exactly what he was doing. I guarantee you Michaels has put over more guys than Hogan has.
Thumbs up for the "Octopus in a washing machine" zinger.
Hogan did to Shawn what Shawn did to everyone else
@@Cream-2128 nah hogan did to shawn what hogan did to everyone else. hogan went on to win the title again too some time after that while shawn jus put everyone over. shawn did that bitch shit in the 90s hogan continued it his entire career. foh
@@vipset87 I'm not gonna deny that HBK wasn't an angel back in the 90's. He was terrible. But after he came back in 02. Most of the big matches, he lost. He Tapped out to Benoit at Backlash, lost the feud with HHH, lost to Cena, lost to Taker.
Hogan has never put anyone over without sharing the spotlight or making himself look like the hero of the situation. Dude is an absolute cancer to wrestling.
3:38 probably literally too...
they definitely should do a watch-along of this
Was Shawn being unprofessional? Yes.
Was it funny? Fuck yeah it was lol
I look back on that match I laugh because of oversell Shawn didn’t want to lose to hogan and hogan didn’t want to lose to Shawn.
Hbk over sold because Hogan refused to lose clean.
Hogan v Michaels was my favorite match ever. Andre v Hogan was, but this is it.