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Hulk Hogan’s Five Biggest Career Blunders

By Evan Wecksell

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#1 – “It’s turning the Hogan household upside-down.” (Hogan Knows Best)

Damn you VH1! Second, I can’t find any videos on youtube to embed from your show, and first you destroyed Hulk Hogan’s family!

In 2005, Hulk Hogan reemerged in the public eye in the form of a reality show, because he had two things: past celebrity and a young, hot daughter. Since Hogan owned the 80s and Brooke was fresh white meat for the reality machine, the pieces were in place to begin sucking the life out of Hulkamania.

At first the episodes were just innocent family shenanigans. Hogan would travel around his property on a segway, workout with his buddy from the Nasty Boys and be shown being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

However, as the show continued, VH1 began painting Hulkster as a double-standard parent. He would let Nick get into trouble, but for his daughter Brooke, he would put a tracking device on her car while she went on a date.

By 2007, you had episodes where Hogan was reading poetry to his family in hopes of saving his marriage. Congrats reality TV: you created the most glaring before and after picture for a well-intentioned family. Because when did Hulk Hogan have his affair? 2007. When did he get divorced? 2007.

It gets more sordid from there. Hogan writes in his autobiography how he contemplated suicide staring at a table populated with a gun, rum and Xanax. You have Hulk and Linda remarrying people that are half their age and that look like younger versions of each other. In 2012, Nick got in a fatal car accident using two of his dad’s cars. Brooke’s music career never fully took off and she received her most valuable airtime appearing at Hulk’s side on TNA wrestling.

So while the Hulk/WWE split is a tough vitamin to swallow, this was not an isolated error. Unfortunately, bad luck can beget bad luck, especially if you surround yourself with the wrong people. So despite WWE.com ‘taking down’ all Hulk Hogan videos because he messed up eight years ago, I believe he messed up ten years ago when he entrusted his family to Pink Sneakers Productions.

(Note: WWE.com didn’t take down his videos. They are just currently not accessible by the public.)

The lesson: Never turn your family over to reality TV, brother!

What do you think was Hulk Hogan’s biggest blunder? Let us know below.

Evan Wecksell is touring comedian who has appeared on VH1, E! and Conan. Follow him @evanwecksell and like his WWE-sanctioned child Beckett Sage.

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