Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.

I’d rather not speak Ill of the dead… So I’ll be quiet.

  • net00@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I don’t know this guy, don’t live in the US or am familiar with any wrestling stuff, why is he being shat on?

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Well, he was the biggest star in wrestling for over two decades by a wide margin. And he’s the reason wrestlers don’t have a union, he abused his backstage clout to destroy careers and drive two different wrestling promotions into the ground, he was caught on tape admitting he was a racist and using the N-Word while bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man, and he campaigned for Donald Trump last year. Just an all around piece of shit

      • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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        8 days ago

        while bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man

        iirc, bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man without at least making sure he was rich.

        Ya know, so it’s worth the ‘hassle’. I guess? Fuck the Hulk Hogan.

        • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Right. Also forgot to mention he was caught on tape saying this to his (at the time) best friend’s wife after fucking her, which is just the world’s worst pillow talk.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        8 days ago

        well he made sure that happened, because he was union busting left and right, thats why vince gave him all the airtime he wanted.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipMEnglish
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      8 days ago

      He is (well, was) for decades the most well known professional wrestler on the world. Influenced pro wrestling in countless ways. It cannot be overstated that modern pro wrestling may not exist if not due to the contributions of Hulk Hogan.

      10 years ago today (ironically) he was outed as a horrid racist (and in the last fewish years a notorious right wing nut and supporter of Trump) and he never recovered his image, to the point where even a few months ago when making an appearance on WWE programming he was damned well boo’d out of the building.

      Sooo now he’s dead and can rot.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        8 days ago

        he was also temporarily scrubbed by WWE for like 5 ish years too for his racism. and then theres the gawker-thiel lawsuit too.

    • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Bunch of instances of him being a generally shitty person, a racist, and being a hardcore Trumper mostly to my knowledge.