Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, known for his blond locks and mustache and his penchant for tearing away his “Hulkamania” sleeveless T-shirts before his matches, died Thursday at age 71.
TMZ first reported his death, saying paramedics responded to Hogan’s home in Clearwater, Florida, on reports of a patient suffering from cardiac arrest.
World Wrestling Entertainment mourned Hogan’s death on X, posting, “WWE is saddened to learn WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan has passed away. One of pop culture’s most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition in the 1980s. WWE extends its condolences to Hogan’s family, friends, and fans.”
TMZ reported last month that Hogan was seriously ill following neck surgery he underwent in May.
Hogan, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, was born in Georgia and skyrocketed to fame with the World Wrestling Federation in the early 1980s with his flamboyant personality that helped power a resurgence of wrestling’s popularity. He won multiple WWF championships.
A decade later, Hogan reinvented his wrestling persona, returning to the ring under the moniker Hollywood Hulk Hogan, and leading the bad-guy group of grapplers known as the “New World Order.”
Hogan also appeared in numerous films, including a small part in “Rocky III,” in which he tossed around Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa character in an exhibition match.
“I had the pleasure of meeting this brilliant personality and showman when he was 26 years old,” Stallone wrote on Instagram Thursday, adding a photo of Hogan towering over him in a shot from the film. “He was absolutely wonderful and his amazing skill made Rocky three incredibly special. My heart breaks.”
Hogan’s other film credits include “Mr. Nanny” and “No Holds Barred.” In 2005, he also starred in a VH1 reality program titled “Hogan Knows Best,” following him and his wife Linda and children Brooke and Nick.
Hogan was mired in controversy in later life with the leak of a 2007 sex tape in which Hogan was heard making racist comments, including the use of the N-word. The scandal tarnished Hogan’s reputation and prompted World Wrestling Entertainment to sever ties with him for several years. Hogan later sued Gawker Media over the release of the tape and was awarded $140 million by a jury in Florida.
Vice President JD Vance was among those paying tribute to Hogan Thursday.
“Hulk Hogan was a great American icon,” Vance wrote. “One of the first people I ever truly admired as a kid. The last time I saw him we promised we’d get beers together next time we saw each other. The next time will have to be on the other side, my friend! Rest in peace.”
Wrestling legend Ric Flair also took to social media to offer his praise.
“I am absolutely shocked to hear about the passing of my close friend @hulkhogan,” Flair wrote. “Hulk has been by my side since we started in the wrestling business. An incredible athlete, talent, friend, and father! Our friendship has meant the world to me. He was always there for me even when I didn’t ask for him to be. He was one of the first to visit me when I was in the hospital with a 2% chance of living, and he prayed by my bedside. Hulk also lent me money when Reid was sick. Hulkster, no one will ever compare to you! Rest in peace my friend!”
Hogan is survived by his wife Sky and his two children.
This man has been dead for at least 20-25 years man. Ric flair Dwayne Johnson all of them are fucking gone and have been Dusty roads all been ass raped and fucked across the fucking State of California in the state of fucking Florida and fed to the fucking lion years ago man just like The Lion King got fed to the fucking lions. But how you don’t release information till 30 years later after they’re already completely wiped off the fucking planet and doesn’t even exist on the planet before you’ll even post them in the shitty fucking paper right
SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE HAND OF THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME
“GRANDFATHER CLAUSE” !!!!
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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