Hulk Hogan’s monumental contributions to skilled wrestling and popular culture made him one of many world’s most beloved and recognizable human beings.
Sadly, it didn’t all keep that approach for Terry Bollea, as life outdoors the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling catches as much as some, because it did with him.
Bollea died Thursday on the age of 71 from cardiac arrest as a extra polarizing determine than his Hulk Hogan persona ever was.
WWE and professional wrestling could be nowhere close to their present heights with out Hogan. With out Hogan, the then-WWF wouldn’t have gotten the Rock n’ Wrestling crossover with MTV that introduced it higher mainstream visibility in 1984. It was the catalyst for WrestleMania I, into which Vince McMahon put all the pieces he had, a 12 months later.