Hulk Hogan, a well -known wrestling fighter, television and popular character, died this Thursday at his home in Clearwater, Florida. This has been advanced by the tabloid, always well connected to the police. US Weekly He has confirmed it by citing sources from his family, and his manager also, the NBC chain. He was 71 years old.
Hogan, 12 times world champion, of almost two meters and 130 kilos, had gone through several surgeries recently, so much that his current wife, Sky Daily, had to deny a few weeks ago before the press that the exluchador was in a coma, stating that he was recovering and that his heart was “strong.”
Hogan’s figure – whose real name was Terrence generates ball – has been surrounded by controversy. In 2005 he entered the hall of the fame of the fighters of wrestlingfrom which he was withdrawn a decade later by racist comments during a sexual encounter, as was learned by a video filtered by a medium, then, he returned to that hall of fame in 2020. He was retired since 2012.
Although as a child, in his native Georgia, he dreamed of being a baseball star, a broken arm frustrated his dreams and gave him a new beginning. “As a child I wanted to be baseball player,” he said in an interview with. “That was my first love, but breaking my arm was the best thing that happened to me because I went to wrestling.” Shame of its size and weight at school (he remembered that he was shame even to stay in the beach), it was when he arrived at the institute when he discovered his passion for wrestling. After studying businesses at a local public university, and already working as a bank and docker cashier, at the end of the seventies, it was in his gym when he began to grow, thanks to local competitions, which finally gave him national and worldwide fame.
In addition to sport, Hogan and his oxygenated blond hair were figures present in cinema and television since the 1990s, with appearances in about 15 films. The first one was Rocky IIIby the hand of his friend Sylvester Stallone, who assured in an interview that Hogan “gave incredible punches,” as he collects. “As I was going to a clean fist, I could completely feel his punch in contact with my skin, but I knew when to retire.” His contact with popular culture was such that, in the 1985 Grammy Awards, singer Cyndi Lauper came to appear, as if he were his bodyguard.
Precursor of the Falerreality formats, he starred with his family with his family Hogan Knows Bestin the music chain VH1. But the idyllic and casual life of what was seen on television contrasted with the real world. A month after the series ended, his first wife, the best known and also the protagonist of the realityLinda Hogan, asked for divorce. Among the reasons, he cited his numerous infidelities, among them with his daughter’s best teenage friend.
Hulk and Linda were married between 1983 and 2009, and together they had two children, Brooke and Nick. Then, the fighter married in 2010 with Jennifer McDaniel, who divorced in 2021. In September 2023 he married the third of his wives, Sky, a yoga teacher 25 years younger than him.
After the divorce of Linda, Hogan’s public image changed. Hidden facets of their lives began to be known, such as such infidelities or steroid abuse. And that famous sex tape also saw the light, where he used a racist language, which made his career end abruptly and that WWE ended his contract with him in 2015. Beyond sexual content, the real problem were comments. For example, he was annoying that his daughter was dating a black man: “I have no double standard, I mean, I am racist to some extent, black fucking. But if I had to go to bed with a black, I would prefer to marry a black two and a half meters that have one hundred million dollars, like a basketball player.”
Three years later, he made a tour to apologize, spent hours doing social work with children and asked public apologies, in search of redemption. “Eight years ago I used an offensive language during a conversation,” he said in People. “It was unacceptable to use that offensive language. There is no excuse for it, and I apologize for having done it.”
In recent years, he was related to the Trumpist Maga movement (Make America Great Again, let’s make the United States again), and in fact in 2024 he appeared in the Republican Convention, among great cheers. There, his shirt was torn for “it was a great American icon,” said the vice president after knowing his death. “The last time we saw each other I promised that we would have some beers together next. But the next one will have to be on the other side, my friend. Rest in peace.”
His health was also delicate. As he said in more than 15 years ago, the brutality of the physical exercise that I practiced had an invoice: “I have the bent coxis of falling from ass 400 times a year, twice on Saturday Metro and ninety -five, when it used to measure two meters and five centimeters. ”
“I have discovered that the more scars you have, the more some people identify with you,” he said in that interview with Times In 2019. “Obviously, I have gone through many things. I have a lot of scars and people feel more identified with me for that. I am not perfect, but it is about making their face, assume and move on.”
