Contemplating Hulk Hogan spent a part of early 2025 selling his and Eric Bischoff’s upcoming wrestling promotion, his dying in July 2025 got here as a significant shock to followers, family and friends. The reactions to the controversial WWE Corridor-of-Famer’s passing ran the gamut, together with rumors that it was associated to a medical process that didn’t go accordingly. Now, it’s reported that an investigation is certainly in progress over the likelihood that his dying was attributable to medical malpractice.
Clearwater Police shared an announcement confirming the dept. is investigating the occasions main as much as Hulk Hogan’s dying, in keeping with TMZ, in relation to what went down contained in the athlete’s residence after authorities arrived. As they put it:
We have now been in communication with relations — together with his son, Nick, and daughter, Brooke. The distinctive nature of this case has required us to interview a number of witnesses and search medical data from quite a lot of suppliers, and our detectives proceed to do this. All of this takes time. The Hogan household has been appreciative of our efforts and our communication with them.
His widow Sky Hogan alleged {that a} current surgical procedure was accountable, backing up a police report noting claims that Hogan’s phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm was “compromised” by the surgeon concerned. She additionally states that an post-mortem was certainly carried out, however with out explaining the outcomes, and in addition says that the deliberate cremation of his physique nonetheless hasn’t taken place.
Each Sky’s assertion and the Clearwater PD’s assertion got here after TMZ realized that the police report from the day of Hogan’s dying is at the moment being saved on “lockdown” over its contents. It is written that an occupational therapist was inside the Rocky III co-star’s Florida residence on the time when he stopped respiratory.
Sky is the one who realized her husband had quietly stopped respiratory, with none outwardly apparent indicators, after which the decision to 911 was made. Throughout the report tied to that decision, the officers on the scene spoke with the therapist, who claimed that Hogan’s phrenic nerve was “severed” through the current surgical procedure, although apparently with out specifying which of the current surgical procedures he was referring to.
Whereas it is not clear if the conversations with the therapist are on the cops’ bodycams, there are confirmed recordings of the officers themselves discussing what the therapist advised them.
Claims of potential malpractice are probably behind daughter Brooke Hogan’s vocal calling for an post-mortem to be carried out, and why she has shared suspicions about the whole lot being above-board within the aftermath of his dying. Her stance got here to mild after the funeral service that she selected to not attend, and she or he’s grow to be extra vocal about it afterward.
For now, the investigation is ongoing, and it is unclear how lengthy it may take, or what number of others will have to be contacted for the police to reach at a judgment name.