Vince McMahon on Hulk Hogan’s passing: ‘It was a blow to my heart’
Vince McMahon had nothing but positive things to say about Hulk Hogan.
In an interview with TMZ that aired on Fox Tuesday, McMahon said he was shocked when he learned Hogan died last month from cardiac arrest, comparing it to the death of a family member or loved one.
“You just don’t think about someone, a family member or someone that close to you, you don’t think about them passing away. Terry had kicked out, so to speak, of so many surgeries…and, you know, he overcame that. It was a tremendous shock. It was a blow to my heart.”
The on-air interview was the first McMahon has given since January of 2024, when he resigned from TKO amid fallout from a lawsuit filed accusing him of sexual assault and trafficking. When Hogan passed away, McMahon issued a short statement on social media, writing that “the world lost a treasure today.”
McMahon picked Hogan to lead the company upon his global expansion of the WWE in 1984. Hogan would go on to be one of the biggest mainstream stars of the modern era, becoming a huge drawing card not only in the WWE, but later in the 1990s when he joined WCW and became the leader of the New World Order stable.