Recap of Hulk Hogan Family E! True Hollywood Story

Thanks to WrestlingNewsArena.com for the following recap:

The first hour of the show was based on Hulk Hogan himself, and how he got his start in professional wrestling. From his time working in the indy leagues, to being signed to Verne Gagne's promotion, and onto the WWWF owned then by Vince McMahon Sr. The show also detailed that when Hogan worked for Gagne's promotion of how he met Linda Hogan, then married her 18 months later.

It also shown that once Hogan was in the WWWF, the term "Hulkamania" was born, and how other wrestlers didn't like him because he was more of an "entertainer" than a "sportsman". They spoke about Hogan getting a spot for Rocky III, and had a little interview with Sylvester Stallone of how he thought Hogan took his shoulder off during the filming.

The show went even deeper into Hogan's career that after Brooke and Nick were born he decided that he was going to work only part time in professional wrestling so that he could devote his time to being a father. Once he received an offer from Eric Bischoff to come into WCW to be a heel character, he declined, but later accepted for the amount of money he would receive.

The show fast forwarded into 1999 when Hogan came back to his original face persona, and how his legacy was permanently cemented in professional wrestling history. They shown a clip of Hogan vs. The Rock.

The last half hour was the most intense by far. After Hogan's wrestling career was over, he was approached to do a reality show named "Hogan Knows Best". Interviews with the Hogan family revealed that they all believe that because of the amount of stress the show put on them, that is what tore their family apart.

The intensity elevated even further when Nick's accident was then shown, and how when Hulk went to the accident scene, he didn't even know at the time if Nick was OK. The show documented how Nick was arrested, and how two days later Hogan received even more shocking news that his wife Linda was divorcing him.

They interviewed Brooke frequently, where she said she was the one who would take care of her father, she would receive calls from him that would sometimes "scare her" because of the amount of stress Hulk Hogan was under due to Nick's arrest and the pending divorce between he and Linda. She would then go to him and take care of him and remind him that he tends to over think everything.

The next segment was devoted to the trial between the Graziano family and the Hogans. They shown some pretty graphic pictures of John Graziano of which whom was injured in the accident. They played a few audio clips of conversations between Hulk Hogan and Nick where Hulk said basically "I don't know what John did that God would do this to him". Hulk said after those tapes were released, fans began to turn on him, so he decided to air everything out on "Larry King Live". Once he put everything on the table, he was able to keep the respect of his fans that he had worked so hard to get over the years.

The last segment was focusing more on Brooke that after her father began dating she was able to move to Miami and begin filming her own reality series "Brooke Knows Best". The only thing that was remotely memorable about this segment was that she said she walks around naked in her condo when the cameras are off air. She spoke briefly about Playboy offering her a deal to be on the on the cover of the 55th Anniversary issue of Playboy and she didn't know how her father would take it. The intensity didn't end there, the show also profiled how pictures were released with Hulk rubbing suntan oil on Brooke's legs. Hulk Hogan commented that of course he did, she is his child, and Brooke commented basically the same thing.

The last 90 seconds of the show shown Nick Hogan being released from jail with Brooke running and hugging him.

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