Hulk Hogan Says Gawker Is Behind Unveiling His Career-Ending Racist Rant; Revisiting Of Lawsuit Unearths More Racist Phone Conversations With Son
Hulk Hogan revisits his $100 million sex-tape suit against Gawker and filed a new emergency motion suit for the site for allegedly ruining his reputation in the WWE in exposing his sex tapes in 2008 which contain racist and homophobic conversations.
According to New York Post, Hogan (whose real name Terry Bollea) Gawker's release of the confidential sex tape in their site years back has caused severe damage in his 38-year career 'in a blink of an eye.'
Even with the removal of the post by the site's founder Nick Denton and the resignation of its editor, Hogan's camp still say that these are acts of 'hypocrisy' as Denton claimed that posting the wrestler's sex tape is 'legitimate.'
"Hulk Hogan has only one person to blame for what he said, and no one from Gawker had any role in leaking that information," Gawker said that time.
The reopening of the case further exposed again other recorded conversations alleged to contain racist language with the 61-year old wrestler with his son Nick Hogan who has in jail in May 2008, Mail Online said.
At that time, Hogan is asking his son about the possibility of being transferred from Pinellas County Jail to a juvenile facility.
Nick: "It's down in St. Pete and it's mixed-race and we get along with everybody, so that's fine."
Hulk replies: "Your mom went there and said it was mainly blizz, you know what I'm sizz-aying?"
Last week, the WWE wrestler had been making amends and issued a public apology with regards to his previous 2012 tapes in which the wrestler repeated the n-word many times in an interview, Mirror said.
"Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it and I apologise for having done it," he said.