When Hogan recently appeared on
The Matthew Aaron Show podcast he claimed his training had restored him to the point where he could handle a match:
“Brother, my goal, my goal is to perform in the ring again. You know, it’s not if, it’s when. Because I’ve been training like crazy and my back, the crazy thing is that my back doesn’t hurt at all. My back’s perfect, you know I’ve finally got my back straightened out. Now I’m really trying to get myself into that type of shape. Because if you get in that WWE ring you gotta bring it like The Rock says. You know, and the last time I brought it they were begging me to take it back. But, anyway, to make a long story short, if I get in there I want to make sure I’m ready to go and I give them something really to remember me by. So my goal in life would be to perform again in that WWE ring.”
Hulk does recognize he has physical limitations as was evidenced when the host asked him whether he’d ever drop the leg again:
“That’s the question. People always ask me if there was anything I would ever change about my career and I’ve always said no, but then I started to think about it… I was such a dummy. I didn’t even know how to work my own gimmick. I’ve got the largest arms in the world; why wouldn’t you use the sleeper hold? Duh, you’ve got the largest arms in the world and you’re dropping the leg drop, what does that mean?… If I’d have used the sleeper hold the last 40 years I’d have had no back surgeries.”