The ImmortalHulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan was the biggest star professional wrestling has produced, and for two separate decades he was also its main event. Born Terry Gene Bollea in Augusta, Georgia on August 11, 1953, he debuted on August 10, 1977 in Fort Myers, Florida, trained by Hiro Matsuda, and became the engine of the WWF's national expansion the night he beat The Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden on January 23, 1984. 1,474days in his first WWF Championship reign, January 23, 1984 to February 5, 1988That first reign ran 1,474 days, through the first three WrestleManias, and the era it named — Hulkamania — is shorthand for the whole 1980s boom. He won the WWF Championship six times and the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times, headlined the first nine WrestleManias in one role or another, and in 1996 did the thing almost no star of his size has ever done: he turned heel, became Hollywood Hogan, and founded the New World Order, the angle that powered WCW past the WWF for 83 consecutive weeks of Monday-night ratings. He died on July 24, 2025, at 71.

The second act should not have worked. He left for WCW in 1994, beat Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in his first match there — Bash at the Beach, July 17, 1994 — and by 1996 the red-and-yellow act was dying in front of hostile crowds. 83consecutive weeks WCW Nitro beat Raw in the ratings during the nWo era he ignitedAt Bash at the Beach on July 7, 1996 he walked out as the mystery third man alongside Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, dropped three legdrops on Randy Savage, and told the crowd to call it “the new world order of wrestling.” Hollywood Hogan held the WCW title through the hottest stretch in the company's history, lost it to Sting in the disputed Starrcade 1997 finish and to Goldberg in front of 40,000-plus at the Georgia Dome on July 6, 1998, and came back to WWE in 2002 to be turned face by 68,000 Toronto fans mid-match against The Rock at WrestleMania X8. A month later he took the Undisputed Championship from Triple H at Backlash — his sixth WWE title, eighteen years after his first. His last WWE match was a win over Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2006; his actual final match was a six-man tag on TNA's UK tour in Manchester on January 27, 2012.

The last decade complicated the legend and then ended it. In July 2015 WWE terminated his contract and scrubbed him from its website after leaked recordings caught him using racial slurs; he apologized, won a headline-making privacy suit against Gawker, and was reinstated to the Hall of Fame in July 2018. His final WWE appearance was on Raw's Netflix debut on January 6, 2025, promoting his Real American Beer brand, and he was audibly booed. He died on the morning of July 24, 2025 after a cardiac-arrest call to his Clearwater home; the Pinellas County medical examiner ruled the cause acute myocardial infarction — a heart attack — with a history of atrial fibrillation and chronic lymphocytic leukemia noted, and the manner of death natural. He was a WWE Hall of Famer twice over, inducted individually by Sylvester Stallone in 2005 and again with the nWo in 2020.

Nineteen documented bouts across four decades — the MSG title win that started Hulkamania, the Silverdome slam, both halves of the WCW arc, and the quiet TNA six-man in Manchester that actually closed the career. This is a curated ledger, not a career count: no win–loss total exists that could be verified across six promotions and 35 years, so none is published. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.

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Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed

The matches the reputation rests on. Hogan's canon was built on spectacle and story rather than workrate, and no Dave Meltzer star rating could be verified for any of them in this pass — where the rating column shows a dash, none is claimed.

Twelve world championship reigns split evenly between the two companies whose wars defined his career — and almost nothing else, because he almost never worked the midcard. He never held the Intercontinental, United States or a WWE tag team championship.

Three alliances that mattered — one that made the 1980s, one that made the 1990s, and one that made nobody's highlight reel.

One man, two eras, and the rare heel turn that created a second career: Terry Boulder (1977–1979) → Hulk Hogan (1979–1996) → Hollywood Hogan (1996–2002) → the red-and-yellow again (2002–2012).

Fort Myers, 1977, to a Manchester six-man in 2012 — and the headlines that outlived the career.

Who he went to war with.

The most heavily merchandised and cross-promoted wrestler of his century — trimmed here to the entries that are verifiable and mattered.

The records and the caveats, stated the way the sources state them.

Bookkeeping note: his six WWF/WWE reigns are 1984 (Iron Sheik), 1989 (Savage), 1991 (Slaughter at WrestleMania VII), a brief fourth reign in December 1991 that was vacated within days, 1993 (Yokozuna at WrestleMania IX) and 2002 (Triple H at Backlash) — WWE's count of six total is the one published here. No career win-loss total is published anywhere on this page: none exists that can be verified.

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