{"id":11364,"date":"2025-07-29T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/kevin-nash-defends-hulk-hogan-over-past-controversies-after-death\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:06:13","slug":"kevin-nash-defends-hulk-hogan-over-past-controversies-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/kevin-nash-defends-hulk-hogan-over-past-controversies-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Nash Defends Hulk Hogan Over Past Controversies After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hulk Hogan<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s longtime friend, professional wrestler Kevin Nash<\/strong>, is coming to his defense as Hogan\u2019s past controversies resurfaced<\/a> following his death last week.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his \u201cKliq This\u201d<\/a> podcast on Monday, July 28, Nash, 66, weighed in on social media users and radio personalities bringing up Hogan\u2019s divisive past amid news of his death. A decade before he died, audio leaked of Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) using the N-word multiple times<\/a> and describing himself as \u201cracist, to a point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the people that want to go after Hogan for doing this, doing that, doing this \u2014 how about f*** you, man?\u201d said Nash, who was one-third of the original NWO, the group that revolutionized professional wrestling in the 1990s, alongside Hogan and the late Scott Hall<\/strong> in WCW.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s dead. How about his kids, man? Can\u2019t you just lay off the man?\u201d the wrestler said.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHulk Hogan was undoubtedly crucial to WWE\u2019s stratospheric popularity during the 1980s and 1990s, but he was also a hugely controversial figure on screen and off. Hogan (real name Terry Gene Bollea) \u2014 who died at age 71 in July 2025 \u2014 publicly apologized in 2015 after leaked sex tape footage caught him using a [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The WWE Hall of Famer continued, \u201cAin\u2019t nothing\u2019s gonna change now. It\u2019s sensationalism. It\u2019s, \u2018You know, I never liked him anyway.\u2019 Who gives a f***? I know he doesn\u2019t. I know he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nash again reiterated, \u201cThink about his kids,\u201d referring to Hogan\u2019s daughter Brooke<\/strong>, 37, and son Nick<\/strong>, 35, whom the late wrestler shared with ex-wife Linda Hogan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about his friends and family. If you don\u2019t have nothing good to say, shut the f*** up,\u201d Nash added.<\/p>\n

Amid Hogan\u2019s N-word controversy in 2015, he was fired by WWE and removed from the WWE Hall of Fame. In a statement to Us Weekly <\/em>at the time, Hogan said there was \u201cno excuse\u201d for the language captured in the leaked audio.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise. I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs. It is not who I am. I continue to work every day to improve as a person, and this matter is an important learning experience for me in that regard,\u201d the wrestler told Us<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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