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.
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.
After a 35-year career, Hogan officially retired from wrestling in 2012.
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
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.
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.
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:
Contributing: C. A. Bridges, USA Today Florida Network
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