Jesse Ventura comments on his issues with Hogan

If you like Jesse or not, I would think you’d have to respect what he tried to do with the industry and to look out for us. I know a little bit about “organizing” and I really think that there is no time like the present with all of the deaths, the obvious health issues of the old timers, and the current lack of opportunity in the industry to try and organize wrestlers.

Union memberships in general are down and they just may be ready to be aggressive enough and get “involved” with the obvious NEED! I said in one of my post’s about a month ago that this was the “axe to grind” that Jesse had with Hogan. Below are his direct comments in regard to his issue’s with Hogan.

Hogan was the one that ratted me out to Vince. From the days that I came into wrestling, that was a no-no and Hogan knows that. You were called an office stooge if you ratted a guy to the promoter. And that’s how I feel Hogan was to me, an office stooge. Hogan denies that he did it but I know that he did. When I sued Vince McMahon and we went to federal court, we had to put him in deposition. I told my attorney this story and asked him that in this deposition if he could work his way around it, I’d really like to know who ratted on me. So my attorney asked Vince, and they can ask anything in a deposition, and this is under oath: “Mr. McMahon, has there ever been a union in wrestling?” Vince said no. “Has anyone ever tried to form one?” and Vince said that I think that Jesse Ventura might have spouted his mouth about it once or twice. My attorney asked how do you know this? Did you hear Mr. Ventura do this? And with no hesitation, Vince went: “No. Hulk Hogan told me.” I didn’t show any emotion but I almost fell out of the chair. At that time, Hogan and I were friends. And I thought, wow, he is the guy that ran and ratted me out when I tried to unionize wrestling. I found out why he did it though. Because in discovery of my court case, I found out that at WrestleMania III, Hulk Hogan individually got paid more money than all the rest of us did combined. And that is documented.