Retired WWE star, Hulk Hogan whose real name is Terry Bollea has been married three different times. Let’s take a look at how his nuptial journeys have been.
The wrestler has not had a smooth married life as he has failed to honour the “till death do us part” bit of the marriage vows. He has experienced a total of 3 different relationships with three different women.
Here, we take a look at his love journey so far as we wonder whether he will end with the third, or do otherwise.
First Marriage: Linda Hogan
Hulk, 70, and first wife Linda Marie Bollea were married from 1983 to 2009. Their 26-year-old marriage produced a daughter, Brooke, 35, and a son Nick, 32.
“The war is over,” Linda Bollea told The Tampa Tribune after the divorce was settled. “I still love him. He’s the father of my children.”
Hogan echoed his wife’s sentiment, told the paper, “When you’re married to someone for 23 years … you hope for the best …. We just got torn apart.”
Hulk Hogan revealed he considered suicide following Linda’s divorce filing in the fall of 2007 – a surprising admission the wrestling legend makes in a memoir dedicated to none other than his ex-wife.
“To Linda, I pray that you find peace and joy in life. I love you,” Hogan writes on the dedication page of My Life Outside the Ring, a tell-all autobiography, co-authored by PEOPLE senior writer Mark Dagostino, that hits bookshelves Tuesday.
The affectionate dedication may come as a shock to fans who followed the couple’s bitter divorce, which ended when they reached a settlement in July 2009. Hogan describes that tumultuous period of his life, beginning with his son Nick’s August 2007 car accident. Four months later, shortly after his wife Linda filed for divorce, Hogan found himself chasing Xanax pills with swigs of rum one weekend – while holding a gun in his hand.
He adds: “Obviously I didn’t kill myself, but I came damn close.”
After an unexpected phone call from his American Gladiators co-host, Laila Ali, snapped him out of his funk, Hogan says he went on to recover from that low by rediscovering his faith – and by making up his mind to do whatever it took to find happiness again.
Second Marriage: Jennifer McDaniel
Hulk Hogan and Jennifer McDaniel Hogan and McDaniel were married in a waterfront wedding behind the wrestler’s home in Clearwater in December 2010.
In October 2021 after nearly 11 years of marriage, Hogan filed for divorce, which was finalized later that year, according to court documents obtained by the outlet.
Hulk Hogan later confirmed he and his second wife Jennifer McDaniel are divorced and revealed that he has a new girlfriend amid online speculation about his relationship status.
“Yo Maniacs just for the record, the Facebook and Instagram posts are of me and my girlfriend Sky, I am officially divorced,” the former WWE star tweeted, “Sorry I thought everyone already knew, love my Maniacs4Life.”
Prior to his social media announcement, Hogan had been spotted with a woman in Clearwater, Florida, TMZ reported.
Third Marriage: Sky Daily
Hulk Hogan and his new fiancée, Sky Daily engaged last week. Hogan told TMZ that he proposed to Daily, 45, at a restaurant in Tampa, Florida, last week and “was very nervous.”
During a speech at a friend’s wedding over the weekend, the retired professional wrestler first shared that he and Daily are planning on tying the knot. “I asked Sky to marry me, and she was crazy enough to say yes, brother,” Hogan said in a video shared by Daily on Instagram.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, has been dating Daily, a yoga instructor, for over a year.
The couple were celebrating their friends Corin Nemec and Sabrina Nova’s wedding when Hogan shared the story of how they met — along with the engagement news — during his speech, according to the Los Angeles Times.
With his signature blonde handlebar mustache and a black bandana and suit jacket to match, the wrestler shared with the guests how he and Daily hit it off that fateful night of their meeting. Hogan had ordered a drink for a group of women Daily was socializing with and when one of her friends thanked him, he asked, “Who’s the blonde?”
“So I spotted Sky and we sat down, we talked,” he continued in the video. “And then when I got in my car, there was just bang, bang, bang, bang on the window. It scared the hell out of me, so I put the window down.”
He revealed that Nova chased after Hogan’s car as he was driving away and tapped on his window to urge him to go on another date with Daily, saying “She’s a nice girl!” Hogan and Daily were seated in the front row, right before the bride, during the wedding.
“It made me think twice about just ghosting and going home and never calling,” he said.
Hogan told TMZ that Daily has three children of her own and that he quickly got along with all of them.