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New York Post
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Hulk Hogan gets neck surgery after sparking concern with dramatic new look
'Whatcha gonna do, brother?' Hulk Hogan is on the mend after going under the knife. The 71-year-old former wrestling legend underwent recent surgery on his neck, reported TMZ on Thursday, May 15. Advertisement A representative for Hogan provided details on his recovery, telling the outlet that the WWE brand ambassador had a 'little fusion procedure' done on Wednesday to make him 'feel a little better.' 10 Hulk Hogan raised eyebrows with a dramatic two-tone beard earlier this month. Fox and Friends Fusion surgery is a common procedure to relieve pain usually caused by pinched nerves in one's neck, according to the Cleveland Clinic, which describes the method as a surgeon fusing the bones together. Advertisement Hogan must have handled the surgery like the WWF champion he is because he was reportedly back at work on Thursday, according to his rep, who told the outlet Hulk made a 'quick turnaround.' The Post reached out to Hogan's rep for comment. His surgery comes not long after the bandana-wearing retired wrestler — real name Terry Eugene Bollea — sparked alarm bells with a dramatic new look. 10 Hulk Hogan gestures to the audience during his Hulkamania Tour. Getty Images Advertisement 10 Hulk Hogan showed off his transformation on 'Fox & Friends.' @hulkhogan/Instagram 10 Fans were shocked by the hair-raising change. @hulkhogan/Instagram Earlier this month, Hogan shocked fans after debuting a bizarre, two-toned beard during a live TV appearance on 'Fox & Friends.' Sporting his trademark white handlebar mustache and mullet, the star's beard stubble was a strange purplish-black color. Advertisement Fans were floored by the hair-raising transformation. 10 Hulk Hogan during Press Conference for Bash at the Beach at Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills. WireImage 'Hulk Hogan. Hulk. Please give it up and go take a nap. You're in your 70s, your beard looks like you rubbed a moldy ashtray on your face,' one person wrote on X after his interview. 'What style would you call this look from Hulk Hogan?' another user asked. 'Is he okay?' shared a third. 10 Hulk Hogan rocking his black-and-white facial hair. @hulkhogan/Instagram 10 Hulk Hogan with his daughter Brooke Hogan. FilmMagic Ontario's Welland Tribune even had an opinion piece about the hair-raising transformation titled, 'Hulk Hogan's face now resembles a 1970s station wagon. His zebra-dyed beard is a cautionary tale for all men.' Advertisement Hogan's facial hair hasn't been the only reason he's been making headlines lately. The former reality star's family drama hit an all-time high in March, when his ex-wife, Linda Hogan, aired out their dirty laundry. 10 Linda Hogan got emotional while airing the family's dirty laundry. An emotional Linda revealed she's estranged from her daughter, Brooke, 37, and blamed her former husband for the fallout. She also labeled Hogan a 'sex addict' and 'complete liar.' Advertisement 'Brooke doesn't talk to us. She had twins, she got married [and] she didn't tell us,' Linda said in the video, referring to Brooke and her husband, ex-Stanley Cup champ Steven Oleksy, whom she married in 2022. The couple welcomed twins, Oliver Andrew and Molly Gene, in January. 10 Brooke revealed she has 'no contact' with her mom or dad. WireImage But Brooke, who is estranged from both parents, shot back at her mother's accusations and explained why she has 'no contact' with them. Advertisement 'I have been EXTREMELY verbally and mentally abused since childhood,' she claimed in her lengthy social media post. 'Sadly, it would frequently turn physical. And sometimes it's not by the person you would assume, abuse comes in all shapes and sizes. This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem or confidence I've trained to pretend to have,' she added in part. 10 Brooke issued a lengthy response to her mother's accusations. mizzhogan/Instagram Linda fired back with a jaw-dropping allegation that her 'narcissist' daughter once 'broke my collarbone' in a drunken fight. Advertisement The WWE Hall of Famer appeared to enjoy watching the mother-daughter brawl play out with his new wife, Sky Daily. Hogan married Daily in 2023 following his divorce from Jennifer McDaniel in 2021. Linda and Hogan were married from 1983 to 2009. The pair shares two kids: Brooke and Nick, 34.
Fox News
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
John Cena's shocking WWE heel turn 'bigger than wrestling angle,' Hulk Hogan says
John Cena's heel turn at WWE's Elimination Chamber transcended the world of sports entertainment. Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe debated about the ordeal on ESPN while Jon Stewart brought it up on "The Daily Show." It was truly a moment no pro wrestling fan thought they would see – ever. Cena even talked about the idea of turning heel in 2012 on Chris Van Vliet's podcast last year. But the dramatic turn from being immensely loved by the fans to turning his back on everything his character stood for over several years never occurred – until Saturday. The comparisons then trickled in. Which heel turn was bigger – Hulk Hogan being the third man in the New World Order and turning on World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1996 at Bash at the Beach or was it Cena? Hogan weighed in during an interview with Justin Barrasso for his Substack "Undisputed." "It's one of the best heel turns I've seen in a long, long time," Hogan said. "All the major players were involved. I can't say enough about The Rock, too – he was incredible. They did it right, I'll tell you that." Hogan added that. Cena's now not doing the things he had been doing – essentially, shaking hands and kissing babies. He called it "bigger than a wrestling angle." By the time Hogan decided to become the "bad guy" in pro wrestling, his gimmick of "Say your prayers and eat your vitamins" was said to have become stale. No pro wrestling fan at the time thought Hogan could align with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, who had just joined WCW in the weeks prior from WWE – then known as the World Wrestling Federation. The turn kicked-started the dominance of the New World Order faction. WCW defeated WWE in the ratings for 83 weeks before the other company eventually righted the ship and bought WCW. Cena started his career wanting to make a good impression in the company's "Ruthless Aggression" era and then transformed into a rapper who would dis crowds and drop freestyle rap tracks on his opponents. He became one of the most popular wrestlers ever and even set a record for most Make-a-Wish Foundation wishes granted. He won the WWE Championship 13 times and the World Heavyweight Championship three times. One more title win will set a record. It was what his farewell tour was going to be about when he announced his retirement last summer. He embarked on the journey at the Royal Rumble, only to be the final competitor eliminated. The signs appeared to be there after that. He declared himself a competitor in the men's Elimination Chamber match without earning the spot. He then aligned himself with The Rock, who initially asked Rhodes to become "his champion." Cena's final WWE run will now be on the other side of the aisle and will keep a hot storyline burning through the rest of the year.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is John Cena's heel turn the greatest in wrestling history? Plus predicting where WWE goes from here
Sound the alarms, we have our first emergency gathering of the Uncrowned Horsemen! Unless you've been living under a Rock (see what we did there?), you know the WWE world was turned upside down on Saturday night, with John Cena doing the unthinkable and turning heel for the first time in his legendary career. If the Royal Rumble was the official kickoff to the Road to WrestleMania 41, Elimination Chamber and Cena's stunner put us on the highway doing about 90 in the left lane. So with it being safe to say that no one saw this coming, Robert Jackman, Drake Riggs and Anthony Sulla-Heffinger are here to make sense of the chaos and plot out where this craziness goes from here. Sulla-Heffinger: I think a lot of the placement and reaction to this will vary based on age, but I am going to slot this right in the middle of the Hulk Hogan turn at Bash at the Beach in 1996 and Seth Rollins betraying the Shield in June 2014. Hogan joining Scott Hall and Kevin Nash kicked off arguably the greatest storyline in the greatest era of professional wrestling and was about as unthinkable as anything up to that point in the history of the industry. It was a monumental risk that paid off better than anyone could've imagined at the time, so it'll almost always rank No. 1 on my list of shocking moments in wrestling history. As for Rollins' flip, while it was and always will be a monumental moment in WWE history, Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose (Jon Moxley) have accomplished so much more since that, so the June 2, 2014 episode of 'WWE Raw' is less of a defining moment than another highlight in careers filled with them. Considering how the industry has evolved over the past 20 years, Cena was probably as close to Hogan as you could get in terms of pure babyfaces in professional wrestling, and despite turns being teased and rumored for more than a decade, it seemed hard to believe WWE would pull the trigger with roughly three dozen dates remaining in the legend's career. Yet, here we are. Cena's turn also has the added benefit of the true presence of social media and instant meme culture to push it to new heights. Riggs: What a world we live in. John Cena turning still doesn't feel like a real thing to me, and I stand by it never happening if he was a full-timer. This was the perfect way to get away with it. The two biggest Hollywood converts from WWE history aligning out of selfish (soulless) desires? Not too bad at all, Triple H. Not too bad. This whole thing really hits home for me because Cena was my childhood as a wrestling fan. I grew up as one of the kids — to an extent — that everyone is talking about him abandoning with this move. Like most, I grew sick of him after so much time on top, hoping for a change in character. People should remember that Cena's Dr. of Thuganomics gimmick was essentially a heel character. He wasn't fully booked that way though, and the fans loved it, leading to that persona getting shed. Even when we saw little glimpses of it in recent years just for one-offs, it wasn't what happened at Elimination Chamber. Cena's heel turn is the pinnacle for me. My favorite and one that will always be my go-to reference is Batista turning on Evolution, but that was a face turn, and predictable. Nothing comes to mind that is as stunning as Cena. Where Stone Cold Steve Austin's turn peaks in shock value, it lacked in execution. That was also simply right before my time, so it would feel wrong to choose that. Thanks to the circumstances, Cena was heel for one night against Rob Van Dam at ECW One Night Stand. Outside of that, I never imagined a time like this coming down the pipeline so fittingly. Jackman: It is an absolutely massive twist. It's hard to think of a single play in modern wrestling that would feel bigger in terms of overturning everything we've learned over the years. Of course, John Cena is presented as the all-American good guy; that's just how things work, right? As far as where it ranks in heel turn infamy, I really think that Hollywood Hogan is the most apt comparison here. We've seen some shockers over the years with Seth Rollins and others, but they still made sense within the wider storyline, usually with someone turning on their old faction. This is a total rug-pull which basically tears up everything we thought we knew about John Cena as a human being, let alone a wrestler. I think the proof of its significance is the way it's being noticed by casual fans. I'm sure we've all seen the posts on social media of people showing texts from friends or relatives who haven't watched the product for years suddenly saying 'Wait, John Cena went heel?' That shows you what a seismic change this was. Jackman: This is the million dollar question. These sudden heel turns always hit hard in the moment, but they can fizzle out quickly if you don't book them correctly. Just look at the New Day twist, which felt like prestige television when it happened, but has lost steam ever since. I think the starting point is that this has to feel like a genuine evolution to Cena's character. We need to know what pushed him to this point. The best heel turns are those which have their roots in logic, rather than just being a cartoonish embrace of the dark side. I wonder if one idea would be to tie it to that longstanding losing streak which Cena himself referenced on the Netflix debut. Maybe he could cut some promos about how trying to please the fans only led to him losing, but by rediscovering his ruthless aggression he was able to win the Chamber. As for the retirement tour, I'll stick to the more conservative path here and say that Cena should not beat Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 41. My reading of that particular situation is that it's about a longer-term play for Cody vs. The Rock at WrestleMania 42, after 'The Final Boss' decides that — having failed to defeat Rhodes by proxy for two years running — he is now throwing down the gauntlet himself. A 17th world title win still feels inevitable to me, but later in the year. If heel Cena is here to stay, then perhaps the most powerful option would be for him to beat Jey Uso (who would have to win at WrestleMania) for the World Heavyweight Championship. That also gives WWE a chance to go full circle with what happened at the Rumble, which they can present as the genesis of Cena's heel turn. Remember Cena's quizzical expression when his feet actually hit the floor? Perhaps that was the moment that something inside him finally snapped. Sulla-Heffinger: So I think there are a lot of people — including myself — who owe Dwayne Johnson a bit of an apology for doubting the creative direction of 'The Final Boss' since he demanded Cody Rhodes' soul two Fridays ago. This has worked incredibly and sets up one of the biggest years — not just WrestleManias — in recent memory. With CM Punk and Rollins seemingly on a path toward their own WrestleMania 41 clash, Jey Uso locked in his feud with World Heavyweight Champion Gunther and Sami Zayn on the mend, Rhodes is running out of allies against Cena and 'The Final Boss' quickly. The obvious answer here is that Reigns aligns himself with "The American Nightmare" and we get a tag-team match between all four at SummerSlam later this year. But I ask, where's the fun in predicting the obvious? Let's assume Reigns doesn't get involved until later in the year and instead injects himself into the Rollins-Punk feud to pay off the Royal Rumble tease. Rhodes can go into his WrestleMania match against Cena solo, and as he's inevitably getting beaten down by Cena and The Rock, Allegiant Stadium becomes illuminated in green and tens of thousands of fans erupt as we hear 'It's Time to Play the Game.' Triple H's in-ring career is over because of a medical issue, but he could don his leather jacket one more time, swing the sledgehammer a few times and hit a Pedigree to keep Rhodes as the face of WWE. Johnson has spoken — and practiced — straddling the line between kayfabe and reality in his dual roles as a TKO board member and on-screen character. Triple H can do the same — and honestly the poetry of Rhodes having destroyed Trips' throne and then needing his help to stay atop it is S-tier storytelling, if you ask me. Riggs: The possibilities couldn't be any more limitless, and it's hard for me to imagine Cena's heel run not going beyond 2025. Cena may not have to wrestle beyond this year, but he'll stay involved. Ultimately, the people against the authority is always a winning formula, and that's why this storyline can make for a quality, Hollywood anti-hero variation of the NWO. To swipe a reference from the series "The Boys," Cody Rhodes is the good guy in a sea of Homelanders, and from here, Cena and The Rock establish a complete takeover of the company. We're selling souls to make history here, folks. Cena makes history and defeats Rhodes at WrestleMania 41 with the help of The Rock and another wildly over individual right now, Jey Uso, who both Cena and The Rock help win the World Heavyweight Championship because Uso simply can't beat Gunther alone. Cena then becomes the new Brock Lesnar titleholder, showing up on television once a month and only to defend the belt, scraping by time after time. Eventually, the egos can no longer co-exist — The Rock wants that title. He wants the "Tribal Chief" status. He wants it all. Rock cuts Cena's legs out from under him at SummerSlam to take the throne, leading to CM Punk vs. the man who stole his WrestleMania main event all those years ago — The Rock vs. CM Punk across the marquee at WrestleMania 42. I like Anthony's usage of Triple H, and some injection of that into my booking makes plenty of sense too. But we're going far out of left field now, so we'll leave it there. Again, limitless possibilities.
