
07/27/2025
On July 24, 2025, Hulk Hogan died at the age of 71. But for many Black Americans, that date had already been etched in memory — not as the end of a wrestling career, but as a moment of racial reckoning. Exactly 10 years earlier, to the day, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) publicly cut ties with Hogan for his repeated and unapologetic use of racial slurs in a leaked recording....
On July 24, 2025, Hulk Hogan died at the age of 71. But for many Black Americans, that date had already been etched in memory — not as the end of a wrestling career, but as a moment of racial reckoning. Exactly 10 years earlier, to the day, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) publicly cut ties wit...