Wrestling hall of famer Hulk Hogan has passed away at the age of 71. According to a report by TMZ, Hogan (Terry Bollea) suffered a cardiac arrest episode on Thursday morning at his Clearwater, FL home. Audio from the Pinellas County Fire and EMS shows medical and fire arrived at his home where Hogan was carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance.
According to a post on the Clearwater police department Instagram account, CFD and CPD personnel responded to a medical call at 9:51am eastern time where the nature of the call was for a cardiac arrest. Hogan was treated by Clearwater Fire and Rescue crews before being transported to Morton Plant Hospital, where the wrestling icon was pronounced dead.
Hogan was a key part of professional wrestling’s rise from the 1980’s till today. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, but was removed following a scandal over racist comments. The WWE re-inducted Hogan in 2020 as a member of the famed faction the NWO.
As news broke, sports media reacted to the news of Hogan’s passing as many shared their memories of the wrestling icon.
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