The Giant was back, still puffing on cigarettes.

"Nobody's safe from the old men's politicking, not even the world champ. William Regal has been fucked over every step of the way, because he's just too principled--or just too damn haughty--to play nice with any of the power brokers. It started off small, during the Nobility's feud with the Guerreros, Eddy did his level best to fuck over Regal. Eddy's got himself a little familia backstage, you know, Chavo, Hector, and he's been campaigning for more, because for every member of the roster who has his back, that's one member of the roster who won't join with Hogan to try to push him to the sidelines. So Eddy decides this is the time to flex his nuts, trying to get the brass to stack the odds in his favor, you know. This failed.

The next attempt was during his title reign. Hogan and Warrior had their big match, and as you would expect, it stunk on ice. This was not by accident. I'm a fairly big fan of sumo wrestling, and in sumo, there's something called yaocho. It's not out and out cheating, it's not exactly "I'll pay you X amount of money to take a dive", but it's... it's collusion. It's intentionally engineering a match result so both guys benefit, both guys stay in their stratus of the sumo hierarchy. Hogan and Warrior put together a sort of soft-yaocho together, where it wasn't about winning or losing, it's just that both men agreed to half-ass the match. They fucked up as much as they could because they knew it would kill the crowd and ruin Savage and Regal's rematch. That worked, almost too well. To be fair, it wasn't just to ruin that match. Hogan didn't want to make Warrior look good, and Warrior didn't want to look good either. Warrior wanted to get out as soon as possible without facing Regal, without facing Muta, without facing anyone he could possibly make look good. He knew he was over and done in wrestling, since WCW didn't want him and he was persona non grata at WWF after Bazooka Kaboom got sent down to Atlanta in a crate. Hell, he didn't even have to face Muta! That homophobic fuck got Meng to break his fucking arm backstage like the fucking coward he is. Well, what a way to bow out, Warrior. Good fucking riddance."