Yes, Hulk Hogan Is Still Full Of S***

If Hulk Hogan is passionate about anything in life, it's spitting racist bile on dubious sex tapes and telling the most outrageous lies ever conceived in professional wrestling - and he has been indulging in the latter again.

Interviewed by the great Chris Van Vliet, Hogan recently claimed that Shane McMahon had approached him over the possibility of wrestling his son, Nick (!!!), at WrestleMania 39. Hulk was originally mooted as Shane's opponent, according to the rambling wrestling icon. Nick was pitched as a "surrogate" for his father when Hulk decreed he probably couldn't do it, with Hogan Jr. to play the heel, claiming Shane destroyed his dad's career.

h/t Fightful:

“Shane had called me and sent me a picture from Madison Square Garden, I guess they got a hall of fame walk in there. Shane sent me a picture of him standing in front of my stuff and he goes, ‘Hey old timer, you got one more left in you?’ I went, ‘Okay, what are you thinking?’ He goes, ‘Well, I don’t know if you had one more left in you, or maybe a surrogate such as Nick [Hogan].’ So we started talking and I said that the only way I could do anything is if I was in the middle of the ring and you just came to me, because I can’t run or hit the ropes. I have a hard time walking distance. Taking a bump, If I got up I’d have to roll to my left, I can’t roll to my right. The only way I can get up is if I roll to my left. So, it would be a stretch but Nick was in Rikishi’s school for a couple of years and he was in there with Rusev and all of those guys. I’d go out to California and watch him, and Nick had it figured out, but then he blew both of his shoulders out. I said, ‘Well I don’t know. There’s a possibility to maybe do something, whatever the storyline is. Maybe, Nick is a heel and [he says that Shane destroyed his father’s career].’"

As if the story wasn't obviously false from the moment the first words left Hulk's lift, Hogan claimed it was cancelled because "Shane got hurt or something with his quad." Van Vliet pointed out that actually, Shane tore his quad during WrestleMania itself, to which Hogan replied:

“Anyway, that whole idea, I just never heard from him again so that was pretty much it.”

Anyway, the whole thing is clearly nonsense.

Fightful Select has confirmed as much, with one WWE higher-up quipping to the outlet:

“In no way is that true. I can’t think of a time in the last 13 or 14 years that Nick Hogan’s name was brought up at all, much less in a creative capacity. There has never been a serious conversation about him being involved in anything that I can think of. Even when Hulk would mention him being involved in things, there just wasn’t an interest or a benefit to that.”

It was then stressed that while Shane McMahon sometimes has "wacky" ideas, they don't believe that even he would opt to do something like Hogan's scenario.

So the world keeps spinning, and Hulk Hogan keeps lying.