I can't even imagine Austin and Hogan having the tiniest bit of chemistry in the ring.

• Hogan liked to do as little as possible. His style was to hype people into the building, and coast on the money already made. He was also limited due to injury and age.

• Austin liked to go full blast in the ring, and work stiff. But this was catching up to him after he overdid it with the Kurt Angle suplexes on his neck in 2001. He spent his 98-99 run with WWE having to do smoke and mirrors in all his matches to cover his extreme limits after the neck injury, and then he let people toss him around after his return.

• So right off the bat, Austin would have to do what all Hogan's opponents did, and slow down to his style and let him dictate the pace. This pace always made Hogan's opponents look like fools, and had a lasting effect. The only defense to that is what HBK did, but that doesn't work for Austin.

• Hogan likes to play games to manipulate people, and make his opponents look stupid. Which he did to Austin when he came out and challenged him to a match on RAW a year or two later knowing he would never accept.

• Austin is also fiercely protective of his spot, and rightfully so.

So the match was going to suck because there is no satisfying ending, and neither could or would work in the other person's style. Austin also knew he only had a few matches left in him and that he didn't need to go out by being made a fool of by Hulk Hogan. Imagine working a full time schedule on a neck that was so bad you had constant lightning bolts of pain running down your spine, becoming the biggest draw in the business, and then having to go out by running into Hogan's foot after succumbing to cartoon punches?

It's lose/lose for everyone but Hogan.