Kevin Nash gives his thoughts on Hulk Hogan getting booed out of the building at WWE RAW’s Netflix debut

At the Netflix premiere of WWE RAW on January 6th 2025, Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan cut a promo with longtime manager Jimmy Hart to hype up the event and promote his Real American Beer product. Despite praising the fans, Hogan was largely booed during the segment.

While speaking on his podcast, Hogan’s former New World Order stablemate Kevin Nash commented on the situation…

“Somebody’s gotta be a heel. I think if he wasn’t ponied up financially with that Real American beer with the WWE, because the last thing you want to with your logo, face, likeness, on a can of beer that you’re selling, cut a promo on the crowd. Look at the play. The play was come out, tear that All American shirt off and have a Netflix shirt on. He thought that what he did at the RNC was gonna work in LA. As soon as he realized that they were turning on him, he said, ‘Man, I’ve been doing this for four decades.’ In other words, fuck you guys, I’m Hulk Hogan. If you don’t have enough respect for me to not boo me out of this place, fuck you. I’m gonna say what I have to say, I’m going to get my thing out. I did hear that, as he walked back, he looked over to Jimmy Hart, and he goes, ‘Man, you got heat [Laughs].’ I’ve never been Hulk Hogan, so I can’t speak for him. But I have traveled with him, and that’s a different level than almost anybody in our business [to be him]. To be Hulk Hogan and go out there, I did not think that they would shit on him. Because the last time he came out was a couple years ago, and he blew the roof off.”

“Is Paul [Triple H] so much smarter than that that he knows that’s exactly the response he’s going to get? If Hulk Hogan shows up and they cheer, it doesn’t make BBC that Hulk Hogan got booed out of the fucking building. Nothing got more coverage than Hulk being booed. Who’s to say that they weren’t smart enough to know that that’s exactly what they were going to get? Hulk is beat to fuck. The last thing he wanted to…he sucked it up like a fucking warrior just to come out of that tunnel as far as he did to cut the promo because his fucking back is killing him. He’s a tough motherfucker because I know he’s in pain like a motherfucker. I watched it. I felt bad for him. But at the same time for him, it’s like, man, I’d rather get a response than none. Then I watched that thing the next day and I went [groans], god. Man, f*ck that.” (quotes courtesy of Colin Tessier)