A true champion has wrestled his last match.  Former WWF/WWE legend Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, has gone home to be with the Lord Jesus at age 71.

Hogan, more than any other figure except Vince McMahon, was responsible for the professional wrestling boom in the 1980s and was also the most central figure in the resurgence of wrestling, seen in the Monday Night Wars, with his heel turn in the 1990s.

Hogan taught us, appropriately after Vietnam and during the Reagan years, that America was a good and decent nation.  He showed us through the special dramatic art known as sports entertainment that the enemies of America would be defeated, such as when he defeated The Iron Sheik, from Iran, to win the WWF Heavyweight Championship in January 23, 1984, an event that launched what became known as Hulkamania.

Hulkamania, along with the Rock and Wrestling Connection pairing wrestlers with stars such as Cyndi Lauper, made wrestling mainstream in the 1980s and eliminated most of the territory system that had informally governed wrestling under the old National Wrestling Alliance.   

Hogan put the WWF on a permanent map after headlining the War to Settle the Score on MTV and shortly........

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