What if Hogan went to TNA ?

[HULKAMANIA]

I remember awhile back that Hogan was heavily rumored to be going to NWA:TNA and feud with Jeff Jarrett.

Does anyone else remeber what happened, and what if it worked out ?

What would Hogan's run in TNA look like?

[tradewynd]

What happened was Vince Russo came up with the idea to bring in Hogan to play off the BATB 2000 incident, and push Hogan vs. Jarrett for TNA's first supercard PPV Event, Bound For Glory, which would be priced at $29.95 and promoted on the weekly $9.95 PPVs. Jarrett thought it was a good idea, called Hogan, and he was all for the idea. Hogan signed paperwork letting TNA use his likeness to promote him coming in while they finished a contract. Jimmy Hart came up to do TNA's TV for a few weeks to hype Hogan entering the company and start the feud with Jarrett. Then for no apparent reason Hogan left TNA high and dry. He never even gave them a reason, and didn't have a WWE offer on the table either.

With Russo writing the TV what Hogan's run in TNA would have looked like would be obvious. They would treat BATB as a shoot and milk that for everything it was worth, making TNA must see TV, especially becasue everyone thought it was a complete shoot. Not to mention that there's heat there, so the promos would be intense. Nothing beats the passion you get from putting the shoot on televisiojn. Once Bound For Glory comes around they use him to put Jeff Jarrett over, and then use him in a JTTS role to make guys like AJ, Abyss, Kilklings and other homegrown talent for as long as they can afford him. His demands were rumored to be at least $10,000 per appearance plus bonuses, and Jarrett, the highest paid guy in the company at the time, was only making $2,000 per week (most of which was from running the company and not wrestling). Putting Hogan over anyone they were trying to build would be financial suicide. It wouldn't make sense to bring him in for a couple months, kill everyone's heat, take all of the money and be gone.

[HULKAMANIA]

Thanks for the clarification, I could've sworn he also had an injury that became a problem around the same time as well.

[Dog Fan]

i'm not sure that hogan belongs in tna. i don't mean to say that a lot of good wouldn't come from it, but his home is the wwe. his legacy will be the man who put the wwe on the mainstream map, and i don't want to see anything detract from that legacy. i like his occasional appearances in the wwe, and i hope that he'll continue to return to his adoring fans a couple of times per year.

and for tna to become a viable competitor with the wwe, i think they need to focus on developing new talent. they can't afford to have a roster full of veterans who demand money their budget won't allow. they should be discriminating and sign some of the talent that the wwe releases - charlie haas & molly would be good talent to pick up. they also should try to get a talent trade deal with a japanese promotion.

[Demon Assassin]

Well I know the plan they wanted to do for Hogan was immediatly put him in a angle with Jeff Jarrett that would end up with Hogan defeating Jarrett for the NWA Championship. But because of Jarrett's constant desire to be on top even though he is 50% owner of TNA and the fact that Hogan did not like what he saw when he attended a couple TNA ppv's it never happen. Actually I believe Hogan's exact words were TNA reminded him of WCW just before they folded.