Skilled wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan was remembered by his first spouse Monday on what would’ve been the grappler’s 72nd birthday.
“Me and Hulkster … 1981 Joyful Birthday Terry … I really like and miss you a lot,” Linda Hogan posted on Instagram alongside a 46-year-old picture of the 2 of them collectively.
Hogan, born Terry Gene Bollea, died July 24 from a coronary heart assault in his Florida dwelling. He married Linda Claridge in 1983. The pair divorced in 2009.
They shared a son and a daughter who appeared with them on the fact TV present “Hogan Is aware of Greatest” from 2005 to 2007. Hogan married two extra occasions and was nonetheless together with his third spouse, Sky Every day, when he died.
Linda Hogan wrote on Instagram after her ex-husband’s loss of life that she was “melting down” with out him.
“It’s hitting me so arduous,” she wrote. “I cherished Hulkster greater than he cherished me.”
Whereas the towering wrestler might have moved on, his 65-year-old first spouse indicated she wasn’t as lucky.
“You had been my man. The one man for me,” she wrote on July 19.
Hogan was celebrated as a hero by many when he died. President Trump known as him a “nice man.”
Hogan spoke on the Republican Nationwide Committee conference in July 2024 the place he was showered with applause.
Others remembered him for his messy divorce from Linda Hogan, a publicly litigated intercourse tape scandal and racist remarks that received him suspended from the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2015. He was reinstated in 2018.
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