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Hulk Hogan is by far one of the greatest pro wrestlers in the history of the company. His wrestling dominance is spread through several years, and he is even credited with taking WWE to new heights. Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan took WWE from a regional wrestling promotion to an International giant. However, his huge physique caught everyone’s eye and became a vital part of his gimmick.

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A professional life means people tend to make friends as well as enemies for life. Even though Hulk Hogan was one of the most popular figures in the company, he was hated by a number of people. Initially, friends with Randy Savage Macho Man, their relationship later turned sour.

Speaking to Inside the Ropes in 2012, Matt Borne aka Doing the Clown, spilled several secrets about WWE, and Hulk Hogan. It was him that revealed the major reason behind Hulk Hogan’s black eye at WrestleMania IX. He revealed that it was Randy Savage that gave Hogan the black eye.

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Borne said, “Randy Savage was a man. Hulk Hogan has never been a man. Hulk Hogan’s a big a** p***y.” He revealed the incident as, Savage’s ex Elizabeth was seeing a small time producer then, and Hogan knew about it. When Savage came to visit Hogan, Elizabeth hid in a backroom inside Hogan’s house.

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However, The Macho Man would find out about it, and give Hogan a black eye. Borne said, ” Friends don’t do friend like that. Hogan was supposed to be Savage’s friend and he threw him under a bus and he got a black eye for it.”

Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage later in their life got into a real-life rivalry, which continued for a long time.

Randy Savage had once asked Hulk Hogan to visit a rehab

The Hulkster and The Macho Man were involved in a real-life beef, and could not stand each other. In a video from 2003, Randy Savage is seen opening up and getting all real about Hulk Hogan in a shoot interview. Savage stated how Hogan had declined his offer of a shoot charity fight, and thus dissed him with a song, and brought his real self out.

He gave his reasons behind dissing Hulk Hogan with a song. Savage said, “What I mean, you guys seem to be down. That’s right, you know, get along that way. You know just when you get a spree go. You need to go into ego rehab. Check yourself in, dude. Man, you are out of control.”

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Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage have always been in a complicated relationship, however, the two had shortly reconciled before Savage’s death.

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