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Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Bollea, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend and pop culture icon, has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 71 in his home in Clearwater, Florida in the United States of America (USA) on Thursday, July 24. In a report from TMZ, the medics rushed to his residence earlier this morning before he was spotted getting stretchered off in an ambulance, and the more details around his passing are expected to emerge in due course.
While the family of Hulk Hogan haven’t confirmed the passing of the Immortal One, the entire world of media has started to report on the heartbreaking news in the past few minutes. Over the past couple of weeks, there were reports emerging around Hulk Hogan undergoing medical treatment in a hospital for a health ailment, but complete information wasn’t given by his family on the same.
His wife Sky Daily had called out the speculation surrounding the health of Hulk Hogan recently, stating that he wasn’t in a coma as mentioned in many reports in the media. She had also pointed out that her husband’s heart was “strong” as ever as he recovered from surgeries accumulated from the wear and tear of being a pro-wrestler for around 40 years.
Hulk Hogan main evented first of many WWE WrestleManias in 1985
Born on August 11, 1953, in Augusta, Georgia, Hulk Hogan was the biggest WWE superstar in the 1980s, taking pro-wrestling into mainstream attention. He was a part of the main event of WrestleMania 1 in a tag team match in 1985 before headlining the show for many years. He jumped ship in the second half of 1990s, joining World Championship Wrestling (WCW), to form the infamous faction called the New World Order (nWo) alongside Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, to dominate the pro-wrestling scene for years.
After returning to WWE in 2002, he put on an instant classic with The Rock at WrestleMania 18 before slowly winding down his time as an active in-ring performer.
