TNA Impact Wrestling star Hulk Hogan was recently interviewed by Joel
Ross and Rob McNichol of The UK Sun, and Hogan spoke on a number of
topics including what his role in TNA actually is. The following are
some interview highlights:
On the topic of what he actually does for TNA:
"I
don’t know what I do!" Hogan said. "I really don’t know! Everybody
always asks me that! They’ve got a bunch of people there. They’ve got
Dixie (Carter), of course. They’ve got Vince Russo who is the head
writer, they’ve got Bruce Pritchard is the head of creative. Eric
Bischoff is the executive producer. To me he’s between the network and
the company, a middle man.
I contribute, I’ll throw stuff out
there creatively and every once in a while if I need to hit the ring
I’ll slide on out there and do whatever, but I don’t really have a job
description. I just try to be there, listen and contribute. If there is
anything I can do to help or guide the direction, I’m there."
On Bobby Roode winning the TNA Title at Bound For Glory, Hogan had the following to say:
"They
were setting him up for failure. They had his parents and everybody
saying what a great guy he was. You put the belt on him and he’s a good
guy but he’s plain white milk toast and who is he going to work with?
When I was sitting at home and I watched the interviews of his parents
and his kids and his wife saying what a great guy he was I thought
‘You’ve got one of the greatest wrestling angles set up here that I have
ever seen and you don’t even know it!’
Don’t let him win the
belt, have him screw everybody, turn heel, put some heat on him, keep
him heel for a long time, get him red hot, and then when you turn him
babyface he’s got a chance to be a Rock or a Stone Cold or a Hogan. (I
thought before Bound For Glory) the way you guys have him set up now
he’s just ‘one of those TNA originals that has five-star matches that
don’t mean nothing’. Give the guy a chance!"
