Like any Hogan fan, I watched Hogan Know's Best. It's hard for me to say I came away with the idea that Hulk and Linda would be divorcing. Looking back at all the episodes I watched, some things now stand out in my mind.
Hulk really catered to his family. Much can be said about the life of a wrestler and the toll it takes on a family life, but Hulk treated his family very well. If you watched any episodes, you would have to agree Hogan indulged his wife and kids a lot. From the trips, to pets, to letting Linda get that damn chimp.
Nick and Brooke basically got anything they wanted, right down to Hulk moving the family to Miami to further Brooke's singing career.
Some would say obsessed father, I say devoted. By the Hulkamaniac's Hulk gets treated like royalty, by his family Hulk got treated like a peasant.
I can think of many reasons and find fault with why the Hogan's divorced. But It be a travesty to say Hulk Hogan is majorly to blame.
His children were raised with everything they could possibly want. Linda Hogan as well I'm sure has lived very nicely for the past 20 plus years.
Unless Hulk was completely opposite off camera then he was on, I see him as a very serious responsible father who wanted to teach his kids things about respect. I also see no wrong in the effort Hulk took in helping Brooke in her singing career.
He could have easily told her to make it on her own with no help from him and without the "Hogan" name.
You could see it in the episodes when Nick would get in trouble with the police for taking cars of the Hogan premise. Or when Brooke went missing for hours when the family went to Key West Florida.
Only to turn up later that evening fine and nonchalant. It seemed that no matter what the kids did, they never really learned anything from it.
I don't know who's to blame for the drag racing accident other then Nick himself. It's easy to say, "Well the parents are to blame as well for raising him that way." But I'll leave that for others to say.
The one thing I found interesting is according to TMZ, who has has become in recent years Hogan Central for the latest Hogan Family news, that Linda was quoted as saying she loved drag racing and the rush you get from it.
Take that for what it's worth. Of course Linda's reps now claim she never said this.
I met Hulk Hogan and Linda back in 1993. It was a dream of mine to meet him that took an eight year journey to complete. It started with me watching SNME and Saturday morning wrestling with my grandmom, to me learning the ropes as a teen journalist from my mentor who wrote for a local paper a wrestling column.
To my mentor passing away right when I was learning the trade. I met my wrestling journalist mentor Alan Raskin in 1991.
I used to read weekly the South Philly Review for Alan's wrestling column. Back in those days there wasn't an Internet, and the way to find out what was going to happen for the next month in wrestling was to either go to one of WWF's four or five hour tapings , or get your hands on the entire tape before it was sent to the networks, where they sliced it up into four separate hours over a period of a month.
Yep, folks; that's how WWF worked back then.
So if you were in the know, you got a hold of those tapes or talked to people that did.
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