“Dad I Want You to Wrestle Him…”: Hulk Hogan Once Revealed How His Son Nicholas Influenced Him to Make a Career Altering Decision

Hulk Hogan is a household name, and he is very popular since his time in WWE. But besides WWE, he is also popular from his time in WCW. He had a great run in WCW, which was later acquired by WWE. The Hulkster joined WCW in 1994 and his debut match was against Ric Flair, for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship which he won.

Prior to his WCW first run, Thunder lips had retired from wrestling, but something brought him back to the world of wrestling. Let’s have a look at what it was.

Hulk Hogan joined WCW for his son

While speaking in an interview with Jay Leno in 1994, Hulkamania revealed the reason why joined WCW. During the show, the host asked Hogan to tell the fans why he “came out of retirement?” He responded to this question by saying that he “loved” wrestling and there were “a lot of reasons” for him coming back to wrestling, but the primary reason was his son, Nick Hogan.

Hogan said, “All the time I’m signing these autographs while I am doing Thunder in Paradise, he’s like dad why are you signing it Hulk Hogan I thought you were a “Hurricane” Spencer – that’s the Navy SEAL name.” And so now all of a sudden Nicholas is going dad I want you to wrestle him. So I take him to McDonald’s or wherever, Nicholas goes, [imintates his son] and my daughter Brook is going like this [imitates his daughter] all the time. So that’s one good reason.” 

Hollywood Hogan quit his show Thunder in Paradise to join wrestling again to fulfill his son’s wish. This decision was life-altering for him as he went on to wrestle for a long time after that. Surely fans have to thank Hogan’s son for giving them back The Hulkster.

WWE changed Hulk Hogan’s life

The Hulkster was also absent from WWE from the year 2007 to 2011. He returned to the wrestling company on February 2014, in an episode of Monday Night Raw. Upon his arrival, he revealed to the WWE Universe that he will host WrestleMania 30.

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During an interview with HuffPost, many years back, Mr. America opened up about how his return to WWE impacted his life in a positive way. He stated that after his return to WWE, everything went on smoothly for him. His personal and professional life was going really well and everything just fell into the right place once he was back “home.”

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