Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair

[4.0] "This is about the last "real" Hogan match w/ footage in his career before his TNA material (which, frankly, doesn't even count) and it's more or less Flair inexplicably carrying Hogan a bunch throughout this entire match, taking a bunch of fairly big back bumps (keeping in mind Flair's even older than Hogan) and doing his classic stooge-selling routine. Hogan looked really rough here, almost falling over a couple of times due to his awful mobility & even struggling to get out of the ring at points. It's a real blessing that he's in the ring with Flair who was capable enough (which is fucking saying something) to keep this from grinding to a utter halt workrate-wise. Granted you're not going to get much out of this bar the very basics and a lot of the two hogging as much nostalgia as humanly possible yet I do have to give credit where it's due. I was amazed that Hogan actually took a back bump (granted it was from a leg chop and he was holding the ropes hard! ) yet also not that amazed since he didn't do another one in this entire match lol. His selling was at least solid when it came to getting over Flair's leg work, including big dramatics over getting caught in the Figure-Four for what felt like at least a couple of decades. They decide to blade while on the outside for the last 5 minutes for whatever reason with very limited work around it since Flair only gets a couple of punches in before they have Hogan do a dodgy back suplex. I can at least appreciate the fact that they played around with the audience expectations a little by having Hogan Hulk Up multiple times in the match while failing to get through the entire comeback because Flair had so many ways to just cheat and delay the inevitable. They spend no time delaying for the last couple minutes as they go through some fan-pleasing spots Hogan belt-whipping and throwing big punches while Flair sells like a champ, eventually despite getting some interference he goes down to a quick Hogan comeback via him using Flair's own brass knuckles to get the pinfall (which was a smart way to get around Hogan not being able to do the leg drop). This was about as dire as you would expect a late 2000's Hogan performance to be, and in retrospect this was even worse for his rep as he dislocated his hip during this match. I'm not completely sure when exactly, but I'm betting that singular side-bump he took probably did the job. It just feels kinda sad watching him barely able to do the bare minimum formulas without looking like he's going to shatter into a million pieces, even if I think his crowd connection and raw psychology were still more than intact. Flair really feels like he's doing the bulk of the substantive physical effort, so if you're interested in seeing a late-Flair do I'd say pretty decent work carrying this beyond what it should've been I would probably recommend this seeing as he takes a bunch of crazy bumps for his own age. Definitely a rough match to watch regardless of the effort put in though."