Hollywood Hulk Hogan
Chapter One
A Rock and a Hard Place
You can be the Babe Ruth of wrestling and still have something to prove.
That's the way I felt on March 17, 2002, at WrestleMania X8 in the Toronto SkyDome. I had something to prove to myself and a lot of other people, and there was only one place I could do it - in the ring. Against a guy called The Rock. In front of nearly 70,000 screaming fans.
It was already preordained that The Rock would win this clash of titans. We both knew he was going to come out on top that night.
But that didn't make my job easier. If anything, it made it harder. It would have been simple if all I had to do was put a boot in his face and lay a legdrop on him and strut around afterward like I owned the place.
Yeah, that would have been a piece of cake.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the way it was supposed to go down. I was supposed to lose the match, but I was supposed to do it in a way that made even bigger stars of both of us. And that was going to take some doing, brother. Losing this match the way I needed to lose it was going to be a lot harder for me, a ... read full excerpt from Hollywood Hulk Hogan ebook
