Hulk Hogan, the American Sport and Entertainment Star who made professional wrestling a global phenomenon and supported Donald Trump loudly for president, died at the age of 71, said Thursday Entertainment Wrestling Entertainment.

“WWE is sad when teaching WWE Fammer Hulk Hogan Hall has passed away. One of the most popular pop culture figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition in the 1980s,” WWE told X. This gave no cause of death.

Blonde Blonde, made of mahogany, became the face of professional wrestling in the 1980s, helping to make fighting mock a spectacle planted in family -friendly entertainment of billions of dollars.

A key moment in that evolution came to Wrestlemania III Extravaganza in 1987, when Hogan raised his friend Wrestler André the Giant in front of a Silverdome Pontius Sold in Michigan for a thunder body of the French.

Hogan Parliament has his fame of wrestling in a less successful career in Hollywood, performing in films such as “Rocky III” and “Santa with Muscles”, but continued to return to the ring as long as his body would allow.

In 2024, he appeared at the Republican National Convention to approve the Trump’s presidential bid, which in the 1980s had played Hulk titled Wrestlemania. Hogan said he made the decision to support the Republican candidate after seeing his fighter reaction, punching with an attempted assassination attempt on the campaign.

“Let Trumamaman run wild, brother!” Hogan bowed with a cheering crowd, removing his shirt to discover a top of Trump tanks. “Let Trumamaman rule again!”

Becoming ‘Hulk’

Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, George, on August 11, 1953, the future Hulk and his family were quickly transferred to the Tampa area, Florida. After high school, he played bass guitar for the rock gangs of the area, but felt a retreat on the hot red wrestling scene in Florida in the 1970s.

Many of the details of his career were exaggerations of the business show, representative of the unclear lines between the fact and the fabrications in wrestling.

His first coach is reported to break Hogan’s leg to disconnect him from business entry, but he continued in wrestling, weighting and – he later accepted – anabolic steroids. He gained fame while his biceps turned into what he called “24-inch pythons”.

Monitor “Hulk” came from comparisons with the hero of the comic book portrayed on TV at the time. He would end up paying royalties for Marvel Comics for years. “Hogan” was the invention of the promoter Vincent J. McMahon, the owner of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), who wanted Irish representation among his sustainable stars.

His appearance as Wrestler Thunderlips in “Rocky III”, where he darred the lead man Sylvester Stallone, Rocket Hogan in the main stream. After a return to WWF, now controlled by McMahon’s son Vincent K., he defeated Iron Sheikh in 1984 to claim the World Championship, a belt he would hold for four years.

Hogan became a family name, appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine and performing along with the stars of pop culture like Mr WWF came to dominate wrestling, anchored by her annual events of Wrestlemania Pay-Per-View.

Coping with ‘Rock’

Later, he joined the wrestling of the World Competition Championship, exchanging yellow sweater of his yellow brand for black and taking a character like the bad Hogan “Hollywood”, the head of a band of rules known as the new world order. Gimmick revived his career.

Hogan eventually turned to WWF, now known as WWE, and faced Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in Wrestlemania in 2002.

“I’m in better shape than that“He told Hogan Reuters at the time, five months shy from his 50th birthday.”I will stand by the rock and will poses with it if you want“Rock eventually won the match.

Hogan was involved twice in the WWE fame hall, and referred to himself as “Babe Ruth” of wrestling – after the famous New York York York Bayball player.

But Hogan’s support for Trump in 2024 did not go down well with all wrestling fans, and he also faced other controversy. Gossip Gawker’s website closed after she posted part of a sex tape between him and the wife of a friend and Hogan sued for intimacy, earning a $ 140 million trial.

In 2015, he was suspended from WWE after another startling recording revealed that Hogan had used a racial sludge. He returned in 2018.

He was married three times and had two children, who played stars with her and his first wife Linda in a 2005-2007 reality show, “Hogan knows best”.