Hulk Hogan talks about his departure from the WWE, what does his future behold?

Hogan is still awaiting the olive branch from Vince

- In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard blog, WWE Hall of famer spoke on a number of things related to his departure from the WWE. The departure came in the wake of racist comments unearthed by The National Enquirer, which were made a few years ago.

The full interview can be found here. From the interview, it is made evident that Hogan never talked to Vince about the issue and it was Triple H who he was in touch with.

“I never heard from Vince or talked to Vince. In the middle of the night, they just fired me.” says Hogan. He claims that he had contacted Triple H to let him know that there was some old news coming out from the time that TMZ had reported on the sex tape, and that it had some racial slurs. Triple H said, ‘OK, thanks for calling. Let me talk to Vince.’ He called me back a half hour later and he goes, ‘I’ve got some news and it isn’t good. Vince said that you need to resign.’ says Hogan.

Hogan understands why WWE had to do what they had to as Triple H told him that the USA Network was coming down heavily over the news and they had to react quickly necessitating the firing. “They were under heavy fire and they were scrambling.” says Hogan.

Hogan though claims that it wasn’t how WWE did business as he feels Vince McMahon is someone who likes to help people. He points out to the help WWE has provided for Superstars who have had addiction issues and worked with them. However, he is disappointed with how things went down between him and the company as they basically took note of the symptoms and stamped him as a racist and chucked him out. “They’ve known me for over 30 years and they know I’m not a racist, so they should have went to the source. I don’t use the word, ever, except for in that moment of anger, so I wish WWE went to the source instead of the symptoms. I could have explained I’ve tried every day since then to be a better man.”

Despite all of it, Hogan claims that WWE is his home and he would love to have an opportunity to connect with Vince and clear things out. “I thought I’d go step-by-step, crawling uphill with WWE, to explain how wrong I was, but that opportunity wasn’t there. If we were all judged by our weakest moment, it would be a sad world. If I had a chance to work with Vince and help people, we could help fix a lot of things together.” said the fallen WWE legend.