Hulk Hogan
Launches Wrestling League
Hoping Trump Hits First Occasion!!!
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Hulk Hogan‘s bought a brand new wrestling league … and he is hopeful he will not be the one main celeb operating 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 begin Actual American Freestyle — and on Wednesday, he instructed us he needs POTUS ringside when all of it formally kicks off on Aug. 30 in Cleveland.
In reality, Hulk — who was one in every of Trump’s greatest supporters throughout his run for president in 2024 — mentioned he plans to make a telephone name to the White Home quickly to personally prolong the invite.
With or with out Trump, although, Hogan made it clear he is anticipating massive issues from the league — which could have a little bit of a unique really feel than a lot of the wrestling promotions he used to dominate.
The RAF will characteristic actual, unscripted freestyle wrestling … with each males’s and ladies’s divisions. He mentioned in a teaser for the league that athletes “are going to receives a commission to beat individuals 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 parts too … saying wrestlers’ backgrounds might 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 instructed us after watching Trump attend the NCAA Division I wrestling championships in Philadelphia final month, he bought actually excited for its potential.
Now, he mentioned he believes it is all bought the possibility to be “simply as massive as” the UFC and the WWE.
“That is what I am in search of,” he mentioned.
