Hulk Hogan’s Bizarre Claim That He Wrestled More Than 365 Days In A Year

Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan is no stranger to bold statements, but one of his most head-scratching claims is that he wrestled over 400 days in a single year.

The WWE Hall of Famer has attributed this seemingly impossible feat to international travel and time zone differences. In his 2009 autobiography, My Life Outside The Ring, Hulk Hogan attempted to explain how competing in both the United States and Japan supposedly gave him “extra days” each year.

“If I say I wrestled four hundred days a year, it’s no exaggeration. My years were actually longer than 365 days.”

He elaborated on his rigorous schedule, insisting that constant travel across the globe extended his calendar.

“There were times when I’d fly back and forth to Japan twice a week just to wrestle. Now it was nothing to wrestle in Madison Square Garden one day, then fly all the way to the Egg Dome in Tokyo the same day, ’cause you’d gain fourteen hours, and then fly back to the West Coast and so on…So I could wrestle in Japan today and then fly back across the International Date Line and land in another town yesterday. I was constantly adding days to my years!”

While Hogan’s story is entertaining, it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. No official records show him wrestling in Madison Square Garden and Tokyo back-to-back, and time zone shifts don’t actually extend a calendar year. In reality, travelling from New York to Tokyo results in losing time, not gaining it.

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Hulk Hogan also once made another strange claim that he almost joined the legendary rock band Metallica and said that before he became a wrestler, he was good friends with one of the band’s founding members, Lars Ulrich, and said that Ulrich offered him a position in the band. However, Hogan had already been wrestling for four years when the band formed in 1981, casting doubt on Hogan’s claim.