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What is the legacy of Hulk Hogan? It's the question that so many have attempted to answer this

week, and there is no succinct way to answer it. The life of a 71-year-old who spent most of it as a

public figure and speaking to a mass audience becomes impossible to untangle when so much fiction

is baked into the facts. Somewhere along the way, Terry Bolaea morphed into Hall Cogan, and few were

able to decipher, including Bolaea. For some, he was their gateway into professional wrestling,

a real-life comic book hero, a literal cartoon on CBS television, wrapped in the American flag.

He epitomized the overused, larger-than-life label, an individual who took the WWF to immense

heights and became one of the greatest draws in the industry's history, leading both WWF and

WCW to respective boom periods. For others, he was a political shark in an industry built on

paranoia and distrust, using a sizable leverage at every turn. Outside of professional wrestling,

he was marred by controversies for over a decade from the leaking of conversations with his

son in prison that were disturbing, a sex tape, and the subsequent racist audio it contained,

a Peter Thiel-funded lawsuit that brought down the Gawker site, and wrapping himself

around the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

It's all part of the story of Hulk Hogan. That story begins on August 11, 1953, when the second of

two boys to Peter and Ruth Bolaea arrives in Augusta, Georgia. The family had arrived in Aiken

County one year prior when Peter accepted a construction job in the area.

It was less than two years after Bolaia's birth that they uprooted and migrated to Tampa,

the city where Bolaia was most affiliated.

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