Hulk Hogan is a name that likely echoes through every wrestling fan’s ears whenever they hear about wrestling. Hogan enjoyed immense popularity during his days in WWE and WCW. However, even after he retired from the sport, he maintained his legacy. He rose during the Golden era, which contained some other equally popular talents such as Ricky Steamboat, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair to name a few.

Ric Flair is often hailed as one of pro wrestling’s greats. Flair dominated the professional wrestling circuit for approximately five decades. Flair had an illustrious career that saw him win various championships at different wrestling promotions.

Recently, the 73-year-old recently took part in his last wrestling match, where he partnered with Andrade to face off against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. The match had Flair walk out as victorious and put an end to his brilliantly woven career.

Flair had successful careers under various promotions. However, his most successful stints came at WWE, WCW and TNA/Impact Wrestling. Flair was in WCW while the Monday Night Wars was on. During the initial phase of the ratings war, WCW toppled WWE, but soon after WWE beat WCW with consistency and ultimately bought the promotion with a mere sum of money.

During a wrestling shoot interview, Flair opened up on Hulk Hogan and what led to the downfall of WCW. When asked about if Flair envied Hogan when he hit his prime in 1984, and wasn’t working the same as others but yet had all the fame.

Flair answered ,”No! We never thought about it. And what I love him to death or Harley is to walk out on tv and go ‘that plastic champion’. You know just can’t talk about some place you’re gonna end up going someday. You know what I mean?”

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Flair continued, “I never said a word you know. I always got along. We had major differences of opinion because he had creative control all the time and I was the only guy that would work with him.” He explained Hogan would never want to work with either Vader or Rude. Flair stated that the worst thing to happen in wrestling was to give a wrestler creative control.

He stated, “The worst thing to happen in the business was giving a wrestler creative control. That was the end because the debt of WCW, ultimately killed WCW. Well, that in fact you are paying guys that weren’t worth nearly what they were getting paid.” He concluded with how wrestlers should not have creative control and how it led to the end of WCW.

Which wrestlers, apart from Hulk Hogan, had creative control in WCW?

It is very rare to witness a wrestler having their own creative control. Often, this has led to favouritism and clashes between the promoter and the wrestlers. However, over the years, many wrestlers had the opportunity of having their own creative control. Apart from Hulk Hogan in WCW, several others had their own creative say in WCW.

Dusty Rhodes was one who was blessed with creative control. However, he was known for his favouritism towards the Four Horsemen and Dustin Rhodes. Another top name was Ric Flair, who was also in fact favouring himself during his feuds.

Wrestlers such as Kevin Sullivan and Kevin Nash were also given creative liberty, and it was clear when Nash made himself the one to defeat Goldberg for his undefeated streak. Creative impositions over wrestlers can be bad sometimes, but often when wrestlers take their own creative control, it does more harm than good.

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