Hulk Hogan On Whether He Would’ve Continued To Use The N-Word If He Wasn’t Publicly Caught

Hulk Hogan was interviewed on OBJECTified on FOX News last night and specifically discussed the controversy surrounding his use of the “n-word” becoming public via a leaked tape. He had used the n-word in reference to his daughter Brooke dating a black man.

On proactively telling WWE about the news, and being fired the next day: “When I heard this was going to happen, I called them on a Thursday or a Friday. As I hung up the phone that night, they fired me in the morning. It really caught me off guard, I didn’t expect it because the WWE knows who I am. I’m not that person, that’s not who I am and that’s not what I do.”

On if he would have continued to use the n-word if the tape wasn’t leaked: “No. I tried to clean up my whole life. I made a whole switch, almost a shift from being negative… I moved forward so I’m in check with myself.”

On not using the word anymore: “As far as the black community and using that word, it’s not part of who I am now. It’s not part of my language because I understand how powerful words are. You know, growing up in South Tampa where we came from, it was a situation where when you played baseball and basketball and ran around in South Tampa, it was just common knowledge 45 – 50 years ago [that people used the term], but it’s not that way anymore.”