Hulk Hogan Reveals How He Rubbed Hall an Nash the Wrong Way After They Debuted in WCW, Claims He Didn’t Use His Creative Control With the nWo, Doesn’t Know How the Group Ended Up With So Many Members

– Hulk Hogan spoke to Bill Apter at this weekend’s nWo reunion event for The Apter Chat. Below are some highlights and audio of the interview (transcript via WrestlingInc.com).

Hulk Hogan on the idea for the reunion event: “Scott and Kevin, we’re hanging out and we just started talking. We said ‘man, we’ve never been in the hair salon like girls getting in arguments,’ we never sat around in a circle and aired our grievances out. I said ‘well I know you guys didn’t like me when I first got in the nWo, that was quite apparent,’ but we got to be friends but we’ve never really aired our shorts out in front of everybody.”

Hogan on making shirts after Hall and Nash debuted in WCW: “When those two showed up and I heard the Wolfpack gimmick, I went and made some shirts and ran back the next week. I said ‘hey guys, look what I made!’ It was ‘Hollywood’s Wolfpack’ and they were so territorial that it rubbed them wrong. But that was a rough start and that was how we started. And then it took us a while to get to know each other. I told them, I said, ‘you guys didn’t like me at all when you first met me.’ So I would love to chew the fat in the Q&A and let the real vibes come out, you know.”

Hulk Hogan on his creative control and claiming he didn’t use it for the nWo: “I didn’t have control. I really didn’t. I was deaf, dumb and blind, and I really didn’t know what I was doing half of the time. I really didn’t know what was going on because I was working every other week or I’d work two weeks in a row and then the third week I’d be off, as per the contract I had. So I wasn’t in for every TV [broadcast], so I wasn’t running amok with the three original members until we got 30 members, which I don’t know how many ended up with. The only thing that would really be earth shaking is if you pick somebody off like a Shawn Michaels or somebody from the WWE. Pick Stone Cold [Steve Austin] off, that would’ve really been earth shattering at the time.”