(Photo via X/@HulkHogan)
Former American pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan announced on social media recently that he gave his life to Jesus Christ at 70 years old.
“Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life,” he posted to X, along with footage of the baptism. “No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love!”
Hogan and his wife, Sky Daily Hogan, were baptized at the Indian Rocks Baptist Church in Florida, Fox News reported.
“God is doing amazing things at Indian Rocks,” the church wrote on its Instagram account.
The video shows Hogan and his wife being submerged in a pool of water and coming up smiling.
They both wore white shirts and Hogan wore his signature headband and a gold cross necklace.
Hogan, now 70 years old, has been more vocal about his faith in recent years, telling TMZ in 2009 that Jesus “died on the cross and paid for my sins” and saying in 2015 that “the only thing that is really real is the stuff that’s gonna last forever: your faith and your belief in God and knowing that once you’re a Christian and you’ve accepted Christ as your Savior, you’re not gonna perish but you’re gonna have everlasting life.”
He wrote on X this past April that he is “one with God.”
“I accepted Christ as my savior at 14 yrs old and the training, prayers, and vitamins kept me in the game but now that I am one with God, the main event theme of surrender, service, and love makes me the Real Main Event that can slam any giant of any size through the power of my Lord and Savior and so it is, even now brother, AMEN!” Hogan shared.
Hogan has also posted scriptures to his social media page and wears a T-shirt with a verse from the New Testament’s John 3:16 on it, which states:
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
The WWE Hall of Famer first tried his hand at professional wrestling in the late 1970s, and he rose to fame with the World Wrestling Federation (now the WWE) in the 1980s. Despite officially retiring in 2012, Hogan was still an active participant in various professional wrestling events as of 2023. Many wrestling historians credit Hogan as perhaps the most important figure in the growth of professional wrestling.
