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Hulk Hogan, whose decades-long wrestling career launched him to fame and helped make World Wrestling Entertainment a phenomenon, died at 71 on Thursday, the wrestler’s family confirmed to Us Weekly.
Hulk Hogan died at 71 on Thursday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
TMZ reported Hogan died of cardiac arrest at his home in Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday morning, citing audio of a phone call by emergency medics.
TMZ reported medics responded to a call at 9:51 a.m. Thursday morning and the wrestler was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
WWE confirmed Hogan’s death in a post on X Thursday afternoon, praising the wrestler for becoming one of “pop culture’s most recognizable figures” and helping the wrestling organization “achieve global recognition in the 1980s.”
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