AEW paid tribute to Hulk Hogan last night on Collision after a few days of silence and not acknowledging his death anywhere.
It was Tony Schiavone, who worked with Hogan a lot in WCW, who honored him during a short break from regular programming.
With the camera focused solely on him, Schiavone spoke to the AEW audience watching on television.
“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,” Schiavone said. “Hulk Hogan was the man who brought professional wrestling into the mainstream of 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.”
He continued, “You know, sometimes we take a look at these stars that are bigger than life, and we forget that they are just like us… humans. And we forget they have families that care about them. Our condolences go out to Hulk’s family, children Brooke and Nick, his wife Sky, and if you’ve never lost a member of family you have no idea what the pain they are going through right now…and believe me, it is intense.”
Schiavone ended his tribute with condolences from all of them at All Elite Wrestling.
“RIP, brother,” he concluded.
