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The Sun
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Hulk Hogan hospitalized as deathbed rumors swirl following WWE legend's long-term health issues
HULK HOGAN has been hospitalized after deathbed rumors swirled on social media. According TMZ Sports, there had been talk on social media the WWE legend was suffering major health concerns. 2 2 However, it is understood he is NOT on death's door. They report the 71-year-old was taken to hospital this week to address lingering neck and back issues. The concerns around his health started after a report by radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. He suggested Hogan was not in good shape, according to reports. But TMZ say the Hulkstar is doing well after his hospital visit. He is understood to be back up and moving again. The wrestling icon had undergone neck surgery last month. Hogan had been battling against the wear-and-tear of years in the ring. Social media set ablaze after rumors of him being on his deathbed. "We do not want to lose Hulk Hogan," one said. Hulk Hogan, 71, BOOED OUT of WWE by furious fans after he admitted he was racist and launched N-word rant Another said: "Even though I don't like the Hulkster anymore glad to hear that rumor was false. "I don't wish death on anyone." A third added: "Death doesn't work for me brother." And a fourth commented: "What a legend." Hogan has been a divisive character in and out of the ring over the years. He joined the WWE in 1979, going to the main event numerous WreslteManias. The NWO icon appeared in New Japan Pro Wrestling and other promotions through his long career. He had a number of out-of-ring controversies, including leaked tapes and lawsuits.
Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Truth behind worrying Hulk Hogan health rumor after radio host claimed WWE icon 'might not make it' in hospital
Hulk Hogan is not on his deathbed in hospital despite a Florida radio host claiming the WWE legend's family have been called in to say their goodbyes to him. According to TMZ Sports, Hogan was hospitalized this week to simply deal with lingering neck and back issues, and he's back moving around already. Local radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge said live on air that a 'pretty damn reliable' source had told him the 71-year-old was in such bad health that he 'might not make it'. However, it is believed he is not close to death and was only in hospital to address health problems he's struggled with for years. Hogan - whose real name is Terry Bollea - underwent neck surgery last month after having a 'little fusion procedure' to make him 'feel a little better.' He was back to work just 24 hours after going under the knife while preparing for the launch of his new wrestling league, Real American Freestyle, this summer 'Quick turnaround,' a representative for Hulk was quoted as saying by TMZ.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Boss of controversial sporting event that ENCOURAGES drug cheating reveals how it was inspired by wrestling legend Hulk Hogan's homemade sex tape
What does Hulk Hogan 's home-made porno - with his mate Bubba the Love Sponge's wife - have to do with it? For Australian entrepreneur Aron D'Souza, a fair bit. Hogan's romp is a link in the chain leading D'Souza to Las Vegas ' sunset strip for this week's launch of Enhanced Games, a multi-sports event with no drug testing. D'Souza, a 40-year-old Melbourne-born businessman, has the backing of multi-billionaires, and a family company of US President Donald Trump. And he's pinching himself that a concept first planted in his mind 15 years ago when he read a bioethicist's paper is now in fruition. 'I think about my life and it's like truth is stranger than fiction,' D'Souza said. 'If someone wrote the story of my life, you just couldn't believe it. 'The Peter Thiel/Gawker case, that's a book and a movie in itself.' The Gawker case involves Hulk Hogan and a home-made pornographic film. In 2006, the world famous wrestler was down in the dumps. A mate, a shock-jock known as Bubba the Love Sponge, offered his wife to Hogan. The wrestler agreed, on condition it wasn't recorded. Bubba lied, filmed the frolic and, six years later, it was leaked to a brash New York publisher known for flaunting rules, Gawker. In 2007, Gawker outed Thiel as gay. That article, while legal, enraged the German-born multi-billionaire who is now among financiers of D'Souza's Enhanced Games. The Australian met the German around 2010 when D'Souza, then 24, was completing a law degree at England's Oxford University. They got talking. Thiel told of his Gawker gripe. D'Souza got thinking. Why doesn't Thiel fund lawyers to find cases against Gawker, then sue them into extinction? Thiel agreed. When Gawker publishes Hulk Hogan's sex tape in 2012, D'Souza's plan swings into action. Backed by $10million of Thiel funds, Hogan wins damages to the tune of $100million. Gawker goes bankrupt and Thiel was soon revealed as Hogan's bankroller. But D'Souza - the mastermind of a ruthless tactic earning some nods of approval among those in high society - stayed in the shadows, anonymous. Those who knew of his involvement in the case, knew him only as Mr A, adding to international intrigue. 'I said I just want to be a private guy; I just want to go back to Australia, run my family property, business, run my start-ups,' he said. 'Today I am a very public figure but I was not comfortable with being a public figure 10 years ago. 'The Gawker case, looking back, gave me the confidence to believe that I could do anything. 'I'm very thankful to Peter Thiel because we decided to work on the Gawker case together when I was only 24 years old, I just met him socially.' D'Souza remained connected with Thiel, who co-founded PayPal among other companies and was Facebook's first outside investor. And Thiel was an early investor when D'Souza floated Enhanced Games, a concept he nicked from an academic paper by Oxford bioethicist Professor Julian Savulescu debating merits of a sports event for athletes on drugs. 'It wasn't my idea. I just said: 'You know what? I'm going to make a business out of this',' D'Souza said. Two years ago, he envisioned Enhanced Games interest streaming from various US college facilities. But he was shocked by the level of interest - and cash - from left field. Thiel, who wants to be cryogenically preserved when he dies, was joined as a backer by fellow multi-billionaire venture capitalist and biotech pioneer Christian Angermayer, who credits a magic mushroom trip for changing his life and wants to commercialise psychedelics. The pair, and others, view Enhanced Games not as a sports and entertainment event, but a shop-front stake in an anti-ageing and health industry worth trillions of dollars. 'This is when two of the largest industries in the world merge - care, and sports and entertainment,' D'Souza said. 'There's so many more partnerships to be done, so many more levers in public policy to push, so many avenues of science to advance. 'I do view this as still as a human rights struggle because, fundamentally, the principle human right is to be able to do with own body what we wish. 'And that might mean taking synthetic testosterone. It may mean prosthesis. It may mean brain computer interfaces. 'If you read the scientific literature, there is a pipeline of all this technology being developed right now.' D'Souza said Enhanced Games' mission was 'bringing super humanity - making the first super human'. 'Probably today, only one-tenth of a per cent of Americans would view themselves as enhanced,' he said. 'But in a few years, that will be five per cent, 10 per cent. 'And that's how we're going to measure this. 'I could get hit by a bus today and this event, this movement, will continue to succeed and grow because it's not about me, it's not about even the company that we have built. 'It's about cultural zeitgeist that is happening in the world. 'We timed it right but I am certain that within 20 years' time, all sport will be enhanced.' The event has been decried by sports administrators worldwide, most notably the Olympic movement. But D'Souza said Olympic criticism had quietened since 1789 Capital, a company of Donald Trump Jnr, recently jumped aboard as a partner of the fledgling games. 'I think there's been an order from the very top, and I mean from (soon-to-be retired IOC president Thomas) Bach himself,' D'Souza said. 'Because of the support we have from the Trump administration, and that the LA28 Olympics are coming around, they don't want to be seen as opposing us. 'Because if they do, that risks the political support for LA28 and LA28 needs billions of dollars of taxpayer money to succeed.'
