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Hulk Hogan was haunted by 'echo' of his racist slur scandal

Hulk Hogan was haunted by his racist slur scandal for years

Hulk Hogan was haunted by the "echo" of the racist slur scandal which enveloped him a decade before his death.

The wrestling legend - who died in July 2025 at the age of 71 - was caught on camera using the N word in a video taken in 2007 in which he was filmed arguing with his daughter Brooke about her boyfriend and the transcript from the tape leaked in 2015 during his legal battle with gossip website Gawker leading to him being dropped by by WWE and being removed from the organisation's Hall of Fame.

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