UFC founder firmly denies approaching Hulk Hogan to fight on historic event

It appears that Hulk Hogan's been telling fibs again.

Former WWE superstar Hulk Hogan recently claimed that he was approached by the UFC to fight on the first ever event, UFC 1 in 1993. Hogan explained that he was offered a spot on the historic card but declined because the sport was too violent. “We looked at it and it was very violent and the referees weren’t stopping the matches and letting guys get beat up when they should have been stopped,” Hogan said in an interview with WrestlingInc. “So we just didn’t want to have any part of it but it’s become quite a phenomena.” UFC Founder Campbell McLaren laid the rumours to rest on Twitter, confirming that Hogan's claims were 100 per cent bovine manure.

.@davidbix@ArtDavie@joerogan Hulk Hogan being asked to fight in #originalUFC is absolutely false. Not in real life anyway.

— Campbell McLaren (@campbellcombate) May 4, 2015

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