Hulk Hogan to Return to WWE Raw on Monday to Honor Mean Gene Okerlund

WWE announced Friday that Hulk Hogan will return on Monday's episode of Raw to honor late WWE Hall of Fame interviewer Mean Gene Okerlund.

Okerlund died Wednesday at the age of 76.

Hogan hasn't appeared on Raw since 2015, and Monday will mark just his second public appearance for WWE since getting reinstated in July.

WWE parted ways with Hogan in 2015 after audio in which he used racial slurs surfaced.

The 65-year-old Hogan's first appearance after being reinstated came in November when he served as the host of WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia.

While Okerlund interviewed most of the top stars in professional wrestling history, his best chemistry was undoubtedly with Hogan.

The Hulkster suggested as much in the following tweet after Okerlund's passing:

Every interview between Okerlund and Hogan inevitably started with The Immortal One uttering some version of the famous phrase, "Let me tell you something, Mean Gene."

Hogan and Okerlund worked together across three different decades in AWA, WWE and WCW, and they became forever linked in the process.

With WWE set to celebrate the life and career of one of the greatest personalities in professional wrestling history, Hogan is a logical choice to lead the proceedings.

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