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The WWE Hall of Hall of Fame known as Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake expressed a certain regret that he had not been able to see Hulk Hogan before death at the age of 71.
Beefcake, whose real name is Ed Leslie, spoke with TMZ Sports on Saturday about his friendship for a long time with Hogan. He said he had heard whispers that “the Hulkster” had not been so good, and that he had thought about going to the home of Hogan Clearwater, Florida, to visit him.
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Brutus Beefcake poses for photos while with WWE. (WWE/WWE through Getty Images.)
“I was going to try to go to his house a couple of days ago. My wife said: ‘You should go there.’ And I was thinking:” Oh my God, “but if I go to the house and say:” No, you can’t enter, “I would have crushed me.
Beefcake was asked what would have told Hogan if he had one more chance to talk to him.
“I love you brother and we really were friends until the end,” he said.
Beefcake said Hogan’s friendship meant everything for him and that he had helped him enter the wrestling business.
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Hulk Hogan vs Andre El Gigante in Wrestlemania VL March 27, 1988, in Historic Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on March 22, 1988. (Jeffrey Asher/ Getty images)
He remembered the great lengths that Hogan had gone, to be there for him in his own moment of necessity. Beefcake had been in a parasailing accident in July 1990, and Hogan had made the trip to see him.
“I had a horrible accident and did not expect to live. And he left his family in California. His wife was about to have a baby, his son Nick, to fly to Florida to be there, because the doctor said they did not believe he was going to do it. And he flew there to be there for me.
“And when they took me from a drug -induced coma, and he told me:” You don’t even think about it. Brutus, you’re going to live. “And I did.
Beefcake and Hogan joined in the early stages of their races. They were known as the Boulder brothers at that time. He was known as Brutus Beefcake when he first started at the World Fight Federation (WWF). The two were also in the main events match for World Championship Wrestling’s Starrcade in 1994.
It was included in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019.
The wrestling legend Hulk Hogan was twice in the WWE Hall of Fame. (Blick/RDB/Ullstein Bild through Getty Images)
Hogan died in a hospital on Thursday, an hour after having had a heart event at home.
