Hulk Hogan Bizarrely Claims He Used His Hollywood Gimmick For WWE Raw On Netflix Premiere

Hulk Hogan was recently interviewed on The Ariel Helwani Show and spoke about the extremely negative reaction he received as part of the WWE Raw on Netflix debut.

Hogan appeared to claim that he was deliberately playing the 'Hollywood' heel version of himself for the appearance, despite evidence to the contrary. He explained:

"The last time I was in LA, I was Hollywood Hogan with a black beard and doing the bad guy thing. I can go out there and get booed in LA, or The Rock can get booed in LA, or John Cena gets booed in LA. When I get booed, there’s a whole different reaction media-wise. For some reason I’ve laid some type of groundwork that people are still interested in what I’m doing. For those that are on the team and that are riding with the train to the station, that’s great. For those that are haters and that still have a problem with me, there’s nothing I can do to fix that except keep proving by my actions that I’m still in the game, I’m still pushing hard.

"For me, it's just part of the territory. It’s like, you know, when you get booed and you get 3.2 billion engagements and you rock that whole world in LA with how much interaction there was on the internet, I’ll take it."

Despite this, however, Hogan also admitted that the Raw response was not just a case of fans booing his character, while simultaneously hitting back at those who have criticised him in recent times, stating:

"[The reason for the booing was] all of the above. There are certain people that boo the character, there are certain WWE superstars that had an opinion and advice for me. But I’d like to ask those same guys, when I go to New York or Chicago and the people cheer out of the rooftops, I’d like to know what their advice is then and what their opinion is."

H/T to Fightful.

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