Hulk Hogan was interviewed by Radio Yorkshire in England recently to promote his upcoming Sheffield Arena show on Saturday.
Hogan talked about his heel turn at WCW Bash at the Beach in 1996, and discussed the possibility of John Cena turning heel.
On the subject of his nWo heel turn, Hogan admitted that he did not know if the heel turn would have worked as well as it did until he and his nWo stablemates were pelted with trash during their interview with Mean Gene Okerlund following the so-called ‘Hostile Takeover Match’ in WCW.
Hogan said:
“Well, I was thinking I knew I was going to piss everybody off. I knew it,” Hogan recalled. “I didn’t know if it was going to work as good [as it did]. I knew I was going to get heat for flipping everybody off, but when [the crowd] started throwing stuff into the ring, when Kevin [Nash] and Scott [Hall] and I were standing there with ‘Mean’ Gene, when they started throwing bottles and paper and everything into the ring, I knew it worked then.”
Hogan then claimed that Cena would make a good heel and that the 15-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion should not reject the idea without some serious thought.
“Yeah, I mean, God, I hate to keep saying it, ‘never say never’, but with Vince McMahon’s machine and the WWE and the writers and John [Cena]’s talent, his talent alone, if he were to turn heel and [WWE] let him go, let John go and pull that edge out of John, ooh boy, he’d be a good heel!” Hogan said.
