Hulk Hogan is a WWF legend. He is now semi-retired but he is still the most recognisable face out there. At the top of his game there was no one who could beat him. He has gone into acting more recently and hosts a few tv shows. This hub has more about Hulk Hogan.

As a boy, Bollea was un-athletic and fat. He weighed 195 pounds by the time he was 12. At 14 he was sent to the Tampa Youth Ranch, where he first tried wrestling. He wrestled professionally as Terry Bollea, Terry Boulder, and Sterling Golden, earning perhaps $125 for a good week's work on the small-town circuit. He was discovered by Vince McMahon, Sr., the father of present World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) chief, Vince McMahon. The elder McMahon hired Bollea as a heel -- a bad guy, in the sport's melodramatic bouts -- and suggested the name "Hulk Hogan".

Hogan wasn't a great wrestler when he started, but he was big (6 foot 7), the camera loved him, and he always put on a great show. He couldn't stay a heel for long. When the younger McMahon took over WWE in 1982, Hogan's ring persona was quickly reworked into "the honest and courageous good guy", who would always remind kids to "Train, say your prayers, take vitamins, and believe in yourself". First it was just good advice. Later it was a slogan, for Hulk Hogan brand vitamins.

Hogan became tremendously popular, and was largely responsible for the rapid growth of wrestling's fan base in the 1980s. And for decades, every night Hogan's name was on the bill, there was certain to be a sellout. Hogan won his first championship in 1982, defeating Nick Bockwinkel for the American Wrestling Alliance (AWA) World Heavyweight belt. His win, however, was immediately nullified when officials ruled that Hogan had hit Bockwinkel with "an illegal object".

He first won the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) title in 1984, defeating the Iron Sheik, and first lost his title in 1988, to André the Giant. After that, Hogan won and lost and won and lost the title several times. His most famous bout, though, took place in 1987, in front of 93,000 people at the Pontiac Silverdome and a huge "Wrestlemania" audience on TV, again against André the Giant. Hogan not only defeated the 500-pound Frenchman, he lifted him into the air and dropped him to the ground. It made a loud thud, and sold a lot of tickets.