2024-07-19 12:40:02
Oh, BROTHER!
Professional wrestler and Florida man Hulk Hogan will speak tonight at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Hogan, 70, is set to speak ahead of Donald Trump during the final day of the convention. The former president is expected to formally accept the Republican nomination for November’s presidential election tonight as well.
Who is Hulk Hogan?
Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, Georgia, Hulk Hogan is one of the greatest — certainly one of the most attention-getting — professional wrestlers of all time.
“The key figure in WWE’s rise from regional attraction to worldwide entertainment leader in the 1980s, The Hulkster’s superhuman size and undeniable charisma set the standard for what a Superstar should be,” WWE writes in Hogan’s biography. “A larger-than-life icon, he packed 93,173 WWE fans into the Pontiac Silverdome, won six WWE Championships, starred in movies, television shows and his own animated series and became an idol to a vast legion of fans he dubbed his Hulkamaniacs.”
According to Pro Wrestling Wiki, Hogan is a 12-time World Champion, including six WWF/WWE championships, six WCW World Heavyweight championships, and is a former WWE World Tag Team Champion with fellow wrestler Edge.
Is Hulk Hogan retired from wrestling?
After a 35-year career, Hogan officially retired from wrestling in 2012.
Is Hulk Hogan a Republican?
Hogan is a registered Republican and has shared some of his voting history (supporting Obama in 2008 and Romney in 2012) and even declared his potential aspirations for running for office.
According to The Hill, he said if he ever ran, he would run as a Republican but at the moment, he doesn’t have any plans to actually run for president.
“I’ve thought about it — as of late, people calling my phone, driving me crazy about running for Senate. They want me to run for governor, they want me to run for mayor,” the former professional wrestling star told TMZ’s Harvey Levin
How are Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump connected?
According to the Ashbury Park Press, this won’t be the first time Trump and the controversial pro wrestling star are teaming up.
Hogan competed at Wrestlemania IV and V, which were both held at Trump’s Taj Mahal. Those events were held in 1988 and 1989. They’re also both part of the WWE Hall of Fame.
Does Hulk Hogan live in Florida? Wrestler has restaurant in Clearwater Beach
Hogan has lived in Florida since his days as a reality star on “Hogan Knows Best.”
He’s lived in Tampa and Miami, got married and then divorced and then married again. He now resides in Clearwater, where he opened a Hulkamania shop. A second shop is located in Orlando.
He also owns “Hogan’s Hangout,” a casual restaurant that has “become a Clearwater Beach institution, brother.”
Last year, Hogan was baptized at Indian Rocks Baptist Church in Largo with his third wife, Sky.
“Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love,” he wrote on Instagram.
Who are all the speakers for Day 4 of the RNC?
- Sen. Steve Daines (MT), NRSC Chairman
- Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-09), NRSC Chairman
- Diane Hendricks, Everyday American
- Diane Evans, Everyday American
- Linda McMahon, 25th Administrator of the Small Business Administration
- Mike Pompeo, 70th U.S. Secretary of State
- Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, Everyday American
- John Nieporte, Everyday American
- Steve Witkoff
- Alina Habba
- Tucker Carlson
- Carrie Ruiz, Everyday American
- Hulk Hogan
- Annette Albright, Everyday American
- Franklin Graham
- Lee Greenwood
- Eric Trump
- Dana White
- Donald J. Trump
How to watch and stream 2024 RNC
USA TODAY will provide livestream coverage on YouTube each night of the RNC, Monday through Thursday.
Each television network will handle coverage slightly differently. Here’s a breakdown of the major networks and their coverage plans for the RNC:
- C-SPAN will carry the entire convention uninterrupted for all four days.
- CBS television stations will have live coverage starting at 10 p.m. ET all four days.
- NBC News will broadcast “Decision 2024” live during the same time it streams the program, from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. the first two nights of the convention, and from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. the final two nights.
- ABC News will have live coverage from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. all four days on its main broadcast network, hosted by David Muir.
- Fox News will air coverage during its regular prime-time lineup of shows, and will broadcast a nightly one-hour special starting at 10 p.m., hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
- CNN will air live coverage beginning at 2 p.m. Monday, before Trump is expected to be formally nominated via a roll call. The network will then have a combination of coverage and analysis each night from 8 p.m. to midnight, anchored by Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper.
- MSNBC will broadcast a prime-time special from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, hosted by Rachel Maddow. The network will have coverage from 8 p.m. to midnight on Wednesday and Thursday.
- NewsNation will provide primetime coverage titled “Decision Desk 2024: The Republican National Convention” from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. ET on Wednesday and Thursday, co-anchored by Chris Cuomo, Elizabeth Vargas and Dan Abrams, along with Leland Vittert, who will anchor coverage live from the convention.
- PBS News will have gavel-to-gavel coverage each day of the convention, with a continuous stream from the main floor.
Contributing: C. A. Bridges, USA Today Florida Network
