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WWE Superstar Hulk Hogan, 71, died on Thursday after a cardiac arrest.
However, there is no confirmation of what happened due to the deadly incident, the famous wrestler was allegedly facing many health issues in months and years before his death.
In September 2024, Jake Paul’s appearance on the “Impressive” podcast, Hogan admitted that he underwent 25 surgery in the last 10 years.
Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan 71 dead
This included 10 back surgery, procedures on both shoulders, and hip replacement on the knee and both sides.
Hogan called the difference between today’s fighting rings and dangerous equipment of the 1970s, which he described as a 22–foot ring with “lumps” and “boards sticks”.
Hulk Hogan was selected during a match in a scene from the film “No Holds Bird” in 1989. The late wrestler has called the difference between today’s fighting rings and dangerous equipment of the 1970s. (Tristar/Getty Images)
“It was terrible,” he said. “Tools and jumping and dropping the curse leg for 40 years, when I had the largest weapon in the world – I should have used ‘sleeper’.”
“I might have left before, but I just loved to do it – and the money was just crazy.”
Despite the physical results of his years in the ring, Hogan said he “had no regrets.”
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TMZ Sports reported in March 2025 that Hogan had a neck surgery to relieve pain, according to a representative, a “quick change”, which required little recovery time.
Earlier this month, Hogan’s wife, Sky Daily, rumored on social media that her husband was in a coma after recent surgery, in an Instagram post, seeing that “her heart is strong, and there was no lack of oxygen or brain damage.”
Wrestling veteran Hulk Hogan congratulated the crowd on 2 November 2018 at the WWE Crown Jewel Pe-Par-Vyuyu at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh. “I probably should have left already, but I just loved to do so-and the money was just crazy,” said Hogan. (Through Fayz Narldine/AFP Getty Image)
The Daily revealed in his post that Hogan was a “major four-level anterior cervical discommination and fusine (ACDF), which is an intensive surgery with a long and layered treatment process.”
“If you see it, you will see what is involved in the last six weeks … not only for his spine, but also for its vocal cords, and also to eat/breathe tubes during surgery,” he has written in a post. “We are out of the hospital to support that recovery.”
Years of ‘physical stress’
In an up-ed for Fox News Digital, Senior Medical Analyst of Fox News, Dr. Mark Sigal shared that although Hogan would not be remembered for his health conflicts and surgery, he was definitely present.
They included “use of his admitted steroids in the 1990s, many knee and hip replacement surgery, shoulder and several back surgery, and finally a neck fusion operation, which was done by many accounts, by a downhill slide in their health, finished in the arrest of a malignant heart,” the doctor wrote.
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Seagal reported that Hogan came from a group of professional wrestlers who had a “high phenomenon” of steroids and drug use, suicide and heart disease.
According to a recent study by the University of East Michigan, wrestlers between 45 and 54 years of age were about three times the possibility of prematurely dying than the general American population.
Hollywood Hulk Hogan placed a choke-hold on the neck of Utah Jazz basketball star Carl Malon in a pay-per-view wrestling match in San Diego on July 12, 1998. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignji, File)
“And the numbers have increased, which was the wrestler,” Siggle said. “Many of these people did not make it even in the 70s.”
“Keep in mind the physical stress of having a large, heavy frame, repeatedly slammed, combined with constant travel and emotional stress of both an athlete and an entertainment.”
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In 1994, Hogan allegedly accepted as an oath-during the test of WWF President Vince McMahon, who was charged with steroid distribution-that he used “steroids for more than a decade before stopping.”
“Hulk Hogan had been in pain for decades, but it did not put them on becoming a continuous role model for many people in his later years,” Siggle said. “He came to incarnate physical and spiritual vitality, and this is what he will really be remembered.”
What happens during cardiac arrest?
Dr, an interventional cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer of Vitalslation in Maryland. Bradley Serwar mentioned in an interview with Fox News Digital that without the first knowledge of Hogan’s medical history, the exact cause of the sudden cardiac arrest reported is “unknown.”
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“It was reported that he was experiencing good health until he fell,” Serwar said. “This presentation is quite common for a heart attack with a sudden heart arrest.”
The most popular cause of sudden heart arrest is heart attack, or ischemic heart disease, the cardiologist shared.
According to a cardiologist, the most popular cause of sudden heart arrest is a heart attack. (Istock)
“When there is a heart attack, the heart muscle is deprived of oxygen, resulting in the death of muscle tissue,” the doctor expanded. “This condition inspires the heart to an abnormal heart rhythm, such as ventricular fibrillation (VFIB).”
VFib is characterized by “rapid and irregular electrical activity” that causes ventricle [to] Be quite and ineffective, “Serwar said.
As a result, the heart is unable to pump blood to the body, causing rapid death.
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According to Server, a cardiac arrest outside a hospital has a “quite low” survival rate of about 10%.
For those who receive cardiac arrest reactions like CPR and defibilation, survival increases by 40%.
