Well, he was the biggest star in wrestling for over two decades by a wide margin. And he's the reason wrestlers don't have a union, he abused his backstage clout to destroy careers and drive two different wrestling promotions into the ground, he was caught on tape admitting he was a racist and using the N-Word while bemoaning the fact that his daughter was dating a black man, and he campaigned for Donald Trump last year. Just an all around piece of shit

He is (well, was) for decades the most well known professional wrestler on the world. Influenced pro wrestling in countless ways. It cannot be overstated that modern pro wrestling may not exist if not due to the contributions of Hulk Hogan.

10 years ago today (ironically) he was outed as a horrid racist (and in the last fewish years a notorious right wing nut and supporter of Trump) and he never recovered his image, to the point where even a few months ago when making an appearance on WWE programming he was damned well boo'd out of the building.

Sooo now he's dead and can rot.

Bunch of instances of him being a generally shitty person, a racist, and being a hardcore Trumper mostly to my knowledge.