Hulk Hogan Released from WWE for Using "N-BOMB"
- wwetvsports21
- Jul 24, 2015
- 3 min read
The WWE has terminated its contract with the wrestling icon, a rep for the organization told FOX411.
"WWE terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan). WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide."
The WWE would not comment as to the reason it booted Hogan, but TMZ reports the wrestler was fired for using the N-word to describe a man involved with his daughter, Brooke, in a leaked transcript of a sex tape that is the center of a multimillion dollar lawsuit with the gossip site Gawker.
Other news reports indicate the wrestler was kicked out for comments he made during a 2012 radio interview in which he, again, uses the N-word.
In the 2012 interview, Hogan's interviewer, DJ Whoo Kidd, asks him: "You've been saying 'brother' for years, any black guy ever say, 'Yo, you my n----r, you my n----r Hulk."
Hogan responded: "Well Booker T used to say that to me on TV and you know, every time I pull up YouTube there's that famous thing that Booker T...goes, 'I'm coming for you my n----r." He added, "They're all calling me n----r and then I started saying it and you know, I always said it but now all of a sudden I get heat when I said it."
DJ Whoo Kidd told FOX411 he was not offended by Hogan's use of the N-word in the 2012 interview.
"It was never used in a hate way...as long as he’s not using the n-word in a hateful way he doesn’t deserve to be fired," the radio personality said.
Hogan, 61, has been erased from the WWE website. When you search for Hogan on the site, he is no longer listed on the WWE Hall of Fame page, and all of his merchandise has been removed from the WWE
In light of the reports, audio of a 2012 radio interview on DJ Whoo Kid’s Sirius XM Shade 45 show “Whoolywood Shuffle,” in which Hogan uses the n-word repeatedly, has surfaced. In the audio, which was posted online Friday morning, the WWE star casually says the n-word throughout the entire conversation. Listen below.
In the clip, DJ Whoo mentions how Hogan is known for calling everyone “brother.” The two then start to talk about the time fellow wrestler Booker T infamously called Hogan a “n*gger” on live TV. “Well, Booker T used to do that to me, and every time I pull up YouTube there’s that famous thing with Booker T and his brother is there and they’re all talking trash, and Booker T says, ‘I’m coming for ya Hogan, you n*gger’– and not ‘n*gga,’ he goes ‘n*gger,’” says Hogan. The wrestler then mentions how when he used to live in Miami, and a lot of his rapper friends would always call him the n-word.
He goes on, “And it’s still so cool, because the whole time I was down in Miami when I lived there, you know, everybody — I’d walk into the [DJ] booth and all of a sudden I’d bump into this guy and The Game’s in the booth, it’s all black and he’s got his BlackBerry, and I bump into him and he goes, ‘What’s up, n*gga?’ and I said, ‘Oh, excuse me, bro!’ And he says, ‘No, it’s all cool.’” Hogan then notes that since people were always saying the word to him, he felt it was okay he started to use it himself. “And everybody down there — Lil Wayne, Birdman — they’re all calling me ‘n*gga,’ and then I started sayin’ it,” explains Hogan. “And I always said it, but now all of a sudden I get heat when I say it, and they say, ‘Hogan, you can’t say that,’ so I say, ‘Why can they say it to me then?’” - See more at: http://beststarsvideossite.com/index.php/2015/07/24/hulk-hogan-n-word-audio-listen-to-controversial-radio-interview-here-2/#sthash.Y6WvxPQf.dpuf
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