Jimmy Hart says Hulk Hogan was “devastated” after getting booed by fans at WWE RAW’s Netflix debut
While appearing on the Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw, longtime manager and WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Hart commented on Hulk Hogan getting booed by fans at WWE RAW’s Netflix debut in January…
“Here’s the deal. I’m not a Democrat or Republican. I’m just a jabroni. Hulk knew that, okay? So I didn’t go with him to the Republican convention or anything—not because I wanted to hide or wasn’t for Trump or wasn’t for Biden or anybody. I’m just, like I said, a jabroni.
So we were going to Los Angeles. Now, going in there—which I kind of told Hulk—I said, ‘Wow. You know, blue state, red state,’ I said, ‘Woo!’ You know, he had a Trump-Vance T-shirt on, which he had done some pre-publicity in. I’m going, ‘Oh my gosh, this is gonna be good.’ We’ve got Kamala Harris down around the block with her big event going on, right? So we come flying into LA, baby. We get there, and he’s got that Trump-Vance T-shirt on.
My job is just to wave the flag, brother. Wave the flag. Don’t let it hit the ground—wave that flag, man! I’m just waving the heck out of it. So we go out and we kind of get a mixed reaction. And you know this—you can have 500 people cheering you and one person booing you, but I’ll be darned if that one person booing doesn’t outshine th 500 cheering for you. You know how that works, right? So we go out—it’s kind of a mixed reaction, but a little bit more boos than anything. And that devastated him.
We got in the back, and he said, ‘What do you think happened?’ I said, ‘Hulk, it’s simple. Blue state, red state, Trump fans. I mean, really!’ But that bothered him because of that. I said, ‘Well, surely people are going to realize what that was for.’ Then the next week, we’re in Texas—and it’s all cheers, you know? But that always bothered him.”