Hulk Hogan Discusses Vince Russo, WCW, His TNA Contract, More

– AOL Fanhouse has posted their interview with Hulk Hogan, here are the highlights…

On WCW And What He Learned:”Oh, brother, did I ever learn. Oh my God, did I ever learn. And Eric Bischoff learned too, because you know, when I got in there, we hit on something. We had a real edgy theme going with the N.W.O., and it changed wrestling. But what happened was, a lot of guys that were there [would say], ‘Yeah, we’d rather talk than wrestle, you know, we’re the bomb, we’re the sh*t. Eric got too full of himself. I let things slip through my fingers, because when I was there every week with Eric, you know, it basically ran like a clock, but I wasn’t making all the Nitros and the Thursday Night Thunders, I was making like every other one, and when I wasn’t there, that whole team wasn’t working together – me, Eric and a couple of guys.”

On His TNA Contract: “I’m not sure. I think it’s a year with rollovers, you know, if we’re both happy. It’s definitely a year, it’s not any shorter than that. But it’s something that we both want to work together and we both agree that if we don’t get along or Dixie and I two or three weeks into this thing, if she goes, ‘Hogan, how come you’re letting the Martians wrestle the elephants? That’s not what we want.’ We agree to disagree and we’ve made that real clear that if they don’t like the direction I’m going in, or if they can’t handle the change or that they think I’m wrong that I’ll just walk away, or whatever you want to call it, they’ll fire me or I’ll quit or whatever.”

On Vince Russo: “With Russo I come in peace, but history is not going to repeat itself here, and if you try to undermine me, or if you try to underwrite my story lines or you try to do anything to hurt me or sabotage me, I’ve got my eye on you. But instead of me just knocking you out, or me just firing you, I have an open mind in how good of a writer are you. What do you really know about this business? What can you really contribute to this business other than just blocking out a two-hour show and doing the transitions and the inserts and the pre-tapes and keeping flow good enough to hopefully keep people interested? I mean how good are you really? So I mean, there’s an issue there with him, which has to be addressed.”