Paul Orndorff Discusses Hulk Hogan and Today's Wrestling Product

WWE Hall of Famer “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff chatted with Blue Steel Cage of VOC Nation this past week about his past with Hulk Hogan alongside some other thoughts on today’s wrestling climate. Below are some of the highlights.

On never beating Hogan for the WWF Championship:

“That’s what they should have done. And instead of making hundreds of millions of dollars they could have made thousands of millions of dollars if they had done that. We talked about it some and that’s what they should have done … I guess for some reason because [Hulk] was 6’5” and weighed 320 pounds that he was this big huge thing that nobody should beat him for the belt. If they would have said “Let’s go out there, Paul, and you fight for your life and Terry, you go out there and you fight for your life,” you can bet your ass I would have fought. I guarantee … I would have won and [Hulk] knows it.”

Regarding what it takes to be a great wrestler:

“I still call it a sport, because it is a sport. To me it takes years and years and years and you’ll never master it. As long as you have an opponent, you have to work around that opponent. And you’ll never master it. Never. You can be good at it, you can be great at it like I was. Or you can be good at it and okay with it. Whatever.”

How he feels about today’s wrestling product:

“It’s been so downgraded. You look at boxing, you look at MMA fighting, that’s what people are watching. It’s more believable. That’s what people want to see. They don’t want to see that phoney baloney out there. They want to see something real. They want to see somebody lose a tooth, have a black eye.”

The entire interview can be found here.