{"id":182919,"date":"2025-07-25T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/hulk-hogans-former-best-friend-blasts-late-wrestlers-wife\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:40:10","slug":"hulk-hogans-former-best-friend-blasts-late-wrestlers-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/hulk-hogans-former-best-friend-blasts-late-wrestlers-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulk Hogan&apos;s former best friend blasts late wrestler&apos;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-25\" datetime=\"1753468810\" pubdate=\"\">25 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/hulk-hogan\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,hulk-hogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hulk Hogan<\/a>\u2019s former best friend has blasted the late wrestler\u2019s wife and friends following his death.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Hulk Hogan\u2019s former best friend blasts late wrestler\u2019s wife<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old wrestling icon passed away in Florida on Thursday (24.07.25) after paramedics were called to his home for a medical emergency and Hulk\u2019s former friend, Bubba the Love Sponge, has claimed Hogan\u2019s wife Sky Daily and some of his other friends hid the truth about his health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba \u2013 who fell out with Hogan after a sex tape between Hogan and Bubba\u2019s then wife Heather was leaked in 2012 \u2013 said on his eponymous radio show: \u201cI can\u2019t take away from what I\u2019ve already said, and what I\u2019ve already correctly predicted. But I am officially the guy that was the only one telling the truth about Hogan\u2019s physical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that has caused some people to say, \u2018You know what, Bubba was right.\u2019 &#8211; No, I wish to God I wasn\u2019t right, because being right means we have a dead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/hulk-hogan\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,hulk-hogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hulk Hogan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if my telling the truth would be such a big deal if the people like his wife [Sky Daily], Brian Blair, Jimmy Hart, Eric Bischoff, Missy Beefcake and all the other keyboard tough guys were [calling me out].<\/p>\n<p>\nSince mid-June, Bubba had been reporting that the late star was seriously ill and had  spent six weeks in the ICU.<\/p>\n<p>\nA representative for Hogan, along with Bischoff and Daily, denied Bubba\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>\nHogan had been in and out of hospital in the months before his death. In June, he underwent a four-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion \u2013 a complex neck surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\nSky told fans on Instagram at the time he was recovering from the \u201cintense surgery with a long and layered healing process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said the operation had also affected his vocal cords and required breathing and feeding tubes.<\/p>\n<p>\nSky added: \u201cHe\u2019s healing and we\u2019re taking it one day at a time with love, strength, and patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking about his regret over their rift, Bubba told TMZ: \u201cI\u2019m heartbroken to hear of Terry\u2019s passing. As everyone knows we had our issues and those issues were mostly my fault. I loved him as a friend while he was with us, and will continue to love his memory as a friend going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/hulk-hogans-former-best-friend-blasts-late-wrestlers-wife-1422598.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 July 2025 Hulk Hogan\u2019s former best friend has blasted the late wrestler\u2019s wife and friends following his death. Hulk Hogan\u2019s former best friend blasts late wrestler\u2019s wife The 71-year-old wrestling icon passed away in Florida on Thursday (24.07.25) after paramedics were called to his home for a medical emergency and Hulk\u2019s former friend, Bubba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11998,2790],"class_list":{"0":"post-182919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-bubba-the-love-sponge","9":"tag-hulk-hogan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}