When Hulk Hogan showed up at WrestleMania IX, he did so wearing sunglasses to cover a black eye sustained before the event.
It was always said that Hogan suffered the black eye due to a jet ski accident days before WrestleMania IX.
On the new documentary WrestleMania IX: Becoming A Spectacle, the rumor that Hogan and Randy Savage got into a fight was mentioned, with Scott Steiner, who rode with Savage, lending credence to the rumor.
"I guess he bought the story Randy told him. I never had a fight with Randy. If they still want to believe it after we tell them what really happened, fine with me," stated Hogan on the documentary.
He continued, "Brutus came over and I was riding a Sea-Doo. I get on it and where we were jumping waves, I didn't know my thumb had pushed the button that made the nose stay down. As soon as I took off, this thing was like a rocket ship. You got 75-80 miles per hour. I hit that first big swell and I went up. It threw me over the front of the ski, and when I hit the water, I tried to cover (and go under the water) because I knew the ski was coming at me, but my lifejacket pulled me back up, and the 700-pound ski hit me in the face and knocked me out. I was knocked out face down in the water."
Brutus Beefcake, Hogan's partner at WrestleMania IX, said, "He was flying in the air and the ski did a 360. The front of the ski hit him in his orbital and fractured it. He was almost not quite unconscious but pretty much out of it."
When Hogan showed up to WrestleMania IX, Vince McMahon was not happy and told Hogan he couldn't wrestle. McMahon agreed to let Hogan wrestle if the doctor had cleared him.
"I went to the doctor. 'Hey doc, you won't believe what we did. We got this new storyline to trick the fans. We're going to tell everybody Macho Man beat me up and gave me a black eye. This is all makeup and all these stitches are fake stitches. Please don't tell anybody,'" recalled Hogan.
Hogan not only ended up teaming with Brutus against Money Inc (Ted DiBiase & IRS), he won the WWF Championship from Yokozuna after Yoko defeated Bret Hart.
"WrestleMania IX: Becoming A Spectacle" is now streaming on Peacock.
