RIPPING his tee-shirt from his muscle-bound torso like Superman, Hulk Hogan revealed a bright red vest endorsing Donald Trump underneath.
“Let Trumpamania run wild, brother!” he bellowed in a mash-up of his own catchphrases at last summer’s Republican Convention.
APHulk Hogan rips his shirt before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden[/caption] X/DanScavinoHogan and Donald Trump backstage during the 2024 RNC[/caption] hulkhogan/InstagramHulk Hogan posing with Trump[/caption] Getty Images - GettyHulk Hogan displaying the WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt[/caption]It says much for the controversial Hogan’s popularity that the now leader of the free world had chosen the wrestler to endorse him for President.
Instantly recognisable in trademark bandana and shaggy, blond handlebar moustache, Hogan had long been a larger-than-life icon for middle America.
Without Hogan – who died aged 71 following a cardiac arrest on Thursday – it’s unlikely professional wrestling would be the multibillion-pound behemoth it is today.
His cartoonish charisma and deft ring theatrics helped transform the sport from spit and sawdust blokeish viewing into family entertainment.
Hogan became such a big star that he was able to transcend wrestling and starred in the movie The Rock III with Sylvester Stallone, as well as securing his own reality TV show, Hogan Knows Best.
There was also controversy. In 2012, a sex tape between Hogan and Heather Clem, the estranged wife of the improbably named radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge, appeared online.
During the clip, Bubba is heard telling the couple they can “do their thing” and he will be in his office.
Then, at the end of the tape, Bubba tells his wife: “If we ever need to retire, here is our ticket.”
Showbiz blog Gawker ran a short clip of the video. It hardly chimed with the wholesome image that Higan had cultivated.
Hogan later admitted to radio host Howard Stern that “it was a bad choice and a very low point”.
Three times married Hogan added: “I was with some friends and made a wrong choice. It has devastated me. I have never been this hurt.”
Hogan then sued Bubba, and a settlement was announced. He also sued Gawker and was awarded £85million, which put the gossip site out of business.
Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, Georgia, in 1953, his dad was a construction foreman father and his mum was a dance teacher.
Hogan remembered: “Some of my earliest memories of childhood involve getting bullied by other boys in my neighbourhood. Especially by this one red-haired kid who was meaner than a snake: Roger.
“I remember one day, I was six or seven, and I was out in the yard collecting caterpillars from the trees and putting them into glass jars.
“The next thing I know, Roger has taken all my caterpillars and put ‘em in his jar.
“That was it for me. I got all pissed off. So I stormed over to pick up his jar, and he came up from behind and pushed me down. Smash!
“When Roger saw my finger hanging there and the blood gushing out, he started running home.
“So I bent down and picked up a rock, like David and Goliath, and I threw it so hard and hit him right in the back of his head. Dropped him right there on the pavement. Blood was everywhere.”
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