Hogan claims he turned down the lead in the movie “The Wrestler”

“When the script for ‘The Wrestler’ kept coming to me I said, ‘This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, no credibility, Hulk Hogan isn’t a good actor, whatever Hollywood thinks of me.’”

- Hogan

"For the record, the role of The wrestler was always Micky Rourke. It was never Hulk Hogan as he claims on The Howard Stern Show."

- Aronofosky