IN THE Loving MEMORY OF TERRY BOLEA - HULK HOGAN 1953-2025Hulk Hogan :_ Early life-:Was Born in Augusta Georgia , He was raised in Port Tampa, Florida, and initially excelled in baseball before an injury shifted his focus ,then explored music, playing bass guitar in several Florida bands, including one called Ruckus. Hogan attended Hillsborough Community College and later the University of South Florida, studying finance and music. He also began watching professional wrestling at age 16 and was inspired by the physiques of wrestlers like Superstar Billy Graham. During a performance with his band Ruckus, the Brisco Brothers noticed him and introduced him to wrestling training. He initially wrestled under the name "Terry Boulder" and later "The Super Destroyer," training with Hiro MatsudaHulk Hogan Started in 1976 , , During a performance with his band Ruckus, the Brisco Brothers noticed him and introduced him to wrestling training. He initially wrestled under the name "Terry Boulder" and later "The Super Destroyer," training with Hiro Matsuda Started with WWWF in 1979, as a Heel Under Vince Senior, Under the Hulk Hogan , Then Got Fired because he got a role in Rocky 3 , as the wrestling champion of the world, Thunder lips , Going up against Rocky Balboa , it changed he Career Gave him Main Stream Attention , Showed up on The Tonight show with Jimmy Carson , Got Fired from Vince Sr who didn't want Hogan to do Commercials , Movies or Tv stuff , Because of that Old School Mentality of Being a Wrestler , Hulk Hogan Loved Pro Wrestling so Much That he went over to AWA , Run by Verne Gagne and That's where he started Getting Over and Hulkamania Took off, Became the Most over Wrestler in the AWA , Verne Gagne tho didn't Want Hogan to be his World Champion , Hogan had Hit a Glass ceiling in The AWA , Vince Called Hogan , And Said i want to take u and Run Nationally , Fuck The territories , And he Became probably the most biggest star in pro wrestling , Defeating iron shiek , then Beating Andre the Giant at Wrestle mania 3 to Feuds with Macho Man Randy savage as The Mega Powers Collide , Facing the ultimate warrior at the sky dome , Hulkamania started to flounder so went and filmed the movies , The likes of Mr Nanny and Then he was Told his run was Done in the wwf BY VINCE , Went to film thunder in paradise , told Vince he will never Run against him , AS he was Filming , WCW around the Corner filming their show saturday night at Disney MGM Studios , With Eric Bishoff Showing up at The Thunder in Paradise set to request him to come over to WCW , Because he knew Hulk was miserable filming on a set , he had to do it because he had 2 Little kids . so Eventually He Joined WCW the Fatal Blow to Vince and the WWF , Eventually Macho Man Randy Savage joined , and more to names from WWF, Hogan had his Match with Flair at Bash at the beach 1994 , winning the WCW world heavy weight championship , Before that He was Crowned as the First IWGP Heavy Weight champion for NJPW in the early 90's of some partnership between WWF AND NJPW . Hogan had his Hulkamania run in WCW for 2 years , With Boos , The Same he was Getting in His late WWF Run , Eventually Turned Heel , Lit the Fire and Become bigger than WWF and Wrestling industry , And then it was History with NWO , with nitro Crushing RAW in the Ratings for 83 weeks straight , His on Creative and Control and Politics crushed WCW , Which he had Done that over in WWF , But WCW went down hill , with finger POKE OF DOOM , and More Stupid things , Hulk eventually returned home to WWF to have a match with the rock , it Ended up being the greatest Match with Hogan Turning Baby Face; Hulk Hogan's Legacy will forever live on WWE gives Tribute TNA gives tributeAEW- AND NJPW Give there tribute to HoganRip Brother!.