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Passing of Terry Gene Bollea (Hulk Hogan)

2.6K views 35 replies 26 participants last post by  Steve Theodore  
#1 ·
It is with sincere regret that one of GEN-X'ers heros, Hulk Hogan, passed this morning due to a reported heart attack. Along with his son Nick, they both shared a love of the MKIV Supra. My sincerest condolences to his family during this difficult time.
 
#6 ·
RIP brother.

Pre-YouTube days I remember downloading one of the early Turbo Dreams videos and watching Hulk doing pulls in that beautiful green Supra of his (at 2:48). I remember excitingly sharing this new found fact with friends. 'Hulk Hogan is a Supra guy!'

I know Nick still has the green car and his Dad seemed to 'move on' to muscle cars but once a Supra OG, always a Supra OG.

My thoughts are with his family.
 
#9 ·
He had been on his death bed for weeks over botched neck surgery. They said he lost the ability to talk. Either the surgeon hit something in there, he had a stroke, or he was starved of oxygen durng the surgery and had brain death. He made have died of a heart attack, but it was reported he was already a vegetable at the time. RIP.
 
#16 · (Edited)
There is some more information coming to light on his death.

So it appears that his original spine fusion done on May 14 was successful.

The doctors told hulk he needs to stay in bed to allow everything to heal. Until the bone graft heals, the only thing keeping his spine in the proper orientation was the titanium hardware holding everything together.

There are videos of Hulk apparently running all around the United States promoting his various business just days after the first surgery.

It appears that sometime in mid-June, he has some sort of catastrophic hardware failure or complication that caused the spine to move out of alignment and caused bleeding, nerve damage, suffocation, etc.

After the emergency, the doctors tried a second surgery on June 18 to try and fix the damage, but it appears that the damage had already been done or they couldn't fix the problem.

The last 30 some odd days they were praying for a miracle, but it looks like the damage was already done by early to mid-June.

It looks like the cause of this was Hulk not taking his recovery seriously, and ignoring the doctors who told him to stay in bed and recover. This may have all been preventable...

Listen to your doctors people!

This is all second hand information, so take all of this with a grain of salt...

RIP Hulk.
 
#12 ·
Condolences to the family. Lots of Supra history in that family between Hulk and Nick.

I was blown away as a kid when I saw him in the turbo dreams vid, and based on this thread it's safe to say I'm not the only one.

RIP to the Hulkster. You had a good run brother.

-Rich
 
#13 ·
I watched him in Boston Square Garden in the 1980s when I was 6 years old coming down waiving an American Flag. Never in my life did I think I would meet him 20 years later when I was living in Clearwater. Guy was a good Christian and an American hero. RIP
 
#35 ·
It was the yellow Supra with twin HKS turbos that was Hulk’s which came after the green Supra. Hulk built the green Supra from a stock Supra when Nick was 13yrs old. Hulk would drive him to all the legendary Supra meets in FL. I attend about some of them bf ack in the day. I still have my 94 Supra owned for 25 yrs.
 
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#28 ·
Good riddance, racist prick.
Making fun of him? I'm not making fun of him, I'm calling him for what he was. He was a racist POS who got backlash for what he said and was only sorry he got caught. If he was every truly sorry, good for him. Maybe he found his own peace at the end. But no one else did.

No need to "^^^" me, just quote my post next time. And so what if he's dead? We can't call out people for the piece of shit human beings they were? Hell, I'll take a shit on Trump's grave when he's gone. That won't make him any less of a piece of shit either, only this time he'll have some icing on top.
Feelings? Where?

I honestly can't tell if you people are delusional or you really believe your own ignorance. At no point were feelings involved. It's like if I were to say that the current POTUS is a rapist and a pedophile. No feelings here, only facts. Now, whether you get triggered by facts because you support pedophiles or not, that's on you.

Also, I didn't know people actually used the term "TDS" outside their conservative echo-chamber "truth social." That's low-key cringe ngl
Uh-oh, what's wrong with San Francisco? Is it all the brown people? All the LGBTQ?

Just say it out loud. I didn't know daddy raised such a little girl. Hulk Hogan would be ashamed.

Sorry, I'll stop. I'll let you boomers have your thread back. It's not like he's coming back from the dead as a black person anyways. Man, that'd be funny.
Your conduct here is just as awful as what you're claiming to criticize.

If you want to attack someone's character, it's meaningless if you're tasteless and lacking in character yourself when you make those accusations.

Take a week off and go touch some grass, please. We're all a lot more alike than you think, no matter what your preferred side in this Team A vs Team 1 polarized internet discourse might have you believe.
Consider also just how awful it'd be if every mistake you made as a person were captured forever and relentlessly criticized no matter how much you grew or evolved past those mistakes. The world is unforgiving. Show some grace and class if you want anyone to care about what you find tasteless or unacceptable.
 
#29 ·
Consider also just how awful it'd be if every mistake you made as a person were captured forever and relentlessly criticized no matter how much you grew or evolved past those mistakes. The world is unforgiving. Show some grace and class if you want anyone to care about what you find tasteless or unacceptable.
Unfortunately the internet has given every idiot a microphone to voice their opinions. Let us just hope this individual finds some peace in his life.
 
#30 ·
Hereya-goe

 
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