{"id":89314,"date":"2025-07-24T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89314\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:14","slug":"wrestling-star-hulk-hogan-dead-at-71-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89314\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling star Hulk Hogan dead at 71 : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Carlson\/AP<\/p>\n

Hulk Hogan, one of the biggest stars of professional wrestling, has died. The police and fire departments in Clearwater, Florida<\/a>, put out a statement stating they responded to a medical call for a cardiac arrest this morning. Hogan was pronounced dead at a local hospital. He was 71 years old.<\/p>\n

Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, was one of the earliest stars of World Wrestling Entertainment and was the face of pro wrestling’s boom in popularity during the 1980s.<\/p>\n

In a post on X,<\/a> the WWE called Hogan “one of pop culture’s most recognizable figures,” and credits him for helping the brand achieve global recognition.<\/p>\n

He was so popular, there was a name for his era of popularity \u2013 Hulkamania. Hogan parlayed that stardom into movie roles, including a memorable appearance in Rocky III.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

More recently, Hogan was a figure of right-wing politics. During the 2024 Republican National Convention, he spoke on stage, tearing off his shirt to reveal a Trump-Vance shirt<\/a>, saying, “Let Trumpamania run wild, brother.”<\/p>\n

Hogan also became a major figure in the media after the website Gawker published a portion of a sex tape of Hogan in 2012. Funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, Hogan sued parent company Gawker Media. Hogan won the lawsuit. A Florida jury awarded him $140 million, driving Gawker Media into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hulk Hogan between matches during WrestleMania in Los Angeles in 2005. Chris Carlson\/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-89314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114909669378152524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}