#1 WrestleMania 9 – Hulk Hogan buries Yokozuna and Bret Hart
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Hulk Hogan was bought back at WrestleMania IX as Vince McMahon knew that the Bret Hart vs Yokozuna match wasn’t going to do a big number. Hogan and Brutus were set to win the tag titles from Money Inc.
Thinking he was above the tag titles, Hogan pitched an idea where he would come out after Yokozuna had beaten Bret Hart and would challenge him to a WWE title match on the spot, ending the show as the WWE Champion. Hogan insisted that he would drop the title back to Yokozuna at the King of the Ring.
Vince agreed to the idea.
Hogan beat Yokozuna in under 2 minutes, seconds after Yokozuna had just beaten Bret Hart – burying both men in the process. Although Hogan insists that he was always dropping the belt to Yokozuna, Bret Hart believed that Hogan was dropping the belt back to him. Only Vince McMahon knows the truth.
Here is what Bret hart had to say in his book about WrestleMania IX:
“Fuji stayed in the ring, absurdly challenging Hogan to a title match with Yoko right then and there. Yoko was still teetering from exhaustion and looking for a second wind that wasn’t there.
Hogan blinked in astonishment at his sudden good fortune. As scripted, with my face buried in the crook of my arm, I waved him to avenge my loss. ‘Go get ’em, Hulk!’
I was really thinking, go ahead, Hogan, take from me what I worked so hard to get. We’ll see just how long you last! Hogan was champion again without even having a match — and before I’d even made it backstage.
He simply ducked the powder Fuji threw in his face, clotheslined Fuji and dropped his big leg on Yoko. I could hear the one . . . two . . . three, the roar of the crowd and Hogan’s music thumping.
I couldn’t help but stare at the TV monitor watching Hogan work the crowd with the same old posing routine, a hand behind the ear, shaking the World belt in the air as if to say that it belonged to him all along.
A few minutes later, Hogan came up to me excited and happy and said, ‘Thank you, brother. I won’t forget it. I’ll be happy to return the favor.’”
As we all know, Hulk Hogan never did return that favour.
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