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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson pays tribute to ‘childhood hero’ Hulk Hogan

Dwayne Johnson has paid tribute to Hulk Hogan (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Archive)

Wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has paid tribute to his “childhood hero” Hulk Hogan after he died at the age of 71.

The 53-year-old spoke about meeting Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, for the first time in 1984 as a fan aged 12 when he handed him back his “Hulkster” headband after it had been thrown into the crowd.

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