Hulk Hogan’s new freestyle wrestling enterprise is off to a rocky begin.
Earlier this 12 months, the WWE Corridor of Famer and former Senior VP of World Championship Wrestling, Eric Bischoff, introduced the launch of Actual American Freestyle, the first-ever skilled freestyle wrestling league.
The inaugural occasion is scheduled to go down on August 30 on the Wolstein Middle at CSU in Cleveland, Ohio, with almost 4,000 seats accessible. Sadly, for Hogan and Bischoff, not even 10% of these seats have been stuffed since tickets grew to become accessible.
Based on @WrestleTix on X, 3,882 tickets can be found, 3,502 of which stay. Which means the occasion has solely bought 380 tickets, simply 66 days earlier than showtime.
Ouch.
For freestyle wrestling fans, the present is jam-packed with notable names, like Olympic medalists Kyle Snyder, Kyle Dake, and Aaron Brooks.
“David, Kyle, Aaron, Trent, and Kyle characterize the very best of the very best, and that’s who we’re focusing on for Actual American Freestyle,” Hogan mentioned in a press release. “Our objective is to offer these athletes a possibility to proceed their careers, create a platform for greatness, and encourage a legacy that lasts.”
Hulk Hogan solely has himself responsible
One may definitely speculate as to why the occasion is monitoring so poorly. Chances are high, it’s principally because of the lack of curiosity round a promotion providing a hybrid between the fantastical world {of professional} wrestling and the very actual athletic competitors that’s freestyle wrestling.
And, after all, you may’t ignore the tarnished fame of Hogan after a tape emerged in 2015 of the previous WWE Celebrity utilizing a racial slur whereas discussing his daughter’s love life.
Regardless of being greater than a decade in the past, wrestling followers haven’t forgotten. That a lot was evident after they booed him out of the world throughout an look on the promotion’s very first episode of WWE Uncooked on Netflix in January.
