Hulkamania Era

By Scott Keith on 15 July 2019

I've been watching a lot of the old PPVs lately, and it got me wondering on if there was ever any reports back in the day of resentment from any of the heels (Savage, Dibiase, Hennig, Rude, etc…) being fed to the usual no sell kickouts of Hogan, and to a similar extent, Ultimate Warrior?

I know this was the big money making payday for many being in top programs with Hulk, but some wrestlers take the business/character more seriously than others, so I was curious if any of the heels were mad about their "big spot" being destroyed by the no-sell. Or was it just it's own separate thing being in a Hogan/Warrior match & they go back to traditional finisher booking when they moved back to midcard?

Typically it wasn't issue, although for example Kamala pitched a fit about losing to Hulk on SNME and got replaced by Sika instead, so there are always exceptions. Warrior was different in that he generally wasn't liked in the first place whereas Hulk was at least viewed as someone who was "one of the boys" coming up. But guys like Orndorff made so much money laying down for Hogan night after night that there was never going to be any major problems with it.