Haha what an amazing comment. I doubt that TNA have looked at this long-term. They just remember the period when Nitro was beating Raw due to the NWO, not the fact that WCW went down despite their size and the backing they had.

Still I want to have faith that Bischoff may be able to bring some sanity and creativity into the mix. But Russo, Bischoff and Hogan working together just spells doom. Or maybe they still are angry with what happened with WCW and since, and what to prove to everyone that they can create new stars and be competition to WWE (who themselves are having difficulty with creating new stars). In a perfect world TNA uses Hogan's arrival to get extra exposure to TNA homegrown talent, backed up by veterans which gets people talking about AJ, Morgan, MCMG, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, Hernandez, Eric Young, British Invasion, Beer Money etc, rather than relying on Angle, Rhyno, Team 3D, Nash and Steiner. People who know me know how much I disliked TNA, but after seeing them live and recent events I am genuinely interested in them.

Hogan Haters be damned. No matter what you say or feel he is the biggest name the industry has ever seen and his heel turn and joining the NWO (along with Turner's/Time Warner checkbook) made WCW the number one wrestling company and that forced the WWE to produce a better product and since the demise of WCW the guys in stamford have for the most part put out a inferior product. People can rant all they want about AJ Styles or Samoa Joe but those guys are not drawing ratings. So either you like Hogan in TNA or not learn to love it.

While the whole comment may not have been as good the line "I know this will get a lot of heat but I can't take Joe Belushi serious as a legitimate threat to win a title." destroyed me.

There's a word to describe Hogan, and it rhymes with "gwarcissist."

Yeah, that company the nearly put Vince and WWE OUT OF BUSINESS, and handed them their behinds 82 WEEKS IN A ROW, you WWE mark. Hogan is not the reason WCW went out of business, the AOL/Time Warner suits are.

And for the record, Hogan came into WCW in 1994, and they were still around 5 years later in 1999.

It's a funny quip, but misleading. WCW "imploded" for a number of reasons, and almost none of them were Hulk Hogan.

...although to be fair, WCW's one-time dominance was also attributable to multiple factors—and most of them weren't Hulk Hogan, either.

I read reports where Hogan has been telling people that he will be calling the shots at tna. Bob, Dixie Carter, whoever is responsible for bringing Hogan to tna, you just did yourself a huge disservice by signing that guy. I can see it now, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Matt Morgan being pushed to the back by Hogan to give the spotlight to who he wants or worse himself. Then Styles, Joe, Morgan get fed up, leave tna to go to wwe like Chris Jericho, Benoit, Mysterio and Guerrero did with wcw. I hope I'm wrong but the gut feeling is it's going to be de ja vu all over again.

RESPONSE FROM KE: Styles and Morgan aren't going anywhere, as they just signed extensions.

Who really gives a flying turnbuckle!

I haven't been able to catch TNA for a few months due to Project Runway (don't hate!). Now that Hogan and Bischoff are there, at least I know I'm not missing anything.

Hogan was part of WCW's success, but he was also part of its ultimate failure. He refused to put Sting over at Starcade 1997, buried Goldberg, Ric Flair, and anyone else who made money for the company (he did a clean job for Goldberg only because he believed that he would be the one to end Goldberg's winning streak; Kevin Nash outmaneuvered him on that one), and used his creative control to keep himself at the top when the fans no longer wanted to see him there. HHH's excesses and abuses look mild by comparison. Beginning in the late 1990's, Hogan presided over sinking ratings, dying ticket sales, and plummeting PPV buy rates. For sure, he was not the only reason why WCW fell into ruin, but he was definitely one of the reasons.