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Podcast: Piers Morgan Uncensored
Episode: ‘I’m Bitter... He'd Still Be With Us!’ Remembering Hulk Hogan With Bubba The Love Sponge
Description: It’s impossible to overstate the significance of Hulk Hogan in professional wrestling - and popular culture.
From the moment he toppled the Iranian “Iron Sheik” in 1984, Hogan became an all-American hero and a global brand. He later found himself right at the centre of the WWF’s steroid scandal, as well as its all-out war with Ted Turner’s rival brand, the WCW.
Hogan even formed an extraordinary secret tag-team with the billionaire Peter Thiel, together suing the online tabloid Gawker into oblivion over an illicit sex tape featuring Hogan and his friend’s wife.
But there is no question...