Hulk Hogan’s legacy remembered by Dana White

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Dana White, the UFC’s president and CEO, remembered professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan Thursday evening after his loss of life in Florida.

White appeared on Fox Information Channel’s "Jesse Watters Primetime" and mirrored on Hogan’s look on the Republican Nationwide Conference. He mentioned he was in a holding room with Child Rock ready to go on the stage when Hogan requested to talk with him.

"Hulk Hogan grabbed me and requested me if he may discuss to me privately for a second," White mentioned. "And he pulled me apart, and I’ll always remember that dialog that we had that evening.

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Hulk Hogan rips his shirt earlier than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, File)

"He was man. He was particular. He cherished the president, and, clearly, he cherished America."

White gave credit score to Hogan, Muhammad Ali, Don King and the fight sports activities and sports activities leisure world of that period for serving to form what the UFC is at the moment.

"The best way that the UFC is at the moment and the issues that I’ve finished to construct all of it have just a little piece of all these guys and their companies," White added.

Clearwater police mentioned officers have been referred to as to a cardiac arrest emergency at Hogan’s dwelling. The professional wrestler was transported to a hospital and died about an hour later. Hogan was 71.

Hogan’s loss of life despatched ripples throughout the sports activities leisure world. White was simply one among dozens of people that paid tribute to the WWE icon all through the day.

"WWE is saddened to study WWE Corridor of Famer Hulk Hogan has handed away," WWE mentioned in a press release. "One of popular culture’s most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE obtain world recognition within the Eighties.

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Dana White speaks earlier than Donald Trump arrives at a rally forward of the sixtieth presidential inauguration Jan. 19, 2025, in Washington. (Matt Rourke/AP)

"WWE extends its condolences to Hogan’s household, buddies, and followers."

An announcement was launched on Hogan's Instagram web page.

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

"Right now of grief, we ask that everybody please respect the privateness of his household and buddies. Could all of us take solace within the great recollections he left behind for the thousands and thousands of followers worldwide whose lives he touched for greater than 4 many years. He will probably be missed, however by no means forgotten."

Hogan was a larger-than-life character who modified professional wrestling a number of occasions; first when he slammed Andre the Large at WrestleMania III, and once more, when he turned on wrestling followers and aligned himself with the New World Order in World Championship Wrestling.

Hulk Hogan poses throughout the MTV Video Music Awards Discussion board at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor Aug. 30, 2006, in New York. (AP Photograph/Jason DeCrow, File)

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He 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.