Mac Davis raised the Nick Hogan wrestling speculation with Teddy Long on Road Trip After Hours after a viewer named Tyler asked about the new Hulk Hogan documentary. “Tyler is asking about, have we seen the Hogan doc? And we were just talking about that a minute ago. I did see, though, that Nick Hogan, Hulk Hogan’s son, is teasing the possibility that he may make a showing in wrestling at some point or another. Let me ask you, considering his father is Hulk Hogan, how difficult could that be for somebody like Nick Hogan to ever really have a good shot at becoming a star?”
Teddy Long’s Pitch: Build The Story Around Burning Hulk Down
Long took the question seriously and laid out exactly how he would book it. “Well, you know, you’d have to have a great story. And that story might have to be some things that you may have to say about your dad that, you live, is really distasteful. But in order for you to make them believe you’re gonna have to go that far. I know sometimes you might have seen some stuff they do right now, you know. Sometimes you like, oh, you know. But sometimes you have to go that far to grab them.”
Long sketched out the angle he’d write. Nick Hogan would need to go on television and bury his late father — drag the Hulk Hogan name through the mud, claim he was always the better man, frame his entire career as a rejection of Hulkamania — to draw legitimate heat as a fresh act in 2026. “He’d have more heat than anybody,” Long said.
Bring Brooke Hogan In First
Long suggested handling the personal side carefully behind the scenes before pulling the trigger on TV. “If he came in with a good story, before I let him do anything, I’d involve Brooke, you know, have her come in, try and talk to him, you know, and say, you know, what’s wrong, why? You know what I mean. And have some people try to straighten him out. But he’s just gung ho, and you know it’s gonna be his way. And you know he’s just, I just need to let the world know I’m better than he was, and I’ll always be better than him.”
Mac Davis: The Last Name Is The Problem
Davis was less optimistic. “Here’s the story. That’s all it takes in wrestling, too. It’s a simple story that makes somebody get over. But I just worry about that last name.”
Long agreed the name complicates things, but doubled down on the burial-angle plan. “It’s so well, the name, yeah, that’s, that’s bad. But to come with a real life thing, people will forget about that. They will not. They’ll look at him like, well, god, you mean to tell me you, your father, after all he did, blah, blah, blah. And you, this is — you know what I mean. He’d have more heat than anybody.”
Davis still wasn’t sold. “He’d get heat, and I think he’s going to get unnecessary heat in some cases, just simply because he’s the son of Hulk Hogan. That’s why I worry about, you know, how well he could actually do in wrestling, because I got a feeling the fans, there’s a lot of fans who would bite at him, you know, they just couldn’t help themselves.”
Long brought it back to the same idea. “You gotta have that story. And if you got that story with him saying, I’m just like my own dad…”
What Nick Hogan Has Said Publicly
Nick Hogan addressed his wrestling future on the bonus edition of the 83 Weeks podcast on April 27, 2026, with Eric Bischoff. He didn’t shut the door. “Oh my goodness, you never know. I bounced around here and there and knock the ring rust off every now and again. I’ve been attracted to it my whole life. So, I will say I’m in pretty darn good shape right now, and it’s not unfamiliar territory. So, if the time ever comes or if the opportunity ever presents itself, I would absolutely welcome that.”
Bischoff noted on the same episode that Nick has trained with Bischoff’s son Garrett at Rikishi’s wrestling school in Los Angeles. Reports indicate Nick has also visited the WWE Performance Center earlier this year, but no formal in-ring discussions have been confirmed.
The conversation comes in the wake of Netflix’s Hulk Hogan: Real American docuseries, which dropped after Hulk Hogan’s death in July 2025. Davis told Long he found the special underwhelming. “I was expecting a lot more out of that, and it just wasn’t. It felt more like a fluff piece about Hulk Hogan.” Long had not watched the full doc.
Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Gene Bollea, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, again in 2020 as part of the nWo, and a third time posthumously in 2026 when his match with André the Giant at WrestleMania III was inducted into the Immortal Moments category. Nick Hogan is 35. Long was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.
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