Hulk Hogan's Antics Prove It's Time for TNA Star to Get out of Public Eye

With TNA's answer to WWE's WrestleMania set to go off on Sunday in the form of Bound for Glory, TNA star Hulk Hogan has been out in force this week. Hogan has made several public appearances on ESPN as well as on FOX News.

Hogan is also promoting his new video game Hulk Hogan's Main Event for XBOX 360 Kinect as well as his new show Hulk Hogan's Micro Championship Wrestling on truTV. Hogan is still a busy man at the age of 58, but it has become apparent that it is time for him to stay out of the public eye.

For one, it seems like everything Hogan is doing at this point is a money grab. His video game and television shows both look like jokes, and he's honestly doing nothing other than further tarnishing his wrestling legacy by continuing to appear on TNA.

If he wants to make appearances on TNA as a niche character then that's fine, but he constantly places himself in major storylines and he is wrestling Sting in what will likely be one of Bound for Glory's headline matches, despite the fact that the wrestling quality will probably be awful.

Also, Hogan has done plenty of strange things over the past week in what looks to be a desperate attempt to get noticed. For one, Hogan appeared on ESPN's SportsNation and tore off a jersey of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

While the spot was mildly entertaining, it would have had a much greater impact about 15 years ago when Hogan was still cool and people outside of the wrestling world still cared about him. Tebow has bigger things to worry about, like keeping the starting job in Denver and proving his detractors wrong, so I doubt he cares about what Hogan has to say at this point.

Even more egregiously, Hogan appeared on FOX News and criticized President Barack Obama. Criticizing the president is obviously allowed, but the manner in which he did it was absolutely senseless. Not only did he withdraw his "support" of the president, but he suggested that he should run for president himself.

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"I was a big Obama supporter and kinda, like, believed everything he said he was gonna do," Hogan said on Fox and Friends. "But now that nothing's happened..."

"I've been around, people know me, they know everything about me, they know I'm for real, they know I know nothing about politics. I'll just make decisions on what's right or wrong."

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Hogan also expressed disappointment that Obama used his theme song Real American at the White House Correspondents' Dinner without asking permission. It's not as if Hogan has used the song in years anyway, and it's the WWE that owns the song's rights, not Hogan.

There's a reason why people don't let their crazy, old great uncles out of the house, and it's because they often have warped views of the world that are no longer socially applicable. At this point, Hogan is essentially nothing more than a crazy great uncle spewing his nonsensical beliefs.

If Hogan wants to keep wrestling and destroying his legacy, then that's his prerogative, as the vast majority of the population hasn't even heard of TNA, but he needs to stop subjecting us to his ridiculous ramblings and just be happy with the 30 years of fame he has already enjoyed.