Hulk Hogan has done it again! Hot on the heels of turning down a quarter-million dollar payday to appear at Wrestlemania 20, Hogan appeared on the MTV Video Music Awards and started an angle with none other than Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Super Puff has no idea what he has gotten himself into.
Hogan was at the VMA's helping promote his daughter Brooke's new single. Combs had challenged Hogan to wrestle him for a million dollars, likely seeing it as a funny throwaway line. He clearly had no clue who he was dealing with, as Hogan definitely knows an opportunity for himself when he sees one, so, after trashing Randy Savage, Hulkster then moved onto the big game by going after P. Diddy:
"I know a million dollars ain't that big of a hit to him. So if he's gonna get beat up, he might as well make it a hundred million dollars. I can't ever lose in front of my daughter. But I've got a lot of respect for (P. Diddy). I saw him run for those kids in New York. So it's all good. If it's a million dollars for the kids, if he wants to put that up, I'll let him beat me."
Hogan of course, needs the million bucks only slightly less than Combs does, who blows that in a weekend at the clubs of St. Tropez (he once paid a jabroni heavy money to follow him around holding an umbrella, to say nothing of the pool parties where the pool is filled with Cristal). If there is anyone who thinks Hogan is looking at this thing as a single event then you haven't been paying very close attention to the smartest man in the history of the business. Right now Hogan is envisioning a new wrestling company financed by P. Diddy and dominated by you know who.
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