WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash who is a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently called Hulk Hogan is the greatest worker in professional wrestling history. He also explained why he believed this.
Hulk Hogan is indeed the most over wrestler of his time. He started his professional wrestling career back in 1977, even though he started to get recognised by the fans after he re joined WWE 1983. He had a short run in WWE from 1979 to 1980 as well but it is a not much remembered by the fans.
Kevin Nash Believes Hulk Hogan Is The Greatest Worker Of All Time
He had a ten year long career in WWE, and in this period of time, he became the most successful professional wrestler of the time. He won a total of six WWE World Championships. This stage of his career is considered as the best one of his whole career.
In 1993, Hulk Hogan switched to the rival promotion of WWE, WCW and he turned heel for the first time under the Hulkamania persona. He won a total of six WCW World Heavyweight Championship during his WCW career. In 2005 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Former WWE Champion Kevin Nash who is also a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently appeared on Eric Bischoff’s 83 Weeks where he called Hulk Hogan is the greatest worker in professional wrestling history. He also explained why he believed this. He said;
“People will always ask me, ‘Who’s the greatest worker of all time?’, and I’ll say, ‘Hulk Hogan.’ They will say, ‘What?’ The number one thing about being a pro wrestler is you have to, in my era, you have to be able to go out there 300 nights minimum a year, and do this. That’s part of the job.
“The one thing that that I always knew, and I probably worked with Hulk 30-50 times in my life where we’ve been against each other doing something, I knew for a matter of fact, a million percent, I would bet everything I own, that I’m going to come back to the locker room in the exact same shape that I left it.
“That’s the key to the work. I’ll say it to the day I die, one of the biggest parts of our business that died happened at Hell in the Cell when Mick Foley fell, whatever he fell, 40 feet through that table, because now we took work, and made it a stunt.
“Nash went on to say, “In 2002 or 2003, whenever I had my Hell in the Cell, they came to me with it. I said, ‘Great, if we don’t go out of the cell.’ They looked at me like, ‘Oh, this is going to be sh*t. This will be horrible.’
“I said, ‘He’s been running from me for three months. That’s what a cell is for. That’s what a cage is for. The cage is because the heel continues to get away from the babyface, and now he can’t.”
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