Hulk Hogan
Launches Wrestling League
Hoping Trump Hits First Occasion!!!
Printed Might 1, 2025 12:30 AM PDT
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Hulk Hogan’s obtained a brand new wrestling league … and he is hopeful he will not be the one main celeb working wild at its inaugural occasion later this summer time — telling TMZ Sports activities he needs Donald Trump there too!!
The WWE legend introduced this week he, Eric Bischoff and famed coach Israel Martinez have joined collectively to start out Actual American Freestyle — and on Wednesday, he advised us he needs POTUS ringside when all of it formally kicks off on Aug. 30 in Cleveland.
In truth, Hulk — who was one in all Trump’s largest supporters throughout his run for president in 2024 — mentioned he plans to make a cellphone name to the White Home quickly to personally prolong the invite.
With or with out Trump, although, Hogan made it clear he is anticipating large issues from the league — which may have a little bit of a special really feel than many of the wrestling promotions he used to dominate.
The RAF will characteristic actual, unscripted freestyle wrestling … with each males’s and girls’s divisions. He mentioned in a teaser for the league that athletes “are going to receives a commission to beat folks up” — earlier than telling us they may make greenback quantities within the seven-figure vary.
Hulk promised it’s going to have “The Voice”-like components too … saying wrestlers’ backgrounds will likely be given to followers previous to their matches.
“By the point these wrestlers come out,” he mentioned, “you are going to really be vested in these athletes and it is actually going to ramp up.”
Hogan mentioned the concept all got here to him and his enterprise companions proper across the time he began his Actual American Beer firm … and he advised us after watching Trump attend the NCAA Division I wrestling championships in Philadelphia final month, he obtained actually excited for its potential.
Now, he mentioned he believes it is all obtained the prospect to be “simply as large as” the UFC and the WWE.
“That is what I am searching for,” he mentioned.
