“TMZ Presents: The Real Hulk Hogan” is set to air tonight at 8 PM EST on FOX. TMZ aired a trailer for this, where several high profile names praised what Hogan did for pro-wrestling:
Vince McMahon: He was a pioneer. There was no one like him.
Sylvester Stallone: Hulk was in a class of his own.
Charlotte Flair: He embodied professional wrestling. The first superstar to transcend our sport.
Goldberg: There is no Mount Rushmore – there’s Hogan.
When the topic of Hogan being booed in his final WWE TV appearance on the RAW Netflix premiere on January 6, 2025 was brought up, Vince McMahon was shown saying the following:
“I was angry. He deserved much more.”
You can watch trailer below:
This was the moment I got the call that Hulk Hogan died.
We happened to be shooting TMZ on TV, so cameras rolling, mics on, and they captured all that unfolded.
I don't recall @TMZ / @TMZ_Sports ever showing a BTS moment like this before — especially for such an important story.… pic.twitter.com/q1vq0ESphU— michael j. babcock (@mikejbabcock) August 12, 2025
Brooke Reveals What She Warned Hulk Hogan About In Final Conversation
Brooke Hogan has opened up about the final conversation she had with her father, the late 2-time WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan, revealing that it happened under unusual and emotional circumstances just before his 2023 wedding to Sky Daily.
Speaking on The Bubba the Love Sponge Show, Brooke recalled receiving an unexpected phone call from her father. According to her, the tone was unsettling from the start – almost like a step in a recovery process – with Hogan offering a vague apology without explaining exactly what for.
“He said, ‘I just wanted to call and say I’m sorry for whatever I did,’” Brooke recounted, adding that she asked him if he was referring to comments from the leaked $ex tape or something else entirely. “There’s a lot of things that we could go through that you’ve done,” she told him at the time.
Brooke says the conversation quickly set off alarm bells. After hanging up, she told her partner, Steve, that she believed her father was about to marry Sky Daily – despite having recently claimed he had no intention of walking down the aisle again. According to her, Hogan admitted Daily was “pushing the marriage thing real hard,” and she reminded him he didn’t need to go through with it.
She claims this wasn’t the first sign her father had doubts about the relationship. At one point, Brooke says Hogan had even looked into ways of ending things with Daily. Concerned, Brooke hired a former FBI agent to check into Daily’s background and ultimately advised her father, “Just don’t get married… You don’t have to.”
In the same interview, Brooke also touched on a personal regret – not having any memorabilia from her father’s storied career to pass on to future generations. “Can I have something for my children? Anything?” she recalled asking him.
She stressed she would never sell any of it, saying if his possessions were ever displayed, they would belong in the WWE Hall of Fame or behind glass at the Hard Rock Hotel.
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