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My Life outside the ring by Hulk Hogan
Back in 2004 I found the first Hulk Hogan biography in hardback at Dollar Tree for a buck. Figuring it would be worth the buck.I picked it up and while lots of it was total bullshit it was still a halfway entertaining read. Well fast forward about 7 years and I find his second biography in the bargain bin at Wal-mart for 3 bucks. I had already read a few reviews of the book and thought what the fuck it's only 3 bucks.
The book starts off with Hogan sitting in a room with a loaded pistol and thinking about killing himself. But then he gets a phone call from someone unexpected that saves his life. But we don't find out who called till way later on in the book. The next chapter has Hogan as a young kid and we get told some of the same stories he told in his first biography. But this time somethings are changed and some stuff contradicts what was in the first novel. We do get more stories about his early days wrestling in various regional feds. And this is the best part of the book.
Hogan skips ahead a few years and tells us,again,the story about how he met his now ex-wife Linda. And this book really seems to focus on how Linda and the Hulkster have been having marital problems for years now. He talks about how she drank all the time and loved to spend his money on stuff that wasn't needed . After reading the book it seems the divorce is entirely her fault. The only mistake Hogan will admit to is having an affair with Brooke assistant.
We get lots of behind the scenes info about the filming of "Hogan Knows best". Which was the short lived reality show that aired on VH1 for 2 or 3 seasons.Hogan at least admits to how staged lots of the show was. But again he puts the blame of the show being canceled squarely on Linda. I think maybe the show was canceled cause it was pretty shitty,but what do I know.
Then we get lots of info on the infamous car wreck Nick Hogan was in that left a close friend of his with permanent brain damage. Hulkster makes sure to inform us that even though Nick was speeding the wreck wasn't his fault,cause "Speeding is what teenage boys do."
Really I am wondering which of the two Hogan biography novels is more full of shit. This one has plenty of bullshit in it. But I did enjoy the sections talking about Hulk wrestling in various regional feds. My life outside the ring gets a C-.
