5 WWE Superstars who had backstage power to choose their opponents

#1 Hulk Hogan had backstage power in WWE and WCW

In 2015, Kevin Nash reminisced with Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso about his time in WCW as the promotion’s booker. Although he had a good relationship with Hulk Hogan as co-workers, Nash admitted that it was difficult to book for the WWE Hall of Famer due to his creative control.

“Hulk would come in and say, ‘That doesn’t work for me, brother.’ ‘Well, Hulk, it’s 5.45 pm and you’re in three segments, so I have rewrite those three segments, time them out, get them to sheets, then get them to the trucks, and we’re going live in fifteen.’”

One of the most famous examples of Hogan choosing his opponent in WWE came in 1993 when he refused to drop the WWE Championship back to Bret Hart after WrestleMania IX, even though “The Hitman” had been promised another title reign by Vince McMahon. Instead, Hogan agreed to lose to Yokozuna before leaving WWE for WCW.

Yeah, that doesn’t work for me, Brother.

— The Man (@BeckyLynchWWE) July 22, 2019

As you can see above, “That doesn’t work for me, brother,” has become an iconic Hogan quote. Becky Lynch even used it on Twitter in response to “The Hulkster” after he suggested that WWE legends could take over the company at the WWE RAW Reunion in July 2019.