Hulk Hogan spent the vast majority of his career in WWE as a main event babyface, but one can argue that he was better off as the villainous leader of the New World Order stable in WCW.

With the WWE booming in the '80s, Vince McMahon chose Hogan as his top superstar to build the product around. Hulkamania swept over the wrestling world as Hogan and Vince put the WWE on the sports entertainment map.

Hogan was the go-to babyface of professional wrestling for over a decade in WWE, and Vince obviously felt there was no reason to turn him bad guy - even when other superstars like 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior began to rise in popularity.

Interestingly, Hogan revealed during an interview on The Steve Austin Show (h/t WrestlingInc.com), that he proposed a heel turn to the WWE chairman, but Vince wouldn't have anything to do with it.

Hogan said that after losing to Ultimate Warrior at the main event of WrestleMania VI, he noticed Vince paying more attention to him (Warrior). Not only that, but The Hulkster said Vince was viewing Warrior "as a better money-making package," than him. Hogan then explained his proposed heel turn to McMahon:

"When we did the WrestleMania thing, we did the build-up pretty good. Then it gets time to go over the finish, and whether I'm going over or not, I have the same two questions: Why are we doing this, and what happens next? When I was told to put the Warrior over, I asked those questions and Vince said, 'I think the red and yellow is over, we have gotten everything we can out of it.'

And I was like, 'Damn, Vince what if after the finish I point to God, give him the belts and leave, but I do that slow Three Stooges turn, I go back...and call myself Triple H, Hollywood Hulk Hogan? He said, 'that would never work and you can't be a heel.' So, he squashed that."

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After losing to Warrior at WrestleMania, Hogan remained a babyface up until his departure from WWE in 1993. A year later, Eric Bischoff was able to convince Hogan to come over to WCW in a move that would change the professional wrestling decision forever.

Hogan finally made the career-changing heel turn at the 1996 Bash at the Beach pay-per-view, where he formed the heel nWo stable alongside Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. The shocking switch from good guy to bad guy started up a heated wrestling war between WCW and WWE. Of course, Vince and his promotion wound up victorious after buying out WCW in 2001, but Hogan's historic heel turn wound up changing the wrestling world forever.

What This Means

It's always interesting to hear stories from WWE legends about how things could have been different. Vince, of course, has often refused to turn his top superstars into heels. Roman Reigns and John Cena are prime and recent examples of this. Had McMahon made the call to turn Hogan heel, who knows how different things could have gone? Certainly, Hogan's heel turn in WCW wouldn't have been as epic and memorable.

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