Jimmy Hart expressed hesitation and Hulk Hogan’s reaction to the backlash on his last WWE appearance at Raw’s Netflix debut in 2025.
On the latest What Do You Wanna Talk About Podcast episode with Cody Rhodes, Hart reflected on the sentiments going into the segment with Hogan. He was reluctant at first given Hogan’s public statements about his political selection.
“I said, ‘you know where we’re going? We’re going to California’ And like I said before, I’m not a Democrat or Republican. I’m jabroni.”
“But here’s the deal. I said, ‘I don’t like this’. ‘Jimmy, don’t worry about it.’ I went, ‘Okay’. We get out of the van there, nice town car puts us there. Some fans go ‘Hulk, we loved you, but you love them. We don’t like you anymore.’ You know. I said ‘Hulk, I don’t feel good about this’. ‘Jimmy, don’t worry about it.’ We go in the back. You know what I’m worrying about it.”
“So we’re in the back and Hulk, he goes ‘Jimmy Hart, what do you think?’ He’d always ask before we do something. And I just said, ‘no, everything’s good, you know, everything’s okay’. So, we went out and did the little thing with, rehearse where we were going to stand and help coming out, do his little deal. And I’m waving the flag.”
“So we finish it, then we go in the back. And of course, then Hulk comes up going ‘hey, the radio was good on that segment we did’. And I said, ‘well, I guess they should be because with all the commotion that happened on it, I guess we should have.”
“And I said ‘but you kept telling me, don’t worry about it. Well, I was worried about it’. And he goes, ‘Jimmy, look, sometimes you got to do what you got to do.’ And he said ‘I’ve made my bed and I’ve got to lie in it. That’s who I wanted to vote for. That’s what I wanted to do’. He said ‘I knew in my heart going in there might be a catchy thing’. But he knew it, you know.”
The segment, which was also intended to promote Hogan’s Real American Beer, garnered heavy boos from the audience due to his outspoken political views. After his passing, Vince McMahon expressed anger over the presentation and reaction to Hogan’s appearance on the debut program.
