10 Wrestlers Who Inflicted The Most Damage To Their Bodies

4. Hulk Hogan

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Hulk Hogan's back!

Yes, that picture is disgusting, but it's more pleasant than those words heralding his return to WWE, no?

"Brother, I went under the knife 100 times, brother!"

This might scan as a trademark Hulk Hogan lie, alongside such luminaries as "I fought MMA fighters before MMA existed as a sport, which makes me harder than Rickson Gracie, Jack!", "Brother, I wasn't in the same country as that made-up dying child, but I felt his prayers telepathically" and "I worked 400 days out of 365 because of that mystical time difference".

And yet, it's true. You might not think it - Hogan as a WWF babyface megastar in the 1980s was hardly a bump machine, and the only time he ever got dumped on his head was a lie that the Undertaker believed for two years - but it's true.

Hogan ravaged his body because he couldn't stop dropping the leg on that old, concrete Fed ring - and, because losing didn't work for the Hulkster, brother, he dropped that leg a great number of times.

A hip-destroyer of a finish, hid knees and hips are as fake as his tall tales, and he once spent 10 hours under the knife to rebuild his back entirely.

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