Summary

Triple H said he was the WWE executive who personally called Hulk Hogan in 2015 after the company decided it could no longer do business with him following the resurfacing of racist comments Hogan made in 2007.

Speaking in the Netflix documentary *American Made*, Triple H described the moment WWE severed that relationship. At the time, Hogan was removed from the WWE Hall of Fame and scrubbed from the company's digital platforms.

The documentary has already generated renewed discussion around that chapter of Hogan's life, including our earlier report on Hogan addressing those comments directly.

Quote from Triple H

Triple H described the call this way:

"At that point, there was still a relationship business-wise between Hulk Hogan and WWE. When all the stuff came out, I'm the guy who had to call and say, 'We can't move forward, Terry. We're done.'"

Triple H later went on to say:

"Hogan is one of the biggest legends in the history of this business, that's undeniable. I didn't fire Hulk Hogan. I fired Terry Bollea."

WWE and Hulk Hogan's complicated split

Triple H's framing put a sharp line between Hogan the on-screen icon and Terry Bollea the man WWE chose to distance itself from in 2015. For WWE fans, that remains the key tension in how the company has handled Hogan's legacy ever since.

That tension also explains why Hogan's relationship with WWE never stayed frozen in that moment. He was reinstated into the Hall of Fame in 2018, then later honored again as part of the New World Order and for his WrestleMania III match against Andre the Giant as an Immortal Moment.

Sources

As reported by Fightful.