Just on wrestling terms Hogan was a piece of garbage, forget about the other stuff the rigttards like.
Hogan was one of the first to figure out the business side of wrestling and really make it work for himself.
I like to contrast Hogan with Kevin Nash. People crap on Hogan for how selfish he was, never wanting to put others over, always making sure he looked good, got his money, etc, but Nash done the exact same thing. Nash basically milked WCW dry. He barely worked, got himself in a position where he ran creative and booked himself and his close friends (notably Scott Hall) favourably. And he has been open about this, comfortably saying he was all about business. Work as little as possible while earning as much as possible and always being in the spotlight. But people love him today because he has never been an a-hole outside the ring, but make no mistake, back in the day if you were not a part of his circle in WCW you went nowhere.
It is one of the reasons why guys like Eddie Guerrero and Chris Jericho jumped to WWE. They were far better wrestlers and performers than Nash and his friends, but they had no power or influence and were never going to be anything more than midcarders in the WCW while Nash was running the place.
Also, the business of wrestling would not be what it was without Hogan, and he recognised this early on and made it work. If he didn't, Vinny Mac would have just screwed him over the way he did Bret Hart. Hogan made wrestling mainstream. Without him, the NWO, D-X, Austin, The Rock, Cena et al would not have been the pop culture icons they were/are.
