Hulk Hogan, pro-wrestling’s 12-time world champion and TV personality, who helped transform the WWE into the behemoth it became, has reportedly died at age 71, according to TMZ.
TMZ said on Thursday, July 24 that medics were sent to Hogan’s home in Florida after he reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest. The outlet said he was taken out on a stretcher.
Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame. He was first inducted in 2005 by his friend Sylvester Stallone, then in 2020 as part of a wrestling team. At 6′ 6,” or 6′ 7,” or maybe 6′ 8″ — he loved tall tales — and weighing more than 300 pounds, Hogan was anointed “Wrestling’s Top Banana” in a 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story spotlighting both him and “Mat Mania!”