What I never understood about Hogan's reluctance to job was the fact he jobbed to the Ultimate Warrior at Wrestlemania VI and what wound up being the final peak of Hulkamania. It never made much sense to do it then, then refuse to do it later in his career when his invincibility had loooooong worn off.

McMahon must have paid him massive amounts of money to do that, and if money is what would convince Hogan to lose, McMahon should have handed him blank checks at least twice during Hogan's 84-88 title reign. He had way too much competition during that time frame to never lose. The original Hulkamania reign went stale awfully quick, but they were able to get away with it because Hogan was a huge icon at the time and millions of kids did not want to see him lose.

Had I been a booker, I would have had Hogan lose the belt to Bundy at Wrestlemania II, and win it back quickly on an episode of Saturday Night's Main Event. I also hated the fact that WWF would never allow any face vs face matches back then. It caused them to squander what would have been a match for the ages between Hogan and Steamboat in the aftermath of Wrestlemania III. Both were huge stars at the time and Steamboat was awfully close to Hogan's status popularity wise. They could have easily set up a scenario where Steamboat walks up to Hogan during an interview segment demanding a shot at the title, and as IC champion(and number one contender), he was entitled to it. They wouldn't have needed to make Steamboat a heel to make this work. Of course Steamboat screwed the pooch by demanding time off because his wife had just had a baby, this pissed Mcmahon off, and he forced Steamboat to job to Honkeytonk Man and made Steamboat irrelevant and let him go to WCW. Steamboat of course picked up where he had left off in WWF and had a feud with Flair which led to two of the greatest wrestling matches in history.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I might have to dust off some of the old tapes as well!

I think it was more or less a "youth movement". Wouldnt be much longer till Ted Turner was buying up alot of the established talent in the WWF.

Psychotic people exist at almost any age.  Columbine is alot more complicated than simply blaming it on school bullying.  I don't dismiss that teenagers have problems, I simply don't believe their problems are generally unique or problems of any real concern.  I know it's not PC to say, but some people are just weak.  Simple fact of nature and we shouldn't cater to the victim mentality that perscibes zoloft and aderol for every teen that walks into a doctor's office.