Hulk Hogan Wrestlemania 24 news & more

Source:Prowrestling.com

Jimmy Hart is currently trying to persuade Hulk Hogan into coming back for WrestleMania this year. The thought is that if NBC's American Gladiators is a hit they can use WrestleMania as a vehicle to cross-promote the show.

Hogan and Vince initially had a fall out early in 2007, largely because of his SummerSlam payoff. He was originally scheduled to be Donald Trump's representative at WrestleMania 23 in the role that went to Bobby Lashley. There were also ideas last year of having Hogan face Big Show or Great Khali at Ford Field with the idea of duplicating the famous Andre the Giant slam from 20 years earlier. Another idea that was pondered was to have Shane McMahon be Hogan's opponent with Khali in the corner (with the idea they couldn't trust a Hogan vs. Khali match) to build to a slam. The final straw for Hogan was when the WWE creative team did an angle where they used Jillian Hall to mock his daughter Brooke.

Hogan and Eric Bischoff had also talked about starting a new wrestling promotion as a nostalgia tour. The idea would be to take Hogan outside of North American to markets he had either rarely or never appeared. The talk of doing a U.S. tour lost a lot of interest after the Memphis show which tested the market for Hogan vs. Paul “Big Show” Wight by only drawing 2,200 fans. This was the only Hogan match this year, and since Nick's accident in August all talk in direction of the promotion has seemed to have been dropped.

With Hogan confirmed for next week's WWE Monday Night RAW 15th Anniversary show it does appear that his relationship with Vince is improving.

that sounds so interesting story!

if Hulk Hogan would against great khali what you would think! i would watch that wrestlesmania 24 on PPV show tv no matter for me because i love watch wrestlesmania very much!

wow hogan coming back for a paycheck what a suprise lol

Upadte:
The only thing that is known about Hulk Hogan’s upcoming return to WWE at Monday’s 15th Anniversary RAW special is that Vince McMahon reached out to him and not vice versa. Obviously WWE has pumped the show full of talent to try and pull a very high rating. As we have been reporting, there are plans to try and get Hogan to work WrestleMania 24 next year. While the chances of it happening are not very good it is rumored that Vince McMahon will at least ask Hogan and Steve Austin about a potential match at the big pay-per-view. The hold up on the dream match is Austin as it is said that Hogan would do it in a heartbeat

that would be cool