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WWE icon Terry Gene “Hulk Hogan” Bollea died at 71 on Thurs. morning (July 24, 2025) after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida.
TMZ Sports was first to report Bollea’s unfortunate passing.
Bollea helped transform professional wrestling in the late eighties as the “Real American” hero under the WWE (then WWF) banner before reinventing himself as the top villain for WCW in the mid-to-late nineties.
In addition to his in-ring exploits, Bollea appeared in movies (No Holds Barred), television shows (Thunder in Paradise), and even Saturday morning cartoons (Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling).
Bollea was not without his share of controversy both in his personal and professional life, including his role in the WWE steroids scandal of 1994.
“When all the smoke clears, 10, 20, 50 years from now, they’ll have to at least acknowledge and say, the only thing they can think of because they won’t remember what I did or what Jericho did or what the Rock did, ‘Oh, he was the greatest wrestler ever,’ like they do Gorgeous George,” Bollea previously told Two Man Power Trip. “They just throw it out there. It’s a one-liner to describe something. That’s probably what it’s going to end up at.”
“That’s an ego thing, it’s just being on TV for so long and so many people know me,” Bollea continued. “That will probably be the legacy for the general public. For me, it was just a great time. We changed the business, it helped a lot of people. I probably did it too long because I crippled myself, but it was a lot of fun.”
Hogan was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and then again in 2020.
