00:00Clearwater Police Department in Florida, United States has confirmed that world wrestling champion, Terry Bollie aka Hulk Hogan died on Thursday morning around 11.17am after the personnel of the Clearwater City Fire and Police Departments responded to an emergency medical report at about 9.51am and administered first aid treatment of cardiac arrest to Hulk Hogan before he was rushed to Morton Plant Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
00:28According to the Clearwater Police Department in a video press briefing held a few hours ago, the Clearwater Fire Department and Clearwater Police Department personnel responded to a medical call at 9.51am today in the 1000 block of El Dorado Avenue on Clearwater Beach.
00:46The nature of the call was for a cardiac arrest.
00:50A 71-year-old resident, Terry Bollie, also known as Hulk Hogan, was treated by Clearwater Fire and Rescue crews before being taken by Sunstar to Morton Plant Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
01:04Major Nate Burnside briefed the press about the police and fire response to a medical call involving Terry Bollie, also known as Hulk Hogan.
01:13A video of the scene outside Hogan's residence shows responders desperately trying to save his life as he was transported to an ambulance.
01:22In the clip, several paramedics appear to be conducting chest compressions as Hogan is wheeled to the emergency vehicle.
01:29It may be recalled that a few weeks ago, Hogan's wife, Skye, whom he married in September 2023, denied rumors he was in a coma, stating his heart was strong as he recovered from surgeries.
01:43Some local media in the United States had reported last month that Hogan was on his deathbed, but the reports were denied with statements that as at the time he was just dealing with the symptoms of a neck procedure he underwent in May, 2025.
01:58The global sports icon, Hulk Hogan undoubtedly transformed professional wrestling into a family entertainment sports.
02:07Before Hulk, wrestling catered to a fairly narrow audience.
02:11Hulk's theatrics in the ring were magnetic for children and their parents, and it supercharged the sport.
02:17Hulk Hogan kickstarted a pop culture phenomenon with Hulkamania, after defeating the Iron Shake for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1984, a craze that never went away, and his signature bandana and handlebar mustache were often copied by fans in crowds for decades.
02:35In 1996, Hulk created the NWO, New World Order, and became Hollywood Hulk Hogan.
02:44It propelled him and professional wrestling to even more fame.
02:47Hogan had countless iconic performances which included a matchup against Dwayne, The Rock, Johnson at WrestleMania X8 in 2002 and a face-off with Andre the Giant at WM3, and had memorable feuds with Ultimate Warrior and Randy Savage.
03:03Hulk was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
03:10He was removed in 2015 after a scandal erupted over racists' comments while he was being secretly recorded during a sexual encounter.
03:19Gawker posted the clip and Hulk subsequently sued, winning the lawsuit.
03:24Hulk was inducted a second time in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2020, this time as a member of NWO.
03:32World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE released a statement on Hogan's death, saying,
03:39One of pop culture's most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition in the 1980s.
03:47WWE extends its condolences to Hogan's family, friends, and fans.
03:54Hulk was the star of the 2024 Republican National Convention, when he set the room ablaze with theatrics.
04:00Hulk had an amazingly successful movie career, beginning in 1982, with, Rocky III, playing the iconic character Thunderlips.
04:11He also starred in, No Holds Barred, Suburban Commando, and, Mr. Nanny, and there's more.
04:19Hogan starred in the hit VH1 reality show, Hogan Knows Best, with his family, Linda, Nick, and Brooke.
04:27In details, WWE in a statement on its website said,
04:32Legendary WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan passes away.
04:37WWE is saddened to learn that Terry Bonny, recognized globally as legendary WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan,
04:46has passed away on July 24th at 71.
04:50One of pop culture's most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition with the Hulkamania craze of the 1980s
04:59and reignited sports entertainment's popularity in the 1990s through his leadership of the New World Order in WCW.
05:08Whether he was a hero or villain, clad in red and yellow or black and white,
05:12the Hulkster was always one of the ring's most popular and enduring stars.
05:17Hogan abandoned a career in music with his Tampa, Florida-based band, Ruckus,
05:22when he was discovered by WWE Hall of Famer's Jack and Jerry Briscoe.
05:28In 1977, Hogan began training with Hiro Matsuda,
05:32who intentionally broke Hogan's lower leg just to see if he was passionate enough to return to training in the ring
05:39or would instead return to playing bass guitar.
05:42A year later on August 10th, 1977, Hogan had his first match against B.
05:48Brian Blair in Fort Myers, Florida, for championship wrestling from Florida.
05:54Hogan competed under a mask as Super Destroyer in Florida and then teamed with his friend Ed Leslie,
06:00who would become Brutus Beefcake, as brothers Terry and Ed Boulder in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia.
06:07It was after appearing on a local talk show in Memphis with TV's incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno,
06:13that he began calling himself Terry, the Hulk, Boulder because he was so much larger than Ferrigno.
06:19He first appeared in WWE in 1979 and was named Hulk Hogan by Vincent J.
06:27McMahon.
06:28As a villain, Hogan defeated the future Million Dollar Man, Ted DeBiase in his first match of Madison Square Garden,
06:35challenged Bob Backlund for the WWE Championship,
06:39and collided with Andre the Giant eight years before WrestleMania 3 in August 1980 at New York City's Shea Stadium.
06:47After appearing in, Rocky III,
06:49Hogan spent the next three years competing for Vern Ganzauer and Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro Wrestling.
06:56Hogan then made the move to WWE where he defeated the Iron Shape to become to WWE Champion on January 23rd, 1984,
07:07beginning a pop culture craze that would be known as Hulkamania.
07:11For nearly a decade, WWE and Hulkamania's footprints grew together.
07:16WWE expanded to nationally syndicated television, then pay-per-per-view,
07:22with Hogan headlining in a litany of classics, including teaming with television's biggest star,
07:28Mr. T, at the first WrestleMania and defeating Andre the Giant in front of more than 93,000 fans at WrestleMania 3.
07:37All told, Hulk Hogan racked up an unprecedented five WWE Championships,
07:43main-evented WrestleMania eight times, and sold millions of t-shirts,
07:47toys and anything else you could imagine bearing the red and yellow before leaving WWE in August 1993.
07:56The Hulkster planned on putting his full-time sports entertainment days behind him
08:00and started a career as a television star on the syndicated Thunder in Paradise.
08:06However, it wasn't long until he was drawn into sports entertainment again,
08:11this time by, Nature Boy, Ric Flair and new WCW executive producer Eric Bischoff.
08:19Using Turner Broadcasting's budget, Bischoff signed Hogan to a seven-figure, part-time contract.
08:26In his debut match, Hogan, with Mr. T in his corner and Shaquille O'Neal at ringside,
08:32defeated Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on the Bash at the Beach Pay-Per-View in Orlando, Florida.
08:39After two years of dominating his competition, Hogan did the unthinkable when he betrayed both WCW fans
08:48and WCW hero Sting, Lex Luger and Randy Savage by joining the Outsiders, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash,
08:56to form the New World Order.
08:58The NWO was WCW's greatest weapon in the Monday Night War pitting WCW's Nitro against WWE's.
09:07Monday Night Raw, during his six years with WCW, Hogan won six WCW World Heavyweight Championships.
09:17Almost one year after the demise of WCW, Hogan, Hall and Nash returned to WWE as the reviled NWO in February 2002.
09:27While his third stay in WWE lasted less than two years, Hogan was once again embraced by the WWE Universe
09:37during his match against The Rock at WrestleMania X-8 and later won his sixth WWE Championship from Triple H at Backlash 2002.
09:46In 2005, the Hulkster was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his Rocky III co-star and friend, Sylvester Stallone,
09:56and appeared at WrestleMania 21 the following night.
10:00In 2014, the Hulkster again returned to WWE and was the host of WrestleMania 30.
10:06The historic event began with Hogan, The Rock and Stone Cold, Steve Austin,
10:12arguably the three most famous sports entertainers of all time,
10:17together in the ring to the delight of more than 75,000 WWE fans from all 50 states and 37 countries
10:25at New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome,
10:28with millions more watching the first WrestleMania to air live on WWE Network.
10:33There are few names more synonymous with sports entertainment than Hulk Hogan,
10:38as the larger-than-life icon was a central figure in WWE's rise from a regional attraction to the worldwide entertainment leader.
10:47The Hulkster's superhuman size and undeniable charisma helped him reach heights once unthinkable in sports and entertainment,
10:54as Hogan packed 93,173 fans into the Pontiac Silverdome for WrestleMania 3,
11:02won six WWE championships, starred in movies and set the standard for what a WWE superstar could be.
11:10WWE extends its condolences to Bollia's family, friends and fans,
11:16the World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE stated.
11:19What's amazing about Hulk, he had scores of surgeries as a result of wrestling injuries.
11:26He told Harvey during a taping of Objectified, he had no original body parts left.
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