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Like, if I'm Hogan, I've already rung up Bobby Roode and told him not to sign with the WWE right away. I'd also have gotten my people in touch with CM Punk's people and been like "Hey man, are you really going to fight? Don't you, your wife and your best friend want a job? I've got a few million to splurge on this baby. I mainly want you to come out to whatever theme music you want and talk shit about how the WWE ruined your love for wrestling but these people brought it back, yadda, yadda...cool, we tape Tuesdays."
I'd have also left similar voicemails for Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, Goldberg and Dave Bautista. And I'd have reached out to Konnan about him possibly leaving AAA and bringing some trusted luchadors over to pad out my show and whether or not he'd mind being paid like $150,000 a year to be a talent scout and advocate for the product. Just keep the lucha on our show fresh, dawg. We want to build a guy for Rey at our big show, so let me know who it's going to be and we won't beat him for a year.
Hey, JR wanna do commentary? Would you rather work with Cornette or would you like us to get someone younger, like Striker or Josh Barnett? I'm sure New Japan and us can work something out. I'll send them Angle for a big show and we'll showcase Okada over here for them. We'll have them fight for the IWGP on our big show actually. What's another main event going to hurt?
I think you can do all of that for...$18 million, brother. Maybe you even take over Vince's lead and manage to get some TV production company to jump in and you can leave them with even more of the costs down the line, slowly, slowly pulling your own money out and disappearing off into the sunset -- their first Hall of Fame inductee and a man forever associated with a new dawn in professional wrestling.
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