Hulk Hogan’s son Nick paid tribute to his late father on the launch of his new wrestling promotion.
Nick Hogan paid tribute to his ‘icon’ father on the particular occasion
The occasion occurred on the Wolstein Heart in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday (30.08.25) for the Fox Nation wrestling particular RAF 01.
Earlier than his loss of life from a coronary heart assault on the age of 71 in July, Hulk had based the Actual American Freestyle group.
Honouring his father on the kick-off occasion, Nick, 35, stated: “Hulk, to me, is an icon, a mentor, my father, and my greatest good friend.
“[He was] a power within the sports activities leisure business that may dwell eternally.”
The wrestling legend teamed up with former World Championship Wrestling government Eric Bischoff on the particular promotion.
The streaming deal additionally contains the league’s second occasion, scheduled to happen later within the 12 months.
Fox Nation described the occasions as an “exhilarating expertise, full of motion and an immersive present ambiance”.
Hulk started his wrestling profession in 1977 and achieved world fame within the Nineteen Eighties with the World Wrestling Federation.
He gained the WWF Championship six instances, along with his longest reign lasting a file 1,474 days.
Hulk additionally secured the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six instances, holding the title for a cumulative 1,177 days, the longest in WCW historical past.
His match in opposition to André the Large at WrestleMania III in 1987 is iconic, the place he famously body-slammed the 520-pound Large earlier than a crowd of over 90,000 followers.
The wrestler performed a pivotal position within the formation of the New World Order (nWo) in WCW, revolutionising wrestling storylines.
Hulk was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame twice – first as a person in 2005 and later as a member of the nWo in 2020.
