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Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan appears in 14 storylines documented on WrestlingFeuds, as a principal in 11, spanning 1983–1999 in WWF and WCW.

Feuds and rivalries

Golden Era·WWF·1983–1984

Hulk Hogan vs. The Iron Sheik (Dec 1983 – Jan 1984)

The Iron Sheik held the WWF Championship for less than a month as a transitional flag-waving heel before Hulk Hogan escaped the camel clutch at Madison Square Garden to win the title, launching Hulkamania and, by both men's later account, surviving a $100,000 bribe to break Hogan's leg instead.

Hulk Hogan · The Iron Sheik

Golden Era·WWF·1984–1985

Hulk Hogan vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper (Jun 1984 – Mar 1985)

Roddy Piper's contempt for the WWF's new MTV-driven Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection escalated from talk-show insults into an assault on Cyndi Lauper, pulling in champion Hulk Hogan and building to the first WrestleMania, a closed-circuit show Vince McMahon called the biggest gamble of his career.

Hulk Hogan · Roddy Piper

Golden Era·WWF·1986–1987

Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff (Jul 1986 – Mar 1987)

Paul Orndorff spent a year as Hulk Hogan's tag partner, then piledrove him on television after Adrian Adonis spent weeks calling him "Hulk junior." Their title match filled Toronto's Exhibition Stadium with a then-record outdoor wrestling crowd, and the feud ended in a steel cage match that had to be restarted after two referees declared different winners.

Hulk Hogan · Paul Orndorff · Bobby Heenan · Adrian Adonis · Roddy Piper

Golden Era·WWF·1987–1988

Hulk Hogan vs. André the Giant (Jan 1987 – Aug 1988)

André the Giant turned on his friend Hulk Hogan and challenged him for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania III, in front of a WWF-announced 93,173 at the Pontiac Silverdome.

Hulk Hogan · André the Giant · Bobby Heenan

Golden Era·WWF·1987–1989

Hulk Hogan vs. Macho Man Randy Savage (Oct 1987 – Apr 1989)

The partnership between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage collapsed at WrestleMania V in one of the WWF's most carefully built storylines, driven by jealousy over Miss Elizabeth and the WWF Championship.

Hulk Hogan · Randy Savage · Miss Elizabeth

Golden Era·WWF·1990–1991

Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior (Jan 1990 – Aug 1991)

Hulk Hogan handed the Ultimate Warrior the WWF Championship in the biggest torch-pass of the boom era at WrestleMania VI, then privately asked Vince McMahon if he could turn heel and take it right back.

Hulk Hogan · Ultimate Warrior · Mr. Perfect

New Generation·WWF·1993

Yokozuna vs. Hulk Hogan vs. Bret Hitman Hart (Apr 1993 – Jun 1993)

Bret Hart lost the WWF Championship to salt in the eyes at WrestleMania IX, then watched Hulk Hogan answer an impromptu challenge and win the title in about 20 seconds. Hart says Hogan promised to return the favor and never did; Hogan said the plan was always to drop the belt back to Yokozuna. The argument outlived both men's careers, and Hogan himself.

Bret Hart · Hulk Hogan · Yokozuna · Mr. Fuji

Attitude Era·WCW·1996

The New World Order vs. WCW (May 1996 – Dec 1996)

Scott Hall's shock walk-in from the crowd on Nitro, Kevin Nash's arrival two weeks later, and Hulk Hogan's heel turn at Bash at the Beach launched an invasion angle built on real WWF contract jumps, turning WCW's Monday night ratings around and igniting the New World Order's first chaotic year against the promotion it claimed to be taking over.

Hulk Hogan · Kevin Nash · Scott Hall · Randy Savage · Sting · Lex Luger

Attitude Era·WCW·1996–1998

Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan (Sep 1996 – Feb 1998)

Eighteen months of Sting silently stalking the New World Order from the rafters built to Starrcade 1997's WCW World Heavyweight Championship match, a finish so botched by conflicting instructions and Hollywood Hogan's last-minute creative control that the title had to be vacated and settled two months later at SuperBrawl VIII.

Sting · Hulk Hogan · Randy Savage · Bret Hart · Lex Luger · Kevin Nash

Attitude Era·WCW·1997–1998

Goldberg vs. Hollywood Hogan (Sep 1997 – Jul 1998)

A former NFL lineman with a ten-month-old undefeated streak walked into the Georgia Dome, went through Scott Hall and then Hollywood Hogan in the same night, and won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in front of 41,412 fans, a match WCW gave away on Nitro instead of saving it for pay-per-view.

Bill Goldberg · Hollywood Hogan · Scott Hall · Eric Bischoff

Attitude Era·WCW·1998–1999

Goldberg vs. Kevin Nash (Nov 1998 – Jan 1999)

Kevin Nash won a 60-man battle royal to earn a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match against Goldberg, then beat him at Starrcade after Scott Hall hit him with a stun gun at ringside, ending a 173-match undefeated streak. Eight days later, with Goldberg written out of the rematch, Nash lay down for Hollywood Hogan and a finger poke.

Bill Goldberg · Kevin Nash · Scott Hall · Hollywood Hogan · Eric Bischoff

Also appears in

Golden Era·WWF·1984–1985

Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Superfly Jimmy Snuka (Mar 1984 – Mar 1985)

Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head on Piper's Pit in 1984, starting a grudge that ran through the WWF's arenas all summer and fed into the main event of the first WrestleMania.

Roddy Piper · Jimmy Snuka

Golden Era·WWF·1992

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Nature Boy Ric Flair (Jan 1992 – Nov 1992)

Ric Flair walked into the WWF with the NWA's real world title belt under his arm and, months later, doctored photographs claiming he'd had Miss Elizabeth before Randy Savage ever did. Savage's real marriage was already collapsing off camera, and the WWF built its WrestleMania VIII main event on top of it anyway.

Randy Savage · Ric Flair · Miss Elizabeth · Mr. Perfect · Bobby Heenan · Razor Ramon

Attitude Era·WCW·1997

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Macho Man Randy Savage (Feb 1997 – Oct 1997)

Randy Savage joined the nWo and humiliated Diamond Dallas Page's wife on pay-per-view to start it, but the feud that followed became the story of a veteran handing a rising star his career: Savage chose to take the Diamond Cutter at Spring Stampede, and Page never stopped saying so.

Diamond Dallas Page · Randy Savage · Kimberly Page · Miss Elizabeth · Scott Hall

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