Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, 71, died from heart attack
A heart attack caused the death of the Hulk Hogan professional struggle icon, the authorities announced on Thursday, a week after the death of the artist greater than life in Florida.
His cause of death was officially listed as “acute myocardial infarction”, a technical term for a heart attack, according to the medical examiner in District 6, which investigates deaths in the counties of Pinellas and Pasco.
Hogan’s mode of death was called “natural”, a pathologist noting the history of the wrestler of “atrial fibrillation” and leukemia.
Clearwater police and firefighters rushed to his house exactly a week ago to answer a “cardiac arrest” at 9:51 am, the city said in a statement.
The first speakers took the hospital to Morton Plant, 71, where he was declared dead at 11:17 am, police announced.
Hogan – whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea – helped to revolutionize the professional struggle, transforming her niche entertainment to a general public monster.
His shirt and exaggerated performances led to the enthusiasm of “Hulkamania” of the 1980s, which reached its summit in 1987 when he criticized his compatriot of the wrestling superstar André Le Géant to the Wrestlemania III web.
