5 Stars Vince McMahon Fought Then Made Amends With

#3 Hulk Hogan

Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan feuded in storyline as well as real life

Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan have fallen out and made up so many times, that one could forgive mistaking them for an old married couple.

Their initial relationship was a prosperous one. Together, they turned McMahon's promotion into a national powerhouse, destroying the regional territory system that had existed for decades.

Hogan was McMahon's top star; the then biggest drawing card in wrestling history and his unmatched charisma turned WWE into a mainstream sensation. The pair were so close that they actually worked out together and their families spent most of their free time in each other's company.

However, the first big rift between the two men occurred in late 1991, when Hogan against McMahon's wishes lied about his steroid use on national television during an appearance on the Arsenio Hall show.

The appearance angered so many in wrestling that they went public about Hogan's dishonesty, which made McMahon's company a sitting duck for a government investigation into steroid use and distribution in WWE.

The heat was such that McMahon told Hogan to take an indefinite leave of absence from WWE several months later.

It was only when business went down markedly, that McMahon invited Hogan back in time for WrestleMania IX in 1993. Hogan won the WWE Championship for a then-record fifth time in an impromptu match following the main event.

However, Hogan was not interested in a Champion's schedule and rarely appeared on WWE programming; the pair had a mutual parting of the ways that summer with McMahon of the belief that Hogan had no interest in wrestling any longer.

McMahon was soon in for a colossal shock. One year later, in summer 1994, Hogan resurfaced in rival promotion, WCW. The WWE boss was upset that Hogan had not informed him of his plans and given him the opportunity to pitch a counter offer.

With Hogan as its top star, WCW would supplant WWE as the most successful wrestling company in the world and come within a whisker of putting WWE out of business. McMahon never forgot that.

In early 2002, a full year after McMahon's WCW buyout, the WWE Chairman did bring Hogan back into the fold. However, this was due more to necessity than anything else. The past 12 months had seen WWE's ratings and pay per view buys decline massively and a Hogan return was a quick fix.

As is typical with Hogan, it was a short-lived reunion. Hogan wanted to continue to be portrayed as a main eventer. McMahon felt that Hogan at 48 years of age, was not believable in that role any longer. This difference of opinion led to another split. The dawn of 2003 saw this exact same scenario play out once more.

Hogan was finally inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame in 2005 and the pair worked amicably together for the better part of the next decade.

However, another almighty storm would soon brew.

Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan - Made peace with each other

Hogan's unfortunate racist tirade that was recorded on a sex tape and sent viral by The National Enquirer in July 2015 led WWE to sever ties with him until the storm brewed over. The company also announced that it had removed him from the WWE Hall of Fame and did not mention him on television broadcasts or its website.

In July 2018, after a period of three years, WWE announced that it had reinstated Hogan into the Hall of Fame. Penance served, Hogan is once more part of the WWE family.