They used what he said years ago to fire him, but the real reason he was fired is because he had a very high paying legends contract that they would have had to keep paying him if they did not fire him, he is old, has a bad back, moves poorly is not capable of having a good match, so rather than spend the money they used that as an excuse to fire him, unrelated they released Roddy Piper from his contract a few days before they released Hogan