I'm going to be very candid.

I think that if Hogan had listened to his doctors, we probably still have Terry with us today.

24 to the 36 hours after this major, major surgery.

He's out canvassing across America.

All these people flat out lie.

Enough was enough.

At 70 years old, Hulk Hogan cut a wrestling promo better than anybody in the business right now.

Hulk was the best man at your wedding.

You know, your wife was filmed having sex with him.

Had you had a chance to sit down to kind of bury the hatchet after all the problems

from the fallout of the tape and so on?

What would you have said to him?

It's impossible to overstate the significance of Hulk Hogan,

professional wrestling, and indeed in popular culture.

For the moment, he toppled the Iranian Iron Shake in

1984, Hogan became an all-American hero and a global brand. He later found out himself at the

center of the WDF steroid scandal, as well as its all-out war with Ted Turner's renegade rival brand,

the WCW. Hogan even formed an extraordinary secret tag team with the billionaire Peter

Teal. Together they sued the online tabloid Gorker into oblivion over an illicitic sex tape featuring

Hogan and his friend's wife. Well, that case sparked a frenzied national debate about free speech

and privacy. But there is no question that Hulk will be remembered as a man who spoke freely and lived

very publicly to the delight of many millions of fans.

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