Hulk Hogan might not have become the face of WWE if George Scott, the then-WWE booker, hadn’t been fired. Hogan quickly moved toward becoming the face of not just WWE but all of professional wrestling after the late Pat Patterson took over.
Mario Mancini, a former WWE performer from the 1980s who was King Kong Bundy and The Undertaker’s first WWE rival, described how Hogan’s complaint led to the firing of George Scott and the subsequent hiring of Pat Patterson on the Cheap Heat Productions podcast:
“George Scott was the booker and George Scott loved me. I would have had quite a different career if George Scott stayed the booker and not Pat Patterson. George Scott got fired because he wanted to put the strap on Randy Savage right away. Hogan, he went and he pitched and bi*ched to Vince [McMahon], and [Vince] fired George and brought in Pat.”
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