Hulk Hogan's ex-friend claims he is been 'proper' about wrestler's well being

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One in all Hulk Hogan’s former good pals needs the unlucky credit score of being "proper" concerning the wrestling legend’s well being points.

Bubba the Love Sponge had stated since final month that Hogan’s well being was declining, even saying he was within the ICU for six weeks and on his deathbed.

Hogan died Thursday on the age of 71.

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"I can’t take away from what I’ve already stated, and what I’ve already appropriately predicted. However I'm formally the man that was the one one telling the reality about Hulk Hogan’s bodily situation," Bubba the Love Sponge stated on his radio present.

"And that has induced some individuals to say, ‘You already know what, Bubba was proper.’ No, I want to God I wasn’t proper, as a result of being proper means we've a lifeless Hulk Hogan."

Hulk Hogan has died on the age of 71. (Al Dunlop/Toronto Star through Getty Photographs)

The 2 males have a sophisticated historical past. It was Bubba’s spouse on the time who Hogan was concerned with in a intercourse tape launched by Gawker in 2012. The ordeal resulted in an eventual $115 million awarded to Hogan from the media outlet after he argued the discharge of the tape was an invasion of privateness.

Nonetheless, Bubba appeared upset that his reviews have been dismissed by individuals in Hogan’s interior circle.

"I don’t know if my telling the reality can be such an enormous deal if the individuals like his spouse [Sky Daily], Brian Blair, Jimmy Hart, Eric Bischoff, Missy Beefcake and all the opposite keyboard powerful guys have been [calling me out]," he stated. "I've a particular connection to this man that’s not so particular anymore. However, for 15 years, this man was certainly one of my greatest pals. We noticed one another every single day. There are issues that I’ll take to my grave that I do know that him and I went by way of."

A press release was launched on Hogan's Instagram web page about his demise.

"It's with a heavy coronary heart and deep unhappiness that we affirm we've misplaced a legend," the submit stated. "Our beloved Terry Bollea, identified worldwide as Hulk Hogan, handed away at this time surrounded by his family members.

"At the moment of grief, we ask that everybody please respect the privateness of his household and pals. Might all of us take solace within the fantastic recollections he left behind for the tens of millions of followers worldwide whose lives he touched for greater than 4 a long time. He can be missed, however by no means forgotten."

Skilled wrestler Hulk Hogan speaks in the course of the remaining day of the Republican Nationwide Conference July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Picture/Paul Sancya, File)

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The famous person professional wrestler, whose actual identify was Terry Bollea, bought his begin in Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) within the late Seventies earlier than he finally joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979. Nevertheless, it wasn’t till his return to the WWF, now the WWE, when he turned the famous person that followers got here to know.

Vince McMahon had bought the WWF from his father and selected Hogan to be the principle attraction for the corporate. He began to wrestle when he saved Bob Backlund from an assault by the Wild Samoans. "Hulkamania" turned the fashion from there.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan is a two-time WWE Corridor of Famer. (Blick/RDB/ullstein bild through Getty Photographs)

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Hogan was a six-time WWE champion, gained the Royal Rumble twice and was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame as a person in 2005 and as a member of the NWO in 2020. He was additionally a six-time world heavyweight champion in WCW and the IWGP champion in New Japan Professional-Wrestling as soon as.