Why didn't Heel Hollywood Hogan ever hulk up?

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He may as well have Hulked Up on sting with the way he "put him over" :mjpls2:
 

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Like you grasped, its just the difference between working heel and working face. That difference is not talked about enough. As a face hogan was 'calling on the hulkamaniacs' and as a heel, well, he's a sneaky jerk so he just pokes you in the eye.

A lot of wrestlers are good at doing the two things differently. Undertaker is phenomenal at it. HBK is pretty good at it. Y2J is as well, which is how he can go back and forth so well. I didn't know alberto del rio works so good as a face for example.

Low key, CENA is good working heel but nobody has seen it since ONS2 vs RVD. He was working straight up heel in that match and its one of his best ever. He was working pretty much heel vs rock (his arrogance costing him the match at the end). but not full blown.

That acute difference is one of my favorite things in wrestling. It actually makes perfect logical sense.

Hogan was ALWAYS a jerk, at the peak of hulkamania he was gouging eyes, raking backs, grabbing another man's chicks ass and was just generally a glory hog
 

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It never made logistical sense to me that for 15 years a wrestler could be unbeatable and then be begging the faces for mercy all of a sudden. I understand it could cause more people to cheer thus defeating the whole point of being a heel but Austin and Rock heel didn't really change their in ring mechanics when they were heels did they?

I do remember in 2000 when wcw randomly decided to turn Hogan face again he gradually began re-implementing the hulk up until he wore the red and yellow again on nitro.

but wrestling was always funny that way where a face would be unbeatable but then run and cheat and lose when they are heel.
He was charged from the power of the Hulkamaniacs and Hulkamania was dead when he turned heel, friend.
 
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