HULK HOGAN: THE HEEL TURN THAT ALMOST NEVER HAPPENED

Everyone remembers the leg drop. Almost no one remembers how close it came to not happening. On July 7th, 1996, at Bash at the Beach in Daytona Beach, Hulk Hogan turned his back on more than a decade of Hulkamania and became the third man in the New World Order. But according to Eric Bischoff and Kevin Nash's own accounts, Sting was still the backup plan just two nights before the show and Hogan himself was reportedly still in the air on a flight when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash walked out for the match. This is the real story behind wrestling's most shocking heel turn: why Hogan was reluctant to destroy the character that made him famous, what he stood to lose his family's public image, his merchandise empire, his identity as the biggest hero in wrestling and how a decision made without any certainty of success created the most influential faction in wrestling history and helped fuel WCW Nitro's 84-week win streak over WWF Raw in the Monday Night War. If you're into wrestling documentaries, untold backstage stories, and the moments that actually changed the business, this is the channel for you. Subscribe for more untold wrestling history and the backstage decisions that shaped the industry. Chapters (Timestamps) 00:00 Intro – The Hero Turns Villain 02:13 The Hero Was Running Out of Road 04:16 The Cost of Becoming the Bad Guy 05:55 Then Came the Outsiders 07:12 The Third Man Who Wasn't Hogan 08:26 Hogan Says Yes 09:45 The Moment – Bash at the Beach 1996 11:06 Hulkamania Is Dead 12:09 Why the Turn Worked 12:56 The Secret Wasn't the Turn 14:12 The Butterfly Effect 15:22 The Night Hulk Hogan Disappeared 17:12 Outro / Subscribe Hashtags: #WWE #WCW #nWo #HulkHogan #WrestlingDocumentary #BashAtTheBeach #MondayNightWar #Hulkamania