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Hulk Hogan and the unraveling of worker solidarity

  • Written by Brian Jansen, Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies, University of Maine
imageHulk Hogan was arguably WWE's biggest star in the 1980s.Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images

Hulk Hogan’s death by heart attack at age 71 came as a shock to many fans of the larger-than-life wrestler who’d earned the nickname “The Immortal.”

But in many respects, the real surprise was that Hogan, born Terry Gene Bollea,...

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