Squared Circle Spotlight

Hulk Hogan wasn’t just WWE’s biggest star — for an entire generation, he was professional wrestling. So when the Hogan era began coming to an end, Vince McMahon faced an enormous question: Who could possibly replace him?

In this episode of Make It Make Sense, the Squared Circle Spotlight crew looks back at the wrestlers who were expected to become wrestling’s next massive superstar. From the incredible “what if” of Magnum T.A., to Vince McMahon reportedly seeing superstar potential in Tom Magee, the all-out push of Lex Luger, the controversial championship run of Diesel, and finally the rise of Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.

Were these wrestlers really failures?

Did WWE fail them?

Or was the real problem believing that another Hulk Hogan could ever exist? Maybe there was a curse surrounding “The Next Hulk Hogan” after all — just not the one we thought.

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