Hulk Hogan Pictured With Convicted Anti-Semite Who Holds Neo-Nazi Beliefs

Hulk Hogan has been pictured with a convicted criminal who holds neo-Nazi beliefs during a meet and greet promoting the WWE Hall of Famer's Real American Beer.

Hogan toured Arkansas over the weekend, which included a stop in Bentonville where he posed for a photo with Anthony Joseph Hammer, a 35-year-old neo-Nazi. Within the image, Hammer can be seen wearing an '88' hoodie and a 'Make America White Again' hat while he performs a white power hand gesture. Hammer, using his @AyTone88 X profile, has confirmed it was him in the photo

Hammer was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison in April 2023 after pleading guilty to interstate communication of a threat. Hammer sent a threatening electronic message to the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish civil rights organisation.

Within a message on the ADL's contact page in July 2021, Hammer wrote: "Come and find me. Come after me. Come hunt me down. This is me. This is really me. All of my info. I will kill all of you Zionist pigs. 4th reich soon."

An FBI investigation also revealed that Hammer made threatening calls to then-Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's office in 2020. Hammer made several calls to the office and after staff members refused to put him through to the governor, Hammer threatened to kill Wolf and his staff members.

Hammer's then-home in Denton, Texas was searched following his arrest over the ADL message and police uncovered numerous shirts and hats displaying Nazi and antisemitic messages and symbols.

United States Department of Justice records show Hammer was released from federal prison in September 2023 and he has since found his way to Bentonville, Arkansas. Posts on Hammer's X account show him harassing minorities and local police officers in the area in recent months.

This is the second time in 2024 that Hogan has been pictured with a man displaying neo-Nazi symbols during a Real American Beer meet and greet. A photo from a Real American Beer stop in Boise, Idaho in July showed Hogan alongside a man covered in Nazi tattoos on their right arm, including an SS tattoo and a tattoo of the Iron Cross.

Hulk Hogan also mentioned Nazis while he campaigned for Donald Trump ahead of the United States presidential election, saying at a Madison Square Garden that he "don't see no stinking Nazis in here." Hogan's comments came after Donald Trump's former chief of staff and retired US Marine Corps General John Kelly said Trump "falls into the general definition of fascist."

Hogan previously made racist comments, with leaked audio in 2015 revealing that Hogan used the N-word multiple times to describe his daughter Brooke's then-boyfriend.