Celebrity Athletes!
Hulk Hogan makes big wrestlers of little people in new reality TV series about midget wrestling?
[Apr. 9]
We know, we know. It sounds all wrong but celebrity athlete Hulk Hogan is at it again with an altruistic new reality television series tentatively named Micro Wrestling (not the more offensive term midget wrestling), reports RadarOnline. The Hulkster’s new reality television show will highlight the backstage lives and training of little people in the art of the sport called professional wrestling. Micro Wrestling currently is in production, and Hulk Hogan will be the man and mentor behind the big aspirations of these little athletes.
While Hogan is no stranger to reality television & he’s starred in Hogan Knows Best and Brooke Knows Best & the reality television show Micro Wrestling is a return to wrestling for the professional wrestling superstar.
RadarOnline.com reports:
The Hulk (a.k.a. Terry Bollea) will be the man behind the wrestlers: “He’s the guy who inspires, recruits, trains and mentors them. He’s been involved in every step — only this time it’s on a smaller scale,” his attorney David Houston tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
“It will explore the fascinating world of wrestling on the scale of little people,” he adds. “It will show their extraordinary physical capabilities and the true strength of people of that stature.”
There is an established history for little people in sports. The Dwarf Athletic Association of America (DAAA) “is a nonprofit organization created in 1985 to develop, promote, and provide quality amateur level athletic competition opportunities for dwarf athletes in the United States.”
Some have criticized Micro Wrestling as just another attempt by the green celebrity professional wrestler to capitalize on his own antics, as he was criticized for doing with reality television shows Hogan Knows Best and Brooke Knows Best, but Micro Wrestling may do a lot to bring attention to the quality sportsmanship and abilities of little people. Green celebrity Hogan still is suffering through a costly divorce from his ex-wife Linda.
Hulk Hogan recently was in the news when rumors surfaced that the green celebrity and professional wrestling superstar might have been bartering for a return to the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) franchise, possibly as a general manager for the RAW brand, after leading TNA Wrestling, which has not been as successful as hoped under Hogan’s tenure.
Back injuries have plagued the green celebrity wrestler’s return to wrestling, but after undergoing back surgery late last year and following his marriage to a longtime friend Jennifer McDaniel, Hulk Hogan’s attorney says the celebrity wrestling superstar is back to full health and ready to take on a new wrestling challenge, this time in the from of reality television.
He is also a green celebrity, having been a long time member of Unity Church in Southwest Florida and spending a great deal of his private time supporting a slew of humanitarian charities.