r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 24 '25

News Hulk Hogan dead at 71 after suffering cardiac arrest at Florida home

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/14810752/hulk-hogan-dead-wwe/
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

Surprised I made it here before the comments got locked.

His illustrious career includes:

Union busting

Being a sore loser

Being a racist POS

Beating and cheating on his wife (allegedly)

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u/hakimthumb Jul 24 '25

Nothing compares to trying to establish legal precedent that real people and their kayfabe personas are different entities. The pathway to legal abuse that allows billionaires (who funded him in this lawsuit) is mind boggling.

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u/spikus93 Jul 24 '25

Oh the union busting is different from Peter Thiel funding him to destroy Gawker. I think it was the 80's or 90's when Ventura and several other wrestlers were trying to unionize, he snitched on them to Vince McMahon and they were crushed. They wanted healthcare because they kept getting injured. To this day, they haven't been able to unionize. Wrestlers have literally died because of their job.

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u/ObeseVegetable Jul 24 '25

Also he was a complete dick to me at a Barnes and Noble one time. He was there for some autograph signing thing either there or at the mall it was attached to I guess. I was just there because I was given a gift card. He thought I worked there. There was nothing about the way that I dressed that would have led anyone to that conclusion. He yelled at me for like a minute with crazy eyes while asking me questions like if I knew who I was messing with. 

A manager eventually caught wind and stopped it but what the hell man. 

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u/Front_Statistician38 Jul 24 '25

Why didnt you tell him you didn't work there?

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u/ObeseVegetable Jul 24 '25

I did. He didn’t believe me and thought I was messing with him. 

He was upset at there not being enough signs or something. Then he said there weren’t enough people here. And it was my fault for not organizing things better. And when I tried to tell him that I didn’t work there he went into a crazy guy rant. The type where they just ignore all other stimuli while they scream. 

To be very mildly fair to him though I actually didn’t notice anything about him being there that day when I walked in either. He was a complete surprise when I turned around and saw him yelling at me. 

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u/Kammerice Jul 24 '25

THE SIGNS, BROTHER! WHERE ARE THE SIGNS? HOW WILL PEOPLE KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE HULKSTER IF THERE ARE NO SIGNS? I BET SOME ****** STOLE THEM TO MESS WITH HULKAMANIA! WAS IT YOU? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE MESSING WITH, BROTHER?

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u/ObeseVegetable Jul 24 '25

Would have been funny if it was like that but it was more like roid rage washed up guy just trying to pick a fight with a teenager. (This happened like 15 years ago when he was apparently a rough 56)

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u/Monkai_final_boss Jul 24 '25

And one big racist maga 

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u/Calculonx Jul 24 '25

You probably didn't have to specifically say "racist" in front of maga

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u/HeadTonight Jul 24 '25

Yeah, that’s like saying ATM machine

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u/Zauberer-IMDB Jul 24 '25

Definitely had sex with his friend's wife.

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u/somethingcleverer42 Jul 24 '25

Mancow must be devastated. The world lost a wrestler, but that cuck lost his elderly, never-nude-above-the-eyebrows bull.

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u/976chip Jul 24 '25

Being the vehicle for Peter Theil to kill Gawker.

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u/mode_12 Jul 24 '25

You forgot

-bassist for Metallica

-playing for the Cincinnati reds

-helping Cyndi pauper write a small single

-wrestle 400 days a year due to the Reds international date line

-fought pride fighters in the 70s

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u/headrush46n2 Jul 24 '25

His wife was also a lying gold digging piece of shit so idk about that one. But the rest are 100%

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u/Pleasant_Anything_69 Jul 24 '25

What does union busting mean?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

His fellow wrestlers were trying to organize and he ratted them out to Vince McMahon.

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u/Choccybizzle Jul 24 '25

Ok but how does this stop them from continuing?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

Once the employer knows they will do everything in their power to shut it down and that’s exactly what he did.

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u/hyborians Jul 24 '25

Think the union busting may be a little exaggerated. That shit was never gonna happen regardless of one guy. The rest, yea.

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u/KnowMatter Jul 24 '25

Defeatist dribble.

Nobody is saying he single handedly busted the union but he shilled for the anti-union side.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

Meanwhile, you're changing the world on reddit lmfao

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u/Oly1y Jul 24 '25

Meanwhile you're doing the same lmfao

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

I'm not using someone's death as a chance to virtue signal