Hogan also touched upon how he and his fellow wrestlers would travel constantly, wrestle 300 nights a year, and party like there’s no tomorrow. When asked where the “party culture” associated with the bygone era originated from, “The Immortal One” clarified that the culture existed across the wrestling business and wasn’t restricted to WWE.

“When I walked into a dressing room, there were like six guys sitting there,” Hogan recalled. “They’re all 300-pounders and I’m a medium-sized guy. So, when I got in, it’s like there’s a guy there with two big cauliflower ears, a broken nose, knocked out teeth, and he’s got four kids at home. The next guy was an NCCA Champion with a steel plate on his forearm, his name’s Harley Race. Well, good luck with him. The other two guys are like serial killers, and if you want to be a wrestler, you have to take their job and food out of their family’s mouth. That’s the difference.” Hogan elaborated that most of the wrestlers he worked with were “monster-sized” whereas some of today’s wrestlers resemble “guys who could be bagging groceries.”

Hogan offered props to the level of athleticism in today’s wrestling, stressing that the wrestlers do “so much impressive stuff in one match” that he wouldn’t have done in a whole year. When Hogan returned to WWE to host WrestleMania 30, he noticed a lot of these changes, especially the writing teams assisting wrestlers with their character and promos. Hogan says that “nobody told me how to be Hulk Hogan” and he came up with the creative aspects of his character himself. “I’m getting ready to walk through the curtains, and a writer comes up to me and hands me these papers. I say to Vince [McMahon], ‘Really? Are you kidding? He says, ‘Nah, do whatever you want.’ I threw the papers away!”