During Saturday’s live episode of AEW Collision, the company acknowledged the passing of Hulk Hogan. The WWE Hall of Famer suffered a cardiac arrest this past Thursday. He was 71.
Below is the transcript, with the segment from Collision, with Tony Schiavone speaking on the passing of Hogan.
“It was quite a week for all of us who have been in professional wrestling for a long time with the unexpected death of Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan was a man who brought professional wrestling into the mainstream in the 80s and in the 90s, right here on this network, right here on TNT, almost 30 years ago, Hulk Hogan lit the fire that began the Monday Night Wars, and he also put WCW on the cable TV map right here on TNT. Sometimes, we take a look at these stars who are bigger than life and we forget that they are, just like us, human. We forget they have families that care about them. Are condolences go out to Hulk’s family, his children Brooke and Nick, his wife Sky. If you’ve never lost a member of your family, you have no idea they pain they are going through right now. Believe you me, it is intense. From all us here at All Elite Wrestling, RIP, brother.”
Schiavone was the voice of WCW from his return to the company in 1990, up until the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT, which aired on March 26, 2001.