Hulk Hogan Pulls Out Of WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (WWE News)
"Family commitments" cited as reason for Hulk Hogan dropping off WWE Saturday Night's Main Event.
Hulk Hogan will not be appearing on tomorrow's WWE Saturday Night's Main Event show despite featuring heavily in promotional materials for it.
Dr. Chris Featherstone broke the news earlier today, writing on X:
"I've been informed that Hulk Hogan will not be appearing on #SNME due to family commitments."
Featherstone's report has been corroborated by the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer.
While there's no word on what Hogan was scheduled to do at Saturday Night's Main Event, he had featured prominently in SNME commercials during the build.
This news comes just two weeks after Hogan was booed heavily during an appearance on Raw's 6 January Netflix premiere. Hulk was on the show with manager Jimmy Hart, tasked with hyping the crowd up while promoting his Real American Beer brand. Things backfired spectacularly when the Los Angeles crowd immediately bombarded Hogan with negativity. When the 71-year-old clocked this and tried to turn the reaction around, he called the fans his greatest tag team partner ever and thanked them for always sticking with him. The crowd responded by jeering even louder.
Maybe this was a consequence of WWE's new, young audience rejecting an old man they know primarily as the guy who repeatedly said the N-word on a leaked sex tape 10 years ago. Who knows?
Hogan's name came up on this week's Raw, too, with CM Punk going after him while cutting a promo on the upcoming Royal Rumble. "You put Hulk Hogan in the Royal Rumble, I'll throw his dusty ass over the top rope and I'll kill Hulkamania once and for all," said Punk.