Netflix will premiere its four-part documentary series Hulk Hogan: Real American on April 22, using a trailer built around what the company says was Hulk Hogan’s last interview before his death in July 2025. In the clip, Hogan stares straight into the camera and says, “You want me to tell the truth? Okay,” before adding, “I know where all the bodies are buried.”
The trailer also shows Hogan reflecting on how he wants to be remembered. “Some people hate me, but after I’m gone, I think people don’t know the truth. Who was this guy, really?” he says, before another line on wrestling and legacy: “In wrestling, you should be remembered for all the wars and everything you’ve done.”
The documentary arrives less than a year after Hogan died on July 24, 2025, at age 71 after suffering a heart attack at his Clearwater, Florida home. That makes the trailer’s claim of a final interview more than a promotional hook. It turns the series into a posthumous reckoning with Terry Bollea, the man behind the persona, at a moment when the Hogan story is still being actively rewritten by those closest to him.
Netflix says the series includes footage from different periods of Hogan’s career, along with home videos featuring his children and interviews with family members. Linda, Hogan’s ex-wife, appears in the trailer and says that even after they stopped speaking, “I realized I still love him.” The footage also returns to the public criticism that shadowed Hogan late in life, with him answering bluntly, “I was out partying. Maybe I was drunk, maybe I was high. I don’t know what to tell you,” and then insisting, “There are millions of kids that believed in me and what I stand for.”
The series draws its force from that split between the man and the myth. Hogan says, “Terry Bollea was just a human being,” then adds, “But when I went in that ring, brother, I was Hulk Hogan.” That tension is the point of the documentary and the reason it lands now: the legend is gone, the private life is still being sorted through, and his widow, Sky Daily, and son, Nick Bollea, have been exploring a possible medical malpractice claim tied to surgeries Hogan underwent in the months before his death. At the same time, his two Clearwater Beach homes, including the waterfront mansion where he died and a neighboring guest cottage, have both been listed for sale.
Hogan spent decades presenting himself as larger than life, and the trailer suggests the series will lean into the distance between what fans saw and what people around him say they knew. The question it answers is not whether the icon was real, but how much of the man was ever visible behind him.